Month: May 2023

By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Smoke from wildfires in Canada is moving into parts of the central US and could linger in the days ahead, health and weather officials warned Thursday. Air quality alerts have been posted as of early Friday across several states, including Nebraska, Washington, Montana and Wisconsin, with a special weather

By Tamara Qiblawi and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey has a “special” and growing relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite mounting pressure on Ankara to help bolster Western sanctions against Moscow, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an exclusive interview ahead of next week’s presidential election runoff. “We are not at

By Rob Picheta and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Iran has been condemned by international watchdogs after it executed three more men over recent protests that rocked the country. Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were executed in Isfahan, judiciary news outlet Mizan News said on Friday. The three were accused of carrying out

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Volodymyr Zelensky will travel in person to Japan for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, according to officials familiar with the planning, a stark display of confidence and Western solidarity as Ukraine’s wartime leader tries to keep crucial support from allied nations flowing. The surprise trip –

By Eliza Mackintosh, Ehsan Popalzai, Antonio Jarne and Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — Qasim received a call in late March that his brother, an employee with Afghanistan’s Taliban government, had been seriously injured in a suicide bombing near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. The 32-year-old rushed to the hospital with his family, but

By Jake Kwon and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The United States Tsunami Warning Center lifted an alert over the South Pacific on Friday, around three hours after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the region. “Based on all available data, the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed,” the center said in

By Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — The United States and Taiwan agreed the first stage of a bilateral trade initiative on Thursday, less than a year after negotiations began, in a move that demonstrated the increasingly close relationship between Washington and Taipei. The new initiative, titled the US-Taiwan Initiative of 21st Century Trade

By Sharon Braithwaite (CNN) — A man was arrested after driving through a Vatican gateway on Thursday evening, according to a statement from the Vatican Press Room, as reported by Vatican News. After 8 p.m. local time, the man reportedly approached the Vatican Palace in his vehicle, where he was prevented from entering without authorization.