By Christian Edwards and Chris Lau, CNN London (CNN) — Heathrow’s chief executive has defended the airport’s response to the power outage and shutdown that sparked global travel chaos, apologizing to stranded passengers but calling the incident “unprecedented.” Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports, was brought to a complete standstill Friday by a huge
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate is back in Romania along with his brother Tristan to report to the police, following a trip to Florida that triggered a state-level criminal probe. The online celebrity, who has amassed a massive following peddling sexist content about male dominance, is facing charges over human
Continue Reading By Polo Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — When Dora Camarena was on her deathbed in 2021, her family recalls she wished to have lived long enough to see the Mexican cartel that killed her son pay for what it did. Forty years after his killing, the widow and sons of DEA special agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena
Continue Reading By Mariya Knight and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Russia and Ukraine traded blame on Friday over an attack on a gas metering station that lies in Russia’s Kursk region, just a few hundred meters from their shared border. The attack on the facility in Sudzha comes just days after the US proposed both sides
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — A Turkish court on Sunday jailed the mayor of Istanbul on corruption charges, escalating the crackdown against opposition to the country’s strongman leader President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s most serious political rival, was arrested at his home on Wednesday just days before he was to be registered
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University has announced a series of new policies, including restrictions on demonstrations, new disciplinary procedures and immediately reviewing its Middle East curriculum, making apparent concessions following President Donald Trump’s revocation of $400 million in federal funding over campus protests. The Trump administration demanded several changes,
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Cornell graduate student who has been a prominent voice at pro-Palestinian protests – and who faced intense criticism for declaring “glory to the resistance!” after the Hamas attack on Israel that left more than 1,200 dead – is being told to surrender to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The University of California system and Princeton this week joined more than a dozen top schools – including Harvard, Duke and Stanford – in announcing hiring freezes following Trump administration spending cuts. Johns Hopkins University said it was laying off more than 2,000 employees after it lost more than
Continue Reading By Ibrahim Dahman, Eugenia Yosef, Tim Lister, Tala Alrajjal and Vasco Cotovio, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned Hamas that Israel will maintain a permanent presence in parts of Gaza unless the hostages in Gaza are released as Israel escalates a new offensive in the territory. The shaky ceasefire collapsed on
Continue Reading CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — An Olympic swimming champion from Zimbabwe made history this week when the International Olympic Committee elected her as its new leader. Kirsty Coventry will be the IOC’s first female and first African president. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and on With
Continue Reading By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — An Olympic swimming champion from Zimbabwe made history this week when the International Olympic Committee elected her as its new leader. Kirsty Coventry will be the IOC’s first female and first African president. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and on With Your
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials accuse Georgetown University fellow Badar Khan Suri of being a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda and having close ties to a suspected or known terrorist. But to his defenders, Khan Suri is an accomplished scholar whose research focuses on peacebuilding in the Middle East. Khan Suri’s attorney
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China is practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space, according to the United States Space Force, which warned that Washington’s key rivals are closing the technology gap as space becomes increasingly critical to security on Earth. The Space Force observed “five different objects
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Sudan’s army has reclaimed the Presidential Palace in the capital, Khartoum, in a significant victory over a rampaging militia that controls swaths of the war-torn country. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have viciously scrambled for territory since fighting broke out between them
Continue Reading By Aaron Cooper and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — The pilots of a Boeing 737 started to mistakenly take off from a taxiway at a Florida airport on Thursday before an air traffic controller told them to stop, the Federal Aviation Administration said, announcing it was investigating the incident. Taxiways are used by planes to
Continue Reading By Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — The southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa was engulfed in flames late Thursday after being struck by a large-scale Russian drone attack, hours after US President Donald Trump expressed optimism about ending the war and as peace talks are set to resume on Monday. Trump – who recently held
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Conor McGregor will run for the Irish presidency in elections later this year, the controversial former fighter said on Thursday, as he announced his candidacy for the largely ceremonial role on an anti-immigration stance. McGregor, who in recent years has emerged as a figurehead for the far-right in Ireland,
Continue Reading By Todd Symons, Alex Stambaugh, Jessie Yeung and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The chief executive of London’s Heathrow Airport expects it to be running as normal by Saturday after a “significant power outage” brought one of the world’s busiest transit hubs to a complete standstill, setting off waves of global travel chaos. “Tomorrow
Continue Reading By Eugenia Yosef, Lauren Izso, Tim Lister and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Supreme Court has frozen the government’s dismissal of Ronen Bar, head of the country’s internal security service Shin Bet, sparking anger from senior officials including the prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel “is a state of law and according
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s attempt this month to deport a Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian campus activist due to his alleged “activities aligned to Hamas” was the first case of its kind to grab headlines. Since then, two foreign–born academics with visas to work at other prominent US universities –
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