By Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN (CNN) — Sweden began its annual wolf hunt this week, allowing nearly 10% of the endangered species population to be killed, as conservationists raise concerns about the controversial policy. Since 2010, Sweden has allowed wolves to be hunted on a licensed quota basis. Conservationists say this goes against European Union
Continue Reading By Michelle Krupa, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — Not yet 30 hours after a driver on a terror mission turned her city’s most famous street into a nightmare of indiscriminate bloodshed, a barista at a coffee house far Uptown carried an order to the counter. “Cortado!” shouted Ciara Daigrepont from beneath a chalk-written menu touting
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Transgender dancer Jin Xing’s ascent to the upper echelons of Chinese show business is extraordinary in a nation where it has become increasingly difficult for LGBTQ+ people to live openly. The 57-year-old has been a transgender icon in China for years, admired by some of the country’s
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — A group of security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday to reinforce a multinational mission tasked with tackling the country’s rampant gang violence, the Haitian National Police announced. The 75 Guatemalan and eight Salvadoran troops were greeted on the tarmac of the international airport
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CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Bronze Star recipient who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas wrote of “political grievances,” armed conflicts elsewhere and domestic issues in the days leading up to his suicide, officials said Friday. The writings were found in the cellphone of Matthew Alan
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CNN By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Bronze Star recipient who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas wrote of “political grievances,” armed conflicts elsewhere and domestic issues in the days leading up to his suicide, officials said Friday. The writings were found in the cellphone of Matthew Alan
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A Bronze Star recipient who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas wrote of “political grievances,” armed conflicts elsewhere and domestic issues in the days leading up to his suicide, officials said Friday. The writings were found in the cellphone of Matthew Alan Livelsberger,
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — A British woman and a South African man in their thirties were found dead last week in a villa in Hoi An, a city on Vietnam’s central coast, according to authorities. Police in Quang Nam Province have been investigating the deaths since staffers found both bodies at a tourist
Continue Reading By Tara John, CNN, and Mauricio Torres and Omar Fajardo, CNN en Español (CNN) — Venezuela’s exiled former presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, returns to South America Friday in a show of defiance as Caracas prepares to inaugurate current President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in office since 2013. González’s first stop: a meeting with
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By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets – has since been fully extinguished with no reported injuries or fatalities, Ghana’s National Fire
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By Pauline Lockwood and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The French and German foreign ministers have met Syria’s new leaders and called for an inclusive transition of power, in the first visit by European Union ministers to Syria since the Assad regime fell in December. France’s Jean-Noël Barrot was in the Syrian capital Damascus alongside
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By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Slovakia could take retaliatory measures against Ukraine after Kyiv halted the flow of Russian gas through its territory, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico warned. In a video message posted to Facebook Thusday, Fico suggested his Smer party could cut its electricity supplies to Ukraine, as well as reducing aid
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A massive piece of space debris crashed into a remote village in Kenya this week, prompting an immediate investigation by the country’s space agency. Experts say the fallen object — a metallic ring measuring about 8 feet wide — likely separated from a rocket and failed to burn up
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A massive piece of space debris crashed into a remote village in Kenya this week, prompting an immediate investigation by the country’s space agency. Experts say the fallen object — a metallic ring measuring about 8 feet wide — likely separated from a rocket and failed to burn
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CNN By Dakin Andone, Karina Tsui, Emma Tucker and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The warning signs and safety concerns were obvious – to New Orleans residents, tourists and experts alike. Throngs of New Year’s Day revelers packed in the city’s bustling French Quarter had no strong barriers to protect them from speeding vehicles like
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Karina Tsui, Emma Tucker and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The warning signs and safety concerns were obvious – to New Orleans residents, tourists and experts alike. Throngs of New Year’s Day revelers packed in the city’s bustling French Quarter had no strong barriers to protect them from speeding vehicles like the
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CNN By Taylor Galgano, Danny Freeman, Kia Fatahi, Chris Lau, David Williams, Ryan Young, Jason Morris, Sara Smart and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Matthew Tenedorio, 25, had a superpower: He could make people laugh, one of his cousins said. Tenedorio leaves behind two loving older brothers, his parents and many devastated cousins, said Zach
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The new year was just three hours old, the chorus of “Auld Lang Syne” and the sound of fireworks still ringing in the ears of merrymakers, when the pickup sped down Bourbon Street – the beating heart of the French Quarter. Jimmy Cothran and a friend had just stepped
Continue Reading By Rob Kuznia, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Haley Britzky, Daniel Medina, John Miller and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officials gave some insight Friday on why a five-time Bronze Star recipient and new father would orchestrate a suicidal New Year’s Day explosion, saying he wrote of “political grievances,” armed conflicts elsewhere as well
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the country’s national broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the national space agency. The object has since been identified as a “fragment of a space object,” the Kenya
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