By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Tensions between European leaders and the White House over a scuppered submarine deal threatened to overshadow President Joe Biden’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, with one EU official saying “something is broken” in the transatlantic alliance. The French government has been seething since last week, when Australia
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By Jack Guy, CNN Two Japanese sisters have been confirmed as the world’s oldest living identical twins and the oldest ever identical twins at the age of 107. Born on November 5, 1913, Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were 107 years and 300 days old as of September 1, according to a statement from Guinness
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By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Tensions between European leaders and the White House over a scuppered submarine deal threatened to overshadow President Joe Biden’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, with one EU official saying “something is broken” in the transatlantic alliance. The French government has been seething since last week, when Australia
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By Kara Fox and James Frater, CNN Russia was responsible for killing Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent turned Kremlin critic who died in London by polonium poisoning in 2006, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Tuesday. The ruling found that “Russia was responsible for assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko in the UK.” “The
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Defined by their disappearance dinosaurs might appear to be evolutionary failures. Not so. Dinosaurs survived and thrived for 165 million years — far longer than the roughly 300,000 years modern humans have so far roamed the planet. They lived on every continent, munched on plants, snapped their jaws at insects, itched
Continue Reading By Kara Fox and James Frater, CNN Russia was responsible for killing Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent turned Kremlin critic who died in London by polonium poisoning in 2006, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Tuesday. The ruling found that “Russia was responsible for assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko in the UK.” “The
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By Madeline Holcombe and Raja Razek, CNN A Texas school district board voted unanimously to give notice of a proposed non-renewal of the contract of a principal at the center of controversy over critical race theory. James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville Heritage High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was placed on paid administrative leave
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By Mostafa Salem, Nima Elbagir and Yasir Abdullah, CNN A military coup d’etat attempt failed in Sudan on Tuesday and most of the involved officers were arrested, according to three senior government and military sources. About 40 officers were arrested after attempting to take over the state broadcaster’s television buildings and the military general command,
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By Madeline Holcombe and Leyla Santiago, CNN After many hours spent and many items removed, the FBI’s search of the family home of Gabby Petito’s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, in Florida ended Monday. But authorities are continuing to look for the man who, according to his family, disappeared a week ago, three days after Petito was
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Madeline Holcombe and Steve Almasy, CNN Autopsy results have confirmed that the remains found Sunday in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest are those of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman who disappeared while on a trip exploring national parks with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, according to the FBI in Denver. The FBI tweeted that
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN As part of a pandemic project suggested by his wife, Jack Epstein began last month going through his papers that were taking up space in their attic. While cleaning out old letters from readers of his budget travel book on Latin America, the journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle made
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN As a child growing up in Sweden, Karolina Jurzyk didn’t pay much attention to her grandfather’s tales of wartime Poland. Now, however, thanks to a long-forgotten letter, Jurzyk, 35, has uncovered the truth about how her family rescued and hid two Jewish sisters from the Nazis. Having moved to Stockholm as
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By Dan Simon and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Natalie Rise was a registered nurse in Idaho who loved her job as a home health care worker before she decided to stay at home with her special-needs twins, according to her brother, Daryl Rise. But her science-based training to become an RN was apparently no match for
Continue Reading By Stephanie Busari and Nina Avramova, CNN Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ has been convicted of terrorism related charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison by a court in Kigali on Monday. Rusesabagina, who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ has been found guilty of being part of a terror group, MRCD-FLN.
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By Stephanie Busari and Nina Avramova, CNN Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ has been convicted of terrorism related charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison by a court in Kigali on Monday. Rusesabagina, who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ has been found guilty of being part of a terror group, MRCD-FLN.
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By Paul Vercammen and Stella Chan, CNN Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Monday to a recently reinstated sexual assault charge in California. Last month, a Los Angeles County judge dismissed one of the 11 charges against him after his defense team argued that the statute of limitations on a sexual battery charge
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By Rosa Flores and Geneva Sands, CNN Standing in the sweltering Texas sun, Jameson Tilus held both of his children in his arms and described the desperate conditions under the Del Rio International Bridge. The 26-year-old Haitian national and his family arrived about a week ago after crossing the Rio Grande River. Getting food has
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By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday the world would have to wait to hear from US President Joe Biden about whether the country would pay its fair share in climate finance — funds for undeveloped nations to face the climate crisis. Johnson and the UN Secretary-General António
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Poland will have to pay a €500,000 ($586,000) fine for each day it continues extracting coal at an open-pit mine near the Czech and German borders, Europe’s top court ruled Monday. The European Commission ordered Poland to stop operations at the Turów lignite mine in May following a lawsuit launched by
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By Artemis Moshtaghian and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN A boy was taken into custody Monday after a school shooting in Newport News, Virginia, that left two people wounded and two others injured, police said Monday afternoon. The shooting occurred Monday morning at Heritage High School. A male and female, both 17, were taken to a hospital
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