China nuclear reactor shut down for maintenance because of fuel rod damage
By Yong Xiong, CNN A reactor at Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in southern China’s Guangdong province has been shut down because of fuel rod…
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Carrie and Boris Johnson are expecting a second baby after miscarriage heartbreak
By Elaine Ly and Luke McGee, CNN Carrie Johnson, the wife of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has announced the couple are expecting their second…
Continue Reading Wildfires in southern Turkey leave four dead
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports from Manavgat, Turkey, where wildfires have killed four…
Continue Reading ‘The animals are on fire,’ say devastated farmers as wildfires sweep Turkey
By Gul Tuysuz and Arwa Damon, CNN In the small village of Kacarlar, on Turkey’s southern coast, farmers are facing apocalyptic scenes as…
Continue Reading Massive comet discovery dwarfs all others
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Messengers from the past are all around us. In our solar system, comets are the icy leftovers from when the sun and planets…
Continue Reading Once considered a ‘city disease,’ Zimbabwe’s rural areas are being hit hard by Covid, and panic has set in
By Nyasha Chingono, for CNN Pauline Chinyandura adjusts her face mask as she rushes to serve lunch to a group of men visiting her makeshift canteen…
Continue Reading Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica wins gold medal in women’s 100 meters in Olympic record 10.61 seconds
TOKYO (AP) — Elaine Thompson-Herah broke Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old Olympic record in the women’s 100 meters. She crossed the line…
Continue Reading Deadly drone attack on tanker escalates Iran-Israel maritime tensions
By Jonny Hallam, Kareem El Damanhoury, Barbara Starr and Sheena McKenzie, CNN Maritime tensions are escalating in the Middle East following the…
Continue Reading Britain wins wild Olympic debut of 4×100 mixed medley, where men, women swim together and it’s hard to tell who’s ahead
TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic debut of the 4x-100-meter mixed medley relay lived up to its promise of utter chaos and unpredictability. One swimmer’s…
Continue Reading American Katie Ledecky wins 2nd gold, defeats Aussie rival
TOKYO, Japan — Katie Ledecky has closed out her Tokyo Olympics with another gold medal. Ledecky became the first female swimmer to capture six…
Continue Reading Biles withdraws from vault, uneven bars finals at Olympics
TOKYO, Japan — USA Gymnastics says Simone Biles has decided to withdraw from the Olympic event finals in the vault and uneven bars. She continues…
Continue Reading U.S. swimmer Caeleb Dressel sets world record to win 3rd Olympic gold
TOKYO, Japan — Caeleb Dressel has won his third gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a world record in the 100-meter butterfly. Dressel touched in…
Continue Reading Xi Jinping only wants the most devoted Chinese Communist Party members. His tough membership rules could backfire
By Julia Hollingsworth, Nectar Gan and CNN staff, CNN In a meeting room decorated with a stylized hammer and sickle flag, Kelly Hu detailed her…
Continue Reading Blue Origin protest of NASA’s SpaceX moon contract denied
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA returns humans to the moon, SpaceX will build the vehicle to land the first woman and next man on the lunar…
Continue Reading Jeff Bezos reignites battle for NASA moon contract
Jeff Bezos is offering NASA up to $2 billion in a bid to reignite the battle for space between his rocket company Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.…
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DOJ tells Treasury to give Trump tax returns to Congress
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Justice says the Treasury Department must provide the House Ways and Means Committee former President…
Continue Reading Saturn will glow brightly in the sky next week. Here’s how to see it
By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN See Saturn shine brightly for this once-a-year nighttime spectacle. On August 1 and 2, Saturn will be at…
Continue Reading Trump urged Justice officials to declare election ‘corrupt’
WASHINGTON, DC — Former President Donald Trump pressured acting U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was…
Continue Reading Vaccinated people are majority of infected in massive outbreak in Massachusetts
PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts — Adding more insight into the Centers for Disease Control’s updated mask guidance, newly published details of the…
Continue Reading UK and Romanian crew killed in attack on tanker linked to Israeli billionaire off coast of Oman
By Rob Picheta, Jonny Hallam, Barbara Starr and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Two crewmembers died when a tanker connected to an Israeli billionaire was…
Continue Reading Bone confirmed to be remains of missing British hiker Esther Dingley
By James Briggs, CNN A bone found in the Pyrenees mountains has been identified as belonging to missing British hiker Esther Dingley, the charity…
Continue Reading UN says food aid in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region will run out Friday as 400,000 people face famine
By Rob Picheta, James Briggs and Larry Madowo, CNN The UN World Food Programme said it expected to run out of food in the war-torn Ethiopian region…
Continue Reading Hong Kong police arrest man for booing Chinese national anthem while watching Olympics
By Eric Cheung, CNN Hong Kong police have arrested a man after he allegedly booed the Chinese national anthem while watching an Olympics award…
Continue Reading FBI investigating Nigeria’s ‘super cop’ in Instagram influencer HushPuppi fraud case
By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN A high-ranking Nigerian police officer is being investigated by the FBI for allegedly making an arrest…
Continue Reading Djokovic loses in Olympic tennis semis, ends Golden Slam bid
TOKYO, Japan — There will be no Golden Slam for Novak Djokovic. With his bid over for at least another three years, Djokovic rested his head on…
Continue Reading Japanese athletes face Chinese nationalists’ wrath after beating China at Olympics
By Nectar Gan, CNN Some of Japan’s victorious Olympic athletes have been subjected to a storm of online abuse from Chinese nationalists…
Continue Reading Japanese athletes face Chinese nationalists’ wrath after beating China at Olympics
CNN By Nectar Gan, CNN Some of Japan’s victorious Olympic athletes have been subjected to a storm of online abuse from Chinese nationalists…
Continue Reading Palestinian man shot dead in violent clashes as 12-year old boy, also killed by Israeli soldiers, is buried
By Andrew Carey and Kareem Khadder, CNN A Palestinian man has died after being shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian…
Continue Reading Israel to offer third Covid-19 vaccine dose to people over 60
Director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry Nachman Ash talks about his country’s fight against Covid as the Delta variant…
Continue Reading Israel to offer third Covid-19 vaccine dose to people over 60
By Amir Tal, Jacqueline Howard and Andrew Carey, CNN Israel’s Prime Minister has announced a program to roll out a third dose of the…
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