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Xi tightens grip on power as China unveils new leaders
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By Jennifer Hauser and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Boris Johnson was on Sunday battling to win enough support to make what would be a stunning comeback as…
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By Hande Atay Alam, Aliza Kassim and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Iran said Saturday it would take legal action against the United States, accusing it of…
Continue Reading Xi Jinping enters third term as China’s most powerful leader in decades surrounded by loyalists
By Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan, Steven Jiang, Yong Xiong and Wayne Chang, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has formally stepped into his norm-breaking…
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By CNN Staff Jolie’s nerves were running high as she walked into the campus of Goldsmiths, the University of London, last Friday morning.…
Continue Reading Xi tightens grip on power as China unveils new leaders
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Continue Reading Ancient DNA reveals the social lives of the oldest known family group
Multiple telescopes witnessed one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever recorded in space. CNN’s Kristin Fisher has the stunning…
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By Olga Voitovych and Tim Lister, CNN A resident of Kherson has described the situation in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city as tense, with people…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you have always suspected that you might just be a mosquito magnet, scientists now have evidence for you: Mosquitoes indeed…
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CNN’s Tom Foreman explains why some individuals could be more attractive to mosquitoes than others, according to a new…
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Russia and China in the last 100 years: The love-hate relationship between the world’s largest communist powers
Stacker investigated the relationship between Russia and China during the last century, using a variety of historical, news, and other…
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How car infrastructure is changing cities
Stacker reviewed historical records, news reports, and government documents to create a list of cities significantly impacted by car infrastructure.…
Continue Reading China’s Xi emerges from Communist Party Congress with more power, set for third term
By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN China’s top leader Xi Jinping is set to begin a norm-breaking third term with an even greater…
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CNN By Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan, Steven Jiang, Yong Xiong and Wayne Chang, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has formally stepped into his…
Continue Reading Iranian rock climber Elnaz Rekabi thanks supporters on social media, as official denies she is under house arrest
By Jomana Karadsheh and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A female Iranian rock climber, who competed without a hijab at an international competition in South…
Continue Reading Ukrainian military says 18 Russian cruise missiles destroyed amid attacks on energy infrastructure
By Pierre Meilhan and Richard Roth, CNN The Ukrainian military said it used anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups to destroy Russian…
Continue Reading Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao unexpectedly led out of room as Party Congress comes to a close
By Simone McCarthy, Yong Xiong and Steven Jiang, CNN China’s former top leader, Hu Jintao, was unexpectedly led out of Saturday’s closing…
Continue Reading Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy’s prime minister. Some fear the hard-right turn she’s promised to take
By Valentina Di Donato, Ben Wedeman and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader who was sworn in as Italy’s first female…
Continue Reading ‘I sent him bottles of Lambrusco’: Italy’s Berlusconi boasts about friendship with Putin in leaked audio
Newly leaked audio released by Italian news agency LaPresse reveals 86-year-old former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaking about his…
Continue Reading China wraps up 20th Party Congress with Xi set to become most powerful leader in decades
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Continue Reading This teacher was tortured by the Russians and held for six months before returning to her town in Ukraine in a prisoner swap
According to human rights groups, hundreds of Ukrainian civilians have been imprisoned unlawfully in Russia, with the lucky ones being used as…
Continue Reading This teacher was tortured by the Russians and held for six months before returning to her town in Ukraine in a prisoner swap
Ukrainian military officials say they fear Russia could open a northern front in the war in Ukraine from Belarus. Ret. Major Mike Lyons explains how…
Continue Reading This teacher was tortured by the Russians and held for six months before returning to her town in Ukraine in a prisoner swap
By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Tim Lister and Scott McWhinnie, CNN The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had no…
Continue Reading Singapore’s pre-execution photos seek to soften a policy activists say doesn’t work
By Heather Chen, CNN Nazira Lajim Hertslet can’t help but gush over pictures of her brother Nazeri. “Doesn’t he look so tall and so…
Continue Reading Ukrainian military says 18 Russian cruise missiles destroyed amid attacks on energy infrastructure
CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen gets access to a secret Ukrainian military drone workshop that could be leveling the playing field in the war with…
Continue Reading Iranian teachers call for nationwide ​​strike in protest over deaths and ​​detention of students
By Celine Alkhaldi and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A teachers’ union in Iran called for a nationwide teacher strike in protest over the recent deaths…
Continue Reading Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni named as Italy’s first female prime minister
By Rob Picheta, Valentina Di Donato, Sharon Braithwaite and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Populist firebrand Giorgia Meloni has been named as Italy’s…
Continue Reading Life gets more unbearable for Palestinians in Jerusalem’s only refugee camp
By Abeer Salman, CNN The people of this isolated, poverty-stricken island of refugees from the wars of 1948 and 1967 have never had it easy. But in…
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