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Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister is to be knighted with the highest possible ranking in the New Year's Honours List, Buckingham Palace announced Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/32P8mVs

Depicting a heap of screaming faces and contorted torsos, the "Pillar of Shame" was not just a reminder of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre -- it was, for many, an emblem of free speech in Hong Kong. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3FMarQj

President Joe Biden will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, several days after Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease an unremitting military crisis on Ukraine's border. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EVBHLj

Every family has its breakdowns, but the outside world doesn't usually hear about them. The royal family doesn't like to air its dirty laundry in public either, traditionally preferring to adopt Queen's mantra of "never complain, never explain." So, when there's a wobble in that stiff upper lip, people lap up every detail. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3zbbt6a

Indonesian authorities will help repair a stranded boat packed with more than 100 Rohingya refugees off its coast, but will not allow its passengers to seek refuge in the Southeast Asian country and will turn the vessel away, officials told Reuters on Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/33T4BP5

Israel said on Sunday that it intends to double the population of the contested area of the Golan Heights in the coming years, drawing the ire of the Syrian government. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3HjLDzQ

Usually, Jay Lacia wakes at midnight on Christmas Day to start the festivities -- but this year, all he wished for was enough food to eat. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ExEvOn

More than 100 domestic flights in Japan were grounded on Sunday due to heavy snow in the northern and western parts of the country, Japan's two biggest airlines said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3sv9Pei

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has died. He was 90. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/30Zcbqt

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Pope Francis has dedicated a large part of his traditional Christmas message on Saturday to reflect on the pandemic and its impact on relationships. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3mx6cRe

At least 16 people died when their boat overturned off the Greek island of Paros in the central Aegean Sea on Friday, in the third maritime disaster involving migrants this week, the country's coastguard said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/32Bb1lu

Turkey's experiment in cutting interest rates to fight inflation has sent its currency crashing to record lows this year. Now, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to prop up the lira with a raft of new unorthodox economic measures. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/32eZOHm

OnlyFans is getting a new CEO after a tumultuous year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3yQkyB8

On Tuesday, the central Chinese city of Xi'an recorded 52 new Covid-19 cases. By Wednesday, authorities had imposed strict lockdown measures on its estimated 13 million residents. CNN's Selina Wang has more. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/30S336S

Chinese live-stream shopping influencer Huang Wei, known as Viya, has received a $210 million penalty for tax evasion and has been kicked off social media. It's the largest penalty ever imposed on a live-streamer, according to the Chinese state tabloid Global Times, and a sign of the Chinese government's pressure campaign on internet celebrities. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3qjBo7L

The English Premier League has seen a sharp rise in new Covid-19 cases among players as the Omicron variant continues its rapid spread through Britain. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3pg0Ifx

The death toll from Super Typhoon Rai has climbed to at least 75 people, local officials reported Saturday, after the storm wreaked havoc across the Philippines late last week. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3mla9s3

A huntsman spider interrupted Queensland's health minister as she held a briefing on the Covid-19 situation across the state. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3GMXqpQ

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Wall Street is getting nervous about what will happen to the economy next year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3IR5Mi2

November in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern region means one thing -- the rains are coming. Storms explode with biblical fury across the land, transforming desiccated bush into lush green forests, and clearing the thick haze of grit that has suffocated the mining provinces for months. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/30AtIVA

At least 12 people have died in flash floods caused by heavy rains overnight in northern and northeastern Iraq, Erbil mayor Nabz Abdulhamid told CNN Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3GSaNVN

Russia has continued to amass new troops near Ukraine's border in recent days, despite President Joe Biden urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to de-escalate tensions during a virtual meeting last week. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/32ejY40

As the Omicron variant sweeps through the United Kingdom, pushing daily coronavirus infections to their highest level on record, British businesses are shutting their doors again — but not because of government instructions. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3p5BHUi

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's new center-right government took office on Friday facing soaring inflation and energy costs, record budget deficits and the dragging Covid-19 pandemic. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3q2mXVf

Unnerved by surging prices, the Bank of England on Thursday became the first major central bank to hike interest rates since the pandemic began. The US Federal Reserve will follow in the coming months, with three rate hikes expected next year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3GUMlTB

In early May of 2020, Jim Farley bought $1 million worth of Ford stock, 195,000 shares at a little over $5 a share. It was a surprising move for an executive who normally gets plenty of stock and stock options as part of his compensation to be buying some of that same stock outright with his own money. At the time, Farley was Ford's chief operating officer, having been named to that position three months before by then-CEO Jim Hackett. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3IVAre1

Ten years ago, the world watched as a young Kim Jong Un solemnly walked beside his father's hearse on a snowy morning in Pyongyang as distraught North Koreans wailed in grief. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ywrrHH

Up to 27 people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in a shopping district in Osaka, Japan, according to the Osaka Fire department. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3mc0pAy

Manchester United announced on Thursday that their Premier League home fixture against Brighton, to be played on Saturday, has been postponed due to "the number of players and support staff having to isolate due to Covid-19". from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3FhqS7j

The Bank of England is hiking interest rates in an effort to fight surging prices even as the Omicron variant engulfs the United Kingdom and threatens to put the economy into reverse. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3p2xUHj

UK travelers are to be banned from traveling to France for tourism and will instead be required to present a "compelling reason" to enter the country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3yvuobr

Nine people were killed on Wednesday after a private aircraft crashed while making an emergency landing at Las Americas Airport in the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo, according to the plane's operator. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ysmQpX

Black tech entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom say they have to rely on foreign investors to get their businesses off the ground. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3magF4W

The longtime editor of one of China's most outspoken and nationalistic state media outlets says he's stepping down. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3F497Ic

South Africa's High Court ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail, after setting aside an earlier decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgment showed on Wednesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3sgP3Pc

German police searched several locations in the eastern state of Saxony on Wednesday as part of an investigation into what they said was a plot to murder the state's prime minister, Michael Kretschmer, by anti-vaccination activists. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3s7xhOp

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3GHWKCg

Chinese social media platform Weibo Corp has been slapped with a 3 million yuan ($470,000) fine by China's internet regulator for repeatedly publishing illegal information. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3oSi41R

Britain is facing a "tidal wave" of infections from the new Omicron coronavirus variant, ministers have warned, as they sound the alarm on rapid transmission rates in London and across the country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DS2wPE

Two people are missing after two cargo ships crashed into each other early Monday morning in the Baltic Sea, Swedish authorities said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3lZDbxi

A Hong Kong court has sentenced media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy figures to up to 14 months behind bars for participating in an unauthorized assembly last year to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3m1NTU6

A man who slipped down the stairs and broke his back while walking from his bed to home office can file a claim on his employer's insurance after a court in Germany ruled that he was commuting at the time. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DCO91K

• World's top tourist destination on 'very high' travel risk list from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3oMgq1w

Before the pandemic, Hong Kong was an aviation hub attracting pilots from around the world. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31KIRnX

Over the summer, an anonymous hacker stole roughly $600 million in cryptocurrency from Poly Network, a decentralized finance network many outside the crypto world had likely never heard of. Then the hacker gave it back. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3lYF2lY

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Four-year-old Azhi hobbles across a makeshift migrant center on the Polish-Belarusian border. Grabbing his mother's hand for support, he carefully tucks his legs under piles of donated blankets. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ISDcNs

A Hamas warehouse filled with ammunition at a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon exploded on Friday, causing casualties, according to Lebanon state-run NNA news. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EMVAof

India was mourning the victims of a helicopter crash that killed 13 people including the country's top military official, as their funerals got underway on Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/30bSI5l

Meta is bringing its vision of a so-called metaverse closer to (virtual) reality. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3y8YX6y

SenseTime's big public debut may be hitting a snag because of brewing tensions between the United States and China. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DEgGUx

More than half the money Volkswagen Group spends in the next five years will go towards electric vehicles and other high-technology efforts, the German automaker announced Thursday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DAaEo5

An Australian Senate committee on Thursday issued a scathing indictment of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, calling it the country's "clearest example of a troubling media monopoly." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3s4Kzvl

Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, soared into outer space aboard a Russian-built Soyuz capsule and rocket Wednesday morning, kicking off the first self-funded tourism mission to the International Space Station in a decade. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3rO64jF

Professor William Sanderson, or Bill as he likes to be known, wades into the shallows of the Dornoch Firth as the sun breaks over the ragged skyline of the Scottish Highlands, turning the waters gold. Something in the water catches his eye and he stoops to pick it up. "This is a European native oyster," he explains. "They used to be very abundant in this site thousands of years ago right up to the 1800s." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3lFRtTF

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved France to its list of "very high" risk travel destinations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3rHjRZl

US labor market productivity tanked in the third quarter. Paychecks grew and the number of hours worked jumped, but workers' output increased only at a moderate pace. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3dpaIMK

Elon Musk has described electric cars as critical to fighting climate change, which he's said he believes could cause more displacement and destruction than all the wars in history combined. So you might think he'd support the federal government funding electric vehicle charging stations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EO5uX3

A computer scientist who has claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin largely prevailed on Monday in a Florida jury trial over whether the estate of a former business partner deserved half of a bitcoin cache worth about $54 billion. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EBJDlm

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has told CNN there will be a "really bloody massacre" if Russia decides to invade Ukraine, and warned that "Russian guys also will come back in the coffins," amid heightened alarm about troop movements on the nations' border. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xZJLZo

A Kenyan police officer shot dead five people in a rampage through the capital Nairobi on Tuesday and then shot and killed himself, the police Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3lGR1oh

Russia and India signed a flurry of trade and arms deals during President Vladimir Putin's visit to New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, including one that will see India produce more than 600,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3y4I3pB

A 15-year old Palestinian boy suspected of deliberately ramming his car into an Israeli army checkpoint, injuring a security guard, has been shot dead, according to Israel's Defense Ministry. The security guard was taken to hospital where he was undergoing surgery. His condition is described as stable. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3pwOsWX

Three more members of a group of 17 hostages kidnapped in Haiti in October were released Sunday night, according to a statement from the US-based Christian Aid Ministries. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3Exud1r

Myanmar's deposed civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, faces two years in jail after her sentence was halved by the country's military, state media MRTV reported on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xVCKca

It's a football uniform with a difference -- it has a QR code which, when scanned, will direct users to a web page to learn more about the issues of sportswashing and alleged human rights abuses that surround the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EwrXaD

Goldman Sachs on Saturday cut its outlook for U.S. economic growth to 3.8% for 2022, citing risks and uncertainty around the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/2ZXMW7s

Buying a cheap property in Italy is an attractive prospect for many travelers, particularly with the ever-growing number of towns offering up homes for next to nothing through regeneration schemes. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3Dh1E6X

Well. It was good while it lasted, eh? from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3rI8Pmq

The governing body of tennis, the International Tennis Foundation (ITF), has not suspended tournaments in China because it "does not want to punish a billion people," its president said Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31Fbumg

The reluctance of the United States to lift all sanctions on Iran is the main challenge to reviving a 2015 nuclear pact, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday, as Western powers questioned Tehran's determination to salvage the agreement. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DmlEoU

Rescue workers in Indonesia continued to dig through thick layers of hot ash and debris Monday to find survivors of a volcanic eruption that left more than a dozen people dead and thousands displaced in the country's East Java province, even as the volcano continued to erupt ash. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3IolSzt

Canada's tight labor market is forcing many companies to offer regular Covid-19 testing over vaccine mandates, while others are reversing previously announced inoculation requirements even as Omicron variant cases rise. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ooSlh6

A stolen yogini statue, which was once on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, will be returned to the High Commission of India to be repatriated. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3dpBSTw

The spire of a soaring 118-story skyscraper has topped out at over 2,227 feet above Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/2ZOMF6C

Britain's economy needs much more investment. Business says it's unlikely to get it any time soon. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EsYmPw

At least five people were killed in Myanmar when a vehicle plowed into anti-junta protesters this weekend, according to local media. The attack took place in a Yangon township, news outlet Myanmar Now reported Sunday, citing protesters and eyewitnesses. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xWuNTQ

Indonesia's Mount Semeru volcano in East Java Province has erupted. Authorities say thousands have been displaced due to the smoke and ash. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3plbMXi

Gen. David Thompson, vice chief of space operations for the US Space Force, said Saturday China is developing its space capabilities at "twice the rate" of the US. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3InpXUI

Art has always had the power to be dangerous. But a newly opened art museum is taking that to another level. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DtD3fk

More than 20 countries, including the United States, issued a joint statement Saturday expressing deep concern over allegations of extra-judicial killings and disappearances of former member of former security forces in Afghanistan. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3djf5sr

President Joe Biden has already launched the biggest intervention into energy markets in a decade. Big Oil is nervous he's not nearly done yet. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3dg20jV

The European Union has unveiled its €300 billion ($340 billion) alternative to China's Belt and Road initiative — an investment program the bloc claims will create "links, not dependencies." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31kp1zJ

On a nondescript office park in the desert town of Be'er Sheva, a "war room" filled with screens showing various maps, rolling information, and graphics inform around a dozen or so staffers, manning computers at the central heart of Israel's civilian cyber defense system. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31xLatS

Militants killed at least 31 people in central Mali on Friday when they fired on a bus ferrying people to a local market, local authorities said -- the latest deadly attack in a region racked by violent insurgency. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3rwn4Lj

US and European officials sounded a pessimistic note Friday as the latest round of talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal concluded, saying that Tehran's maximalist demands and push to unwind previously agreed upon points are leaving them disappointed and concerned. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3rvg0P3

United States special operations forces in northeastern Syria have been quietly visiting local villages to help provide medical care to communities which have seen little health care in the wake of years of war. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3pocKSH

The Taliban released a so-called "decree on women's rights" on Friday that failed to mention access to education or work and was immediately panned by Afghan women and experts, who said it was proof that the militant group was uninterested in upholding basic freedoms for millions of Afghan women who have largely been constrained to their homes in recent months. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EnIiyu

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has called a violent mob killing of a Sri Lankan national on Friday "a day of shame for Pakistan." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xPy0oq

CNN's Bianca Nobilo speaks with Marci Ien, Canada's Minister for Women and Gender Equality, after lawmakers in the country's House of Commons unanimously passed a bill banning conversion therapy practices. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31r7TIn

Last month, CNN reported that Parwana and several other underage girls were being sold by their fathers so other members of their families could eat. After an international outcry as a result of CNN's story, Parwana was returned to her family due to the backlash from the community against the buyer. CNN's Anna Coren has the update. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3lvdK6v

The era of big Chinese companies heading to the United States to raise money may have just come to an end. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/32MsiYQ

The Southeast Asian unicorn Grab had a rough first day on Wall Street. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31j08V3

Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31tj4Qs

Hundreds of wild spiders and insects were seized by Colombian authorities on Thursday as they foiled an alleged attempt to smuggle the bugs to Europe, officials said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xR9P8R

Driving through a snow-capped mountain pass, the young mother huddles together with her six children in the backseat of a car after leaving their makeshift camp in northwestern Afghanistan. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EmEAVL

A man dressed like a ninja was shot by French police after he attempted to attack two officers with a sword in the western city of Cherbourg on Thursday, authorities said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3G8wsZt

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Michel Aupetit from the position of Archbishop of Paris following reports that Aupetit had a consensual "intimate relationship" with a woman. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3pkXo1x

London Metropolitan Police are investigating a video that appeared to show a group of men spitting at group of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah earlier this week. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ltAMux

Saudi Arabia, Russia and other leading oil producers have decided to stick with plans to increase supply in January despite a recent plunge in prices driven by fears of a new glut. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3IgudW0

For the past year, member nations of the World Trade Organization have been deadlocked over a proposal made by India and South Africa to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights to boost production of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics for low-income nations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3dbFZ5t

The United States imposed a wide new tranche of sanctions on Belarus in response to the migrant crisis on the border with Poland and ongoing human rights violations by the Lukashenko regime. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3Dh3sNp

An epidemic of childhood pregnancy in Paraguay is being fueled by widespread sexual abuse and restrictive abortion laws, according to a new Amnesty International report. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3ppCMoW

A suspected Chinese hacking campaign has breached four more US defense and technology companies in the last month, and hundreds more US organizations are running the type of vulnerable software that the attackers have exploited, according to research shared with CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3G5xrtt

All over the world, it's been a tough year on wallets. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3D0W4p7

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) held a second call with Peng Shuai on Wednesday and said that the Chinese tennis star "reconfirmed" that she was safe and well given the "difficult situation" she is in, the sporting organization said on Thursday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3IdmHer

Uber wants to make booking a ride in India as easy as sending a WhatsApp message. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3EbZnLE

India has formally repealed three contentious farm laws that sparked more than a year of protests, nearly two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was pushed into a rare policy reversal that saw the legislation withdrawn. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xROpIT

The US and South Korea will develop a new operational war plan to address the threat from North Korea, senior defense officials said Tuesday, as the Pentagon shifts its focus to the Indo-Pacific region following its recently completed global force posture review. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3lrxQOR

Leaders from all corners of the US government condemned Russia's recent test of an anti-satellite weapon on Wednesday at the inaugural meeting of the National Space Council under the Biden administration, calling for accelerating the development of rules and norms in space. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3xHotQ0

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) chairman and CEO Steve Simon has announced an immediate suspension of all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31nLVWF

An explosion has occurred near a busy train station in the German city of Munich, police said Wednesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3E7GzND

Four golfers scheduled to play in the South African Open have been forced to withdraw after testing positive for Covid-19, the tournament announced on Thursday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3rpg5DR

Ethiopian government forces and their regional allies have recaptured the town of Lalibela -- a United Nations World Heritage Site -- from Tigrayan forces, the prime minister's office said on Wednesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/31b8E8F

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is concerned the Omicron coronavirus variant will exacerbate pressure on the already stressed-out global supply chain. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3od1rxo

Roger Dow, CEO of the US Travel Association, is questioning the logic of President Joe Biden's travel restrictions, imposed on South Africa and seven neighboring countries following the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3DdfuHt