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US condemns China’s reported life sentence of acclaimed Uyghur scholar

By Simone McCarthy (CNN) — The United States has condemned China’s reported sentencing of prominent Uyghur academic Rahile Dawut to life in prison, calling for the immediate release of the scholar known for documenting folklore and traditions of the Muslim minority in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. The statement, released by the US State Department Friday,

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Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants following deadly Ankara blast

By Gul Tuysuz, Heather Law and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey’s military carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Sunday, just hours after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in the capital in the latest attack of its nearly four-decade long insurgency. In a statement,

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Good Samaritan says he tried to stop a former federal prosecutor from allegedly stabbing a driver after a crash on a Florida highway

By Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — A former federal prosecutor involved in the early prosecution of a January 6 defendant was arrested in the stabbing of a driver on a Florida highway after a crash last week, authorities say, and new video shows a confrontation with a Good Samaritan who tried to

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New York authorities are searching for 9-year-old Charlotte Sena who vanished while biking on a camping trip in a state park

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 people are searching for a 9-year-old girl who went missing while camping with friends and family members Saturday in upstate New York, the governor said. Charlotte Sena was camping in Moreau Lake State Park with her family and went on a bike ride

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All Onewheel electric skateboards recalled after four deaths and multiple injuries reported

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — All models of Onewheel electric skateboards are being recalled after the maker Future Motion received reports of four deaths of users between 2019 and 2021 and multiple reports of serious injuries. In the recall notice for 300,000 of the self-balancing skateboards, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission warned people

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Illinois father and his 2 children are among those killed by ammonia release from semi-truck crash, coroner says

By Keith Allen, Zoe Sottile, Andy Rose and Jared Formanek, CNN (CNN) — An Illinois father and his two young children are among the five people killed by anhydrous ammonia exposure after a semi-truck carrying thousands of gallons of the toxic substance crashed Friday, the local medical examiner’s office announced. Those killed in the incident

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