By Anna Chernova, Abby Phillip, Dakin Andone and Alaa Elassar, CNN Two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Russian court near Moscow, her lawyers confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Griner, whom the US State Department has classified as wrongfully detained, faces up to 10 years in
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Continue ReadingCNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday. Here’s his statement in full. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and I’ve agreed with Sir
Continue ReadingBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday. Here’s his statement in full. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and I’ve agreed with Sir Graham
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation on Thursday following mounting pressure from lawmakers in his own party to stand down. Under the UK political system, between elections, only Conservative members of Parliament have the ability to remove a sitting Conservative Prime Minister. So, what happens to the UK
Continue ReadingCNN By Richard Allen Greene, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation on Thursday following mounting pressure from lawmakers in his own party to stand down. Under the UK political system, between elections, only Conservative members of Parliament have the ability to remove a sitting Conservative Prime Minister. So, what happens to the
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, Luke McGee and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Boris Johnson’s turbulent tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister came to an end Thursday after a historic party revolt over a series of ethics scandals forced him to step down. It took the resignation of nearly 60 members of his government — almost half the payroll —
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Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt and Pierre Bairin, CNN A well-known Ukrainian paramedic who was held prisoner by Russian and separatist forces for three months after being captured in the southeastern city of Mariupol has accused her guards of psychological and physical torture during her time in captivity. Yulia Paievska, 53, widely known in Ukraine by her
Continue ReadingBy Jorge Engels and Nimi Princewill, CNN Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and rebel group Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) are blaming each other’s military forces after an unconfirmed number of civilians were killed Monday in the country’s Oromia region. The incident appears to be an ethnically targeted attack, according to a statement from the state-appointed
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Continue ReadingStory by Reuters The man accused of detonating a car bomb that killed a prominent Maltese journalist has confessed to the crime in an interview with a Reuters reporter and says he will soon implicate others in plotting to assassinate her. Speaking from jail in his first comment on the case, George Degiorgio said if
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Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the European Organization for
Continue ReadingBy Isil Sariyuce, Yusuf Gezer and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Turkish security forces killed a child on Sunday after opening fire on a vehicle carrying migrants from the eastern Van province near Turkey’s border with Iran, a local official told CNN on Tuesday. The official, who is from the office of the Van governor and who
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Continue ReadingBy Susanne Gargiulo, Kim Norgaard, Pierre Meilhan, Jorge Engels, Tara Subramaniam and Jonny Hallam, CNN A man arrested on suspicion of killing three people and wounding several others during a shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen is being remanded in a psychiatric facility for 24 days, Danish police said Monday. The 22-year-old Danish man
Continue ReadingCNN By Susanne Gargiulo, Kim Norgaard, Pierre Meilhan, Jorge Engels and Tara Subramaniam, CNN A shooting at a mall in Copenhagen has left several people dead and at least three hospitalized, local authorities said Sunday. One person has been arrested, Copenhagen Head of Police Soren Thomassen told reporters at a news conference. He described the
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite At least six people were killed and another eight injured following an avalanche of ice in the Italian Alps, CNN affiliate Skytg24 said Sunday, citing first responders. At least a dozen people are still missing following the collapse on Marmolada, the highest mountain in the Dolomites, Skytg24 also reported, citing rescuers. The
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