Taiwan extends mandatory military service period to counter China threat
By Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan will extend the period of mandatory military service for all eligible men from four months to a year amid rising threats…
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Nearly 200 starving Rohingya refugees rescued from stricken vessel
By Rhea Mogul, CNN They battled hunger and dehydration after the engine of their rickety boat cut out, leaving them adrift in the Andaman Sea for…
Continue ReadingBlackouts pose potentially deadly risk to Ukrainians who need power for lifesaving medical devices
CNN By Gul Tuysuz, Pierre Bairin, Svitlana Vlasova and Will Ripley, CNN For Olena Isayenko, the beeping sound her oxygen machine makes when…
Continue ReadingBlackouts pose potentially deadly risk to Ukrainians who need power for lifesaving medical devices
By Gul Tuysuz, Pierre Bairin, Svitlana Vlasova and Will Ripley, CNN For Olena Isayenko, the beeping sound her oxygen machine makes when disconnected…
Continue ReadingHeavy snow in Japan kills at least 17, injures dozens
By Emiko Jozuka and Heather Chen, CNN Heavy snowfall in northern Japan and other parts of the country killed at least 17 people and injured more than…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea’s record year of missile testing is putting the world on edge
By Carlotta Dotto, Brad Lendon and Jessie Yeung, CNN In 2020, North Korea conducted four missile tests. In 2021, it doubled that number. In 2022, the…
Continue ReadingAll 10 people feared missing in Austria avalanche found alive
CNN By Sahar Akbarzai and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN All of the people feared missing after an avalanche Sunday near the mountainous villages of Lech…
Continue ReadingThe US asylum backlog is nearing 1.6 million, the highest number on record
By Rosa Flores, CNN Nearly 1.6 million asylum applications are pending in US immigration courts and at US Citizenship and Immigration Services…
Continue ReadingRare evidence that dinosaurs feasted on mammals uncovered
By Katie Hunt, CNN Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 120 million years ago, a dinosaur wolfed down its last meal — a small mammal the size of…
Continue ReadingRussia puts foreign investigative journalist on its ‘wanted’ list
By Anna Chernova and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Russia has put the investigative journalist Christo Grozev on its “wanted” list, according to…
Continue ReadingCity of Jackson struggles to return pressure to its troubled water system after breaks likely caused by cold weather
By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The city of Jackson, Mississippi, is struggling to return pressure to its water system, after issuing a citywide boil water…
Continue ReadingA family of six got stranded in a whiteout. Then came the real Christmas miracle
CNN By Michelle Krupa, Artemis Moshtaghian and Nicole Grether, CNN It was days before Christmas when the blizzard slammed Buffalo, New York, with the…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea fires warning shots after North Korean drones enter its airspace
By Jake Kwon, Sophie Jeong, Ivana Kottasová and Jessie Yeung, CNN South Korea’s military scrambled fighter jets and attack helicopters on…
Continue ReadingBeijing to distribute Pfizer antiviral drug as Covid wave strains health system
By Nectar Gan, Eric Cheung and Selina Wang, CNN Beijing will begin distributing Pfizer’s Covid-19 drug Paxlovid to the city’s community…
Continue ReadingThree Russian servicemen killed after drone shot down at air base inside Russia
By Josh Pennington, Olga Voitovych and Jessie Yeung, CNN Three Russian servicemen were killed Monday after a Ukrainian drone was shot down by air…
Continue ReadingDozens of Rohingya rescued from stricken vessel after weeks adrift at sea, but fears grow for those still aboard
By Rhea Mogul, CNN After spending more than a month adrift on a stricken boat without food or water, dozens of starving Rohingya have been rescued in…
Continue ReadingRussia ready to resume gas supply to Europe via Yamal-Europe gas pipeline
By Mariya Knight and Josh Pennington, CNN Russia is prepared to resume gas supplies to Europe via the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, which was previously…
Continue ReadingChina carries out military exercises near Taiwan and Japan, sending 47 aircraft across Taiwan Strait in ‘strike drill’
By Eric Cheung, Jessie Yeung and emiko jozuka, CNN China sent 47 aircraft across the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, its largest…
Continue ReadingThe gangster-turned-cop racing to save Chinatown’s underworld history
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Photographs by Julian Rigg, CNN Armed with an iPhone, a microphone and a lifetime’s worth of connections with former…
Continue ReadingPower restoration in Washington state delayed as utility company discovers ‘new issue’ as it attempts to repair vandalized substations
By Sharif Paget, CNN After thousands of customers in Pierce County, Washington, were affected Sunday when burglars vandalized three energy…
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