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Brisbane, Australia — The sun was still low on the horizon when 19-year-old Piper James walked toward the Pacific Ocean for a morning swim on an island whose name in the local language means “paradise.” Within two hours, she was found dead, her body surrounded by dingoes, wild Australian native dogs that roam freely on K’gari, a national park famous for its natural beauty off the country’s eastern coast. It’s not yet clear what caused the death of the Canadian backpacker, a young woman with an adventurous spirit, who had been working on the World Heritage-listed island for several weeks,…
US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the front lines in Afghanistan. “I’ve always said, ‘Will they be there, if we ever needed them?’ And that’s really the ultimate test. And I’m not sure of that. I know that we would have been there, or we would be there, but will they be there?” Trump said Thursday in an interview with Fox News in Davos, Switzerland. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Great Escapes is a series about how sometimes travel doesn’t go as planned — and what happens next. For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow hikers were descending Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps. The wind was howling, the snow was driving hard, but they were making steady progress toward safety. Then, through the blur of white, Cris saw one of the other hikers — a British man named James — slip. “He disappeared in front of me,” Cris tells CNN Travel today. “The image I have of him…
A CNN analysis of video appears to show a federal immigration officer removing a gun from Alex Pretti just prior to officers fatally shooting him. Video shows one officer reaching into the scrum of other officers seeking to restrain Pretti and retrieving a weapon that appears to match the firearm the Department of Homeland Security says Pretti possessed. Officers can be heard shouting “he’s got a gun” when the unidentified officer reaches into Pretti’s waistband as the pile of officers try to subdue him. Just over one second after the officer emerges holding the weapon, a shot rings out, followed…
Shortly before his fatal encounter with federal immigration agents on Saturday, Alex Pretti was confronted on a Minneapolis street by an officer who was later on the scene of his shooting, video analyzed by CNN shows. That video, combined with court declarations filed by eyewitnesses, sheds new light on the moments that led up to the deadly incident. Those moments are facing heightened scrutiny amid escalating rhetoric by Trump administration officials who sought to cast Pretti as a violent agitator involved in a “riot” as federal agents carried out an immigration operation. “The suspect did bring a weapon, a loaded…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed that no one is interpreting the Trump administration’s labeling of Alex Pretti’s actions as domestic terrorism by the legal definition, despite Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying exactly that. “I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism. What we saw was a very violent altercation, and we — I am not going to prejudge the facts,” Blanche said on “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning. Yet on Saturday, Noem directly compared Pretti’s actions to the legal definition of domestic terrorism. “When you…
This article was first published in 2020 and has been updated.Lionel Messi received a hero’s welcome when he touched down in India overnight to embark on a special, weekendlong tour of the country.As part of the so-called “GOAT Tour,” the 38-year-old is visiting Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi over the course of three days, accompanied by two old friends in the shape of former Barcelona teammate Luis Suárez and Rodrigo De Paul, who played alongside Messi in Argentina’s World Cup winning side of 2022.The first stop was Kolkata, where Messi — who is fresh from captaining Inter Miami to…