By Tim Lister, Uliana Pavlova, Anna Chernova, Darya Tarasova and Nathan Hodge, CNN One of the most senior Russian-appointed officials in occupied Ukrainian territory has been killed, Russian officials and state news agencies said Wednesday. The Russian-appointed deputy head of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, Kirill Stremousov, died in a road accident, the press
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Allegra Goodwin, Eve Brennan, Ingrid Formanek and Ella Nilsen, CNN US climate envoy John Kerry announced a new, controversial plan Wednesday to raise cash for climate action in the developing world — by selling carbon credits to companies wishing to offset their polluting emissions. Speaking at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt,
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Allegra Goodwin, Eve Brennan, Ingrid Formanek and Ella Nilsen, CNN US climate envoy John Kerry announced a new, controversial plan Wednesday to raise cash for climate action in the developing world — by selling carbon credits to companies wishing to offset their polluting emissions. Speaking at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt,
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Pieper Lewis, the Iowa teen and sex trafficking victim who killed a man she said raped her multiple times, is back in custody following her escape from the residential corrections facility where she was serving probation, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis, 18, was arrested just days after she
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise is withdrawing from official royal duties in order to concentrate on the alternative medicine business she runs with her fiancé, American spiritual guru Durek Verrett. The 51-year-old princess, who is fourth in line to the Norwegian throne, “will not be representing the Royal House at the present
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou has locked down more than 5 million residents, as authorities rush to stamp out a widening Covid outbreak and avoid activating the kind of citywide lockdown that devastated Shanghai earlier this year. Guangzhou reported 3,007 local infections on Wednesday, accounting for over one third of new
Continue Reading By Abby Phillip, CNN US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is in the process of being moved to a Russian penal colony where she is due to serve the remainder of a nine-year drug smuggling sentence that was upheld in late October. Griner “is now on her way to a penal colony,” her attorneys said
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Continue Reading By Azaz Syed, Sophia Saifi and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN A Pakistani journalist shot dead by police in Kenya last month was the victim of a “targeted killing,” a senior member of Pakistan’s government said on Tuesday, without offering any evidence to support his claim. Television journalist Arshad Sharif — a vocal critic of the Pakistani
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN On the easternmost outskirts of Cairo, the Egyptian government is building a giant belt of lakes and parks deep in the desert. Creators call it the “Green River” and say that when finished, the ornamental ribbon will cut through Egypt’s brand new, ultra-modern metropolis: its New Administrative Capital. A digital simulation
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study. The inscription written on the ivory comb is in Canaanite, the earliest alphabet, and the source of the Latin one used today to write English and
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell A woman who was a victim of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to drop allegations against attorney Alan Dershowitz saying she “may have made a mistake” when she also accused him of sexual abuse. The accuser, Virginia Giuffre, said in a statement that she was young at the time she was
Continue Reading By Sugam Pokharel and Philip Wang, CNN A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit western Nepal on Wednesday morning local time, killing at least six people, according to local officials. The epicenter of the quake was in Seti Zone, at a depth of 15.7 kilometers (9.7 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It was
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission, which is expected to send an uncrewed spacecraft on a test mission around the moon, is delayed yet again, as NASA’s Space Launch System faces Tropical Storm Nicole, which is now expected to strengthen into a hurricane before it slams into Florida’s East Coast. The space agency
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission, which is expected to send an uncrewed spacecraft on a test mission around the moon, is delayed yet again, as NASA’s Space Launch System faces Tropical Storm Nicole, which is now expected to strengthen into a hurricane before it slams into Florida’s East Coast. The space agency
Continue Reading By Delia Gallagher and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN French authorities have opened an investigation into one of highest-ranking members of France’s Catholic Church, who admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was a parish priest, more than three decades ago. French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, 78, made the stunning admission in a written statement which
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi and Larry Madowo, CNN A Nigerian social media influencer who flaunted a lavish lifestyle of private jets and luxury cars has been sentenced to 11 years in prison over charges related to a multimillion dollar scam that targeted companies in the United States and overseas. Ramon Abbas, known to his millions of
Continue Reading By Zeena Saifi, Allegra Goodwin and Tara John, CNN The sister of jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah is concerned for his life, telling a news conference on the sidelines of COP27 that the family’s does not “know if he’s alive.” Despite Egypt’s police state making it difficult for government critics to speak out freely,
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