By Ashley Strickland, CNN An artificial lake off the west coast of Sicily was once one of the largest sacred pools in the ancient Mediterranean 2,500 years ago — and it was aligned with the stars, according to new research. Previously, researchers thought the rectangular lake was a military harbor that participated in Mediterranean trade.
Continue ReadingBy Jessica DuLong, CNN As Covid-19 infection rates fall, doctors and patients are sifting through the wreckage of symptoms left behind. Shortness of breath, heart palpitations, chest pain, fatigue and brain fog — those are just some of the ongoing complaints of a growing number of people, many of whom had only mild cases of
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El líder opositor ruso Alexey Navalny fue sentenciado este martes a otros 9 años de prisión en una cárcel de máxima seguridad, según la agencia de noticias estatal rusa Tass. La pena también incluye una multa de 1,2 millones de rublos, unos US$ 11.500, añadió el reporte de Tass. Alexey Navalny: su
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead. Families are struggling with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths. The country has been dealing with a massive
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead. Families are struggling with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths. The country has been dealing with a massive
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi. The vaccination drive, led by governments with the support of UNICEF and partners, started in Malawi
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — En marzo Rusia se convirtió en el primer país del mundo en utilizar misiles hipersónicos en combate, luego de lanzar uno de estos proyectiles contra objetivos en Ucrania, según confirmó el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden. Ahora, ha vuelto a usarlos, esta vez contra la ciudad de Odesa. Tres misiles Kinzhal
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Halasz and George Ramsay, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security jail, according to Russian state-owned news agency Tass. A prominent Kremlin critic, Navalny was convicted on fraud charges by Moscow’s Lefortovo court over allegations that he stole from his Anti-Corruption Foundation. Navalny, 45, is
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Susannah Cullinane and Amir Vera, CNN The City of Miami Beach commission voted unanimously during a Tuesday emergency meeting to impose a curfew during Spring Break festivities this weekend. The curfew will start at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday and expire Monday morning at 6 a.m., starting at midnight each night. The boundaries
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German authorities have carried out raids across the country and questioned more than 100 suspects in an investigation of hate posts against politicians connected to last year’s national election. The Frankfurt prosecutor’s office and the Federal Criminal Police Office said that Tuesday’s raids resulted from an analysis of over 600 posts for
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week struck the same oil storage tank in the Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah they had previously hit a year and a half ago. That’s according to satellite photos by Planet Labs PBC. The photos were analyzed by The Associated
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week struck the same oil storage tank in the Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah they had previously hit a year and a half ago. That’s according to satellite photos by Planet Labs PBC. The photos were analyzed by The Associated
Continue ReadingThe fight for Ukraine’s cities is thundering across its suburbs. The Ukrainian military says that after a fierce battle, Ukrainian troops regained control of the Kyiv suburb of Makariv on Tuesday, allowing them to retake a key highway to the west and block Russian troops. But Russian forces took partial control of three northwest suburbs.
Continue ReadingThe fight for Ukraine’s cities is thundering across its suburbs. The Ukrainian military says that after a fierce battle, Ukrainian troops regained control of the Kyiv suburb of Makariv on Tuesday, allowing them to retake a key highway to the west and block Russian troops. But Russian forces took partial control of three northwest suburbs.
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and CNN’s Beijing bureau No survivors of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash have been found after a second day of search efforts, Chinese investigators said late Tuesday. In China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade, the Boeing 737-800 — carrying 132 people — crashed Monday
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is alerting people in the Tokyo region they may face blackouts as power runs short after several coal-fired plants temporarily stopped generating electricity following an earthquake last week. The rare alert Tuesday came as people were using more heat than usual due to snow and
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is alerting people in the Tokyo region they may face blackouts as power runs short after several coal-fired plants temporarily stopped generating electricity following an earthquake last week. The rare alert Tuesday came as people were using more heat than usual due to snow and
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY, STEVE KARNOWSKI and ROB GILLIES Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Farmers worldwide are weighing whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring as Russia’s war in Ukraine has choked off or thrown into question grain supplies from a region known as “the breadbasket of the
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY, STEVE KARNOWSKI and ROB GILLIES Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Farmers worldwide are weighing whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring as Russia’s war in Ukraine has choked off or thrown into question grain supplies from a region known as “the breadbasket of the
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN A Russian bomber fired three hypersonic missiles at the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Monday night, Ukrainian officials said, as part of a barrage that leveled a number of civilian targets including hotels and a shopping mall. It is not the first time Moscow has deployed its Kinzhal hypersonic
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