Mexico City CNN — Last month, as the Biden administration scrambled to manage the latest wave of migrants overwhelming the US southern border, top US immigration authorities crossed into Mexico for an emergency meeting. Seated around a Ciudad Juárez conference room, the officials and their Mexican counterparts drafted a 15-point plan to help defuse the…
CNN — Here is a look at the life of France’s President Emmanuel Macron. Birth date: December 21, 1977 Birth place: Amiens, France Birth name: Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron Father: Jean-Michel Macron, professor of neurology Mother: Françoise Noguès-Macron, physician Marriage: Brigitte (Trogneux) Macron (2007-present) Education: Université Paris Nanterre; Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po”);…
Editor’s Note: Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in 2015. CNN — Here is a look at the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded 494. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six locations across the city. ISIS claimed responsibility for the…
CNN — The governing party called it a ceremonial passing of the baton. But the opposition lambasted it as a “passing of the scepter.” Constitutionally barred from running for reelection, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sought to show last month, in a very public way, that presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum has his blessing. So…
The covered bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes are seen at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza on December 25. Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg/Getty Images A British surgeon who led an emergency medical team at the Al Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza said the situation at the hospital in the past two weeks has been “beyond…
CNN — Here’s a look at the life of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Birth date: October 21, 1949 Birth place: Tel Aviv, Israel Birth name: Binyamin Netanyahu Father: Benzion Netanyahu, a historian Mother: Cela (Segal) Netanyahu Marriages: Sara Ben-Artzi (1991-present); Fleur Cates (1981-1988, divorced); Miriam Haran (divorced) Children: with Sara Ben-Artzi: Avner and Yair;…
CNN — The United Nations Security Council has greenlit the deployment of an armed multinational force to Haiti, as the Caribbean nation wrestles with rampant gang violence and political paralysis. The decision follows repeated calls for military assistance by Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the United States have…
CNN — Here is a look at Russian opposition leader, Kremlin critic and activist Alexey Navalny. Birth date: June 4, 1976 Birth place: Butyn, Soviet Union Birth name: Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny (sometimes spelled Alexei, Aleksei) Father: Anatoly Navalny, former military officer and basket-weaving factory owner Mother: Lyudmila Navalnaya, basket-weaving factory owner Marriage: Yulia (Abrosimova) Navalnaya…
CNN — At least 11 people were killed and two people seriously injured on Sunday after the roof of a church in northern Mexico collapsed, officials said. Preliminary reports indicate that about 100 people were inside the building in Ciudad Madero at the time of the incident, according to a statement from security services in…
CNN — Two people are dead after a suspected grizzly bear attack in Canada’s Banff National Park, officials said. Rescuers were first alerted to the incident around 8 p.m. Friday after receiving “an alert from an inReach/GPS device indicating a bear attack,” the national park said in a statement. The alert said the incident happened…
