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Dramatic video shows off-duty police officer stopping armed robbery in Spain

January 28, 2022 10:54 AM CNN Newsource

By Al Goodman, CNN An off-duty police officer went into a supermarket near Barcelona, Spain to buy groceries and ended up tackling a suspected armed…

Ukraine’s President Zelensky urges world leaders to tone down rhetoric on threat of war with Russia

January 28, 2022 10:37 AM CNN

CNN affiliate CBC News shows inside a German-led military base in Lithuania, part of NATO’s presence in the Baltics in support of…

Ukraine’s President Zelensky urges world leaders to tone down rhetoric on threat of war with Russia

January 28, 2022 10:37 AM CNN Newsource

By Matthew Chance, Vasco Cotovio and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday other world leaders have been…

First female director appointed for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

January 28, 2022 10:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time in its 85-year history, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director. Geochemist and…

Death toll rises after Tropical Cyclone Ana tears across southern Africa

January 28, 2022 6:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Sophie Jeong and Lianne Kolirin, CNN More than 80 people have now died and tens of thousands more are impacted after Tropical Cyclone Ana tore…

Images emerge of one of the US Navy’s newest stealth fighters crashing into the sea

January 28, 2022 5:46 AM CNN Newsource

By Brad Lendon, CNN Images have emerged of a US Navy F-35C stealth fighter crashing into the South China Sea earlier this week. The F-35C, a…

Ukraine-Russia crisis: How soon might a war be and what would it look like?

January 28, 2022 4:16 AM CNN Newsource

By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The Ukraine crisis is the classic case of a known unknown: We know that we don’t know what Russian President Vladimir…

North Korea conducts what could be its 6th missile test this month, South Korea says

January 27, 2022 5:44 PM CNN

CNN By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea fired what are presumed to be two short-range ballistic missiles into waters off the east coast…

27 drug smugglers killed at Jordan-Syria border, Jordanian army says

January 27, 2022 1:40 PM CNN Newsource

By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Jordanian soldiers killed 27 armed drug smugglers as they tried to enter the country from Syria on Thursday, an army…

A rocket booster could crash into the moon in the next few weeks

January 27, 2022 6:47 AM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN A rogue rocket booster could collide with the moon in the next few weeks, according to space experts, an…

US and NATO responses fail to address Russia’s main concerns, says Foreign Minister Lavrov

January 27, 2022 7:46 AM CNN

Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty weighs in on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aspirations to ‘evict the US from Europe,’ as Fiona…

What is NATO and when does it act?

January 27, 2022 7:11 AM CNN Newsource

By Ivana Kottasová and Bryony Jones, CNN As tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine, the role that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plays in…

US and NATO responses fail to address Russia’s main concerns, says Foreign Minister Lavrov

January 27, 2022 4:56 AM CNN Newsource

By Uliana Pavlova, Tara John and Vasco Cotovio, CNN The written responses presented by the United States and NATO to Russia’s security demands…

Ukrainian soldier kills 5 in shooting rampage at military factory

January 27, 2022 3:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Katharina Krebs, Radina Gigova and Tara John, CNN Five people were shot dead and another five injured when a Ukrainian soldier opened fire at a…

Avoiding the ‘time warp’ of living in space could help astronauts thrive on Mars

January 27, 2022 2:15 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Since the pandemic began, the arrival of each new year feels like a reprise of “let’s do the time warp…

Families discover fate of long lost Dutch Jewish children who perished at Nazis’ Sobibor

January 26, 2022 10:01 PM CNN Newsource

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Relatives of four Dutch children killed by the Nazis have described their sadness after being told their identity tags were…

Russia and Ukraine agree to continue ceasefire talks

January 26, 2022 7:15 PM CNN Newsource

By Yulia Shevchenko, Jennifer Deaton, Lindsay Isaac, Helen Regan and Kara Fox, CNN Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agreed that a permanent…

Russia and Ukraine agree to continue ceasefire talks

January 26, 2022 7:15 PM CNN

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joins Amanpour to discuss NATO’s plans for a diplomatic solution with Russia while the country continues to…

North Korea conducts what could be its 6th missile test this month, South Korea says

January 26, 2022 5:04 PM CNN Newsource

By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea fired what are presumed to be two short-range ballistic missiles into waters off the east coast of…

Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery

January 26, 2022 1:42 PM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of…

Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery

January 26, 2022 1:42 PM CNN

An Australian team of scientists discovered a giant burst of energy unlike anything astronomers have seen before while mapping radio waves in the…

Frogs can regrow amputated limbs after being treated with mix of drugs, new research finds

January 26, 2022 12:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN Some unusual creatures have an innate ability to regrow a limb: salamanders, starfish, crabs, lizards and newts. Such…

US-backed Kurdish forces recapture Syrian prison days after ISIS attack

January 26, 2022 11:27 AM CNN

CNN’s Arwa Damon reports as US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces clash with militants near Ghweran prison in the city of Hasakah, Syria. The prison…

US-backed Kurdish forces recapture Syrian prison days after ISIS attack

January 26, 2022 11:27 AM CNN Newsource

By Hamdi Alkhshali, Kareem Khadder and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) regained control of a prison in northeast Syria…

US Navy wants to get crashed stealth fighter back — before China can

January 26, 2022 6:33 AM CNN

CNN By Brad Lendon, CNN The United States Navy is trying to retrieve its most advanced fighter jet from the depths of the South China Sea, an…

Israeli settlers rage through Palestinian town, marking the latest ‘nationalistically motivated’ attack in the region

January 26, 2022 7:57 AM CNN Newsource

By Andrew Carey and Abeer Salman, CNN Israeli settlers in a convoy of cars rampaged through a Palestinian town in the West Bank near Nablus on Monday…