By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on the run. Matteo Messina Denaro was tried in absentia and convicted
Continue ReadingBy Ehsan Popalzai and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada and her security guard were shot dead her home in Kabul early Sunday morning, according to Kabul police. Nabizada represented Kabul in Afghanistan’s parliament from 2019 until the government was deposed by the Taliban in August 2021. She was one of the few
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Two of tennis’ most exciting young players, Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu, will face off in the Australian Open second round after they both won their opening matches on Monday. The 18-year-old Gauff comfortably beat the Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniaková, winning in straight sets 6-1 6-4. Elsewhere, Raducanu allayed some of
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By Isabel Rosales, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Hannah Sarisohn and Eric Levenson, CNN Police on Monday identified the two passengers injured in the single-vehicle car crash that killed University of Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and staff member Chandler LeCroy early Sunday, just hours after the team celebrated its national championship victory. Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday,
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Global air traffic will boom this year, returning to pre-pandemic levels in June, according to a new report. On Monday, international aircraft leasing company Avolon said it expected a full recovery in passenger traffic over the coming months, led by the reopening of markets in Asia, especially China. Andy Cronin, the
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine left the site on Monday. The activists — nicknamed “Pinky” and “Brain” — had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days in a bid
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine left the site on Monday. The activists — nicknamed “Pinky” and “Brain” — had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days in a bid
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The major political group embroiled in a massive European Union corruption scandal will seek this week to insulate itself from further fallout in the cash-for-influence affair linked to Qatar and Morocco. An official with the center-left Socialists and Democrats says the group wants to eject two lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The major political group embroiled in a massive European Union corruption scandal will seek this week to insulate itself from further fallout in the cash-for-influence affair linked to Qatar and Morocco. An official with the center-left Socialists and Democrats says the group wants to eject two lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to nuclear power, even though his predecessor had tried to move away from atomic power. Yoon’s comments at a summit in
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to nuclear power, even though his predecessor had tried to move away from atomic power. Yoon’s comments at a summit in
Continue ReadingBy VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of
Continue ReadingBy VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN A number of regional governments in China have revealed the enormous sums they’ve spent on fighting the pandemic, reinforcing a previous state media report suggesting that mounting costs were a key reason why the country abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy. On January 8, when China reopened its borders and formally downgraded
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The Buffalo Bills are set to face the Cincinnati Bengals next week for the first time since Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s on-field collapse brought a game between the two teams to a halt and set off a national outpouring of support. The Bills and Bengals each advanced to
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on replacement names to remove the word sq—, an “offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” from
Continue ReadingBy EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan. But in
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Home favorite Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the Australian Open due to a knee injury, the tournament announced on Monday. The 27-year-old Australian told reporters he was “extremely disappointed” to miss the grand slam event, now underway in Melbourne. “I’m devastated, obviously, it’s my home tournament. I’ve
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on replacement names to remove the word sq—, an “offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” from
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming U.N. climate negotiations in Dubai, citing his work on renewable energy projects. In an interview Sunday with The
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