Month: May 2023

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A 95-year-old woman who was tasered by police in her Australian nursing home last week has died, police in New South Wales said Wednesday. Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother, had been in critical condition in hospital with serious head injuries sustained when she fell to the floor after

By Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s intelligence services already have the right to monitor the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), the first time the authorities have taken such a step against a political party since the Nazi era. Now, they have taken aim at the AfD’s youth faction, whose members

By Chris Stern and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — German investigators have launched a nationwide raid against members of the Last Generation climate activist group, the Munich State Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. A total of 15 properties in seven German states have been searched as part of the raids conducted on behalf of the Bavarian

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese heaped praise on Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, likening him to American rock star Bruce Springsteen in a gushing introductory speech at a stadium on Tuesday. Modi is making his first visit to Sydney in nine years as he gears up to contest national elections

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — When Nasreen Sheikh walks down a busy street, she doesn’t see the faces of the people walking by – she sees the clothes they wear and the suffering of those who made them. As a child, Sheikh worked up to 20 hours a day in a sweatshop

By Florencia Trucco and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano is emitting less ash after weeks of increased activity, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in what could be a welcome sign for the millions of people living in its environs. “Its intensity has decreased. The ash it emits is also less.

By Hande Atay Alam (CNN) — A female student is suspected of starting a deadly school dormitory fire that killed 19 children in Guyana, after her cell phone was taken away by a dormitory teacher, according to local police. The fire that engulfed Mahdia Secondary School’s female dormitory over the weekend killed 18 girls and

By Xiaofei Xu and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Boris Johnson, Britain’s former prime minister, has been referred to the police for new possible violation of Covid lockdown rules, the British government told CNN on Tuesday. Documents dealing with the potential breach have been passed on to the London Metropolitan Police and Thames Valley Police,