Young mother and elderly priest among Tigrayans arrested in Addis Ababa, witnesses say
Journalist Tsedale Lemma, founder of The Addis Standard, digs into the crisis in Ethiopia and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s…
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Ethiopia’s military calls on former members to rejoin army as rebels advance on capital
By David McKenzie, CNN Ethiopia’s military is calling on veterans to rejoin the army as two aligned rebel groups threaten the capital, marking…
Continue Reading Camels escape from circus and venture out to explore Madrid
By Hannah Ryan, CNN Spanish police had an unusual encounter on Friday night when a number of camels and a llama escaped from a circus and wandered…
Continue Reading Police searching for missing swimmer after a shark attack in Western Australia
By Angus Watson, CNN A man is missing after a reported shark attack at a beach in North Fremantle, Western Australia according to police and the…
Continue Reading At least 98 killed in Sierra Leone fuel tanker explosion
By Teele Rebane and Yong Xiong, CNN At least 98 people died on Friday after a fuel tanker exploded in a suburb of Sierra Leone‘s capital,…
Continue Reading U.S. House passes $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill, sends it to Biden
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House has approved a $1.2 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a…
Continue Reading Dems end deadlock, House hands Biden infrastructure win
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after…
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Police: Armed man fatally shot at a North Carolina Walmart
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say police have fatally shot an armed man who reportedly pointed a gun at a worker at a Walmart store in North…
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US offers $5 million rewards for 4 Mexican drug lords
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government is offering $5 million rewards for information leading to the capture of four Mexican drug lords. Those…
Continue Reading The Dutch are masters at taming water. Climate change is teaching them to just let it flood
By Mick Krever and Phil Black, CNN Video with Martin Bourke and Mark Baron, CNN Design by Henrik Pettersson, CNN In the spitting rain that is endemic…
Continue Reading The Dutch are masters at taming water. Climate change is teaching them to just let it flood
Parts of Germany were devastated by flooding earlier this year. Hundreds of miles upstream along those rivers, people in the Netherlands have been…
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Denver Zoo reports world’s first coronavirus cases in hyenas
By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Two hyenas at the Denver Zoo have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed…
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Man burst into flames after Taser used on him, police say
CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an upstate New York man is in grave condition at a hospital after police used a Taser to subdue him and he…
Continue Reading 5 takeaways from Day 5 of COP26: Kids in the streets, carbon capture cost, caution on net-zero pledges
By Ivana Kottasová, Ingrid Formanek and Rachel Ramirez, CNN TGIF! It’s been a long week at the COP26 climate conference, where Friday’s…
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Stocks rally to new record highs on strong jobs data, Pfizer Covid pill news
NEW YORK — Wall Street got a double dose of good news to cheer on Friday as stocks pushed further into record heights. The job market…
Continue Reading House Dems delay huge social bill, plan infrastructure vote
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats have abruptly postponed an expected House vote on a 10-year, $1.85 trillion social…
Continue Reading WATCH: Funeral for former secretary of state, military leader Colin Powell
WASHINGTON, DC — Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing and widely praised soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to national prominence, was…
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Mexico announces its biggest seizure of pure fentanyl
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it has made the biggest seizure of pure fentanyl in its history, after five suspected drug traffickers were arrested…
Continue Reading Thousands of young campaigners descend on COP26 as Greta Thunberg leads climate protest
CNN’s Phil Black reports from a youth climate protest in Glasgow, Scotland, as the COP26 climate summit…
Continue Reading Russian diplomat found dead on street outside Berlin embassy
By Tara John, Nadine Schmidt and Zahra Ullah, CNN A Russian diplomat found dead on the sidewalk outside the embassy in Berlin last month is believed…
Continue Reading 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton in Utah could be the first of its kind
By Sherry Liang, CNN An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah could be the first of its…
Continue Reading Greta Thunberg slams COP26 as a ‘failure’ at youth protest in Glasgow
By Ivana Kottasová and Rob Picheta, CNN Greta Thunberg criticized world leaders and called the COP26 summit a “failure” on Friday, as…
Continue Reading Armed groups join forces in Ethiopia in biggest threat yet to embattled Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Armed groups fighting Ethiopia’s central government are swelling in numbers as they advance on the capital, Addis…
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Pfizer says COVID-19 pill cut hospital, death risk by 90%
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by…
Continue Reading Germany offers booster shots to everyone amid ‘very worrying’ surge in cases
By Rob Picheta and Nadine Schmidt, CNN German health officials have warned the country is in the grips of a “very worrying” spike in…
Continue Reading ‘All they’ve done is carry dead bodies out.’ Despair at site of Lagos luxury apartment collapse as families watch rescue effort
By Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Busari CNN Families of the victims of Monday’s high-rise building collapse in Lagos have accused the Nigerian…
Continue Reading Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a…
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E-commerce industries projected to grow the most
Clyde reviewed data from Statista to break down the top five e-commerce industry segments and the forces shaping the future of e-commerce…
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Countries with the lowest income inequality
Stacker spotlights 30 countries with the lowest income inequality based on data from the World Inequality Database and explores contributing…
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50 facts and figures about D-Day
Stacker compiled a list of 50 facts and figures that defined D-Day, using resources like the D-Day Center and the Department of…
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