Aid reaches bakery in Gaza after 11 weeks
Aid reaches bakery in Gaza after 11 weeks
CNN goes inside a bakery as humanitarian aid finally reaches Gaza for the first time in weeks. This week Israel lifted an 11-week blockade on Gaza, it says was imposed to force Hamas to release all remaining hostages and to bring about a ceasefire. The UN warns that Gaza's population of over 2.1 million people is at risk of famine.
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Mexican politician gunned down at event
An attack on a political event in Mexico, where a mayoral candidate and three others were killed, is the latest in an uptick in political violence in the country.
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Former US Ambassador to Ukraine explains why she resigned
Bridget Brink, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour she resigned from her position because of the Trump administration's actions towards Russia.
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Vice President Vance meets Pope Leo XIV
On May 19, Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Here, Vance passed on a letter from President Donald Trump, inviting the pope to the White House.
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Dior to pay $2M to help labor abuse victims
Dior has agreed a number of remedies to settle an Italian competition authority investigation into whether the luxury brand and two of its units misled consumers with their statements about working conditions at its suppliers. CNN's Max Foster reports.
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Israeli strikes hit last hospital in Gaza's north
Israel launched intense air and ground campaigns that health officials say killed hundreds over the last few days and shuttered the last functioning hospital in the enclave's north. The Israeli military's ground operation in northern and southern Gaza comes as international mediators push for progress in ceasefire talks.
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Daylight shows extent of damage to Mexican Navy ship
The Mexican Navy training ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday was moving in the 'wrong direction,' according to a senior city official. CNN's Gloria Pazmino, reports from the East River where daylight shows the extent of the damage.
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Watch Pope Leo XIV's inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square
Pope Leo XIV called for a 'united Church' in his inauguration homily from St. Peter's Square where approximately 100,000 people had gathered at the start of the Mass, according to authorities.
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Here are the deals Trump signed during his Middle East trip
CNN's Betsy Klein breaks down the deals that President Donald Trump has brokered during his three-day trip to the Middle East.
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Cat caught smuggling drugs into prison
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Seoul's biggest fish market
CNN Travel's Lilit Marcus tastes her way through the many rows of Seoul's Noryangjin Fish Market, famous for its hundreds of vendors and its wide variety of fresh fish and live seafood.
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Zelensky says Putin was 'afraid' for talks
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Baby orangutans rescued in Thailand
A man suspected of trafficking two infant orangutans has been arrested in Thailand, according to local authorities. Police conducted the raid as the suspect was about to hand over the infant primates to a customer at a Bangkok gas station.
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Fareed points out Trump's 'strange double standard'
CNN's Fareed Zakaria explains why he thinks President Donald Trump's new foreign policy doctrine has a 'strange double standard.'
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Kremlin gambles with Trump's wrath over Ukraine
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh analyzes the power dynamics and explains how Russia is driving the schedule in these latest negotiations.
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What is femicide and what's behind the rise in incidents?
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TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream in Mexico
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Qatari PM defends offering plane to President Trump
In an interview with CNN's Becky Anderson, Qatari Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani downplayed the significance of the luxury jet gifted to President Donald Trump, saying it was a "very simple government to government dealing."
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Zelensky warns 'no time for playing games'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will head to Turkey and wait for Russian President Vladimir Putin for potential ceasefire talks; but he set some minimal goals for the meeting. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
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The roster of MIT students he taught and advised included Ben S. Bernanke, who would go on to become Fed chair and called Fischer his mentor; Mario Draghi, a future European Central Bank president and prime minister of Italy; Lawrence Summers, who would serve as US Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton; Greg Mankiw, who would lead President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers; Kazuo Ueda, named Bank of Japan governor in 2023; and two IMF chief economists, Olivier Blanchard and Maurice Obstfeld. Countless other college undergraduates were introduced to the dismal science by Macroeconomics, the textbook Fischer wrote in 1978 with his MIT colleague, Rudi Dornbusch. The 13th edition of the book was published in 2018. 'It is hard to think of any other macroeconomist alive who has had as much direct and indirect influence, through his own research, his students, and his policy decisions, on macroeconomic policy around the world,' Blanchard wrote of Fischer in 2023. Fischer and Blanchard co-authored Lectures on Macroeconomics, published in 1989. Dispatched on several occasions to extinguish economic emergencies around the world, Fischer drew academic lessons from his first-hand experience with countries in crisis. The pattern began in 1983, when George Shultz, then the US secretary of state, invited Fischer to serve on a joint US-Israeli team of experts helping Israel reverse a prolonged period of weak growth, triple-digit inflation and falling foreign exchange reserves. Their work resulted, in 1985, in an economic stabilization program combining a large reduction in government subsidies with the fixing of the exchange rate, a tightening of monetary policy, and wage and price controls — followed, crucially, by the US supplying a $1.5 billion two-year aid package. That was a prelude to Fischer's tenure as the No. 2 official at the IMF, the lender of last resort to countries in economic peril. Starting in 1994, Fischer traveled the globe to help resolve interrelated financial crises in Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. His role meant he often overshadowed his boss, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus. But years later, Fischer credited Camdessus with keeping a sense of calm following the collapse of the Mexican peso in 1994, the first IMF crisis Fischer faced. 'I thought Western civilization as we knew it was coming to an end,' but Camdessus 'had seen this particular play before,' Fischer recalled. The IMF provided about $250 billion in emergency loans during Fischer's seven years as first deputy managing director, ending in 2001. To accept Israel's 2005 offer to head its central bank, Fischer, an American citizen since 1976, added Israeli citizenship. He conducted business in Hebrew, with an accent that indicated his upbringing in southern Africa. Under his leadership, Israel's central bank was the first to cut rates in 2008 at the start of the global economic crisis, and the first to raise rates the following year in response to signs of financial recovery. In 2011, responding to a global downturn, the bank embarked on a series of rate cuts that pushed the benchmark from 3.25% to a record low 0.1% in 2015. Major changes enacted by Fischer during his eight-year tenure included shifting responsibility for the monthly interest-rate decision from the governor alone to a six-member Monetary Committee, including three outside academics. 'It is testament to Stan's skillful handling of Israel's economy that it is one of the very few advanced economies whose output increased every year through the crisis period,' former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said in 2013. President Barack Obama appointed Fischer as vice chairman of the Fed Board of Governors under Janet Yellen. Fischer announced his retirement in 2017, a year before his four-year term was to end. He joined BlackRock Inc. as an adviser in 2019. Fischer was born on Oct. 15, 1943, in Mazabuka, a town in Zambia, the nation then known as Northern Rhodesia. His family was part of a close-knit community of Jews who had emigrated to southern Africa. His Latvian-born father, Philip, ran a general store. His mother, Ann, had been born in Cape Town, the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, according to a Financial Times profile. At 13, the family moved to Zimbabwe, then called Southern Rhodesia, where Stanley became active in the Habonim, a Zionist youth group, along with Rhoda Keet, his future wife. In the early 1960s, he spent six months on a kibbutz on Israel's Mediterranean coastal plain, where he combined learning Hebrew with picking and planting bananas. He was introduced to economics through a course in his senior year in high school and moved to the UK to study at the London School of Economics, earning a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's in 1966. He chose MIT for his doctorate work so that he could study under future Nobel laureate economists Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow. He said he may have been drawn to macroeconomics 'because I was interested in big questions.' 'I had this image of the world as we knew it having nearly collapsed in the 1930s, and that these guys' — the macroeconomists — 'had saved it,' he said in a 2005 interview with Blanchard. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1969, worked as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, then returned to MIT in 1973 as an associate professor. The first course he taught was monetary economics, alongside Samuelson. He became a full professor in 1977. Bernanke, who earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 1979, traced his interest in monetary policy to a conversation he had with Fischer — 'then a rising academic star' — in the late 1970s. He said Fischer handed him a copy of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (1963), by Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, with the encouragement, 'Read this. It may bore you to death. But if it excites you, you might consider monetary economics.' Bernanke credited Fischer with popularizing the principle that while the Fed pursues goals set by the president and Congress, it has policy independence — freedom to use its tools as it sees fit to achieve those goals. As chief economist of World Bank from 1988 to 1990, Fischer visited China and India and became, he later said, 'gripped by the problem of development.' After Fischer left the IMF in 2001, he joined Citigroup Inc. as a vice chairman and drew on his experience to lead the bank's country risk committee. Fischer declared himself a candidate for the top role at the IMF in 2011, following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. At 67, however, he was over the IMF's age limit of 65 for managing directors, meaning he would have needed a change in rules. The job went to Christine Lagarde. In 2013, Fischer was thought to be a possible candidate to succeed Bernanke at the helm of the Fed. Obama instead chose Yellen, with Fischer as her deputy. 'In a just world, Stan would have served at some point as Fed chairman or managing director of the IMF,' Summers wrote in 2017. 'Fate is fickle and it did not happen. But Stan through his teaching, writing, advising and leading has had as much influence on global money as anyone in the last generation. Hundreds of millions of people have lived better because of his efforts.' 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