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It took just 24 hours for Iraq's most powerful man to showcase his might on the streets of Baghdad on Monday, in what turned out to be one of the capital's most violent episodes in years. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/pzhRd3m

After a period of angst, Americans appear to be feeling a bit better about the economy. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/dwmCyHY

It may have started in an era of technological progress, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine shares a surprising number of similarities with conflicts from the last century. Defense expert Professor Malcolm Chalmers explains how the features of the war in Ukraine resemble tactics used in previous military conflicts. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WG6i2Ko

The countdown to Xi Jinping's expected coronation has officially started. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/R1QIrsD

The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards got underway Sunday evening, with stars including Lizzo and Blackpink stepping out onto the red carpet for the big night. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0LtNDAR

Chinese markets declined on Wednesday as global investors continue to deal with the aftermath of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's hawkish speech at Jackson Hole last week, and the alarming spread of Covid in China. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/uJpfGag

Gautam Adani was already Asia's richest man. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/QKFWzns

The Solomon Islands has suspended entry into its waters for foreign navy ships pending adoption of a new process for approval of port visits, the Prime Minister's office said on Tuesday, in a bid to better police its exclusive economic zones. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/g06AWzb

Police in China have arrested 234 suspects allegedly involved in a rural banking scandal, a month after hundreds of depositors protested over their lost savings in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the pandemic began. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/iNLTwE3

More than a decade after Japan's worst nuclear disaster, the town that hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant finally lifted its evacuation order on Tuesday, allowing former residents to come home. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ZcvmtuN

A Miss England finalist has become the first ever beauty queen to compete without wearing any makeup in the pageant's nearly century-long history. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wN8Sn9r

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his main election rival and and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva traded insults Sunday during a charged election debate which also saw Bolsonaro launching a deeply personal attack on a journalist who questioned his response to the coronavirus pandemic. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/m9yTdnj

Few companies flourished more amid the pandemic's economic upheaval than Peloton. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/aFuCTG8

The Wendy's mascot has a new hairdo on its Canadian social media sites -- all in support of one of the nation's veteran journalists. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ruzq1xy

Dig out your old baseball cards. They might just be worth eight figures at auction. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/U0J1Riv

The Artemis I launch has been scrubbed after the team was unable to work through an issue on one of the rocket's four engines. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/5RJcZPx

Chinese authorities have charged 28 people and detained eight police officials following a brutal assault on a group of women earlier this summer that shocked the country and provoked widespread anger. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wVc9Nrq

When it comes to fashion, street style has as much cachet as runway style -- in fact, there are dozens of blogs and Instagram accounts dedicated to chronicling the best streetwear looks. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/iHltbI2

For weeks now, a power crunch caused by a record heat wave and accompanying drought has wreaked havoc across Sichuan, a province home to 80 million people in southwestern China. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/cszX1Jh

Police fired tear gas in the Argentine capital Saturday, as they clashed with supporters of vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, days after prosecutors sought a 12-year prison sentence against her for alleged corruption. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Qe1wa4K

When Singapore announced this week it would end a colonial-era law that criminalized sex between men, it looked like a big victory for gay rights advocates in the Southeast Asian country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/GS4AeZm

At least 23 people have died and 140 injured in violent clashes between rival Libyan militias across the country's capital of Tripoli, the Libyan Ministry of Health said Saturday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/B2O3Kd8

For more than 30 years, British veteran James Grundy made an annual 5,500-mile journey to South Korea, to visit the graves of bodies he had recovered as a young man thrust into war. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/47o5Hgw

If you've been thinking every American you know is in Europe this summer (or headed there this fall), you might be right. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/tgYxTFC

British energy bills will rise 80% to an average of £3,549 ($4,188) a year from October, regulator Ofgem said on Friday, calling it a "crisis" that needed to be tackled by urgent and decisive government action. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/yv2slBx

An image of Mark Zuckerberg's blocky, dead-eyed visage taken from his Metaverse avatar has become something of a reality check for anyone betting on the future of virtual reality. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/lPOQYuv

NASA and Boeing are now targeting early 2023 for the first crewed flight of Boeing's long-delayed Starliner spacecraft, officials said during a joint press conference Thursday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/SWvXdQY

A United States Coast Guard vessel was unable to enter Solomon Islands for a routine port call because the Solomon Islands government did not respond to a request for it to refuel and provision, a US official said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/lH9fIiF

Oscar-winning actor Nicole Kidman caught the Internet's attention this week with a new shoot for Perfect Magazine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/LofNBMi

People on the frontlines of Europe's gas crisis are scrambling to get solar panels for their homes and businesses as they confront a "perfect storm" that's sending energy prices to record levels. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/cEXA13o

The United Kingdom will have to find an answer to soaring energy bills soon or risk a humanitarian crisis. But freezing gas and electricity prices over the next two winters could cost the government over £100 billion ($118 billion), more than it spent paying millions of people's salaries during the pandemic. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/06qabko

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in late February, investors were as shocked as much of the rest of the world. They rushed to digest the consequences, as the war disrupted supply chains and triggered unprecedented Western sanctions, straining a global economy already under pressure. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/OvyHprF

Bubbling cauldrons of noodle soup, flaky flatbreads, kaleidoscopic desserts -- when it comes to street food, Asia delivers big on variety and flavor. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/yXWt9TH

President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria on Tuesday, a little over a week after a number of rockets struck near a military base in northeastern Syria housing US troops. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/HQPNAVk

The United States will turn over to Nigeria $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha, officials said at an event to sign the agreement on Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/cWws5ha

Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria's oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/oyw83x4

Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty Danube River to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War II near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo. CNN's Michael Holmes reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/FBDGAOU

Flash flooding has killed at least 95 people, injured hundreds of others and swept away thousands of homes in Afghanistan, authorities in the crisis-hit country said Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/oeL8g5M

An independent inquiry will be held into the secret ministerial roles adopted by former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison before he was voted out of office three months ago. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/uwvgH8V

Scientist Luiz Rocha has identified more than 30 new fish species in his exploration of deep coral reef ecosystems. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/0vsaHmS

Carmine Cupani wanted to set the record straight. So he asked his young son to stand in the path of his Tesla as it sped through a parking lot. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/N7r0mak

Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg tied the knot with businessman Tom Bernthal over the weekend. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/PWaYu3F

CNN's David McKenzie joins a disposal team who slowly and carefully crawls every inch of ground to locate and remove live ammunition and ordinance littered throughout Ukraine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Yes8n2P

China's coal imports from Russia jumped 14% in July from a year earlier to their highest in at least five years, as China bought discounted coal while Western countries shunned Russian cargoes over its invasion of Ukraine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wSG4yqD

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the country will repeal the colonial-era Section 377A of Singapore's Penal Code, thereby decriminalizing gay sex in Singapore, but added that same-sex marriage will continue to be illegal in the city-state. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ZHrjWCU

It's the home of notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, and the origin of legendary Santa Marta Gold -- once the most sought-after varieties of weed in the United States -- named after Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/U6qMxwK

North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring victory over Covid-19, Chinese trade figures show. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/HeLI4CW

A court in Mexico on Friday ordered the arrest warrants of 83 people allegedly involved in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mahGvs7

Some 27 ships loaded with grain have left Ukraine's Black Sea ports since August 1 under an export deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, which has laid "the groundwork for a permanent peace environment," Turkey's Defense Minister said in a speech on Saturday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/eBX5kA1

Two pilots are believed to have fallen asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia on Monday, according to a report by commercial aviation news site Aviation Herald. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/vEd8hUc

Climbers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their ascents in real-time on Instagram, following a recent move by Tanzanian authorities to install high-speed internet around the mountain's slopes. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/zwFpAc6

A judge in southern India has ruled a woman wore "provocative" clothing, effectively dismissing her sexual assault complaint, causing public outcry in the country, where violence against women and girls make frequent headlines. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/O7LKNfz

A growing number of US citizens are being detained in Venezuela -- and though exactly how many is unknown, the detentions could give authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro leverage in frosty relations with Washington. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/s3yawC7

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken for the first time since he lost the election saying his coalition "totally and without reservations reject the presidential results" in a televised address on Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/JOfVWHA

At least 18 children were among the dozens of people known to have died after a fire broke out at a church in Giza's Imbaba neighborhood in greater Cairo on Sunday, according to hospital documents seen by CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3LO0Pqw

Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, sometimes called "India's Warren Buffett," died Sunday at age 62, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/k3QvXHo

Every day Olga is bused from her home in the Russian-occupied town of Enerhodar, on the banks of the Dnipro River in southeastern Ukraine, to the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant where she works. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/SwoCiUv

Messages of outrage and support are pouring in from all corners of the globe after writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed at an upstate New York venue where he was due to speak Friday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WUpFOEb

One person died Saturday and 17 have been injured, three of them seriously, after a stage collapsed at a music festival near Valencia, Spain, according to local officials. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ikBat3Z

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Britons are bracing themselves for more tough times ahead as the economy starts to shrink and a new forecast suggests average annual energy bills could exceed £5,000 ($6,000) next year. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/MLjSHk8

Large swaths of England have officially descended into drought, authorities announced Friday, following several months of low rainfall and relentless waves of extreme heat. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/3naNb8V

New York officials have returned 30 cultural artifacts to Cambodia, including a 10th-century Khmer sculptural "masterpiece," after the items were illegally sold to private collectors and a US museum. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/1Fy7hLj

An armed man is holding employees and customers hostage at a bank in Beirut's bustling Hamra street Thursday demanding his frozen funds be released, according to a security source and Lebanon's state-owned National News Agency. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/YSX2VTG

Disney+ just got more expensive. Unless you're willing to watch ads. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/AODr3UW

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel tells CNN Business his company wants to develop and continuously update a yearly single-dose vaccine that can cover the flu, Covid-19, and other respiratory illnesses. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/AJTkuvM

Rents in Manhattan have hit a record high for the sixth month in a row. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/9Z75ovV

Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy opened up about her childhood abuse in an exclusive interview with ABC's "Good Morning America." The "iCarly" co-star released a new memoir titled, "I'm Glad My Mom Died." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/HUL4b1n

Eight police officers were killed during violent anti-government protests in Sierra Leone on Wednesday, the country's youth minister told CNN on Thursday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/xNnX6vJ

Paris, Rome, Barcelona... Europe's cities are bucket list destinations, and rightly so. But the continent's small towns are a dream, too, with all the beautiful architecture and much of the culture you'll find in the big hitters, only with fewer crowds to share them with. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/mMEy8Gq

A Brazilian Judge has ordered that German Consul Uwe Herbert Hahn should be held in custody in connection with the alleged murder of his husband in Rio de Janeiro -- denying defense claims of diplomatic immunity, according to CNN Brasil. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/eFcPv8u

Three Palestinian men were killed during an Israeli military operation against suspected militants in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, according to information from the Palestinian health ministry. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/FzBHnvM

Chile will seek to apply harsh sanctions on those responsible for a huge sinkhole near a copper mine in the country's north, the mining minister said on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/qCxXwuc

It's been over 10 years since Kenya set a constitutional requirement of having at least one-third female members of parliament. Long after the deadline, Kenya still has the lowest number of elected women in East Africa. CNN's Larry Madowo speaks with the women running to change that. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/QbvXdI7

Australia all-rounder Tahlia McGrath was allowed to play in the gold medal win over India in the Commonwealth Games women's T20 cricket final on Sunday despite testing positive for Covid-19 only hours before the toss. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/Bcz1Omu

As we enter August, there is one definitive accessory making summer headlines: an enviable set of sculpted abs. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/tkxK97U

Israel says an agreement to restore a ceasefire for Gaza will come into effect at 11:30 p.m. local time (4:30 p.m. ET), following up a similar announcement from Islamic Jihad a short while earlier. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/dL27JYu

Hundreds of Haitian and Cuban migrants using 16 different vessels were taken into custody after making landfall or reaching the US coast off Florida from Friday to Saturday, US Customs and Border Patrol said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/gPHVu6c

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured the Philippines on Saturday that the United States would come to its defense if attacked in the South China Sea, seeking to allay concerns about the extent of the US commitment to a mutual defense treaty. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/We7CBfd

Yemen's warring parties have renewed a two-month-long truce, first signed in April this year. It was one of the first concrete steps taken towards peace in years and a genuine moment for celebration. But for thousands of families, time is running out. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/MD1hin2

Taiwan says it detected "multiple" Chinese aircraft and naval vessels taking part in military drills around the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, in what could be a possible simulated attack against the island. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/oSWMaT5

Air conditioners haven't evolved much in recent decades. Windmill co-founder Mike Mayer wants to make them more high-tech and eco-friendly. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/WhSX3cf

The world's oil-exporting countries have agreed to a tiny increase in output next month amid fears that a global recession will crimp demand. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/PfWYAn7

The first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine since Russia's invasion has passed though a high-stakes inspection in Istanbul. The shipment was inspected to ensure the sole transportation of goods approved under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. CNN's Nada Bashir reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/ut4n7yY

Central bankers in the United Kingdom have announced the biggest increase in interest rates in 27 years, as spiraling inflation continues to cripple millions of households' finances. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/lQrG5qu

Buyers from all around the world have been snapping up dilapidated Italian homes at rock bottom prices over the past few years as numerous depopulated towns and villages attempt to revive their dwindling communities by offering property bargains. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/qzvcVCM

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Two years after then-President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States through an executive order, the short-form video platform is once again under scrutiny in Washington. And the underlying issue remains largely the same: TikTok's ties to China through its parent company, Bytedance. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/uWSFKPA

The latest image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Cartwheel galaxy, a ring galaxy located 500 million light-years away that formed when a large spiral galaxy and a small galaxy violently collided. CNN's Kristin Fisher reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/FZeLydH

UK energy giant BP reported its biggest quarterly profit in 14 years on Tuesday — a development that's likely to stir anxieties around eye-watering energy bills that have driven a cost of living crisis in the country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/vqKg89h

A Canadian candy company is offering a very sweet gig. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/wmD5keF

If there's one thing the pandemic taught us all, it's that work really stinks whether we're doing it from the office or from home. (OK, that and the fact we have all lost our collective minds and we can politicize literally anything, including a global public health crisis.) from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/nF1DQR5

With private travel demand on the rise in Africa, young airlines across Senegal and Nigeria are looking to capitalize. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/9h4iQnv

The 10-mile-long island of Schiermonnikoog is known as one of the most beautiful places in the Netherlands, boasting the widest beach in Europe, 300 different species of birds and a bustling tourist trade. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/zxaEtUK

Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid made a rare allusion to the country's widely suspected nuclear arsenal during a speech on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/DHQgnr9

The killing of a Nigerian man in broad daylight on the streets of an Italian seaside town while onlookers watched has sparked outcry and renewed a conversation about racism and crimes against migrants in the country ahead of elections next month. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/J1whHEy

Actor Will Smith apologized to Chris Rock months after Smith hit Rock at the Academy Awards. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/TBSQAwR

Soldiers returning from leave to a United Nations intervention brigade in Democratic Republic of Congo opened fire at a border post, killing at least two people and injuring 15 others, Congo's government and the UN peacekeeping force said on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/uSDo3MR

Kosovo's government on Monday began issuing extra documents to Serbian citizens crossing into its territory, as Serbs living in the north of the country who oppose the decision blockaded roads leading to two border crossings. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - World https://ift.tt/eWQm4pV