London CNN — As many as half a million workers are striking across Britain on Wednesday, closing schools, canceling university lectures and bringing most of the rail network to a standstill in what unions say will be the biggest single
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A radioactive capsule is missing in Australia. It’s tiny and potentially deadly | CNN Business
CNN — It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack – an 8mm by 6mm silver capsule, no bigger than a coin, believed to be lost somewhere along a stretch of vast desert highway in Australia’s biggest state. The
French workers bring Paris to a standstill in second mass strike over pension reforms | CNN Business
Paris/London CNN — French schools and transportation networks were heavily disrupted Tuesday for the second time this month, as unions staged another mass strike against government plans to raise the retirement age for most workers. Unions and opposition parties called
More than 1,000 Tuesday flights already canceled as winter weather hits the US | CNN
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Former Wagner commander describes brutality and incompetence on the frontline | CNN
Oslo, Norway CNN — A former Wagner mercenary says the brutality he witnessed in Ukraine ultimately pushed him to defect, in an exclusive CNN interview on Monday. Wagner fighters were often sent into battle with little direction, and the company’s
Is this the beginning of the end for Big Oil’s windfall? | CNN Business
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Dead chickens and decomposing bodies: Inside South Africa’s power blackout ‘pandemic’ | CNN
Johannesburg, South Africa CNN — Car crashes, opportunistic criminals, rotting food, decomposing bodies, bankrupt businesses, and water shortages. Welcome to life under South Africa’s power blackouts. Last week the grim extent of the outages was laid bare when South Africans
Cities are being cloned in the virtual world. Here’s what that means for the future | CNN
CNN — With space in our cities at a premium, and a majority of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas within the next few decades, there’s less room for trial-and-error when it comes to urban planning –
China’s economic activity expands for the first time in months as Covid ‘exit wave’ ends | CNN Business
Hong Kong CNN — Economic activity in China has expanded for the first time in four months as disruptions caused by the abrupt end of its zero-Covid policy appears to be fading. The official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for manufacturing,
Chinese province drops restrictions on unmarried people having children in bid to halt plummeting birth rate | CNN
Hong Kong CNN — China’s southwestern province of Sichuan will drop restrictions on unmarried people having children, part of a broader attempt by the government to boost the country’s plummeting birth rate. The policy shift came after China’s population shrank
