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By Rob Picheta, CNN Multiple explosions rocked Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities reported blasts and power outages on Monday morning, as Russia lashed out with a massive wave of violent airstrikes that carried echoes of the initial days of its invasion. At least 11 people were killed in the strikes, while 64 were wounded,

David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Asmani Dadi had heard rumors about the insurgents. Then, one day, they came true. It was July 2020 and Dadi was a student in the town of Mocímboa da Praia, northern Mozambique. “They came … from the forest and began to kill people. When they found children, … they

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By Darya Tarasova and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an operational meeting of his Security Council on Monday, just two days after a massive explosion on a key strategic bridge linking Crimea and Russia. The meeting itself isn’t out of the ordinary — Putin regularly holds operational meetings with the Security

By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Tom Booth and Dinara Salieva, CNN Vadim says he plunged into depression last month after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military draft to send hundreds of thousands of conscripts to fight in Ukraine. “I was silent,” the 28-year-old engineer says, explaining that he simply stopped talking while at work.

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Raja Razek and Jennifer Deaton, CNN An Iranian state broadcaster was allegedly hacked during its nightly news program Saturday, according to the pro-reform IranWire outlet, which shared a clip of the incident. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that the 9 p.m. newscast by the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN)

By Hannah Ritchie, Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN In a major blow for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a huge explosion early Saturday severely damaged the only bridge connecting the annexed Crimean Peninsula with the Russian mainland, crimping a key supply route for Moscow’s faltering war in Ukraine. The blast collapsed part of the roadway

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By Adam Pourahmadi, Idris Muktar Ibrahim, Jomana Karadsheh and Pierre Meilhan, CNN Iran’s security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez in fresh protests on Saturday afternoon, as weeks of nationwide demonstrations gathered momentum. In Sanandaj, security forces shot and killed a driver in his car,

By Jill Dougherty, Tim Lister and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A huge blast Saturday damaged the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, causing parts of it to collapse. The attack, which disrupted major transport links between mainland Russia and the annexed peninsula, not only struck a blow against Russia’s military effort in Ukraine

By Zayn Nabbi, CNN Ten people, including two teenagers and a young child, were killed in Friday’s explosion at a gas filling station in the northwest of Ireland, local authorities said. Irish police said that among the 10 dead in the blast in Donegal ere four men, three women, a teenage boy, a teenage girl,

CNN’s Aliza Kassim and Niamh Kennedy France has urged all French nationals to leave Iran “as soon as possible,” warning that they risk “arrest, arbitrary detentions and unfair trial.” The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an update on its website Friday warned that “all French visitors, including dual nationals, are exposed to a high

By Jo Shelley, Olga Voitovych and Tim Lister, CNN The bodies of more than 500 civilians have been discovered in territory in northeast Ukraine recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukrainian police say. And as Ukrainian forces liberate more land in the northeast, new burial sites are being discovered in Donetsk. Many appear to contain the