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
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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, 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
Continue Reading 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,
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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
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Dozens of US military transport jets were expected to land at Kabul’s international airport on Monday, as about 20,000 people remained at the facility awaiting evacuation, a source close to the situation told CNN. Plans called for 33 US Air Force C-17s to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport in
Continue Reading 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 Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen received her first shot of the island’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a public show of support for the new drug which is central to plans for inoculation self sufficiency amid low immunization rates and struggles to obtain vaccines from overseas. Monday’s island-wide rollout
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN With the spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant fueling a summer of more infections and hospitalizations, health care workers and first responders find themselves again on the front lines of the pandemic. The state of Florida has been struck particularly hard by the latest surge, with more than 17,000 people hospitalized
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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 Gregory Lemos, Dakin Andone and Hollie Silverman, CNN At least 21 people are confirmed dead while about 20 others remain missing after severe flooding that swept through Humphreys County in Middle Tennessee, local officials said. “We’ve experienced devastating loss of life over the last couple days,” Grant Gillespie, the police and fire chief of
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos, Dakin Andone and Hollie Silverman, CNN At least 21 people are confirmed dead while about 20 others remain missing after severe flooding that swept through Humphreys County in Middle Tennessee, local officials said. “We’ve experienced devastating loss of life over the last couple days,” Grant Gillespie, the police and fire chief of
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By Taylor Romine and Mirna Alsharif, CNN It’s a picture that went viral and stunned people around the world earlier this week: Approximately 820 Afghan refugees packed aboard a US military C-17 plane. Men, women, and children all huddled together as they escape Taliban rule for a new life in the United States. As Americans
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