AZUZ: It's been a while since we reported on the dangerous Zika virus, a disease carried by certain mosquitoes that are present all over the globe. The World Health Organization, part of the United Nations, recently ended its classification of Zika a...
AZUZ: Three world cities suffered three deadly terrorist attacks over the weekend. The first was in the Turkish city of Istanbul. On Saturday night, after a crowded soccer game, there were two explosions, one from a remote-controlled car bomb, anothe...
AZUZ: It's not the kind of record anyone wants to set. The Yahoo technology company announced this week that it suffered what's probably the largest hack ever. To make matters worse, Yahoo says the actual hack occurred in 2013, and Internet security...
Another international story we've been following concerns the secretive nation of North Korea. It's been a rival of South Korea and the U.S. since fighting stopped in the Korean War in 1953. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un has spoken out repeatedly...
This is our last program of 2016 and it starts by taking back to the war-torn city of Aleppo. It's become a major flashpoint in Syria's brutal five-year-old civil war. Hundreds of thousands have died since it started. Rebels fighting the Syrian gover...
AZUZ: The U.S. Federal Reserve has just raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point. Let's explain that. The Fed is the central bank of the United States and it can influence the U.S. economy. It wants that economy to grow but not...
First up this Thursday, the nation of Turkey. It's often characterized as a bridge between East and West, or Asia and Europe. It's home to more than 80 million people and Turkey is a nation on edge. Since July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been...
AZUZ: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet. It's like an executive board of directors, people who lead federal government departments like Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Education, Homeland Security. They closely advise t...
Our first story this December 14th baby, it's cold outside. Two-thirds of the United States, the eastern two-thirds, are seeing record-breaking winter temperatures. Some places have recorded their coldest December day ever. What means, this could be...
There've also been international hacking allegations on the Korean peninsula. South Korea recently accused North Korea of hacking into its military computer systems and then leaking the South's confidential information. It's had to stay on guard agai...
And the first story we're looking at: U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a full review of hacking related to U.S. elections going back to 2008. But a lot of the focus is going to be on the 2016 presidential election. For months, the U.S. governm...
Next in the Middle East. Aleppo used to be the most populated city in the nation of Syria. A large part of it has been abandoned and destroyed by years of civil war. Rebels who've been fighting the Syrian government currently control part of Eastern...
First up today on CNN STUDENT NEWS: the passing of an historic American. John Herschel Glenn Jr. popularly known as John Glenn died yesterday at the age of 95. A large part of his life was spent in the air. Glenn flew 149 combat missions in World War...
AZUZ: From shortly after World War II until 1991, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were the two main powers engaged in the Cold War. Now, a lot of experts and analysts have talked about the current tensions between the U.S. and Russia, which was the lar...
First story takes us to the fifth most populated country in the world, the Pacific island nation of Indonesia, home to more than 258 million people, and some of them are struggling with the devastation of another earthquake. A 6.5 magnitude quake sho...
