Plunging sales of new homes show China’s real estate crisis isn’t over
By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Plunging sales of new homes and the reported cancellation of a share placement by China’s biggest property…
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Un zoológico chino niega que sus osos sean personas disfrazadas
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un zoológico del este de China desmintió las insinuaciones de que algunos de sus osos son personas…
Continue ReadingInvasive fruit fly prompts quarantine for 79 square miles of Los Angeles County
By Jamiel Lynch and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A 79-square-mile area of Los Angeles County is under quarantine after an invasive fruit fly…
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Myanmar junta pardons some Suu Kyi offences, but former leader still faces decades in detention
By Alex Stambaugh and Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — Myanmar’s ruling military junta has pardoned Aung San Suu Kyi on five charges for which…
Continue Reading‘I want to be like Marta’: How Brazil’s all-time record goalscorer became the greatest of all time and an ‘icon’ in her country
By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — “The defenders were always mad at her,” Sissi recalls with a chuckle. “You were like: ‘How are we going to…
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Massive fire burning in California and Nevada is spawning dangerous ‘fire whirls’
KTNV By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A massive fire burning across both California and Nevada is generating extreme fire behavior, spawning…
Continue ReadingRussia accuses Ukraine of striking same Moscow building that was hit by drone days ago
By DASHA LITVINOVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have accused Ukraine in yet another drone attack…
Continue ReadingUS restricts visa-free travel for Hungarian passport holders because of security concerns
By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The United States is imposing travel restrictions on citizens of Hungary over…
Continue ReadingOhio K-9 officer who unleashed dog on Black man was fired for repeatedly discussing confidential details, documents show
By Isabel Rosales, Kristina Sgueglia and Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — The K-9 officer in Ohio who released a police dog on a Black man who was…
Continue ReadingChina curbs drone exports over ‘national security concerns’
By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China will place export controls on drone and drone equipment in order to “safeguard national…
Continue ReadingFrance planning an evacuation of people seeking to leave Niger after the coup in its former colony
PARIS (AP) — The French Foreign Ministry says France is planning an imminent evacuation of people seeking to leave Niger after the coup last week…
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Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume
CNN By Heather Chen, Wayne Chang, Mengchen Zhang and CNN (CNN) — A zoo in eastern China has denied suggestions that some of its bears were…
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