By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The UK government has blocked a new law intended to allow trans people in Scotland to change their legal gender without a medical diagnosis — a controversial move that has added fuel to the already highly emotional debate over Scottish independence. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, called the intervention “a full-frontal
Continue Reading By Saskya Vandoorne, Marguerite Lacroix and Allegra Goodwin, CNN A group of women and girls foraging for wild fruits were abducted by armed men in separate incidents in Burkina Faso, the government said Monday. Around 50 women and girls were taken in the incidents which happened on January 12 and 13 respectively, according to a
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn moved to dismiss charges against a New York Police Department officer who had been accused of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese government. Baimadajie Angwang was charged in September 2020 with acting as a foreign agent for China without
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN If you wanted to hang on to your land in Bronze Age Greece, you could do worse than marry your cousin. A team of international researchers analyzing the genomes of ancient human remains has discovered that, unlike in other European societies of the period, first cousins in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Ashley Killough, CNN Fencing that was cut at the Dallas Zoo’s clouded leopard habitat Friday — resulting in the escape of one of the animals — wasn’t the only apparent tampering at the zoo that day, police said. “Zoo personnel showed investigators a similar cut found at a habitat that enclosed
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, Christine Sever and Dakin Andone, CNN The suspect in an unprovoked attack allegedly said she was motivated by race when she repeatedly stabbed the victim — a student of Asian descent at Indiana University — last week on a city bus, according to court documents and a student group. In what appears
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN When authorities in Newport News, Virginia, announced on January 6 that a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, sending her to the hospital, the country was stunned. The city’s mayor said it was nearly impossible to grapple with what happened. The police chief called the case
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In many corners of the US, people are hunkering down in their homes and layering on their clothes amid a bout of severe winter weather. Meanwhile, residents of the world’s coldest city say they still manage to get outside for work and errands, even though temperatures have plunged to an unimaginable
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In many corners of the US, people are hunkering down in their homes and layering on their clothes amid a bout of severe winter weather. Meanwhile, residents of the world’s coldest city say they still manage to get outside for work and errands, even though temperatures have plunged to an unimaginable
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN In many corners of the US, people are hunkering down in their homes and layering on their clothes amid a bout of severe winter weather. Meanwhile, residents of the world’s coldest city say they still manage to get outside for work and errands, even though temperatures have plunged to an unimaginable
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man who saved more than 20 people during the deadly snowstorm that shrouded Erie County, New York, in December has been thanked for his actions with tickets to the Super Bowl gifted to him in part by the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. When Jay Withey, a mechanic in
Continue Reading By Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Russian actor Artur Smolyaninov was the star of one of President Vladimir Putin’s favorite films — about a Soviet unit making a last-ditch stand against Afghan insurgents. Now he is classified as a “foreign agent” and faces criminal investigation. Smolyaninov was the hero of “Devyataya Rota” (The 9th
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen and Valentina Di Donato, CNN Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily and Italy’s most wanted man, has been arrested by police while being treated in a private health clinic in Palermo, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said Monday. He had been a
Continue Reading By Ehsan Popalzai and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada and her security guard were shot dead her home in Kabul early Sunday morning, according to Kabul police. Nabizada represented Kabul in Afghanistan’s parliament from 2019 until the government was deposed by the Taliban in August 2021. She was one of the few
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By Isabel Rosales, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Hannah Sarisohn and Eric Levenson, CNN Police on Monday identified the two passengers injured in the single-vehicle car crash that killed University of Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and staff member Chandler LeCroy early Sunday, just hours after the team celebrated its national championship victory. Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday,
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on replacement names to remove the word sq—, an “offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” from
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Jillian Sykes, CNN University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a shooting near the campus Sunday which left a 23-year-old woman dead, Tuscaloosa law enforcement announced. “We were made aware of the recent charge against student-athlete Darius Miles, and he is
Continue Reading By Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Russian actor Artur Smolyaninov was the star of one of President Vladimir Putin’s favorite films — about a Soviet unit making a last-ditch stand against Afghan insurgents. Now he is classified as a “foreign agent” and faces criminal investigation. Smolyaninov was the hero of “Devyataya Rota” (The 9th
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By Tim Lister, Fred Pleitgen and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN In Dnipro, there is grief, exhaustion and anger. Early on Saturday afternoon, as families relaxed at home in the central Ukrainian city, a Russian cruise missile struck a nine-story apartment building overlooking a park near the river, killing at least 40 people and injuring another 75,
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Jillian Sykes, CNN University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a shooting near the campus Sunday which left a 23-year-old woman dead, Tuscaloosa law enforcement announced. “We were made aware of the recent charge against student-athlete Darius Miles, and he is
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