By Anita Patrick, CNN The coronation of a dashing monarch in the oil-rich but impoverished Delta region has sparked a resurgence in royalty, tradition and ancestry among some young Nigerians. Thousands thronged the streets and dignitaries and well-wishers flew in from around the world as the Itsekiri people of Iwere Kingdom in Delta state crowned
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacewalk outside of the International Space Station including NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been postponed due to a “minor medical issue,” according to NASA. The agency said the issue involving Vande Hei is not a medical emergency. The spacewalk, originally scheduled
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for people age 16 and older. This is the first coronavirus vaccine approved by the FDA, and is expected to open the door to more vaccine mandates.
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A Comet that intrigued astronomers with its first appearance in our sky at the very end of 2019, but it disintegrated into 30 tiny ice shards months later. Now, observations made while the comet, named ATLAS, was still intact have shed light on the comet’s “family,” which stretches back thousands of
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of civil rights activist and clergyman Jesse Jackson. Personal Birth date: October 8, 1941 Birth place: Greenville, South Carolina Birth name: Jesse Louis Burns Father: Noah Robinson, cotton grader Mother: Helen (Burns) Jackson, hairdresser Marriage: Jacqueline Lavinia (Brown) Jackson (December 31, 1962-present) Children: with Karin Stanford:
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By Artemis Moshtaghian and Eric Levenson, CNN New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that all Department of Education staff for public schools across the city must be vaccinated against Covid-19, without a testing alternative. The landmark step, which came less than an hour after the US Food and Drug Administration granted full
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By Kara Fox, Tim Lister and Nilly Kohzad, CNN As the Taliban firms up its grip on Afghanistan, there is one remote region whose resistance to the militant group goes back decades. Now, the last major holdout is under threat. The Taliban has been massing forces in and around Panjshir province, the only one yet
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Judaism, the monotheistic (belief in one God) religion of the Jewish people. About Judaism Jewish law is rooted in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. According to the Torah, Abraham is the father of Judaism. He was born about
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN It was a roll call of Nigeria’s most powerful political elites during the wedding of Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, to the daughter of a prominent monarch in northwestern Kano State, in a lavish ceremony over the weekend. The nuptials, spanning over two days, commenced Friday amid tight
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By Chris Boyette, CNN Mississippi health officials are warning residents not to take an anti-parasitic drug — in most cases, a formulation purchased at livestock supply centers — to treat or prevent Covid-19. The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday that the Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number
Continue Reading By Kara Fox, Tim Lister and Nilly Kohzad, CNN As the Taliban firm up their grip on Afghanistan, there is one remote region whose resistance to the militant group goes back decades. Now, the last major holdout is under threat. The Taliban have been massing forces in and around Panjshir province, the only one yet
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By Atika Shubert, CNN From his office window, Brig. Gen. Joshua Olson can see a daily football match organized by the Afghan children who are temporarily calling his air base home. “This is now my family — at least until they get off our airpatch,” Olson, the installation commander at Ramstein Air Base in Germany,
Continue Reading By Atika Shubert, James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN A nurse who delivered a baby girl on board an aircraft that evacuated people from Afghanistan has said her team was “expecting the worst, hoping for the best.” The Afghan mother went into labor aboard a C-17 transport aircraft full of evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover
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By Rosa Flores and Ashley Killough, CNN From the front lawn of her friend’s house, Vicky Zapata went live on Facebook recently and burst into tears, praying. “We ask you God, that you heal our town, Father, from this disease,” Zapata said in the livestream. Inside the house, looking out through the glass front door,
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores and Ashley Killough, CNN From the front lawn of her friend’s house, Vicky Zapata went live on Facebook recently and burst into tears, praying. “We ask you God, that you heal our town, Father, from this disease,” Zapata said in the livestream. Inside the house, looking out through the glass front door,
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By Nick Paton Walsh, Sam Kiley and Sheena McKenzie, CNN Afghans who have applied for special immigrant visas to the US were told to stay away from Kabul’s airport on Monday, as American officials ramped up evacuation flights and the Taliban said all US forces needed to leave by August 31. Western countries are now
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By Ralph Ellis and Hollie Silverman, CNN Casey Hipshire knew flooding was possible, she said, but she thought the rainwater that filled the yard of her home in Middle Tennessee would recede. It didn’t. “All of a sudden it was like a tidal wave that just came over the road and into my yard,” she
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By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN Beijing was once known as one of the world’s most polluted cities, with dense smog and acrid air a daily reality for residents. Now, its skies are mostly blue — a sign the Chinese capital is entering a new era of clean air, the country’s Minister
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By Jessie Yeung, Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN Beijing was once known as one of the world’s most polluted cities, with dense smog and acrid air a daily reality for residents. Now, its skies are mostly blue — a sign the Chinese capital is entering a new era of clean air, the country’s Minister
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By Nectar Gan, CNN China reported no new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Monday for the first time since July, according to its National Health Commission (NHC), as authorities double down on the country’s stringent zero-Covid approach. China has been grappling with the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant since July 20, when a
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