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The US says it's helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it's too little

The US says it’s helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it’s too little, too late

By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Lauren Kent, CNN As protesters took to the streets of Iran following the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman apprehended for apparently not wearing her hijab properly, videos of the uprising began to flood the internet. Clips of students tearing up pictures of Iran’s Supreme Leader

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The US says it's helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it's too little

The US says it’s helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it’s too little, too late

By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Lauren Kent, CNN As protesters took to the streets of Iran following the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman apprehended for apparently not wearing her hijab properly, videos of the uprising began to flood the internet. Clips of students tearing up pictures of Iran’s Supreme Leader

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‘It was a warzone.’ Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of elite Tehran university, witnesses say, as crackdown escalates

By Teele Rebane, Hannah Ritchie, Jomana Karadsheh and Kara Fox, CNN When Farid’s friend called crying for help on Sunday, he jumped on his bike and quickly rode to Tehran’s Sharif University. “Please come save us. We are stuck here. They are shooting at us,” his friend said. Scenes of violence and “savagery” met him

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Osceloa County Sheriffs use a fanboat to rescue a 93-year-old resident from flooding on September 30 in Kissimmee

Ian left a trail of destruction stretching from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Here’s a closer look

By Eric Levenson, CNN Whether as a hurricane, tropical storm or disorganized system, Ian’s combination of high winds, heavy rain and historic storm surge left a trail of destruction wherever it moved. The storm first struck Cuba last Tuesday before strengthening into a Category 4 major hurricane and smashing into Florida’s west coast. Ian then

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Ancient DNA hunter who sequenced first Neanderthal genome wins Nobel Prize for medicine

By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution. The Nobel Committee said Monday that Pääbo “accomplished something seemingly impossible” when he sequenced the first Neanderthal genome and revealed that Homo sapiens interbred

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