SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is cutting back on new investments in China as the country's private sector continues to face a historic regulatory crackdown.

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Homesteads dotting a pastoral landscape, families living by lamplight and men in straw hats riding horse-drawn carriages -- the scenes in Jake Michaels' photographs could easily depict bygone times in the American Midwest. But not only do his pictures hail from the digital age, they were taken hundreds of miles away in Belize.

Homesteads dotting a pastoral landscape, families living by lamplight and men in straw hats riding horse-drawn carriages -- the scenes in Jake Michaels' photographs could easily depict bygone times in the American Midwest. But not only do his pictures hail from the digital age, they were taken hundreds of miles away in Belize.

Greece is facing a "natural disaster of unprecedented proportions," as 586 wildfires burn in "all corners" of the country, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a televised address on Monday.

One of the world's largest salt lakes is evaporating at an alarming pace and threatening the livelihoods of those who live nearby. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

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