By Hande Atay Alam and Jennifer Deaton, CNN The family home of Iranian rock climber Elnaz Rekabi has been demolished, according to the pro-reform news outlet IranWire, after she rose to international prominence this fall for competing with her head uncovered. Rekabi competed without her hijab in South Korea in October, just as anti-regime protests
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, Steven Jiang and Rob Picheta, CNN Chinese President Xi Jinping has acknowledged the frustration within China amid his government’s unrelenting zero-Covid strategy, a European Union official told CNN, in his first known remarks on the protests that have erupted across the country in recent days. Xi told visiting European Council President Charles
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, Steven Jiang and Rob Picheta, CNN Chinese President Xi Jinping has acknowledged the frustration within China amid his government’s unrelenting zero-Covid strategy, a European Union official told CNN, in his first known remarks on the protests that have erupted across the country in recent days. Xi told visiting European Council President Charles
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts and Barbara MacDonald, CNN Attorneys for the suspect in the 2017 killing of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, said in a statement Friday that their client “has nothing to hide. “ Richard Allen, who was arrested last month in connection with the killings, will make “a vigorous legal and factual challenge”
Continue Reading By Chris Stern and Issy Ronald, CNN A hospital patient has been arrested after she allegedly twice switched off the oxygen equipment on which a fellow patient depended because it was too noisy, German authorities have said. The public prosecutor’s office in the southwest German city of Mannheim obtained a warrant for the 72-year-old woman’s
Continue Reading By Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN When a prominent Pakistani investigative journalist was shot dead by Kenyan police on a dirt road on the outskirts of Nairobi, the questions began swirling immediately. How did he come to be there? Why did the police shoot at his vehicle? And did his outspoken reporting — often
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Seven students who were hospitalized Thursday for a suspected drug overdose at a Los Angeles-area middle school are in stable condition, and have been discharged, the Los Angeles Unfied School District (LAUSD) said in a statement Friday. The students were sent to the hospital on Thursday after experiencing “mild-to-moderate distress” following
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Eve Brennan, Lindsay Isaac, Matthew Chance and Mick Krever, CNN Ukraine’s foreign minister has accused Russia of being behind a series of more than a dozen letters containing explosives or animal parts that were sent to Ukrainian diplomats around the world. “This campaign is aimed at sowing fear,” Dmytro Kuleba told CNN’s
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Eve Brennan, Lindsay Isaac, Matthew Chance and Mick Krever, CNN Ukraine’s foreign minister has accused Russia of being behind a series of more than a dozen letters containing explosives or animal parts that were sent to Ukrainian diplomats around the world. “This campaign is aimed at sowing fear,” Dmytro Kuleba told CNN’s
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Julia Kesaieva and Sarah Dean, CNN Some Russian troops are withdrawing from their positions in Ukraine’s southern region of Zaporizhzhia, according to Kyiv. Russian units have left the settlements of Mykhailivka, Polohy and Inzhenerne, all towns south of the city of Zaporizhzhia, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said in its
Continue Reading By David Culver, Anna-Maja Rappard, Aya Elamroussi and Mallika Kallingal, CNN As the world’s largest active volcano oozes molten rock here on the Big Island, a blend of concern and awe has emerged among visitors. People were pulling over in their cars throughout the night to get a glimpse of the striking scene — a
Continue Reading By David Culver, Anna-Maja Rappard, Aya Elamroussi and Mallika Kallingal, CNN As the world’s largest active volcano oozes molten rock here on the Big Island, a blend of concern and awe has emerged among visitors. People were pulling over in their cars throughout the night to get a glimpse of the striking scene — a
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Mallika Kallingal, CNN The Moscow Police Department said on Friday that they don’t believe a sixth person listed on the lease at the residence, where four University of Idaho students were killed last month, was involved in their deaths. “They have spoken to this individual and confirmed they moved out prior
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Mallika Kallingal, CNN The Moscow Police Department said on Friday that they don’t believe a sixth person listed on the lease at the residence, where four University of Idaho students were killed last month, was involved in their deaths. “They have spoken to this individual and confirmed they moved out prior
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Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN Chinese authorities are using cellphone data to track down protesters who demonstrated against the government’s stringent Covid restrictions in Beijing, according to a recording of a phone call between a protester and police heard by CNN. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered along Beijing’s Liangma River on Sunday night, calling
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN Chinese authorities are using cellphone data to track down protesters who demonstrated against the government’s stringent Covid restrictions in Beijing, according to a recording of a phone call between a protester and police heard by CNN. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered along Beijing’s Liangma River on Sunday night, calling
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough, CNN A former San Antonio police officer has been indicted on attempted murder and assault charges after he shot an unarmed 17-year-old in a McDonald’s parking lot in October, prosecutors announced Thursday. A grand jury handed down the indictment for James Brennand, who was a San Antonio Police probationary officer with seven
Continue Reading By Mallika Kallingal, Jamiel Lynch and Melissa Alonso, CNN The Tampa Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for former NFL player Antonio Brown after a “domestic battery incident with a woman,” police said in a statement. Police say the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver was allegedly involved in a verbal altercation with the
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia, CNN The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes. In the letter provided to CNN, the Office for Civil Rights said it will investigate allegations of discrimination based on race and
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