This is what athletes are getting up to in the Olympic Village
Olympic athletes at the 2020 Games in Tokyo are sharing what life is like inside the Olympic…
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Myanmar doctors in hiding and hunted by the junta as Covid crisis ravages the country
By Helen Regan, CNN A severe Covid-19 wave is devastating Myanmar — a country already on its knees following February’s military coup…
Continue Reading Judge rules conservative radio host Larry Elder will be on ballot in recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder will be a candidate in California’s upcoming recall election aimed at removing…
Continue Reading GOP blocks U.S. Senate debate on bipartisan infrastructure bill
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senate Republicans rejected an effort Wednesday to begin debate on the big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group…
Continue Reading Perseverance rover prepares to collect Martian samples that will be sent to Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Almost a year after NASA’s Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic…
Continue Reading Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to 11 sexual assault counts in Los Angeles court
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault…
Continue Reading House GOP leader McCarthy threatens to boycott Jan. 6 panel after Pelosi blocks appointment of 2 Trump allies
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rejecting two Trump allies tapped by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee…
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Federal judge temporarily blocks enforcement of Arkansas ban on gender confirming treatment for transgender youth
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas’ ban on gender confirming treatments for transgender youth while a…
Continue Reading Speaker Pelosi rejects 2 Republicans tapped by GOP leader to serve on panel investigating Jan. 6 riot at Capitol
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rejecting two Republicans tapped by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee…
Continue Reading Men have a bigger carbon footprint than women, thanks to their appetite for cars and meat
By Hannah Ryan, CNN Gender stereotypes are alive and well and harming our planet, a new study from Sweden shows, as men’s passion for meat and…
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Official tells lawmakers US, Germany have reached deal allowing completion of Russian pipeline without new sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior State Department official says the U.S. and Germany have reached a deal that will allow the completion of a…
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Russia has launched a laboratory module to its cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has successfully launched a long-delayed lab module for the International Space Station. The module is intended to provide…
Continue Reading Hungary’s FM: We don’t want LGBTQI ‘activists’ in schools
Speaking to Bianna Golodryga, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó defends the country’s new law that bans content which “promotes”…
Continue Reading Hungary plans referendum on law criticized by EU as homophobic
By Luke McGee, Amy Cassidy and Boglarka Kosztolanyi CNN Hungary’s right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed a referendum on…
Continue Reading Around 100 kidnapped women and children rescued in Nigeria
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Around 100 women and children abducted in early June by gunmen known locally as “bandits” have been rescued,…
Continue Reading Pfizer-BioNTech to start producing Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa in 2022
By David McKenzie and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech will start to manufacture their Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa, they announced…
Continue Reading International Olympic Committee officially picks Brisbane, Australia to host 2032 Summer Olympics
TOKYO (AP) — Brisbane has been picked to host the 2032 Olympics. The Australian city was the inevitable winner of a one-candidate race steered by…
Continue Reading Passengers trapped inside submerged subway as China battles deadly floods
Several people in Zhengzhou, China have died after record-breaking rainfall flooded the city’s subway. Hundreds of thousands of people have been…
Continue Reading China’s borders will likely remain shut for months, but some may be wary of visiting even after they reopen
By Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung, CNN Last week, the Biden administration warned American companies about the risk of doing business in Hong Kong,…
Continue Reading Indonesia is now the epicenter of Asia’s Covid-19 crisis. Here’s what you need to know
By Rhea Mogul, CNN For much of last year, it seemed like Indonesia had managed to keep its Covid-19 outbreak largely under control. Now, the island…
Continue Reading Passengers trapped inside submerged subway as deadly floods sweep central China
By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Zixu Wang, CNN Terrified subway passengers in central China were left clinging to ceiling handles inside flooded cars…
Continue Reading His brother was tortured and killed by Russian mercenaries. Now this Syrian refugee wants justice
Russian mercenaries have been accused of grave human rights abuses that experts say could, in some cases, amount to war crimes. CNN has reported…
Continue Reading His brother was tortured and killed by Russian mercenaries. Now this Syrian refugee wants justice
By Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN In the central Syrian desert, an oil field has become a makeshift torture chamber. An unarmed man…
Continue Reading This butterfly was the first to go extinct in the US because of humans
By Ashley Strickland, CNN As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, a blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation…
Continue Reading Rockets land near Afghanistan’s presidential palace during Eid prayers
By Kara Fox and Nic Robertson, CNN Three rockets landed in two different areas near the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning,…
Continue Reading Ex-head of Trump inaugural committee charged with acting as a foreign agent
NEW YORK, NY — The chair of former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging that he and others…
Continue Reading Russia unveils new ‘Checkmate’ fighter jet
By Anna Chernova and Zahra Ullah, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin got a sneak peek of a new fifth-generation lightweight single-engine fighter…
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4 U.S. drug companies on verge of $26B opiod cases settlement
NEW YORK, NY — The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion…
Continue Reading How to save the planet: Five simple things you can do
You might think that one person can’t make a difference but these five simple actions can reduce your carbon footprint and make a big…
Continue Reading ISIS claims responsibility for Iraq suicide attack that left dozens dead
At least 27 people were killed and 32 others wounded when an explosion ripped through a busy market in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, health and…
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