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North Korea claims ‘positive trend’ in Covid outbreak, but no reply to Biden’s offer of help

May 21, 2022 11:20 PM CNN Newsource

By Yoonjung Seo, Sophie Jeong and Teele Rebane, CNN North Korea claims its Covid outbreak is slowing, with its state-run media reporting on Sunday a…

Three North Korean cargo planes flew to China and back on May 16

North Korea sends cargo planes to China as country fights pandemic

May 18, 2022 11:16 PM CNN Newsource

By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Three North Korean cargo planes flew to China and back on Monday, as the country battles an fast-spreading…

Flight data suggests a China Eastern plane deliberately crashed according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Flight data suggests China Eastern plane deliberately crashed: Wall Street Journal report

May 18, 2022 6:50 PM CNN

CNN By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Black box data recovered from a China Eastern flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the…

Top Taliban leader makes more promises on women’s rights but quips ‘naughty women’ should stay home

May 18, 2022 12:26 PM CNN Newsource

By Jo Shelley, Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai, Ahmet Mengli and Rob Picheta, CNN A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s…

Top Taliban leader makes more promises on women’s rights but quips ‘naughty women’ should stay home

May 18, 2022 12:26 PM CNN

CNN By Jo Shelley, Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai, Ahmet Mengli and Rob Picheta, CNN A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s…

Top Taliban leader makes more promises on women’s rights but quips ‘naughty women’ should stay home

May 18, 2022 12:26 PM CNN

CNN By Jo Shelley, Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai, Ahmet Mengli and Rob Picheta, CNN A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s…

An Indian farmer carries wheat crop harvested from a field on the outskirts of Jammu

Climate change is making record-breaking heatwaves in India and Pakistan 100 times more likely

May 18, 2022 5:57 AM CNN Newsource

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Climate change has made the odds of a record-breaking heatwave hitting northwestern India and Pakistan 100 times more likely…

Flight data suggests China Eastern plane deliberately crashed: Wall Street Journal report

May 18, 2022 12:11 AM CNN Newsource

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Black box data recovered from a China Eastern flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the…

Cave discovery in Laos could unlock more about human evolution’s biggest mystery

May 17, 2022 10:14 AM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN A tooth unearthed from a remote cave in Laos is helping to sketch an unknown chapter in the human story. Researchers believe the…

A deadly cholera outbreak linked to contaminated drinking water has infected thousands of people in central Pakistan as the country grapples with a water crisis exacerbated by a brutal heat wave in South Asia.

Pakistan hit by deadly cholera outbreak as heat wave grips South Asia

May 17, 2022 2:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Helen Regan, Sophia Saifi, Asim Khan and Esha Mitra, CNN A deadly cholera outbreak linked to contaminated drinking water has infected thousands of…

Shanghai officials said they had achieved "zero-Covid at the community level" in what appeared to be a turning point in a heavy-handed and costly campaign to tame an Omicron outbreak.

Shanghai declares zero-Covid milestone but residents cast doubt on reopening

May 17, 2022 2:23 AM CNN Newsource

By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau Shanghai officials on Tuesday said they had achieved “zero-Covid at the community level” in…

The USS Abraham Lincoln makes history as thousands of service members deploy from San Diego Naval Air Station North Island under Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt

First woman to command US aircraft carrier didn’t even know she could get the job

May 16, 2022 6:22 PM CNN Newsource

By Brad Lendon, Blake Essig and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Amy Bauernschmidt is the rarest of the rare. The 51-year-old is in a select group of United States…

Kim Jong Un mobilizes North Korea’s military in response to Covid-19 outbreak

May 16, 2022 2:48 AM CNN

CNN, KOREAN CENTRAL TV, RODONG SINMUM By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized the military to respond to…

Kim Jong Un mobilizes North Korea’s military in response to Covid-19 outbreak

May 16, 2022 2:48 AM CNN Newsource

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized the military to respond to the country’s first officially…

The Japanese island chain of Okinawa marked the 50th anniversary of the end of US occupation and pictured

China tensions loom as Japan’s Okinawa marks 50 years since US handover

May 15, 2022 1:18 AM CNN Newsource

Story by Reuters The Japanese island chain of Okinawa marked the 50th anniversary on Sunday of the end of US occupation and its return to Japan with…

This picture taken and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 14.

What we know (and don’t know) about North Korea’s Covid outbreak

May 14, 2022 12:33 AM CNN Newsource

By Nectar Gan, Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea’s first-reported Covid-19 outbreak is the “greatest turmoil” to befall…

With eye on China’s zero-Covid chaos, Taiwan seizes chance to open up

May 13, 2022 7:52 PM CNN Newsource

By Eric Cheung, CNN and photos by John Mees Business has been swift this week for Oscar Chen, the fourth-generation owner of the Liang Xi Hao…

Despite Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. popularity among millions of voters

Who is ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr and why are some Filipinos nervous about his family’s return?

May 13, 2022 2:25 AM CNN

CNN By Helen Regan, CNN Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is the presumptive President of the Philippines after winning a landslide in…

China tightens ban on ‘non-essential’ overseas travel as lockdown anger rises

May 13, 2022 1:43 AM CNN Newsource

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Authorities in China have imposed a de facto international travel ban, forbidding citizens from going overseas for…

CNN correspondent David Culver leaves Shanghai after living for 50 days under Covid lockdown.

Leaving locked down Shanghai for a ‘whole new world’ outside China

May 12, 2022 8:40 PM CNN Newsource

By David Culver, CNN Over the hum of jet engines, I could hear the flight attendant comforting a fellow passenger seated a couple of rows behind me.…

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