By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Keeping the belongings of dead loved ones was commonplace in Iron Age Britain, a new study suggests, with men and women holding on to mundane items as an emotional reminder of those they had lost. Archaeologists from the University of York, in northeastern England, focused on what they called “problematic stuff”
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Lawyers for a Canadian national accused of running a global multibillion-dollar methamphetamine cartel have alleged that he was illegally sent to the Netherlands as part of a scheme to ensure he stays behind bars for as long as possible. Tse Chi Lop, 57, was arrested in January after he landed on
Continue Reading By Al Goodman, CNN Spain’s government pardoned nine leaders serving prison sentences for their roles in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence drive, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. The Prime Minister’s cabinet approved the pardons, which Sanchez said aim to foster reconciliation between Catalonia and the rest of Spain. “It’s best for Catalonia and for Spain
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By Saskya Vandoorne, Xiaofei Xu and Lorraine Poupon, CNN The murder trial of a woman who killed her abusive husband got underway in the French city of Chalon-sur-Saône on Monday.​ In her bestselling book Tout Le Monde Savait (Everyone Knew) published in May, Valerie Bacot, 40, admitted to shooting Daniel Polette dead in self-defense in
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CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, International Affairs Expert to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, about what President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s foreign policy will be like.
Continue Reading Iranian President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi said in his first news conference that the United States violated the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, and called on President Joe Biden to return to the agreement. Answering a question by CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen in Tehran, Raisi called on Biden to lift all sanctions before adding that Iran’s ballistic missile program “is not up for negotiation.”
Continue Reading CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, International Affairs Expert to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, about what President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s foreign policy will be like.
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in Russia after the death of Catherine Serou, an American student who vanished in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod region, a local court told CNN. CNN’s Camila Bernal has the details.
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