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In the past few weeks, Daniela Jorquera, a 55-year-old Chilean sociologist who defines herself as progressive, started going to rallies to support adopting a new constitution. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/K58DOG4

In the buildup to the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, the US urged Kyiv to keep the operation limited in both its objectives and its geography to avoid getting overextended and bogged down on multiple fronts, multiple US and western officials and Ukrainian sources tell CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Jo06ei8

Tug boats refloated an oil tanker that was briefly stranded in Egypt's Suez Canal late on Wednesday due to a technical fault with its rudder, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/RchaWtM

Queen Elizabeth II will receive the UK's next prime minister at Balmoral rather than Buckingham Palace -- a historic first for her 70-year reign. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/nAh0Kvp

More than 6 million Venezuelans have fled their country amid deteriorating conditions, matching Ukraine in the number of displaced people and surpassing Syria, according to the United Nations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/cgdSszw

What do you do when you when you need to rein in your shopping habit? Clean out the closet and try to make your old stuff feel new, right? from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Bf1MRgq

The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards got underway Sunday evening, with stars including Lizzo and Blackpink stepping out onto the red carpet for the big night. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/E6iRHWz

Chinese markets declined on Wednesday as global investors continue to deal with the aftermath of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's hawkish speech at Jackson Hole last week, and the alarming spread of Covid in China. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/n9PUKkz

When she first started to shed some weight, Yvonne DeBurgo quipped that she could afford to lose it. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/X6jQx3F

A multiple-story building has collapsed in the northwestern Nigerian city of Kano, leaving "many" people feared trapped inside, according to the local fire service. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mIWqMvG

Taiwanese soldiers on Tuesday fired flares at three unidentified drones that flew near Kinmen County, an offshore grouping of islands, before firing warning shots at one drone which re-entered the area above one of the islands, according to the Kinmen Defense Command. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/DWS0cNX

Scientists in Pombal, Portugal have discovered the remains of a sauropod, one of Europe's largest dinosaurs - known for their long necks and tails. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/7cEak8Z

Ukrainian forces have begun "shaping" operations in southern Ukraine to prepare the battlefield for a significant Ukrainian counteroffensive, two senior US officials briefed on the intelligence told CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Du3Io0w

Colombia and Venezuela have reestablished diplomatic relations, in a tectonic shift in South American regional politics. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/gGK7vus

Widespread ice losses from Greenland have locked in nearly a foot of global sea level rise in the near future -- and new research suggests there is no way to stop it, even if the world stopped releasing planet-heating emissions today. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mw6NIRn

Severe rains and flooding have killed more than 1,000 people in Pakistan since mid-June, officials said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/M0ZJl7B

• China charges dozens over brutal attack on women in restaurant from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/vRXaTmn

French football player Paul Pogba's claim that he is being extorted is being investigated by French police, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed to CNN on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/meQPzUq

At least three people have been killed and dozens injured in violent clashes that erupted in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone after Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his withdrawal from political life, medical sources told CNN. CNN's Ben Wedeman shares what happened when protesters took over Iraq's Republican Palace. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/5Ggie1I

The Wendy's mascot has a new hairdo on its Canadian social media sites -- all in support of one of the nation's veteran journalists. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/pl0yTnK

Dig out your old baseball cards. They might just be worth eight figures at auction. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/K4AwaLs

The Artemis I launch has been scrubbed after the team was unable to work through an issue on one of the rocket's four engines. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/otaHOrf

Chinese authorities have charged 28 people and detained eight police officials following a brutal assault on a group of women earlier this summer that shocked the country and provoked widespread anger. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/GnSbuxV

When it comes to fashion, street style has as much cachet as runway style -- in fact, there are dozens of blogs and Instagram accounts dedicated to chronicling the best streetwear looks. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mnBzHex

As the war in Ukraine has passed the six-month mark, US and European officials say Ukraine has successfully used a method of resistance warfare developed by US special operations forces to fight back against Russia and bog down its vastly superior military. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/MKczIlH

Severe rains and flooding have killed at least 1,033 people, including 348 children, and left 1,527 more injured in Pakistan since mid-June, officials said on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/VeS9TpG

For weeks now, a power crunch caused by a record heat wave and accompanying drought has wreaked havoc across Sichuan, a province home to 80 million people in southwestern China. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/dQAScDo

Police fired tear gas in the Argentine capital Saturday, as they clashed with supporters of vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, days after prosecutors sought a 12-year prison sentence against her for alleged corruption. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/GaUMOBC

When Singapore announced this week it would end a colonial-era law that criminalized sex between men, it looked like a big victory for gay rights advocates in the Southeast Asian country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/flKOCq2

At least 23 people have died and 140 injured in violent clashes between rival Libyan militias across the country's capital of Tripoli, the Libyan Ministry of Health said Saturday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/IgJ5c4a

For more than 30 years, British veteran James Grundy made an annual 5,500-mile journey to South Korea, to visit the graves of bodies he had recovered as a young man thrust into war. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/fl4dyUk

Hezbollah capped off the 40th anniversary of its founding on Monday with large-scale celebrations on a stage in southern Beirut that featured holograms of fighters killed in battle, and videos showing off the group's historic confrontation with Israel. An interpretive dance, depicting how the group freed prisoners from ISIS in Syria, was a notable addition. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/eWfDXOv

The US audit regulator said on Friday it has signed an agreement with Chinese regulators, taking a first step toward inspecting and investigating registered accounting firms in China and Hong Kong. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/MaVzb9W

NASA and Boeing are now targeting early 2023 for the first crewed flight of Boeing's long-delayed Starliner spacecraft, officials said during a joint press conference Thursday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/A7ZOxov

A United States Coast Guard vessel was unable to enter Solomon Islands for a routine port call because the Solomon Islands government did not respond to a request for it to refuel and provision, a US official said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3vVHZIR

Oscar-winning actor Nicole Kidman caught the Internet's attention this week with a new shoot for Perfect Magazine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/aUPhR5v

South Korea has broken its own record for the world's lowest fertility rate, according to official figures released Wednesday, as the country struggles to reverse its years-long trend of declining births. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Efy5owu

When Russian troops started shelling nearby towns from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant where she worked in southeastern Ukraine, Elena decided it was time to escape. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/CWnuEY0

Mortgage rates jumped higher this week as investors tried to make sense of data that gave mixed signals about the health of the US economy. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/TdkMPxL

China has unveiled 19 new measures to shore up its economy and "secure drinking water" supply as the country continues to struggle with its worst heatwave in 60 years and rigid Covld lockdowns. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0Opfji9

Across China, farmers are struggling to save their livestock and crops, as huge parts of the country bake under a record-breaking heat wave that has lasted more than two months. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout takes a look at the toll on farmers and local residents.. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ao7d3Gl

Pakistan rejected India's closure of the incident of the firing of a supersonic missile into Pakistani territory on March 9, and reiterated its demand for a joint probe, according to a statement Wednesday from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/X71VQNl

At least 903 people have died in Pakistan from severe rains and flooding this summer, as the country sees its eighth cycle of monsoon rains, Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change told CNN Wednesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/G1ZwAyD

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday Japan will restart idled nuclear plants and consider developing next-generation reactors, in a policy reversal that will see the nation turn back toward atomic energy as fuel prices soar worldwide. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/UfEKS7v

Asia's richest man has launched a hostile bid to take over an influential broadcaster in India and gain a firmer footing in the country's vibrant media space. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/NZbDOvd

Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to exploitation by foreign governments in ways that threaten US national security, and may even have foreign spies currently active on its payroll, according to Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the whistleblower at the center of a massive public disclosure effort reported Tuesday by CNN and The Washington Post. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XretQE3

The stock market's summer rally has run into trouble recently. Despite the rumbles, Anastasia Amoroso, Chief Investment Strategist at iCapital, explains why long-term investors should buy stocks especially when the market feels terrible. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/6O2miq3

A total of 1,295 people arrived in the United Kingdom after crossing the English Channel by boat Monday -- the highest daily total of migrants registered since records began in 2018, according to PA Media. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/HxNnDoF

Tullio Masoni makes some of the most exclusive wine in the world, but he doesn't want you to drink it. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Wl6YIEL

In March 2022, celebrity fashion counterculturalist Julia Fox arrived at the Vanity Fair Oscar After-Party dressed in a head-turning black leather gown with a halter-neck-turned-hand wrapped around her neck. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/kS24UqR

Former supermodel Linda Evangelista has opened up about the mental health toll of her disfiguring cosmetic procedure, telling British Vogue that she struggled with depression and at one point even stopped eating. The 57-year-old also revealed she had been influenced by repeated TV commercials, saying she would have refused the fat-freezing treatment if she had known that "side effects may include losing your livelihood and (ending) up so depressed that you hate yourself." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/lbgyDuJ

• Live updates: UN concerned Russia is preparing trials for Ukrainian POWs in Mariupol • Americans urged to leave Ukraine amid fears of renewed Russian attacks from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/OehpmMk

Iran has dropped another key demand related to nuclear inspections as negotiations continue over reviving the Iran nuclear deal, a senior administration official tells CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/jaN5BAh

The Artemis program will pick up where the famed Apollo program left off -- returning humans to the moon, including landing the first woman and the first person of color at the lunar south pole, and preparing for human exploration of Mars and beyond. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mEJCyNM

A single moment can change the trajectory of our lives. For Nigerian Iyeneobong "Iyene" Essien, that moment came when she was just five years old. She remembers the day her dad took her to a golf course in Abuja, where she saw a boy teeing off. Intrigued by the sight, she asked her dad if she could pursue the sport. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/F59nCqR

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has formally filed a petition challenging the election results in Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday, according to one of Odinga's lawyers, Daniel Maanzo. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/uSvk2tx

For the last 18 years, Li Meng-han and his family have grown pomelos in a rural town near the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/1wNKD0R

China's coal imports from Russia jumped 14% in July from a year earlier to their highest in at least five years, as China bought discounted coal while Western countries shunned Russian cargoes over its invasion of Ukraine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/75qJK4j

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the country will repeal the colonial-era Section 377A of Singapore's Penal Code, thereby decriminalizing gay sex in Singapore, but added that same-sex marriage will continue to be illegal in the city-state. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0Yv3NQb

It's the home of notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, and the origin of legendary Santa Marta Gold -- once the most sought-after varieties of weed in the United States -- named after Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/uCJYQyH

North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring victory over Covid-19, Chinese trade figures show. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ZXhSLtz

A court in Mexico on Friday ordered the arrest warrants of 83 people allegedly involved in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/u9Zpt2E

Some 27 ships loaded with grain have left Ukraine's Black Sea ports since August 1 under an export deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, which has laid "the groundwork for a permanent peace environment," Turkey's Defense Minister said in a speech on Saturday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/UROlVWc

After fleeing war in Somalia as a child, featherweight boxer Ramla Ali has had to fight for everything she has. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ehcGgI3

China needs to convince the rest of the world it is not an "agent of instability" and will act peacefully in the Taiwan Strait, US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said in his first TV interview since taking up his post in Beijing six months ago. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3dYo0sE

Nicaraguan police on Friday detained a bishop and seven other priests and seminarians, after a 16-day standoff, in an escalation of tensions between the country's government and the Catholic Church. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/kDbLBmS

El Shafee Elsheikh, a British ISIS fighter and member of the execution cell dubbed "the ISIS Beatles" because of their British accents, was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the hostage-taking and deaths of four Americans and several others. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/xNvZqSQ

Russia will halt gas supplies to Europe for three days at the end of the month via its main pipeline into the region, state energy giant Gazprom said on Friday, piling pressure on the region as it seeks to refuel ahead of winter. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/6ohceEZ

Gunfire and explosions shook an upscale hotel in Mogadishu on Friday evening, as police responded to an attack by unidentified gunmen, according to local authorities and witnesses. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/2y1VDjO

A restaurateur and rapper duo unveiled Stars Coffee on Thursday, reopening the chain of coffee shops in Russia formerly owned by Starbucks, the latest major company rebranding after a months-long Western corporate exodus from the country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XMGl8yf

North Korea has rejected South Korea's offer of economic support in exchange for denuclearization, saying the proposal suggests President Yoon Suk Yeol is "really simple," state media KCNA reported Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Z864X9y

When Ida Skibenes pulled up outside the Solstrand Hotel, her stomach was in knots, flipping between nerves and excitement. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/emQpB1M

Military-ruled Myanmar plans to import Russian gasoline and fuel oil to ease supply concerns and rising prices, a junta spokesperson said, the latest developing country to do so amid a global energy crisis. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/4ruoUpS

In a dark room in the middle of Hong Kong, there's a new reprieve from the bustling city. It's a forest -- although it looks nothing like the dense greenery covering the nearby mountains. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/e9SjTwn

A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of more than 100 victims of sexual assault dating back to the 1940s at the hands of members of Quebec's Roman Catholic Archiepiscopal Corporation and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/iGjA84V

Climbers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their ascents in real-time on Instagram, following a recent move by Tanzanian authorities to install high-speed internet around the mountain's slopes. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/tcQChyb

A judge in southern India has ruled a woman wore "provocative" clothing, effectively dismissing her sexual assault complaint, causing public outcry in the country, where violence against women and girls make frequent headlines. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/7grN2x1

Thailand's health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that have largely decriminalized the drug. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/JvbA9zw

Until a year ago, crossing the Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia was a slow and congested affair. For trucks moving along a key transport corridor, stretching from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Durban, South Africa, the river was an obstacle without an elegant solution. Vehicles would load onto a pontoon, two at a time, when the current wasn't too strong and the rains not too heavy. It was a 10 to 15-minute journey that you could spend up to 15 days waiting for, recalls the head of one truck drivers' association. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/LcqvArI

An explosion erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the city's chief of police. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/FyGj4H6

A few hours into what was intended to be a nearly seven-hour spacewalk, a Russian cosmonaut was repeatedly ordered to drop what he was working on and return to the International Space Station's airlock because of an issue with his spacesuit. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/9bSOKDV

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas struck a deep nerve on Tuesday when he said Israel has caused "50 Holocausts" against Palestinians, triggering outrage from world leaders and a social media storm. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/rnTibh4

Saudi women's rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison on Monday for her activity on Twitter, according to court documents viewed by CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/zN6SEWs

The Syrian government on Wednesday denied it is holding or has any information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist who vanished a decade ago while reporting on the Middle Eastern nation's civil war. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/9luXsvL

A growing number of Americans are crossing the southern border and making Mexico their new home. CNN's David Culver takes a look at the cause and effect of Americans settling in Mexico City. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/QN3740y

Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XLon5rG

Inflation in the United Kingdom hit a new 40-year high last month, rising above 10% for the first time since 1982 and piling further pain on households already struggling to pay their bills. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XAqeYHB

North Korea fired two cruise missiles early Wednesday morning, from the coastal town of Onchon into waters off its west coast, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/jMVovwc

South Korea plans to become one of the world's top four weapons suppliers, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Wednesday as he addressed reporters in a speech marking his first 100 days in office. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/nBpTDc4

A growing number of US citizens are being detained in Venezuela -- and though exactly how many is unknown, the detentions could give authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro leverage in frosty relations with Washington. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/hL5HNoR

A court in military-run Myanmar on Monday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six more years in prison after convicting her on four extra counts of corruption, according to a source familiar with the matter and local media reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WupLb2R

Iran has sent its response to a European Union proposal to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, state news agency IRNA reported, as the country's chief adviser to negotiations tweeted that an agreement was closer than ever, but not yet done. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/niDuPh5

Nearly 10 years after he was driven underground, Salman Rushdie believed he was free. The author had been living under heavy security and highest secrecy in London. But in 1998, the Iranian government of President Mohammad Khatami publicly distanced itself from the religious fatwa calling for his murder. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wbBmzsJ

US-led coalition forces repelled multiple drones near the US-led coalition At-Tanf base in Syria Monday, according to a press release from the coalition. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/rfhBPLO

Panicked shoppers rushed for the exits at an Ikea branch in Shanghai on Saturday after city health authorities ordered the store to lock down after a close contact of a Covid-19 case was traced to the location. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/N5ozWvI

The Biden administration does not plan to release billions of dollars of Afghan government assets held by the country's central bank anytime soon, citing concerns the funds could end up in the hands of terrorists after the leader of al Qaeda was killed while hiding out in Afghanistan's capital. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/r51EUTI

Deputy President William Ruto has been elected the country's fifth president, according to the electoral commission. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/VUClej9

Credit agencies know a lot about Americans. The agencies accumulate information, such as Social Security numbers, birthdays, how much savings people have, how much debt they're in and how late they pay their bills. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/fZlOjvy

Brazilian woman Sabine Coll Boghici, 48, was arrested on Wednesday on allegations she was part of a bizarre scheme to defraud her 82-year-old mother, Genevieve Boghici, the wife of the late art collector Jean Boghici, out of money, artwork and jewelry totaling some 724 million reais ($142.42 million). from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/sMLgbCQ

In August 1947, the Indian subcontinent won its independence from the British, and two nations were born. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/F7tprsa

At least eight people, including four US tourists, were wounded in a shooting attack targeting a bus near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday morning. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/4rkpi1Z

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, India became an independent nation after nearly 200 years of British colonial rule, redeeming her "tryst with destiny" in the words of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Fn9hqiX

At least 18 children were among the dozens of people known to have died after a fire broke out at a church in Giza's Imbaba neighborhood in greater Cairo on Sunday, according to hospital documents seen by CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/NqAOMhR

Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, sometimes called "India's Warren Buffett," died Sunday at age 62, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/57XftNx

When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan's Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage, sexual assault and femicide. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/CLINsf3

The person most likely to replace Boris Johnson as leader of Britain's governing Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the UK is a political chameleon who has gone from radical abolitionist to flag-bearer of the Euroskeptic, Conservative right.  from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/9NapMGK

Taiwan on Friday blamed "political considerations" for the cancellation of WorldPride 2025 Taiwan after it said the organizers had insisted the word "Taiwan" be removed. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/BI0zkHy

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/fkBG2xE

Every day Olga is bused from her home in the Russian-occupied town of Enerhodar, on the banks of the Dnipro River in southeastern Ukraine, to the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant where she works. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/k8Gn6z7

Germany's Rhine river is getting too dry, snarling supply chains and creating more problems for its struggling economy. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ZafQx76

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that split a nation. For 15 years, she has made artworks based on the partition of British India into an independent India and Pakistan in 1947, as well as the bloody nationalist conflict that followed in East Pakistan, which cleaved off to become Bangladesh in 1971. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/qKEnaM1

At least 11 people were killed, including two children, in a deadly mass shooting in Montenegro's southern city of Cetinje on Friday, according to state media RTCG. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mEc30U4

A dramatic series of events unfolded on a bustling street in Beirut on Thursday when an armed man barged into a bank and held employees and customers hostage. He wasn't trying to rob the bank -- he was demanding his own money back. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/kUWsuco

When a series of explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea on Tuesday, sending Russian vacationers fleeing from nearby beaches, it was clearly an embarrassment for Moscow. Western officials and analysts have since offered competing explanations about the cause. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/kfIgCyB

In the foothills of the Patagonian Andes, only one in five of puma's guanaco hunts are successful. The Original Series "Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/pHLdjhe

Large swaths of England have officially descended into drought, authorities announced Friday, following several months of low rainfall and relentless waves of extreme heat. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/POJIAk5

Hong Kong has recorded its sharpest annual drop in population, with experts blaming the decline on strict Covid control measures and a political crackdown that have taken the shine off a financial hub long advertised as "Asia's world city." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/CHgPLlt

Seoul has vowed to move some of the city's poorest families out of underground and semi-subterranean homes after 13 people were killed in flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall this week, sparking public horror and calls for government accountability. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/z7WA9qe

"I chose to come to Sanya because the Covid restrictions are more relaxed than (in) Shanghai," said Li Zefeng, an engineer who lives in China's biggest city. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ZznWeUA

The enduring image of Olivia Newton-John may always be one of permed hair, bare shoulders and black spandex on the set of "Grease". But the late actress and singer, who died Monday aged 73, was a fashion icon before -- and long after -- the blockbuster musical. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mIXCc7W

New York officials have returned 30 cultural artifacts to Cambodia, including a 10th-century Khmer sculptural "masterpiece," after the items were illegally sold to private collectors and a US museum. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/VrB2viA

After yet another round of talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal last week, the country's negotiators are now consulting with the leadership in Tehran on how to proceed. European Union officials say they have presented a "final," take-it-or-leave it text for the US and Iran to consider. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/k60hDXd

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone on Wednesday, protesting inflation and the rising cost of living in the West African country, according to people that CNN spoke to. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Mz0RLeI

Thousands of hectares have been destroyed as a new fire rages in the Gironde area of southwestern France, barely two weeks after two major blazes destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of forests in the same region, according to official data. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/w7QfiUR

Domino's' Italian job was harder than it looked. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0kedUv1

More than a dozen companies in the cybersecurity space are developing a single, open standard for sharing data about hacking threats, a project the companies say could help organizations detect cyberattacks more quickly. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/6RbxrlF

A former Twitter manager accused of spying for Saudi Arabia was convicted on Tuesday on six criminal counts, including acting as an agent for the country and trying to disguise a payment from an official tied to Saudi's royal family. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/DAgtPBn

Runaway inflation took a breather in July, with consumer prices increasing by 8.5% year over year, a slower pace than the 9.1% increase in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/LMXjz4C

Paris, Rome, Barcelona... Europe's cities are bucket list destinations, and rightly so. But the continent's small towns are a dream, too, with all the beautiful architecture and much of the culture you'll find in the big hitters, only with fewer crowds to share them with. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/qmPVYce

The US believes Russian officials have begun training on drones in Iran over the last several weeks, the latest sign that Russia intends to purchase the systems as the war in Ukraine continues. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3qSxYsa

Firefighters on Tuesday finally overcame what officials described as the worst fire in Cuba's history that over five days destroyed 40% of the Caribbean island's main fuel storage facility and caused massive blackouts. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/r5KZAWo