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Aug 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Why many beauty brands are still offering to 'whiten' people's skin: cnn.it/3SBbuJM
Major skincare manufacturers pledged to revise their branding and product lines. L'Oreal, Nivea and Unilever promised to remove words like “whitening” and “fair.”
Apr 2, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
CNN has investigated a gruesome video appearing to show Ethiopian soldiers carrying out extrajudicial executions of unarmed men in Tigray, Ethiopia. This is what we found: cnn.it/39DgIQp
The footage was initially broadcast in early March by Tigrai Media House (TMH), a pro-Tigray TV channel based in the US.
TMH told CNN it was sent to them by a soldier turned whistleblower involved in the mass killing. cnn.it/39DgIQpcnn
Dec 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Billions of tons of carbon are locked away in environments that are being destroyed.
If we protect them, they can help tackle climate change. If we lose them, the impact on the planet could be devastating: cnn.it/2Wwqvkl
Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves, peatlands and boreal forests have helped cool the Earth for thousands of years.
By absorbing billions of tons of carbon in their soil and vegetation, they protect us from the worst effects of global warming: cnn.it/2Wx0zFg
Jul 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: US President Trump has commuted the 40-month prison sentence of his friend and former political adviser, Roger Stone, that was due to start next week for lying to Congress and other crimes cnn.it/3fjCyt4
US President Trump commuted the prison sentence of his friend and former political adviser, Roger Stone, days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison in Georgia, according to the White House.
Most Black people's views of race and racism in the UK are profoundly different from those of White people, according to a sweeping and exclusive new CNN/Savanta ComRes poll. cnn.it/2Z03ruX
It confirmed what many Black Britons have always known about living in Britain: That White people have no idea how racist it is. cnn.it/3hKdD3z
May 22, 2020 • 15 tweets • 10 min read
As the world wrestles with a global pandemic, China has proposed a controversial national security law, which goes beyond anything Beijing has tried before with Hong Kong. Could this be the end of Hong Kong as we know it? @jgriffiths explains. cnn.it/3bVDEsz@jgriffiths As well as criminalizing "treason, secession, sedition (and) subversion" against central power, the law will allow Chinese national security services to work in the city "to fulfill relevant duties to safeguard national security in accordance with the law" cnn.it/2zl9G3R
Dec 11, 2019 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
As the UK braces for a general election, CNN visited a street named London Road in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and found a nation divided and worried about what Brexit has done to the union three years after the UK voted to leave the EU. cnn.it/347FRxa
Four separate countries make up the UK.
CNN traveled to each one, meeting voters in Belfast, Glasgow, Holyhead and Sheffield -- cities and towns where many feel disconnected from the British capital London and anxious about the future.
Luk Delft is a convicted pedophile. He’s also a Catholic priest. But he hasn’t been defrocked. Instead, he was appointed director of a charity that works directly with vulnerable children and families. cnn.it/34cboPe
The Salesians -- Delft's religious order specifically devoted to protecting children -- knew about his offenses. For years, they covered up his abuse, moving him from post to post: cnn.it/34cboPe
Mar 26, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
JUST IN: Europe just approved sweeping new copyright laws, a huge blow to major tech companies that argued the changes will be costly and limit free expression cnn.it/2FALx9M
The changes make platforms like YouTube responsible for copyright infringements committed by their users.
Sites like Google News could also be required to pay publishers for using snippets of their content. cnn.it/2FALx9M