April 5, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
Former NATO Supreme Allied Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark explains what Russia’s objectives are in eastern Ukraine and how Ukrainian forces can…
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April 5, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
Retired US Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton says that satellite images showing the absence of Russian troops at an airport near Kyiv indicates that Putin is…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka is facing an economic and political crisis. Here’s what you need to know
By Jessie Yeung, CNN Sri Lanka, an island nation of 22 million, is facing an economic and political crisis, with protesters taking to the streets in…
Continue Reading NASA still hopes to launch moon mission in June despite two scrubbed trials
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN NASA is still aiming for a June launch after a second attempt at a final test for its Artemis I mission to the moon was…
Continue Reading Russian troops leave behind trail of dead civilians, flattened apartment blocks, and V signs in Ukraine’s Borodianka
After Russian troops retreated Borodianka, Ukraine, graphic scenes of death and destruction were left. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen…
Continue Reading Russian troops leave behind trail of dead civilians, flattened apartment blocks, and V signs in Ukraine’s Borodianka
By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN Oksana Kostychenko walks down a narrow pathway, leading to her back garden in…
Continue Reading Bodies tied up, shot and left to rot in Bucha hint at gruesome reality of Russia’s occupation in Ukraine
By Tara John, Vasco Cotovio, Sandi Sidhu and Oleksandr Fylyppov, CNN The Russian column of tanks and armored personnel carriers sped along a…
Continue Reading Russian troops discussed killing Ukrainian civilians in radio transmissions intercepted by Germany, source says
CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports from Bucha, Ukraine, where Ukrainian authorities say hundreds of people were killed by Russian…
Continue Reading Russian cosmonauts ‘blindsided’ by controversy over arriving at ISS in yellow spacesuits, NASA astronaut says
By Katie Hunt, CNN The three Russian astronauts who boarded the International Space Station last month in spacesuits that echoed the colors of…
Continue Reading Ukraine’s Zelensky questions UN Security Council’s mandate in speech on alleged Russian atrocities
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the United Nations Security Council days after a massacre in Bucha, Ukraine, was…
Continue Reading Ukraine’s Zelensky questions UN Security Council’s mandate in speech on alleged Russian atrocities
By Jennifer Deaton and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian troops of indiscriminately killing civilians…
Continue Reading UAE sentences Israeli woman to death for cocaine possession
By Elliot Gotkine, CNN A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced an Israeli woman to death, after she was found guilty of possessing 500…
Continue Reading NATO Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Facts The…
Continue Reading International Criminal Court Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the International Criminal Court (ICC), a court comprised of 123 states from around the world. Facts…
Continue Reading 2008 Georgia Russia Conflict Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia. Facts The conflict centered on South Ossetia and…
Continue Reading In a harsh lesson of war, Ukrainian children learn to tell toys from Russian explosives
By Jo Shelley and Olha Konovalova, CNN In a metro station in Kharkiv, a young woman holds up a toy car, a stuffed bear and a juice carton to a group…
Continue Reading France’s presidential election race is tighter than expected. Here’s what you need to know
By Joseph Ataman, CNN At the start of 2022, France’s upcoming presidential election looked set to be one of the country’s most watched…
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Countries accepting the most Ukrainian refugees
To determine which countries have taken in the most people fleeing Ukraine since fighting broke out on Feb. 24, Stacker compiled refugee data (last…
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How climate change is impacting allergy season
Wyndly compiled research from academic journals, governmental departments, and nonprofit organizations to identify six ways climate change is…
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How the world changed during Queen Elizabeth’s reign
Stacker examined how the world changed during Queen Elizabeth’s 70 year…
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After Elizabeth II: Who is in the royal line of succession?
Stacker compiled a list of 20 members of the royal family and their respective positions in the line of succession, using information from the…
Continue Reading Pakistan’s Imran Khan is fighting to hold on to power. Here’s what happens next
By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan is in political turmoil as the South Asian country awaits a key court ruling that will decide whether…
Continue Reading Fleeing Ukraine alone, resourceful teenager persuades Hungarian school to take her in
CNN’s Matt Rivers shares the story of 17-year-old Alla Renska, a Ukrainian teen refugee sent to Budapest, Hungary, by her parents to escape the…
Continue Reading Fleeing Ukraine alone, resourceful teenager persuades Hungarian school to take her in
By Laura Dolan and Matt Rivers, CNN It’s a normal school day for students at the Korosi Baptist High School in Budapest, Hungary —…
Continue Reading NASA’s Artemis I mega moon rocket test stopped for second time
By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN The second attempt at the final, crucial prelaunch test for NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon was…
Continue Reading Satellite pollution is threatening to alter our view of the night sky
By Kristin Fisher, CNN The night sky has been a source of information and wonder since the dawn of humankind — and it looks almost the same now…
Continue Reading The night sky is changing before our eyes
CNN’s Kristin Fisher shows us the impact of a massive increase in satellites in our night skies. GoThere is available on CNN+ — CNN’s new streaming…
Continue Reading Five important things that happened in Ukraine over the weekend
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian forces are committing genocide in his country after images emerged of civilian bodies strewn…
Continue Reading Five important things that happened in Ukraine over the weekend
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN It’s been 39 days since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, but the true horrors of the war are only just becoming…
Continue Reading Forced to flee the Nazis as a baby, this Ukrainian Holocaust survivor is running from her home again
By Salma Abdelaziz, Sarah Dean and Dan Hodge, CNN Outside the Jewish Community Center in the Polish city of Krakow, more than a dozen members wait to…
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