UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dies aged 73
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates President whose modernization policies helped transform his country into a regional…
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Climate change doubled chance of South African floods that killed 435 people, analysis shows
As many as a third of South Africa’s river fish species are threatened. Biologist Jeremy Shelton wants to document their unseen world through his…
Continue Reading Climate change doubled chance of South African floods that killed 435 people, analysis shows
By Angela Dewan, CNN Human-induced climate change made the extreme rainfall that triggered deadly floods in South Africa in April heavier and twice…
Continue Reading UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dies aged 73
By Mostafa Salem, CNN Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates President whose modernization policies helped transform his…
Continue Reading Who is ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr and why are some Filipinos nervous about his family’s return?
CNN By Helen Regan, CNN Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is the presumptive President of the Philippines after winning a landslide in…
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China tightens ban on ‘non-essential’ overseas travel as lockdown anger rises
By Jessie Yeung, CNN Authorities in China have imposed a de facto international travel ban, forbidding citizens from going overseas for…
Continue Reading Leaving locked down Shanghai for a ‘whole new world’ outside China
CNN 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…
Continue Reading Leaving locked down Shanghai for a ‘whole new world’ outside China
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.…
Continue Reading North Korea announces first Covid deaths amid ‘explosive’ outbreak
By Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea has announced an “explosive” Covid-19 outbreak that has likely killed six people and…
Continue Reading 1st image of supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy revealed
Lia Medeiros, co-lead of the EHT Gravitational Physics Working Group, talks to CNN about capturing the first image of the massive black hole at the…
Continue Reading WaPo: Israeli soldiers’ guns confiscated as part of investigation after Al-Jazeera journalist’s killing, says Israeli military official
Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while covering an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of…
Continue Reading WaPo: Israeli soldiers’ guns confiscated as part of investigation after Al-Jazeera journalist’s killing, says Israeli military official
By Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli military investigators have taken guns away from some Israel Defense Forces troops as part of an investigation into…
Continue Reading D-Day Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at D-Day. Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, to fight Nazi Germany in World War II. Facts…
Continue Reading Exclusive: Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine
By Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Tamara Qiblawi, Alex Platt, Victoria Butenko, Darya Tarasova and Maria…
Continue Reading Exclusive: Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine
The US and international community has accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine as Russian artillery has devastated Ukrainian cities and lives. But it…
Continue Reading Tonga volcano was the most ferocious eruption in 140 years
By Katie Hunt, CNN The volcanic eruption on an island near Tonga in January was as powerful as the 1883 Krakatoa eruption in Indonesia, one of the…
Continue Reading North Korea sends cargo planes to China as country fights pandemic
CNN 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…
Continue Reading Plants have been grown in lunar soil for the 1st time ever
By Ashley Strickland, CNN In a landmark first, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil using samples collected during the Apollo missions to the…
Continue Reading 1st image of supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy revealed
By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.…
Continue Reading Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Facts “Doping” by professional athletes…
Continue Reading Russian ships carrying stolen Ukrainian grain turned away from Mediterranean ports — but not all of them
By Tim Lister and Sanyo Fylyppov, CNN A Russian merchant ship loaded with grain stolen in Ukraine has been turned away from at least one…
Continue Reading Finland and Sweden want to join NATO. Here’s how it works and what comes next
Finland’s President and Prime Minister released a statement confirming the country’s intent to join NATO. CNN’s Nic Robertson breaks down the…
Continue Reading Finland’s leaders announce support for NATO membership, moving nation closer to joining alliance
The Finnish Parliament will debate on a potential decision to join NATO this week. The country’s shared border with Russia has shifted opinion polls…
Continue Reading Finland’s leaders announce support for NATO membership, sparking retaliation threats from Russia
By Luke McGee, CNN Finland’s president and prime minister announced their support for joining NATO on Thursday, moving the Nordic nation which…
Continue Reading Passenger plane catches fire during takeoff in southwestern China
By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau A Tibet Airlines plane caught fire after skidding off the runway in the southwestern Chinese city of…
Continue Reading Who is ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr and why are some Filipinos nervous about his family’s return?
By Helen Regan, CNN Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is the presumptive President of the Philippines after winning a landslide in…
Continue Reading Hong Kong arrests 90-year-old cardinal on national security charge
By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong’s national security police on Wednesday arrested Cardinal Joseph Zen, a 90-year-old former bishop and outspoken…
Continue Reading Video shows Russian soldiers killing 2 civilians before they ransack a business
New surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back, providing a stark example of a potential war crime…
Continue Reading Video shows Russian soldiers killing 2 civilians before they ransack a business
EXCLUSIVE by Sara Sidner, Sandi Sidhu, Vasco Cotovio, Kostyantyn Gak and Oleksandra Titorova, CNN Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they…
Continue Reading North Korea declares ‘major national emergency’ as first case of Covid-19 identified, state media reports
By Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN North Korea has identified its first ever case of Covid-19, according to state media, which called the situation a…
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