Month: June 2023

By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — Hopes of finding a Belgian tourist alive in Australia are fading more than one week after she went missing on the island-state of Tasmania, with police saying recent weather conditions in the area are “not survivable.” There have been “no signs” of Celine Cremer, 31, since she was last

By Joe Sutton and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A 24-year-old student has been charged with stabbing three people during a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo in Canada this week in what police are calling a “hate-motivated incident.” The suspect, Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, is an international student who recently graduated from the university,

By Joshua Berlinger, Xiaofei Xu, Joseph Ataman and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Paris (CNN) — More than 400 people were arrested across France on Thursday as a wave of protests swept the country for a third night following the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy that was captured on video. France’s elite police force, the

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has unveiled a sweeping foreign relations law enshrining its right to impose “countermeasures” against actions that it deems a threat – in Beijing’s latest bid to bolster its position amid strained relations with the West. The law, approved on Wednesday and entering into force July 1,

By Su Myat Mon and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Ma Khin Hla and her five siblings didn’t have time to run when a fighter jet buzzed over their village in Myanmar’s central Sagaing region. “We six siblings were sitting and talking at home as our brother monk was visiting us from town,” said Ma

By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Kampala, Uganda (CNN) — In between leading Sunday services at All Saints’ Cathedral in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, Rev. Canon John Awodi declares vehemently that “homosexuality is a sin that must be repented of,” adding that it is against the “order of God.” “Homosexuality is not natural, it

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been able to “hear” the celestial hum of powerful gravitational waves, created by collisions between black holes, echoing across the universe for the first time. Their observations reveal that the waves — including some that slowly undulate as they pass through our Milky Way galaxy — occur

From CNN’s Max Foster and Lauren Kent (CNN) — The British Royal Household released its annual financial statement on Thursday, revealing that official spending for the year 2022-2023 exceeded the Sovereign Grant and other royal earned income. It attributes the high costs to the “exceptional period of transition” in the Royal Household, which saw Queen

By Hamdi Alkhshali and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — At least two people died in a shooting incident near the United States consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, according to local police and a spokesperson for the consulate. One of those killed was a consulate security guard. “A person in a car stopped near