CNN By Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Indonesia’s transport ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots fell asleep during a recent flight, according to state news agency Antara, citing the ministry’s civil aviation director-general M Kristi Endah Murni. According to a preliminary report released Saturday by the National Transportation
Continue Reading By Tim Lister and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN (CNN) — Russia has begun using a powerful aerial bomb that has decimated Ukrainian defenses and tilted the balance on the front lines. It has done so by converting a basic Soviet-era weapon into a gliding bomb that can cause a crater fifteen meters wide. The bomb is
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, Ella Nilsen and Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — It was just over a year ago that Toyota appeared to acknowledge it had dropped the ball on electric vehicles. Its CEO, Akio Toyoda, stepped down from his post, painting himself as “an old-fashioned” man unfit to take the world’s biggest carmaker through the
Continue Reading CNN By Sharif Paget and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met with the family of Irma Garcia, a beloved schoolteacher killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Garcia, who had worked as a teacher for 23 years, was one of 21
Continue Reading By Sharif Paget and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met with the family of Irma Garcia, a beloved schoolteacher killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Garcia, who had worked as a teacher for 23 years, was one of 21 people
Continue Reading CNN By Sharif Paget and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met with the family of Irma Garcia, a beloved schoolteacher killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Garcia, who had worked as a teacher for 23 years, was one of 21
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — A now-former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation manipulated or omitted DNA test results in hundreds of cases, an internal affairs investigation found, which prompted a full review of her work during her nearly 30-year career at the agency. The CBI released the findings of
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Mexico City was diverted to Los Angeles Friday after an issue with the plane’s hydraulic system, the airline said. It was the carrier’s fourth emergency in a week, including a tire falling off one flight and an engine
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 50 gold pieces of art created by Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni were stolen from an exhibition near Lake Garda, Italy, on Wednesday night, the host of the exhibition, the Vittoriale degli Italiani estate, told CNN. Forty-nine pieces of art, worth €1.2 million (more than $1.3 million USD), were
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — The US has joined several other countries in airdropping aid into Gaza, which is grappling with a humanitarian crisis. With aid deliveries on land falling far short of the numbers needed to ward off famine in the enclave, it is hoped these airdrops will provide a lifeline to people
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has said she experienced “cruel” online bullying and abuse, the “bulk” of which occurred during her pregnancies. Speaking on stage at an event at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Meghan said, “I keep my distance from (social media) right
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have come under attack in boardrooms, state legislatures and college campuses across the country. Since 2023, 81 anti-DEI bills that target programs at colleges have been introduced in 28 states and in Congress, according to a tally by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Eight have been signed into law, in states like
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent, Amy Cassidy and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The Irish government conceded on Saturday that it had lost two referenda to change what it called “sexist” language in the constitution in an embarrassing defeat. Ireland went to the polls on Friday in votes deliberately timed to coincide with International Women’s Day to
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — For more than 35 years, two families in Virginia have been left without knowing who brutally killed a beloved member of each of their families. Now, a major investigative break finally has arrived for one family – and perhaps soon could for the other – thanks
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A bold plan to genetically engineer a version of the woolly mammoth, the tusked ice age giant that disappeared 4,000 years ago, is making some progress, according to the scientists involved. The long-term goal is to create a living, walking elephant-mammoth hybrid that would be visually indistinguishable from its
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. More than 100 women were killed in 2023. The term ‘femicide’ – which is typically
Continue Reading CNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. More than 100 women were killed in 2023. The term ‘femicide’ – which is
Continue Reading By Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Most of the men in Oksana Rubanyak’s platoon are at least 10 years older than her. Before the war, having a young woman in charge of an all-male Ukrainian military unit might have given the troops pause. But as the platoon prepares for a frontline deployment at a
Continue Reading By Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — On February 26, one of Russia’s longest-serving human rights activists stood up at the end of his trial in a Moscow court and offered his uncensored verdict on Russian democracy. “The state in our country is once again controlling not only social, political and economic life, but is now claiming full control
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, Richard Roth, Sahar Akbarzai and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Two police stations near Haiti’s National Palace were attacked by armed individuals Friday night, as gang violence in the Caribbean nation’s capital of Port-au-Prince continued to spiral. “We are still working to get the situation under control as soon as possible. We
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