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Facebook Tweet Email Link Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. In our roundup of travel news this week: the secret tunnel city underneath Rome, China’s “8D city” where trains pass through walls, plus a new report reveals the world’s busiest flight routes, biggest aviation markets and most popular planes. Isn’t data just delicious? The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 2024 World Air Transport Statistics report, and it’s filled with fascinating nuggets. Here are a few to wow…
Facebook Tweet Email Link New York — The global gold market has been thrown into fresh turmoil after a US government agency indicated that bullion would not be exempt from tariffs. Imports of one kilo and 100-ounce gold bars are subject to reciprocal tariffs, according to a July 31 Customs and Border Protection letter reviewed by CNN. The revelation perplexed Wall Street traders, who had expected bullion to be exempt from duties. A tariff on gold would hike the cost of importing the metal into the United States, throwing a costly wrench into a global supply chain that flows between…
CNN — When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with intelligent robots and holograms. But there’s a more mundane side of Japan that you won’t find anywhere in these cyberpunk films. It involves fax machines, floppy disks and personalized ink stamps – relics that have long died out in other advanced nations but have stubbornly persisted in Japan. For everyday residents, the lag in digital technology and the ensuing bureaucracy is at best inconvenient, and…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Employees at the top US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were winding down their Friday when bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over their cubicle walls. Across the street from the CDC campus, a gunman — possibly motivated by a hatred of vaccines — had opened fire on the agency’s buildings, bringing panic to the upscale Atlanta neighborhood and the sprawling, open-access campus of Emory University that is adjacent to it. “Active shooter on Emory Atlanta Campus at Emory Point CVS. RUN, HIDE, FIGHT. Avoid the area. Continue shelter…
Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch the three-part CNN Original Series “American Prince: JFK Jr.” premiering August 9 at 9 p.m, ET/PT and running the following two Saturday nights. John F. Kennedy Jr. was born into the Kennedy political dynasty in the early 1960’s just after his father was elected president of the United States of America. Now 26 years after his death, his life is embedded into politics and culture. “JFK Jr. was harnessing his celebrity into something meaningful, and most people don’t bother to do that,” Tabitha Soren, a former MTV News correspondent, said. Here are five…
When Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Alaska next week to meet with President Donald Trump, he will be able do so with confidence that he won’t be arrested. That’s because while Putin is subject to an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued in 2023, neither Russia nor the US are signatories to the Rome Statute, which set up the court in 2002. The ICC charged that the Russian leader was “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of (children)” from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. The Kremlin labeled the court’s actions as “outrageous…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Kyiv, Ukraine — Zelensky rejects territorial concession with Russia Zelensky rejects territorial concession with Russia 1:22 World News 19 videos Zelensky rejects territorial concession with Russia Zelensky rejects territorial concession with Russia 1:22 Trump to meet with Putin in Alaska Trump to meet with Putin in Alaska 1:53 On the border between two rival gangs: CNN meets top commander deep in Ecuador’s gang territory On the border between two rival gangs: CNN meets top commander deep in Ecuador’s gang territory 3:11 Israel ‘brutally determined’ to capture Gaza in new escalation plan Israel ‘brutally determined’ to capture…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Tel Aviv — Nearly two years into the war in Gaza, the Israeli security cabinet voted for yet another military expansion: the proposed takeover of Gaza City. The plan, which was initiated and pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, arguably reveals more about his domestic political maneuvering than evidence of any well-thought-out military strategy. The plan was adopted despite the Israeli military leadership’s fierce objection and grave warnings it could both deepen the humanitarian crisis and endanger the remaining 50 hostages in Gaza., The major expansion of the war also comes against the backdrop…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Tea-tree-scented steam from her husband’s morning shower still lingered in the air when Ashley Bugge’s phone rang. Bugge was getting her two toddlers ready for a grocery store run. Six months pregnant, she moved slowly as she sifted through the jumble of keys, snacks and plastic toys in her bag to find her phone. It was an unknown number. She answered it, and everything changed. “Is this Brian’s wife?” a panicked voice asked. “There’s been an accident on the dive boat.” Her husband, Brian Bugge, was finishing a specialized scuba diving course that day near their…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Location matters, former real estate mogul US President Donald Trump said. Moments later he announced Alaska, a place sold by Russia to the United States 158 years ago for $7.2 million, would be where Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to sell his land deal of the century, getting Kyiv to hand over chunks of land he’s not yet been able to occupy. The conditions around Friday’s summit so wildly favor Moscow, it is obvious why Putin leapt at the chance, after months of fake negotiation, and it is hard to see how a deal emerges from…