It's been four years since a committee of United Nations experts called attention to "credible reports" that more than 1 million Uyghur and other Muslim minority peoples were interned in extrajudicial camps in Xinjiang in northwestern China for "re-education" and indoctrination. Source: Latest CNN News
President Biden formally announced a student loan relief plan, offering up to $20,000 in forgiveness. Americans took to social media to share their divided responses. Source: Latest CNN News
Former Attorney General Bill Barr and his deputies concluded that then-President Donald Trump couldn't be charged with obstructing the Russia probe because there wasn't any underlying conspiracy between his campaign and Russia, breaking with special counsel Robert Mueller's views on the question, according to a newly unredacted memo released by the Justice Department. Source: Latest [...]
Six months into Russia's conflict in Ukraine, CNN's Fred Pleitgen says Putin's strategy is two-fold: insulate the Russian public from the brutality in Ukraine and outlast the West in their support. Source: Latest CNN News
President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Wednesday that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion "until the end" without "any concession or compromise", as the nation marks its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war. "We don't care what army you have, we only care about our land," Zelensky said [...]
The outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Wednesday, marking six months since Russia begun its full-scale invasion of the country which also falls on Ukraine's Independence Day. Source: Latest CNN News
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, is heading for Tunis on Thursday to attend the eighth meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8), taking place from August 27- 28. According to a press statement from State House, President Ramkalawan will join the gathering of “high-level delegations from African countries, Japan as [...]
Ukraine's Independence Day this year, which marks 31 years since the country broke with the Soviet Union, is set to be a somber affair as officials warn that Russia may carry out missile attacks against Ukrainian cities. CNN's David McKenzie reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Source: Latest CNN News
A Sri Lankan national, previously convicted before the Supreme Court of Seychelles for illegal fishing, has won his case before the Court of Appeal and been ordered to pay a reduced fine of SCR400,000 ($32,000) after the judgement for his case was delivered on August 19. The captain of a Sri Lankan-flagged vessel, Mahalingam Kanapathi, [...]
Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher and a close ally of President Putin, gave an emotional speech at a memorial service for his daughter Darya Dugina who was killed in a car bombing. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen has more. Source: Latest CNN News