Kurdish People Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq,…
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Syrian Civil War Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Bashar al-Assad has ruled Syria as president since July 2000. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from…
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Taliban Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic…
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2008 Georgia Russia Conflict Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at the 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia. The conflict centered on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two “breakaway provinces” in Georgia. They…
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Mahmoud Abbas Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at the life of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Birth date: 1935 Birth place: Safed, Palestine Marriage: Amina Abbas Children: Three sons Mazen (died…
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Gerry Adams Fast Facts | CNN
CNN — Here’s a look at the life of Gerry Adams, former president of Sinn Fein, the leading republican political party in Northern Ireland. Birth date: October 6,…
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The fight for the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota takes center stage in the documentary ‘Lakota Nation vs. United States’ | CNN
CNN — Jesse Short Bull grew up a mile from an Indian reservation in South Dakota not realizing the ground he was stepping on was once soaked with…
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Hundreds of rockets fired at Israel amid deadly IDF airstrikes in Gaza | CNN
Gaza and Jerusalem CNN — Israel’s army and Palestinian militants exchanged heavy cross-border fire on Wednesday, with hundreds of rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel after the Israel…
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3-day Sudan ceasefire announced by US Secretary of State | CNN Politics
CNN — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced that the warring factions in Sudan agreed to a a ceasefire, “starting at midnight on April 24,…
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Sudan’s paramilitary RSF announces 72-hour ceasefire ahead of Muslim holiday | CNN
CNN — One of Sudan’s two warring factions has declared a 72-hour truce after nearly a week of fierce fighting, which has left more than 330 people dead…
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‘We left behind children in incubators:’ Witnesses describe hospital shelled in Sudan’s clashes | CNN
CNN — As fighting between warring factions has engulfed Sudan in recent days, hospitals treating people wounded in clashes have themselves become the targets for attacks, dealing the…
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CNN — For more than three days, students at the University of Khartoum have been trapped inside campus buildings as artillery and gunfire rain down around them in…
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Biden touts dividends of peace in Belfast, even as tensions persist | CNN Politics
Belfast, Northern Ireland CNN — When President Joe Biden spoke here Wednesday to mark a quarter-century of the Good Friday Agreement, it wasn’t from the seat of the…
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Biden’s trip to Ireland is part homecoming, part diplomacy and part politics | CNN Politics
Belfast, Northern Ireland CNN — When President Joe Biden was isolating with Covid in the White House last summer, atop the stack of books on his desk was…
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UK reaches its biggest trade deal since Brexit, joining trans-Pacific partnership | CNN Business
Atlanta/Hong Kong CNN — Britain has reached an agreement to join a major trans-Pacific partnership, calling it its biggest trade deal since Brexit. The country will become the…
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The heavily armed DMZ separating North and South Korea has become a wildlife haven | CNN
CNN — Between North and South Korea lies the demilitarized zone (DMZ), one of the world’s most heavily armed borders. The 160-mile stretch is barred with fences and…
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Why Colombia was forced to backtrack on a promising ceasefire announcement | CNN
CNNE — What began as a hopeful announcement of a six-month ceasefire with the National Liberation Army (ELN) and other armed groups in Colombia, has ended in a…
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Brexit has cracked Britain’s economic foundations | CNN Business
London CNN — It’s been two years since former Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed his Brexit trade deal and triumphantly declared that Britain would be “prosperous, dynamic and…
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Sudan’s Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces sign agreement intended to lay groundwork for humanitarian assistance in Sudan, say US officials | CNN Politics
CNN — The warring Sudanese parties have signed an agreement intended to lay the groundwork for humanitarian assistance to resume in Sudan, senior US State Department officials said…
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