By Jessie Yeung, CNN Myanmar’s junta has freed hundreds of political prisoners, according to state media outlet Global New Light of Myanmar on Tuesday. The paper reported that 647 prisoners had been released from Yangon’s Insein prison, while 80 were freed from a prison in Mandalay. Another 4,320 defendants currently before the courts will also
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By Rebekah Riess and Gregory Lemos, CNN A Miami private school, which previously asked teachers not to get the Covid-19 vaccine or they wouldn’t be allowed to return this school year, has now asked parents to keep their children home for 30 days if their child has received a vaccine dose, citing false and disproved
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN After heartbreaking and revealing details about the circumstances of her death were announced to the public, Gabby Petito’s parents are finally bringing home the remains of their 22-year-old daughter. More than a month after her body were discovered in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, Petito’s family traveled to Wyoming to receive her
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By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Hannah Ritchie China has denied a report that it tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, saying on Monday that the test was instead a “routine spacecraft experiment.” The Financial Times reported Sunday that “China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its
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By Madeline Holcombe and Jenn Selva, CNN As Covid-19 vaccine mandates stir controversy in police departments across the country, the recently ousted Miami police chief has pleaded with officers to get vaccinated. “We are losing our police officers to Covid, to a virus that is preventable,” former police chief Art Acevedo told CNN’s Erin Burnett
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By Noah Sheidlower and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was 86. “It was Morey who introduced more human beings to the act of wave riding than any other
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By Leslie Perrot and Amir Vera, CNN The family of Elijah McClain has reached a settlement agreement with the city of Aurora, Colorado, the city and attorneys representing his family confirmed Monday. The amount of the settlement will be undisclosed until the city signs the agreement and McClain’s family decides on an allocation process for
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By Eric Levenson, CNN A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted on a transit train in Philadelphia last week even as a number of witnesses failed to stop the incident or call police, authorities said. The alleged rape occurred on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Market-Frankford Line on Wednesday night and was a “horrendous criminal act,”
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By Tomas Etzler and John Mastrini, CNN Lawmakers in the Czech Republic are looking to strip President Miloš Zeman of his powers, after his hospitalization left the country in limbo. Zeman is “very unlikely” to return to work in the coming weeks, Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil said on Monday. The president was admitted into
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Randy Gonzales grew up fishing with his father around the murky marshlands of St. Malo, a former village along the shore of Lake Borgne in Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish. What the fourth generation Filipino American did not know at the time was the deep, hidden history of his own heritage: More
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has “Rickrolled” an audience, all in the name of climate activism. Thunberg danced to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” on Saturday, in front of a crowd at Climate Live, a youth-led concert for climate action. “Rickrolling” is an internet phenomenon that involves getting someone
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By Gregory Lemos, CNN Authorities in Huntsville, Alabama, are facing questions surrounding the discovery of a woman’s body in the back of a rarely used police van in a police parking lot. A police officer discovered the body of Christina Nance on October 7 in an unoccupied van in the back corner of a parking
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted on a transit train in Philadelphia last week even as a number of witnesses failed to stop the incident or call police, authorities said. The alleged rape occurred on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Market-Frankford Line on Wednesday night and was a “horrendous criminal act,”
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By Bethlehem Feleke, Barbara Arvanitidis and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN The capital of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region was hit by at least two airstrikes on Monday, an eyewitness and a spokesman for forces fighting the country’s central government told CNN. The eyewitness in Mekelle told CNN she heard an explosion and saw smoke in the vicinity
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has “Rickrolled” an audience, all in the name of climate activism. Thunberg danced to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” on Saturday, in front of a crowd at Climate Live, a youth-led concert for climate action. “Rickrolling” is an internet phenomenon that involves getting someone
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By Nectar Gan, CNN A murder suspect who garnered widespread sympathy from the Chinese public has died after more than a week on the run, triggering an outpouring of sadness and outrage on social media. Ou Jinzhong, who was accused of killing two neighbors and injuring three others in China’s southern Fujian province, killed himself
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By Anna Chernova and Kara Fox, CNN Russia is suspending its permanent mission to NATO in response to the alliance’s expulsion of eight Russians, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday. Lavrov said the Kremlin’s move — which could come into effect as early as November 1 — was a result of “NATO’s actions.” Russia is
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By Amanda Watts and Alta Spells, CNN Alex Murdaugh waived an extradition hearing in Florida on Friday, according to the Orange County Corrections office, and returned to South Carolina a day later to face charges related to the misappropriation of settlement funds in connection with the 2018 death of his family’s longtime housekeeper. He was
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Colin Powell, former US secretary of state. Personal Birth date: April 5, 1937 Death date: October 18, 2021 Birth place: Harlem, New York Birth name: Colin Luther Powell Parents: Luther Powell, shipping clerk Mother: Maud Ariel (McKoy) Powell, seamstress Marriage: Alma Vivian (Johnson) Powell (August
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Hannah Ritchie China has denied a report that it tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, saying on Monday that the test was instead a “routine spacecraft experiment.” The Financial Times reported Sunday that “China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its
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