Month: June 2023

By CNNE’s Jessica Hasbun (CNN) — Shocking footage of a young child hanging from the arms of a detained woman through the barred door of a truck in the Dominican Republic has generated outrage in the country. Social media videos of the incident, which occurred Saturday in the municipality of Santo Domingo, showed the child

By Caitlin Hu and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of homes in Haiti have been flooded following heavy rains over the weekend, leaving at least 42 people dead and 85 injured, according to a statement released by the country’s Civil Protection Agency on Monday. The intense rainfall caused several rivers throughout Haiti to overflow,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — At least 16 people have died and hundreds arrested since violent protests broke out on Thursday in Senegal, following the sentencing of popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, according to the country’s public broadcaster RTS. Many protesters also sustained injuries amid clashes for a third day with security forces, following

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first NASA spacecraft designed to study a metallic asteroid is now set to launch in October, according to a Monday announcement made by the agency. The endeavor, known as the Psyche mission, was originally expected to lift off in 2022. But the launch window opened on August 1

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — Two more suspects have been named in the alleged murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, including the alleged mastermind of the crime, Brazilian police say. Phillips and Pereira were shot dead a year ago while they were returning from a reporting trip in the

By Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan’s Sangcharak district, Mohammad Rahmani, the head of Education Department in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, told CNN. The intelligence unit of the provincial

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around one-third the size of a

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about major rail accidents since 1900. Notable International Rail Accidents January 1915 – Guadalajara, Mexico: More than 600 people die when a train derails into a ravine during a steep descent. May 22, 1915 – Gretna, Scotland: The United Kingdom’s worst rail disaster occurs when three