(CNN)The modern age has manhandled nature like none before it ever quite has. Previous eras may not have treated it with too much respect — the Ancient Greeks stripped most of their coastline of trees by late Antiquity, the Romans deforested large chunks of North […]
Police and protesters clashed in Minneapolis on Tuesday evening following a demonstration at the intersection where George Floyd was killed in an altercation with several police officers the day before. Hundreds of protesters gathered in the city on Tuesday evening to demand justice after Floyd, who was […]
At the height of China’s coronavirus outbreak, officials made quick use of the fancy tracking devices in everybody’s pockets — their smartphones — to identify and isolate people who might be spreading the illness. Months later, China’s official statistics suggest that the worst of the epidemic […]
MADRID — A flood of new court cases, some with little precedent, is expected to deluge a Spanish judicial system already gasping for breath, bogged down by delays and lagging in technology. In a country known for its litigiousness, lawyers and judges are bracing […]
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — An oil tanker called “Fortune” has sailed into Venezuela from Iran, the first of five ships expected to arrive in a nation so starved of gasoline that the docking of a single tanker was hailed on Monday by government officials as a […]
Before China can fully recover from the devastation of the coronavirus outbreak, it needs to find people like Huang Bing a job. Ms. Huang, who graduated last year from one of China’s most prestigious drama schools, got an offer in December for her first job in […]
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