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Facebook Tweet Email Link Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a bogus embassy from a rented residential building near the capital, New Delhi, and recovered cars with fake diplomatic plates. The suspect impersonated an ambassador and allegedly duped people for money by promising overseas employment, said senior police officer Sushil Ghule of Uttar Pradesh state’s special task force in northern India. According to police, Harshvardhan Jain, 47, claimed to have acted as an adviser or ambassador to entities such as “Seborga” or “Westarctica.” Police recovered multiple doctored photographs showing Jain with world leaders, and fake seals of…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Bangkok, Thailand / Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Thailand and Cambodia exchanged fire along their disputed border for a second day on Friday, officials from both countries said, with more than a dozen people reported killed and more than 135,000 civilians evacuated. Tensions between the Southeast Asian neighbors have been boiling for months over disputed sections of their 500-mile (800-kilometer) land border, demarcated partly by Cambodia’s former colonial ruler France, and which runs near several archaeologically significant religious sites that both countries claim. Clashes broke out at 4:30 a.m. local time on Friday after Cambodia initiated firing,…
Facebook Tweet Email Link They were the worst 125 days of his life: locked up in a foreign prison, allegedly subjected to torture, never knowing when or even if he would ever get out. Jerce Reyes said he, along with 251 other Venezuelan migrants, felt like the “living dead” inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement. They had been deported there from the US after being accused of gang involvement – a claim that Reyes and many others deny. Reyes described his four-month detention in Cecot as agonizing, saying detainees were frequently beaten by guards, couldn’t communicate with their families,…
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. (CNN) – In our latest roundup of travel news: a new unwelcome American visa fee, how airlines fight the “scourge” of excess baggage, plus a guide to packing everything you need in a backpack. Michael O’Leary, the famously outspoken CEO of Europe’s biggest airline, Ryanair, confirmed Monday that its agents who identify and charge for oversize bags get a bonus of around 1.50 euro a bag (or $1.75). The airline…
Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action. CNN — A flock of roseate spoonbills flies overhead as a shark hunts mullet below. The water of Florida’s Everglades wetlands is turquoise and calm. But the serene image tells a bigger story, of the bright pink spoonbills that are becoming increasingly rare due in part to sea level rise and the loss of…
Facebook Tweet Email Link (CNN) — The 50-foot sailboat bashed against huge Pacific waves as it beat a course upwind. The few cruise ships that were visible on the horizon soon disappeared, and seasickness set in, leaving a few among the crew doubled over with each crest and trough. The boat slammed down so violently at one point that the microwave door in the galley snapped off. For those who still had an appetite, their chili dinner would be served cold. The group of friends sailing the boat, who were all in their mid-20s, were a long way from their…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Venice — The abandoned Venetian island of Poveglia — site of a plague pit and former asylum — is about to take on a happier new identity. On August 1, a group of Venetians will take possession of the supposedly haunted island under a 99-year lease from the Italian state and embark on a project to turn it into an urban park open only to residents of the Italian city. The locals fought off stiff competition from property developers to ensure Poveglia remained a public asset. In 2014, the island, which is around 7.5 hectares (18.5…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Kyiv, Ukraine — The death toll from Russia’s heavy bombardment of Ukraine’s capital this week has risen to 31 people, marking the deadliest single attack on Kyiv in a year, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. The vast majority were killed in a single strike on an apartment block. Rescue workers have now recovered the bodies of at least 28 people from the destroyed apartment block, including five children, the State Emergency Service (SES) told CNN. At least 159 people were also wounded in the blast. “This is the highest number of injured children in one night…
Facebook Tweet Email Link HARARE, Zimbabwe AP — The killing of a collared lion involved in a research project in Zimbabwe by a trophy hunter has been condemned by wildlife groups, echoing the infamous case of a lion called Cecil whose death at the hands of an American tourist in the same country a decade ago was met with international outrage. The latest lion, known as Blondie, was part of an Oxford University study and wore a research collar sponsored by Africa Geographic, a safari company. Africa Geographic said Blondie was killed by a hunter in June close to the…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Steve Witkoff, the United States’ special envoy to the Middle East, on Friday visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza, one of three such locations near which hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks trying to reach scarce food supplies. Witkoff said he spent five hours in Gaza on Friday to better understand the humanitarian situation in the enclave and to relay it to Donald Trump. The US president said earlier this week that there was “real starvation” in Gaza, contradicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims. “I spoke to Steve Witkoff.…