By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Tom Booth and Dinara Salieva, CNN Vadim says he plunged into depression last month after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military draft to send hundreds of thousands of conscripts to fight in Ukraine. “I was silent,” the 28-year-old engineer says, explaining that he simply stopped talking while at work.
Continue Reading By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Tom Booth and Dinara Salieva, CNN Vadim says he plunged into depression last month after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military draft to send hundreds of thousands of conscripts to fight in Ukraine. “I was silent,” the 28-year-old engineer says, explaining that he simply stopped talking while at work.
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, Raja Razek and Jennifer Deaton, CNN An Iranian state broadcaster was allegedly hacked during its nightly news program Saturday, according to the pro-reform IranWire outlet, which shared a clip of the incident. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that the 9 p.m. newscast by the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN)
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Amid a spike in migrant encounters at the southern border, the City of El Paso, Texas, launched a migrant dashboard Saturday to follow activity at its welcome center. The city has served more than 14,900 migrants since early September and bused thousands to cities further north. More than
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN An Israeli soldier has died following a shooting at a military checkpoint in East Jerusalem on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Twitter. “Overnight, an IDF soldier was killed as a result of being critically injured by a shooting attack at the Shu’afat checkpoint,” the army
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Continue Reading By Gene Norman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Hurricane Julia made landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday as a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm had sustained winds of 85 mph when it moved onshore near Laguna de Perlas around 1:15 a.m., the center said. Along with hurricane-force winds, life-threatening rainfall of 6
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN A pair of flights carrying migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last month, orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, may have exceeded the original scope of the state’s plan to transport undocumented individuals, according to records obtained by CNN. The records show that in the months leading up to those flights,
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Andy Rose and Amanda Musa, CNN The former San Antonio police officer who was charged and arrested Tuesday in the shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old at a McDonald’s parking lot was released early Wednesday on bond, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. James Brennand turned himself in Tuesday night on two
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey, Emiko Jozuka and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the Munchon area of Kangwon Province to the waters off the peninsula’s eastern coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Sunday. The missiles were launched between 1:47 a.m. and 1:53 a.m. local time Sunday, according
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When astronauts venture aboard the International Space Station, they see a world without borders. They work together while orbiting Earth, and no boundaries are visible between them, even as member countries contend with geopolitics on the planet below. This week, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with a diverse crew lifted off
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Idris Muktar Ibrahim, Jomana Karadsheh and Pierre Meilhan, CNN Iran’s security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez in fresh protests on Saturday afternoon, as weeks of nationwide demonstrations gathered momentum. In Sanandaj, security forces shot and killed a driver in his car,
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Idris Muktar Ibrahim, Jomana Karadsheh and Pierre Meilhan, CNN Iran’s security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez in fresh protests on Saturday afternoon, as weeks of nationwide demonstrations gathered momentum. In Sanandaj, security forces shot and killed a driver in his car,
Continue Reading By Jill Dougherty, Tim Lister and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A huge blast Saturday damaged the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, causing parts of it to collapse. The attack, which disrupted major transport links between mainland Russia and the annexed peninsula, not only struck a blow against Russia’s military effort in Ukraine
Continue Reading By Jill Dougherty, Tim Lister and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A huge blast Saturday damaged the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, causing parts of it to collapse. The attack, which disrupted major transport links between mainland Russia and the annexed peninsula, not only struck a blow against Russia’s military effort in Ukraine
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, CNN Two young children died and their mother was hospitalized after they were attacked by the family dogs in Tennessee, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says. Detectives responded to a home near Shelby Forest State Park, just north of Memphis, on Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said via Twitter. A two-year-old girl
Continue Reading By Danya Gainor and Ashley Strickland, CNN October’s full moon is just around the corner and serves as a reminder: the eerie season is fast approaching. On Sunday, October 9, just before 5 p.m. ET, a full moon will reach its peak illumination, the US Naval Observatory’s Astronomical Applications Department said. But the moon will
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Kent Carter, vice president of the NAACP’s Arlington, Virginia, branch, was shot and killed Sunday while vacationing in Turks & Caicos to celebrate his 40th birthday, according to statements from the NAACP and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. Two people were murdered in a targeted attack on their
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN. Photographs by Erica Lee, CNN. There’s an eerie silence inside the Picketts’ living room Wednesday evening as the couple packs up to leave. The sun is on its way down, and without electricity the narrow, two-bedroom mobile home on San Carlos Island will soon be dark again, lit only dimly by
Continue Reading By Zayn Nabbi, CNN Ten people, including two teenagers and a young child, were killed in Friday’s explosion at a gas filling station in the northwest of Ireland, local authorities said. Irish police said that among the 10 dead in the blast in Donegal ere four men, three women, a teenage boy, a teenage girl,
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