Chinese savers stashed away $2.6 trillion last year but property crash will cool ‘revenge spending’ | CNN Business
Hong Kong CNN — Even for a famously frugal nation, Chinese people saved a lot last year. Stuck at home...
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South Africa is in the midst of crisis. So why did its government want to spend a reported $58 million on sponsoring a UK soccer club? | CNN
CNN — When plans for the South African government’s tourism board to sponsor English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur were...
Global ransomware campaign has US and European officials on alert | CNN Politics
Washington CNN — A new global ransomware campaign has hit at least 3,800 victims, including hundreds in the US, according...
Foxconn January sales hit record high after production restored at world’s biggest iPhone factory | CNN Business
Hong Kong CNN — Apple supplier Foxconn says its January monthly sales hit a record high as it bounced back...
The world is creating more single-use plastic waste than ever, report finds | CNN Business
Brisbane, Australia CNN — The world is producing a record amount of single-use plastic waste, mostly made from polymers created...
US, EU, G7 and Australia announce new price cap on Russian petroleum products | CNN Politics
CNN — The US and allies are trying to further limit Russia’s ability to make money and finance its war...
There’s a sense that another turning point is approaching in Russia’s war in Ukraine | CNN Politics
CNN — Russia’s mass mobilization, looming offensive and missile-borne terror against civilians is triggering fresh calls for even greater Western...
‘It turned bad in an instant’: CNN crew has close call in Ukraine as Russian missiles pummel their location | CNN Business
CNN — CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen and his team were traveling on Thursday to the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk to...
Blinken under pressure to push China on role in lethal fentanyl trade when he visits Beijing | CNN Politics
CNN — Members of Congress are urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to pressure China to do more to curb...
A first generation iPhone going up for auction hopes to fetch $50,000 | CNN Business
New York CNN — An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 is hitting the auction block Thursday – with an estimated...
How do you lose a radioactive capsule? Australian investigators are wondering too | CNN Business
Brisbane, Australia CNN — The discovery of a tiny lost radioactive capsule beside a remote highway in Western Australia raises...
Blackouts and soaring prices: Pakistan’s economy is on the brink | CNN Business
Islamabad/London CNN — Muhammad Radaqat, a 27-year-old greengrocer, is worried. He doesn’t know how much an onion will cost next...
The people who live inside airplanes | CNN
CNN — After losing her house to a fire, Jo Ann Ussery had a peculiar idea: to live in an...
Israel targets Gaza with airstrikes after intercepting rocket attack | CNN
CNN — Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza early on Thursday after intercepting a rocket attack from the coastal enclave,...
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...
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...
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...
Blinken visit reaches new urgency as Israeli, Palestinian tensions boil | CNN
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside...
Here’s why you should always wait for the earnings call | CNN Business
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Drones attack military plant in Iran, Tehran says | CNN
CNN — Drones attacked a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, Tehran said on Sunday. “An explosion has...
