CNN By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members. CCTV footage shared by the owners, four brothers from the Muna family, shows police officers
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR. Personal Birth date: March 2, 1931 Death date: August 30, 2022 Birth place: Privolnoye, Russia, Soviet Union Birth name: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Father: Sergei Andreyevich Gorbachev Mother: Maria (Gopkalo) Gorbacheva Marriage: Raisa (Titarenko) Gorbacheva (1953-September 20, 1999, her
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio Birth name: John Herschel Glenn Jr. Father: John Glenn Sr., a plumber Mother:
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — The Super Bowl halftime performer who held up the Sudanese and Palestinian flags in protest during Sunday night’s performance in New Orleans will be banned for life from all NFL stadiums and events, a league spokesperson told CNN. The protester was confirmed by the NFL to
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Hamas has postponed the next hostage release scheduled to take place in Gaza on Saturday “until further notice,” accusing Israel of breaking the ceasefire deal. Israel described the postponement as a “complete violation of the ceasefire” and called on the
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler, Northumberland called in bomb disposal experts after workers involved in a planned overhaul of Scotts Play Park found unexploded
Continue Reading By Devyn Byers, CNN (CNN) — A Southern California man returned home after evacuating last month’s devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires to discover an unexpected resident lurking beneath it. Samy Arbid told CNN he found a 525-pound adult, male black bear living under his Altadena, California, home after the Eaton Fire blazed through the city. The
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members. CCTV footage shared by the owners, four brothers from the Muna family, shows police officers putting
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to encourage young people to tie the knot and have babies to halt demographic decline in the world’s second-largest economy. Some 6.1 million couples registered their marriages in
Continue Reading By Michael Rios and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa fell short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, according to results available on Monday, setting the stage for a run-off vote against his nearest leftist rival. The second-round vote, provisionally scheduled for April, will decide if the
Continue Reading By Dana Karni and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The families of the three Israeli hostages released Saturday have spoken out about their loved ones’ ordeal in Hamas captivity, saying they hope their suffering provides impetus to efforts to free all those still in Gaza as soon as possible. Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman and Richard Quest, CNN Paris (CNN) — For a man who’s spent his career battling to make France more pro-business, Europe’s prospects on artificial intelligence are worrying: an oversight that could cost the bloc dearly. “We are not in the race today,” French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN’s Richard Quest in an
Continue Reading CNN By Joseph Ataman and Richard Quest, CNN Paris (CNN) — For a man who’s spent his career battling to make France more pro-business, Europe’s prospects on artificial intelligence are worrying: an oversight that could cost the bloc dearly. “We are not in the race today,” French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN’s Richard Quest in
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara in California in addition to King County, Washington, and the cities of Portland, Oregon, and New Haven, Connecticut, have sued the Trump administration alleging it has threatened and unlawfully targeted sanctuary jurisdictions, according to a lawsuit filed in
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Meghan Pryce, CNN (CNN) — It’s Super Bowl Sunday — the most important day of the year for NFL fans and big-name brands. Advertisers have shelled out upwards of $8 million for a 30-second spot during the game in the hopes of making an impression on an estimated 120 million viewers.
Continue Reading By Mohammad al-Sawalhi, Ibrahim Dahman and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Israel completed its withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor on Sunday, a militarized zone that splits Gaza in half, as part of its commitments under a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have filed through the area, many of them returning decimated
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — Andre Howard Jr. had just picked up his three children from school and taken them to Dunkin’ Donuts for an evening snack, a cherished weekly family ritual that abruptly turned into a terrifying, narrow escape from tragedy. Their wholesome tradition was violently disrupted when a medevac
Continue Reading By Jay Ganglani, CNN (CNN) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party won elections in the sprawling megacity of Delhi for the first time in 27 years on Saturday, defeating one of his most prominent critics in a much-needed boost after losing its national majority last year. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism. White nationalist groups in Ohio have recently grown increasingly brazen in
Continue Reading By Yash Roy, CNN (CNN) — Known as the neighborhood grandma, 88-year-old Edna Schubert often spent her days helping children with their math homework or watching them ride their bikes on her driveway. She lived alone in her North Bay Shore one-story house and while she had no children of her own, she treated the
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