Old bomb kills at least 27 people, mostly children, in Somalia
By Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — At least 27 people, most of them children, were killed when remnants of an old bomb exploded in…
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Sushi chain sues high school student who licked soy sauce bottle for $480,000
By Kathleen Magramo and Junko Ogura, CNN (CNN) — A sushi chain is suing a high school student for 67 million yen ($480,000) after social media…
Continue ReadingThis country’s love affair with air conditioning shows a Catch 22 of climate change
By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — When the temperature soared to 99 degrees Fahrenheit last month, Singapore resident Chee Kuan Chew saw just one…
Continue ReadingColombian government and guerrilla group ELN agree to six-month ceasefire
By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogota, Colombia (CNN) — The Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) – one of the oldest and…
Continue ReadingA crocodile in Costa Rica had a virgin birth. Here’s what that means
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have documented the first virgin birth in a crocodile. And while the concept may sound…
Continue ReadingBoris Johnson resigns as MP, accusing Commons investigation of attempting to ‘drive me out’
By Tara John, Luke McGee and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Boris Johnson, Britain’s former prime minister and one of the most divisive leaders…
Continue ReadingUN finds ‘credible evidence’ of sexual abuses by peacekeepers in Central African Republic
By Richard Roth and Caitlin Hu, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations will send home a unit of 60 Tanzanian peacekeepers over allegations of sexual…
Continue ReadingYoung backpacker who tried to stop knife attack in southeast France hailed as hero
CNN By Oliver Briscoe, Xiaofei Xu and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A 24-year-old man has been hailed as a hero for chasing a man suspected of…
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By Oliver Briscoe, Xiaofei Xu and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A 24-year-old man has been hailed as a hero for chasing a man suspected of…
Continue ReadingA new supernova has appeared in the night sky
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A sparkling new supernova has appeared in the night sky, and a telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii was…
Continue ReadingJulian Assange loses latest attempt to appeal against extradition to the US
By Claudia Rebaza and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — A High Court judge in London has denied Julian Assange permission to appeal an…
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia and US announce Sudan 24-hour ceasefire
By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Abu Dhabi (CNN) — Saudi Arabia and the United States announced a 24-hour ceasefire starting Saturday between the…
Continue ReadingSmoke from Canada’s wildfires has reached as far as Norway
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada, which has already blanketed parts of the US and placed…
Continue ReadingWhy Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo is mentoring Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah
By Rochelle Beighton, CNN (CNN) — In a literary landscape where narratives of Africa have long been overlooked or distorted, award-winning…
Continue ReadingA soldier’s hidden identity shines a light on troubled history of Crimea’s Tatars
By Andrew Carey and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — When Viktor Shevchenko was called forward to receive his medal from President Volodymyr…
Continue ReadingShark attack in Egypt kills a Russian citizen
By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Egyptian authorities have banned swimming near a beach at an Egyptian Red Sea resort following a deadly shark…
Continue ReadingThree historical shipwrecks uncovered in the Mediterranean
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An international team of scientists discovered three historical shipwrecks during an underwater…
Continue ReadingPope Francis Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era.…
Continue ReadingNuri al-Maliki Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Personal Birth date: July 1, 1950…
Continue ReadingHere are the key theories on what caused Ukraine’s catastrophic dam collapse
By Ivana Kottasová and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is one of the biggest…
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