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By Rym Bendimerad, CNN (CNN) — Money talks, but nature may have the last word if climate change continues to unfold at current rates. The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently calculated that transitioning to a sustainable, carbon-neutral future would take $13.5 trillion in investment globally between now and 2050. It’s a monumental figure, yet if

By Rym Bendimerad, CNN (CNN) — Conflict resolution is a skill sorely needed in the world right now. As president and CEO of global think-tank International Crisis Group (ICG), Comfort Ero has plenty of experience in the field. Ero has spearheaded the conflict resolution non-profit since 2021, after stints working at the United Nations, and

By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, he didn’t even realize what it was. “I got into the culture visually

CNN By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, he didn’t even realize what it was. “I got into the culture

By Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Some cases are so awful that dog rescuer Catherine Lumsden doesn’t have the words to express how angry they make her feel. One evening in August, the founder of Catherine’s Puppies, a shelter in Sai Kung, a district in northeastern Hong Kong, received a call about Chloe

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the next two years while its overall population is expected to plummet to levels not seen since the 1970s. The new data underscores the demographic timebomb

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong police on Thursday placed HK$1 million ($128,000) bounties on five more democracy activists living in self-imposed exile in a move condemned by the United States and United Kingdom. Police accuse the five – including US citizen Joey Siu and Frances Hui, who has been granted asylum

By Lindsay Isaac and Paula Newton, CNN (CNN) — They live an ocean apart from one another but now share a bond of anguish and outrage over the suicide deaths of their children. David Parfett and David Ramirez describe stories of grief that are remarkably similar. Both are fathers to young adults who were talented

By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana said Thursday that they would not use force against each other amid a dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land and agreed to create a joint commission to address the territorial spat. Still, the two countries’ positions on the Essequibo region remained

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Fast radio bursts, or bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves in space, are one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos — and they just became a little stranger. The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007, and since then, hundreds of these quick,

By Scott McLean and Isil Sariyuce, CNN (CNN) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief foreign policy and security adviser has defended his country’s decision to host senior Hamas figures, saying Turkey is engaging with Hamas “to bring about peace.” Hamas members can freely come and go from Turkey and have a permanent presence in

CNN By Scott McLean and Isil Sariyuce, CNN (CNN) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief foreign policy and security adviser has defended his country’s decision to host senior Hamas figures, saying Turkey is engaging with Hamas “to bring about peace.” Hamas members can freely come and go from Turkey and have a permanent presence