By Rob Picheta, CNN Russian troops will have “open road” to capture key cities in eastern Ukraine if they seize control of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an interview with CNN, as he defended his decision to keep Ukrainian forces in the besieged city. “This is tactical for us,” Zelensky said, insisting that Kyiv’s
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Israeli forces staged a daylight raid into Jenin in the occupied West Bank targeting the suspect in the killing of two Jewish settlers, leaving the suspect and at least five other Palestinian men dead, officials on both sides said Tuesday. The violence marks the latest
Continue Reading By Kristina Sgueglia and Ray Sanchez, CNN A Norfolk Southern conductor was killed Tuesday after being struck by a dump truck at a facility in Ohio, prompting a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the railway’s safety culture due to the “number and significance” of recent accidents. The conductor, identified as 46-year-old Louis Shuster, was
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Yulia Kesaieva, Olga Voitovych, Darya Tarasova, Victoria Butenko and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Monday to “find the murderers” involved in a video that he said showed the execution of a Ukrainian soldier by Russian troops, as officials in Kyiv roundly condemned the incident as a war crime.
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation” with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role. Qin, who was until recently China’s
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The remains of a woman found in a small Massachusetts town in 1978 were identified more than four decades after her death using “old fashioned police work” — and help from advances in forensic genetic genealogy, officials announced Monday. Referred to for decades as “Granby girl,” alluding to
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN A nearly 8-foot alligator that allegedly was taken from a Texas zoo nearly 20 years ago as an egg or a hatchling has been returned to the facility after it was spotted living illegally in the backyard of a home near Austin, officials say. Investigators were at a property in rural
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn, Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN A court in western Thailand on Monday sentenced five poachers to prison terms of five years each for killing a female tiger and her cub in a national park last year. The provincial court ruled the five men broke conservation laws by killing the protected animals
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Japan’s maiden launch of its new flagship space rocket ended in failure on Tuesday when controllers issued a destruct command just 15 minutes after liftoff, the country’s space agency said. “A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 around 10:52 a.m. (Japan Standard Time), because there was no possibility of achieving
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN A 25-year-old hiker from California was found dead after falling from a rocky bluff along the Oregon coast and being swept into the ocean over the weekend, authorities said. Henry Minh Hoang, of West Covina, California, was hiking beyond a safety fence in an area known as “the punch bowl” in
Continue Reading By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres told the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday. Speaking to the key UN women’s rights group ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Guterres said gender equality is “300 years away” according to
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation” with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role. Qin, who was until recently China’s
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The remains of a woman found in a small Massachusetts town in 1978 were identified more than four decades after her death using “old fashioned police work” — and help from advances in forensic genetic genealogy, officials announced Monday. Referred to for decades as “Granby girl,” alluding to
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN Indianapolis police arrested a suspect in a deadly shooting that happened outside of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Monday, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release. The suspect, Elijah Hayes, 25, was arrested Wednesday and remains in custody, according to Marion County Sheriff’s Office online records. “Homicide detectives, working with our Violent Crimes Unit, identified and
Continue Reading By Ehsan Popalzai, Shafi Kakar , Niamh Kennedy and Jessie Yeung, CNN Young Afghan women gathered outside Kabul University on Monday to protest the ruling Taliban’s ban on female education as their male peers returned to school for a new academic year and the United Nations heard the restriction may amount to a crime against
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand, CNN A Massachusetts man was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon three times during a flight from Los Angeles to Boston on Monday, after attempting to open an emergency exit door, according to the Justice Department. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, faces
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers and Ashley Strickland, CNN The final full moon of winter will light up the sky this week, and it coincides with another special opportunity for sky-watchers. Named the worm moon by Native American tribes in the 18th century in reference to different creatures emerging from their winter hideouts to welcome spring, the
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson and Amy Simonson, CNN The FBI is investigating the “suspicious death” of a female passenger on board a Carnival Sunshine cruise ship, but the company said the death appears to be natural. The woman was found unresponsive during the ship’s February 27 voyage to Nassau, Bahamas, the FBI field office in Columbia,
Continue Reading By Kia Fatahi, Celina Tebor and Eric Levenson, CNN A former White House official died as a result of severe turbulence on a private business jet that was diverted Friday to Connecticut, according to authorities and the deceased woman’s public resume. A Bombardier CL30 jet departing from Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, New Hampshire, heading to
Continue Reading By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6 killed at least 45,000 people, rendered millions homeless across almost a dozen cities and caused immediate damage estimated at $34 billion — or roughly 4% of the country’s annual economic output, according to the World Bank. But the indirect cost of
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