By Nimi Princewill, CNN Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his health minister as the country mourns eleven babies killed by a fire at the neonatal ward of a hospital in the western city of Tivaouane. Health Minister Diouf Sarr was relieved of his duties Thursday, and has been replaced by a senior ministry official,
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Russia’s actions in Ukraine provide enough evidence to conclude that Moscow is inciting genocide and committing atrocities intended to destroy the Ukrainian people, according to the first independent report into allegations of genocide in that country. The legal report, signed by more than 30 leading legal scholars and genocide experts, accuses
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By Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman, and Lauren Izso A Palestinian Authority investigation into the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has found that she was fatally shot by Israeli forces using an armor-piercing bullet, Palestinian Attorney General Akram Al-Khatib said Thursday. The announcement was immediately rejected by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Al-Khatib said the
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of a man who died after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD for the first time. Researchers studied the remains of two individuals found in a building known as the House of the Craftsman, a dwelling in the densely populated center of
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By Xiaofei Xu, Wahany Sambo and Nimi Princewill, CNN A hospital fire that killed 11 newborn babies in Senegal may have been caused by an electrical short circuit, the country’s health minister said Thursday. Diouf Sarr told local radio station RFM: “When we heard about it, we called the management to find out what happened.
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By Nimi Princewill and Krystina Shveda, CNN When Nigerian environmental lawyer Chima Williams launched a lawsuit against oil giant Shell plc, he did not envisage a 13-year battle that would lead to a landmark ruling and land him a prestigious environmental award. Williams, who is the executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN Rescue workers in Burkina Faso have recovered the bodies of four miners who had gone missing after floodwaters submerged a Canadian-owned zinc mine in Perkoa, in the Sanguié province of the West African country. Eight miners were reported trapped in the underground mine on April 16, triggering a 39-day search that
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By Zeena Saifi, Eliza Mackintosh, Celine Alkhaldi, Kareem Khadder, Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Abeer Salman, CNN Video by Livvy Doherty and Oscar Featherstone, CNN Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. The cameraman filming
Continue Reading By Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman, and Lauren Izso A Palestinian Authority investigation into the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has found that she was fatally shot by Israeli forces using an armor-piercing bullet, Palestinian Attorney General Akram Al-Khatib said Thursday. The announcement was immediately rejected by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Al-Khatib said the
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By Nathan Hodge, Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova and Anna Chernova, CNN A twenty-year veteran of Russia’s diplomatic service announced his resignation Monday in protest against his country’s war on Ukraine, in a rare public protest by a Russian official, multiple media outlets reported. Boris Bondarev, a diplomat posted to Russia‘s mission to the United Nations
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By Mick Krever and Sam Kiley, CNN Kevin, a stocky American in his early 30s, climbs over the charred rubble of a former sauna and shines the light from his iPhone through the dust. “We’re not going to go any further, because this wire is intentionally tied off to something and then buried right here,”
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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the dual British-Iranian citizen detained by Iran for nearly 6 years, said Iranian authorities forced her to sign a false confession as a condition of her release. Zaghari-Ratcliffe told the BBC that after traveling to Tehran International Airport on the day of her release, she was “made to sign
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Sam Kiley, CNN Kevin, a stocky American in his early 30s, climbs over the charred rubble of a former sauna and shines the light from his iPhone through the dust. “We’re not going to go any further, because this wire is intentionally tied off to something and then buried right here,”
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