By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least 32 people were killed in crowd crushes at two separate charity events in Nigeria on Saturday, police say. Some 22 people were killed at an event held in a community center in Okija in the southeastern state of Anambra, state police said on Sunday. The event was
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Paul Kemp, a 64-year-old who lives outside Portland, Oregon, bought his son Nathan his first rifle for his 16th birthday over a decade ago. Nathan had notched his first hunting kill, a squirrel, at age 7, and the Kemp family enjoyed their time hunting together over the ensuing years.
Continue Reading By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — It was near the end of an unusual day for the four Patterson children when the deputies came to arrest their mother. The sheriff’s deputies approached the house, a tidy split-level outside Blue Ridge, Georgia, with chickens roaming the front yard and yellow flowers blooming along the front steps.
Continue Reading By Edward Szekeres, Sophie Tanno, Lucas Lilieholm and Inke Kappeler, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Germany face growing accusations they could have done more to prevent a deadly Christmas market attack as a judge ordered the suspect to be held in pre-trial detention following a late-night court appearance on Saturday. Taleb Al Abdulmohsen is accused
Continue Reading By Soph Warnes, CNN (CNN) — This year, 45 countries in the United Nations held national elections to decide their top leadership. Of those, only four selected a woman to become head of state or government, according to CNN’s analysis of International Foundation for Electoral Systems data. While the US had the opportunity to elect
Continue Reading By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Holiday romances are the stuff of rom-coms and chick-lit — but not for 18-year-old Marcus Fakana, who is facing a one-year prison sentence for his summer fling. The construction apprentice from London was on holiday with his family in Dubai in September when he met a fellow British teenager
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, Ashley R. Williams, Taylor Galgano, Sarah Dewberry and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Police have identified the man they said drove into a Texas mall Saturday after a 19-mile police pursuit, striking four people before he was fatally shot by responding law enforcement officers. John Darrel Schultz, 53, of Kempner, Texas, has
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Searing guitar riffs, primal drums, and electronic textures collide with impassioned vocals to create a chaotic yet precise sonic storm that blurs the lines between human aggression and mechanical force. That’s industrial rock, and for fans of German band KMFDM, it is the sweet spot between the freedom to
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — When Katie Koestner was a college freshman, a boy she liked took her out to dinner. They went on a few more dates, she says, until one night, after going back to her college campus dorm, he ignored her pleas and raped her. Up until that point, Koestner was
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN (CNN) — On a cool, breezy Monday afternoon, a crowd of drunken, rowdy men gathering in the nation’s capital stared in astonishment as a striking figure headed toward them. It was a regal young woman riding a magnificent white horse, wearing a gold crown and a flowing white cape. The woman’s
Continue Reading By Lauren Izso, Edward Szekeres and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — A missile fired from Yemen hit Tel Aviv overnight into Saturday, Israeli authorities said, in a rare instance of a failed interception over the city. Israel’s military said the projectile landed in Tel Aviv’s southern Jaffa area, adding that attempts to intercept a
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By Catherine Nicholls, Frederik Pleitgen, Nadine Schmidt, Benjamin Brown and Lauren Kent, CNN Berlin (CNN) — At least five people – including a child – were killed and more than 200 injured after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday, local authorities said. “It
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was found not guilty in a criminal kidnapping case dating back to August 2019, when he barred a migrant vessel from docking in the country, leaving it stranded offshore. The ruling judge said Friday that “the facts do not exist.” The
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By Kara Fox, Catherine Nicholls and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has faced jeers from locals on the cyclone-battered French overseas territory of Mayotte, telling them they should be “happy to be in France, because if it wasn’t France you’d be 10,000 times even more in the s***.” Macron has come
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WUSA, FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE, CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has arrested a student at George Mason University in Virginia for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York, according to a federal court filing. Egyptian national Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan faces a slew of federal
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has arrested a student at George Mason University in Virginia for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York, according to a federal court filing. Egyptian national Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan faces a slew of federal charges tied to distributing information
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards and Marcelo Medeiros, CNN (CNN) — A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a former student, entered a first-grade classroom at the Prečko Elementary School early Friday morning
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The FDA has finalized new standards that foods must meet before they can be labeled as “healthy.” Some foods that could previously carry the healthy label — such as white bread and heavily sweetened cereal and yogurt — will no longer qualify. Here’s what else you need to
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — At least one person has been killed and several embassies have been damaged in an early morning Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. The Kyiv City Military Administration confirmed the death in a post on Telegram, adding that 12 others have been injured. Of those
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — When a student carried out a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School this week, there was no school resource officer on site. And when six people were killed last year at another private Christian school in Nashville, there wasn’t one either. While school resource officers are not the only
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