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Unilever has sold its Ben & Jerry's business in Israel to its distributor in the country, following ongoing controversy related to its activities in Israel and the West Bank. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ecmhy8l

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left mainland China for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, arriving in Hong Kong Thursday ahead of the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/7I9nLAS

Bed Bath and Beyond CEO Mark Tritton is out after only three years at the helm of the rapidly sinking retailer. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0k4goHs

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The A380 superjumbo is beloved among aviation fans, thanks to its spacious interior, mighty size and quiet inflight experience, but its days have been numbered since Airbus announced in 2019 it was ceasing production of the airliner. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/VqKLUzR

Filipina beauty queen Fuschia Anne Ravena has been named winner of Miss International Queen 2022, a contest described by organizers as the world's largest beauty pageant for transgender women. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/AW0jKQm

Tencent's biggest shareholder will reduce its stake in the social media and gaming giant, just over a year after promising it would not sell the stock for three years. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WlifoER

It's a nightmare scenario: the pilot of your flight is incapacitated and someone has to get in their seat and land the plane. Could you do it? from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/zT2qN87

Drive an hour or so southeast out of the city of Abu Dhabi toward the emirate's empty deserts and you'll hit a landscape full of unexpected man-made creations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/htPv5jl

British taxpayers now officially hold shares in a company that throws sex parties. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/1VCQw5g

All things considered, video game leader Electronic Arts is having a pretty decent year despite inflation worries, recession fears and other macroeconomic headwinds. Shares of EA are only down about 2% in 2022, a drop that's not nearly as bad as the rest of the tech sector, which is now in bear market territory. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/JkWpqXf

It's the question everyone is asking: Are we about to enter a recession? from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/msufC1w

Leonardo Del Vecchio, the chairman of spectacles maker EssilorLuxottica and one of Italy's wealthiest business figures, has died aged 87, his company said on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/8KFyswv

Four people in South Africa's East London town remain in critical condition after attending a party that turned tragic. The Eastern Cape Premier's office tells CNN that the four remain under observation in hospital and authorities are waiting to question them. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/t8X7YvH

Sri Lanka is struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies, a top government minister said on Sunday, as the crisis-hit country of 22 million people is down to just 15,000 tons of petrol and diesel to keep essential services running in the coming days. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/x9mc42H

China made a big statement about its naval ambitions with the recent launch of its third and most advanced aircraft carrier. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/4AujMC8

The brutal killing of a young woman in broad daylight on an Egyptian street has shocked the Arab world, bringing the country's gender-based violence crisis into the spotlight. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/vc1hOtW

Peter had put his life savings of about $6 million into accounts at three small banks in China's central Henan province. He says he hasn't been able to access them since April. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/u7TJod4

It wasn't too long ago when some movie fans found that the easiest and cheapest way to watch movies in a post-Blockbuster world was to rent DVDs from Redbox kiosks at the drug store and other retailers. Ahh, the early 2010's. The rise of Netflix and other streaming services pretty much killed that business though. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WCIglip

Former Trump economic official Gary Cohn is in favor of President Joe Biden lifting some Trump-era tariffs imposed on China to address high inflation. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/O1Rt8ZV

Netflix is laying off 300 employees in the midst of a rough year for the streaming giant. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/NDmgR6p

The Obamas are heading to Audible. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XIQoAM3

The record run-up in home prices and rents exacerbated the affordable housing crisis in the US, and rising interest rates stand to make it even worse, according to Harvard University's annual State of the Nation's Housing Report released Wednesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Qdc2S4W

Pro-journalist and free speech non-government organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it has evidence that Russian soldiers executed journalist Maks Levin in a forest near Kyiv on March 13. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/6fkg1sy

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is rerouting trade to "reliable international partners" such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa as the West attempts to sever economic ties. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/vQxwGgZ

Aid groups scrambled on Thursday to reach victims of a powerful earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people in an area blighted by poor infrastructure, as the country faces dire economic and hunger crises. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/6ruLzIC

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has landed in the Turkish capital, Ankara, for a first visit to the country since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/pfgURHJ

It was just over a year ago that a shared desire to oust Benjamin Netanyahu as the longest-serving Israeli prime minister united eight disparate political parties to form the most diverse coalition in Israeli history. They succeeded - but it may be short-lived. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/10C5MpY

Soaring food prices pushed British consumer price inflation to a 40-year high of 9.1% last month, the highest rate out of the Group of Seven countries and underlining the severity of the cost-of-living crunch. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wySmb2B

Some Chinese property developers are going to extreme lengths to attract buyers. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wEu94KI

Corporate America is frustrated with the Federal Reserve for waiting too long to attack inflation, according to former Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/UkzgJIH

Millions of people across India and Bangladesh have been affected by raging floods and landslides that left more than 100 people dead and entire communities devastated. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mXauHY4

Singapore has reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Southeast Asia during this year's outbreak -- while two further suspected cases of the disease have been found in South Korea. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mtFOy8J

Prince William has revealed why he swapped his royal garb for a red vendor jacket and took to the streets of London to sell The Big Issue magazine, which offers employment opportunities to people in poverty. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/6pXEMZB

The global governing body for rugby league has banned transgender women from playing in women's international matches until further notice. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/nrzFfAx

The United Kingdom has a jobs problem. There just aren't enough workers to keep its economy moving forward, and many employees are growing angry about inflation taking a large bite out of their paychecks. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/o2n6Ekv

The road to financial independence is not easy, and usually requires patience and diligence early on. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/gvqUtHx

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After days of mounting public pressure, Chinese police have finally issued an update on the investigation into a brutal restaurant attack in Tangshan -- but the statement has done little to quell public outrage, or address concerns for the victims. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/UMpfvBA

South Korea successfully launched satellites into orbit with its homegrown Nuri rocket on Tuesday, a significant step for the country's burgeoning space program after a failed attempt last year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/onDqjEC

Gustavo Petro has become Colombia's first leftist leader, after winning the country's presidential race on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/fg7DLBi

A city is rising from the waters of the Indian Ocean. In a turquoise lagoon, just 10 minutes by boat from Male, the Maldivian capital, a floating city, big enough to house 20,000 people, is being constructed. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/r8OzXBb

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has voted to approve a new policy that will restrict most transgender athletes from competing in elite women's aquatics competitions. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Cw1n3bW

Four million people have been impacted by flooding in northeastern Bangladesh, according to Dr. Enamur Rahman, the country's State Minister for the Ministry of Disaster Management. The situation could soon worsen, with heavy rain forecast in the next 24 hours. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Vzhfwnc

Today, Colombians will return to the polls to vote in the second round of the country's presidential elections. Six years after the peace deal between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) brought five decades of conflict to an end, voters will choose between two different futures for Colombia. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mCfsLWE

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the end of "the era of the unipolar world" in a combative speech that lambasted Western countries at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/jhLqmVk

When I left a Covid-ravaged Hong Kong, I was in search of a sanctuary. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/yk2L3zO

Gunmen launched an attack on a Sikh Gurdwara in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least two people, Kabul police chief spokesman Khalid Zadran said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XmZdyTo

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces espionage charges, in a decision his organization said marked a "dark day for press freedom." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3dJo9cR

A funeral mass was held on Friday for the victims of the gun attack in early June at a church in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria, a relative of two of the victims told CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3oO9XLB

Israeli police say they have concluded the investigation into police actions during the funeral procession of slain Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem last month. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/N34SA7J

The United Kingdom's central bank has hiked interest rates for a fifth time since December in a bid to tame spiraling inflation. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/vQ8UKpg

The Covid-19 pandemic was expected to turn us all into permanent online shoppers, never to set foot in physical stores again. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/UAgxDeS

US actor Kevin Spacey has made his first appearance in a London court after being charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mgb0UZ3

Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated his support for Moscow on "sovereignty and security" matters in a call with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, upholding his backing for the countries' partnership despite the global backlash against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/IbwuoD4

The European Union's embargo on 90% of the oil it imports from Russia is the toughest punishment it's inflicted on the Kremlin since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mTIycsM

The Brazilian ambassador to the UK has apologized to the family of missing journalist Dom Phillips after they were wrongly told that two bodies had been found in the search operation. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wYL8P0U

The European Central Bank has tried to calm fears of a debt crisis by promising "flexibility" in managing its huge balance sheet and accelerating work on new ways to reduce stress on heavily indebted countries like Italy and Greece as interest rates rise. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/BNKS5ol

• Live updates: Fight in eastern Ukraine 'getting harder,' says Luhansk region leader • Mayor of captured Ukrainian town switches sides • Russia is 'hemorrhaging' millionaires from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/1EmpwBO

For decades the Amur River has separated modern China and Russia -- its waters cutting though more than 1,000 of their roughly 2,500 border miles. But it's always lacked one thing: a vehicle bridge. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/j4PMI3e

After eight months of political paralysis, the kingmaker of Iraqi politics has ordered his bloc to withdraw from parliament. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/FQrUcZ4

Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn't a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali's Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide for nearly three decades, it will be the first home for migrants deported from the United Kingdom. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0NXQdOH

After eight months of political paralysis, the kingmaker of Iraqi politics has ordered his bloc to withdraw from parliament. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/fdW5rgL

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance won the first round of lower house elections on Sunday by a razor-thin margin over the left bloc of Jean-Luc Melenchon, but is likely to extend its lead in next weekend's second-round runoff. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/7dUVkNv

Authorities in India's Uttar Pradesh state have demolished the homes of several people accused of involvement in riots last week triggered by derogatory remarks made by ruling party figures about Islam's Prophet Mohammad, officials said on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ER14fjF

The world's biggest powers might have once pledged to work toward a world without nuclear weapons, but global stockpiles are expected to rise over the coming decade, according to a new report. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/OCKy379

China is urging college graduates to seek jobs in the countryside as youth unemployment in urban areas soars to the highest level in history. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/aZ2ngT6

Nine people have been arrested in China following an assault on four women in the northern city of Tangshan on Friday, local police said in a statement on Saturday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/zSWkKwd

The Swedish city of Malmö is taking dirty talk to a whole new level in its latest effort to clean up the streets. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/CTWSVk9

The bodies of seven people were found on Saturday, two days after a helicopter crashed in northern Italy. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/tIPFGbR

Clarence House said it would not comment on what it calls "supposed anonymous private conversations with The Prince of Wales" after British newspaper The Times reported that Prince Charles privately described the UK government's controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda "appalling." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/qL4YMxn

Efforts by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies to bring down the country's governing coalition risk hurting the very cause the Israeli right has always championed: Jewish settlers in the West Bank. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/SPHJTgO

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Wei Fenghe have begun meeting at a major defense summit in Singapore. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/m62gKJ4

From big gains in tech stocks to robust trade data, China has had plenty of good news on the economic front this week. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/U76JTRF

A Chinese military plane crashed in a residential area in central China on Thursday, killing at least one person, China's state-run national broadcaster CCTV said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wcE1Ii4

Officials from China and Cambodia broke ground on a controversial, Chinese-funded upgrade of a naval base in southern Cambodia on Wednesday, with Beijing's envoy in the country calling military cooperation part of the countries' "iron-clad partnership." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/TIOszhu

Chinese government-backed hackers have breached "major telecommunications companies," among a range of targets worldwide, by exploiting known software flaws in routers and other popular network networking gear, US security agencies warned Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/rSLdfNn

At least 17 people were killed and 50 more injured after a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran early Wednesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent said on Twitter. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/5Q6oVuf

China is offering its citizens cash rewards of up to and above 100,000 yuan ($15,000) for tip-offs about people who endanger national security, as authorities intensify a years-long campaign to weed out what they see as growing threats from foreign espionage and "hostile forces." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/d2CnNq4

The quality of Europe's bathing waters has improved dramatically in recent decades, and a new report released this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals that almost 85% of its bathing sites now rank as "excellent." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/FHIzMhc

Trevor Reed, the American veteran who spent nearly three years detained in Russia before being released in April in a prisoner swap, called upon legislators and the White House Monday to work faster toward freeing American basketball star Brittney Griner. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/TKnkcx8

KFC has been forced to make menu changes again in Australia, as the fast food chain is hit with shortages of key ingredients. This time it's lettuce. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WG3mlpJ

Singapore says it is facing a dengue "emergency" as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has come unusually early this year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/IEQkjO4

The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased exponentially in the past two decades as the climate crisis also accelerated rapidly, new research shows. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/AhaLQT6

You might not know that the standard for today's airline seat sizing goes all the way back to 1954. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/YEHZkCA

A church in southwestern Nigeria became the site of a bloody attack on Sunday, according to local lawmakers. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/R2EZXVl

Oil prices have roared back to about where they were in the early days of the Ukraine war, and there's no prospect of significant relief for drivers and businesses any time soon. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/DqazNVh

LeBron James is a billionaire, marking the first time an active NBA player has achieved that milestone, according to one calculation. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/nwT0v1u

Russia has spent months either driving out American tech firms or watching them leave of their own accord over its war in Ukraine. But the country now finds itself stuck in a stalemate with one big tech company: Google. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/x5m97Tj

Gas station bathrooms are the last place most people want to stop to do their business. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mYU89lt

The football pitches sat empty and silent under the cold glare of floodlights, barricaded off on all sides. Nearby, hundreds of police patrolled the grounds, stopping and searching passersby and sealing off entrances to the park. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/OeEXIJZ

China launched another manned mission to its new space station on Sunday, carrying three astronauts who will continue construction of the station for six months. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/hCBLNrg

North Korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile into the waters off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/eAL4PQ3

When Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi fled her country in 2006 due to a leaked tape, she thought her career was over. But on Saturday she became the first Iranian to win the best actress award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0tpHsYS

Multiple neighborhoods in Shanghai were placed back under lockdown only a day after city-wide restrictions were lifted, as China's stringent zero-Covid strategy continues to haunt the financial hub. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/XsVqzFY

At least three people were killed and several injured when a train derailed in southern Germany on Friday, an official from the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen told CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/CMX4Zzm

A meeting this month between President Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is looking increasingly likely after two key deals were reached on Thursday following months of diplomatic heavy lifting by the US. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/r5GK7lw

Turkey is rebranding itself. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/QfKcN46

Canadian surveillance planes helping to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea are being repeatedly buzzed by Chinese jets that fly so close their crews can see each other, Canada's military has alleged. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/laBxX7g

The administration of President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a series of restrictions on flights to Cuba imposed by his predecessor, including ending a prohibition on US airline flights to Cuban airports other than Havana. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/rYTSMRh

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