By Sarah Dean, CNN Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter Zoleka Mandela has died of cancer at the age of 43, a family spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday. “Zoleka passed away on the evening of Monday, September 25th, surrounded by friends and family,” the statement, shared on her official Instagram account, said. She documented her
Continue Reading By Olga Voitovych, Clare Sebastian, Florence Davey-Attlee and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military has said it is “clarifying” information received about the alleged assassination of Russian commander Viktor Sokolov, after Moscow released a video that appears to show him alive and well. Kyiv claimed on Monday it killed Sokolov, the commander of Russia’s
Continue Reading By Jessica Xing, Brian Todd and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Over the weekend, police say, Rui Jiang posted a photo on Instagram of a gun being pointed at a computer screen showing the spire of a white church building. The words “Beautiful Old Churches Across America” were superimposed over part of the image. A
Continue Reading KGMB, KHNL, TAWNI KATAYAMA, BAREFOOTCHILDPHOTOGRAPHY, CNN By Steve Almasy and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — More than a month after catastrophic flames raced across Lahaina, annihilating most of the historic town and killing 97 people in Maui, some residents were finally able to return to the charred remains of their homes Monday. According to CNN
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By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot soared to an estimated $835 million after no lucky winners nabbed the grand prize during Monday night’s drawing for the fourth largest in the game’s history, according to Powerball. The Powerball rolled again after no ticket matched all six numbers – 10 – 12 – 22
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — A “mesmerizing” electric blue tarantula species has been discovered in Thailand, according to new research. A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country. “(We found) a new species of
Continue Reading By Dalal Mawad and Claudia Colliva, CNN Paris (CNN) — It’s 6.30 a.m. on a late summer morning in Paris. Amid the rumbling coming from the Stalingrad Métro station, in the northeast of the French capital, hundreds of migrants, mostly men, sleep crammed under an overpass. Some rest on pieces of cardboard and old mattresses
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea showcased an arsenal of advanced weaponry in a military parade on Tuesday, rolling tanks and missiles down the streets of its rain-soaked capital during the first event of its kind in a decade. The parade, held to mark the 75th Armed
Continue Reading CNN By Kathleen Magramo and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — A floating barrier installed by China to prevent Filipino boats from fishing in a disputed area of the South China Sea has been removed, Philippine authorities said Monday, in the latest flashpoint between Manila and Beijing over their competing maritime claims. Video released by the
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — A Chinese dissident who has been living in a Taiwanese airport since Friday has pleaded for the United States or Canada to grant him asylum after he fled Thailand saying he feared being deported back to China. Chen Siming, known for his annual commemorations
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Radina Gigova and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Russian warships were still launching attacks on Ukraine following the claim from Kyiv that the commander of Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet was killed Friday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the arrival of US Abrams tanks to the country. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — A floating barrier installed by China to prevent Filipino boats from fishing in a disputed area of the South China Sea has been removed, Philippine authorities said Monday, in the latest flashpoint between Manila and Beijing over their competing maritime claims. Video released by the Philippine
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, CNN New York (CNN) — A third person has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy who was exposed to the highly potent drug fentanyl at a Bronx day care, where large quantities of the narcotic were stored under a trap floor in a room where
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid that will closely approach Earth in just a few years. Apophis, a space rock roughly 1,200 feet (366 meters) across, will
Continue Reading By Fabiana Chaparro, CNN (CNN) — A 61-year-old woman died after falling roughly 150 feet from a steep cliff on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Authorities received a call Saturday afternoon about a woman who had fallen down a cliff at Glassmine Falls Overlook, located on the scenic National Parkway, the National Park
Continue Reading By Ashley Killough, CNN (CNN) — The gunman who killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Latinos in modern US history has agreed to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution to those impacted by the shooting. Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty to
Continue Reading By Eyad Kourdi (CNN) — Sixteen officials in Libya have been detained amid an investigation into the deadly collapse of two dams after heavy rain in the coastal city Derna earlier this month, according to a statement by the Libyan attorney general’s office. Thousands of people died in ensuing floods. “The investigating authority initiates a
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Wealthy and white communities in the US and Canada were much more likely to oppose wind energy projects, according to a new study from University of California Santa Barbara researchers. The study looked at more than 1,400 onshore wind projects across the US and Canada between 2000 and 2016,
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Some 9th and 10th grade Bedford High School students, in Bedford, New Hampshire, mostly boys, took pictures of 11th and 12th-grade girls’ buttocks and breasts without their consent, “grading them and sharing those with others,” according to letters sent to parents Thursday and Friday by High School Principal Robert
Continue Reading By Jorge Engels and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN London (CNN) — London’s Metropolitan Police said it has launched an investigation into allegations of “non-recent” sexual offenses in the United Kingdom, after a joint investigation by British media outlets revealed the comedian Russell Brand was accused of rape and sexual assault. “Following an investigation by Channel 4’s
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