By Tim Lister, CNN Health care in Afghanistan has literally collapsed in a matter of months, disrupted by conflict and starved of foreign assistance, according to UN agencies and NGOs working in the country. Thousands of medical staff have not been paid in six months and clinics have no medicine or equipment. The NGO Save
Continue Reading By Kara Fox, CNN When the khaki-colored landscapes of Afghanistan are transformed by a patchwork of pink, white and purple each spring, farmers rejoice. Their cash crop of poppies is ready for harvesting. Opium cultivation has long been a source of income for rural communities across the country, a land besieged by decades of war.
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By Rebekah Riess and Amir Vera, CNN The children of a housekeeper who worked for embattled South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion for his arrest and detention until the money he allegedly embezzled from her estate is returned. Gloria Satterfield — who spent more than two decades as the Murdaugh family housekeeper
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Don Varnadoe called the upcoming anniversary trip he was preparing to embark on with his wife the “trip of a lifetime.” Varnadoe, who worked as a real estate agent in St. Simons Island, Georgia, had been looking forward to it for months, watching train videos at work in anticipation. The couple
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By Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN North Korea’s weapons are needed to defend the country against a “hostile” United States, said leader Kim Jong Un, state media KCNA reported Tuesday. Kim made the comments as he stood against a backdrop of missiles at the Defense Development Exhibition to mark the 76th anniversary of North
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN A child in North Texas died earlier this month after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba at a city splash pad, officials announced on Monday. The child was hospitalized September 5 with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection caused by an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, according to a joint
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN When Covid-19 restrictions made it difficult for a Canadian bride to have her family at her US wedding, she did the next best thing — she brought her wedding to the border. Karen Mahoney and her new husband, Brian Ray, told CNN they met 35 years ago over a love
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By Amir Vera, CNN The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 2021 Tuesday that includes an anti-racist author, a civil rights activist and a computational virologist. Colloquially known as the “genius grant,” MacArthur fellows are awarded a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant paid out over five years. Since 1981, 1,061 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, according
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By Angela Dewan, CNN Swedish activist Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders — including US President Joe Biden and the UK’s Boris Johnson — at a youth climate summit in Milan on Tuesday, saying the last 30 years of climate action had amounted to “blah, blah, blah.” Thunberg imitated the leaders by repeating their commonly used
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By Amir Vera and David Close, CNN NBA superstar LeBron James confirmed Tuesday he received the Covid-19 vaccine, months after being initially skeptical of it. “Everyone has their own choice to do what they feel is right for themselves and their family and things of that nature,” James said during the Los Angeles Lakers media
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson, CNN A child in North Texas died earlier this month after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba at a city splash pad, officials announced on Monday. The child was hospitalized September 5 with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection caused by an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, according to a joint
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN How much would you pay for an Oreo cookie? For some, the answer could be thousands of dollars — as one hard-to-find Oreo cookie featuring a rare Pokémon is fetching a hefty price tag on eBay. The new Oreo collaboration with Pokemon debuted earlier this month, with cookies featuring various Pokémon
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By Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in the killing of Deputy Josh Moyers has been apprehended after a five-day manhunt in northeast Florida, the Nassau County sheriff said Tuesday. “We got our man. It’s a great day in Nassau County,” Sheriff Bill Leeper said at a news conference. “He’s in custody and
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid swarms is getting ready to launch. The Lucy mission has passed all of its prelaunch tests and is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at around 5:30 a.m. ET on October 16. The Trojan asteroids, which borrow their name from
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By Ryan Young, Emma Tucker and Pamela Kirkland, CNN The city is seeing a violent spike in crime, a troubling trend that experts say is largely due to socioeconomic issues exacerbated by the pandemic and one that led the police chief to resign from his position last month. Gun violence incidents in Shreveport have increased
Continue Reading By Ryan Young, Emma Tucker and Pamela Kirkland, CNN The city is seeing a violent spike in crime, a troubling trend that experts say is largely due to socioeconomic issues exacerbated by the pandemic and one that led the police chief to resign from his position last month. Gun violence incidents in Shreveport have increased
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN While the FBI is adjusting its sails in the search for Gabby Petito‘s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, people across the country are delivering flowers to the Laundrie home in North Port, Florida, in an effort to honor Petito’s life. Those within the community are hand-delivering flowers to the home, but those from
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN While the FBI is adjusting its sails in the search for Gabby Petito‘s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, people across the country are delivering flowers to the Laundrie home in North Port, Florida, in an effort to honor Petito’s life. Those within the community are hand-delivering flowers to the home, but those from
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By Manveena Suri, CNN Police in the Netherlands have arrested and released a former member of a far-right political party after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s security detail suspected him of behaving suspiciously, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Hague. Arnoud Van Doorn, who once served as a senior political adviser for populist Freedom
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Story by Reuters More than 80 aid workers including some employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) were involved in incidents of sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an independent commission said on Tuesday. The probe was prompted by an investigation last year by the Thomson Reuters
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