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By Ivana Kottasová, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — A Russian general who has been accused by Ukraine of ordering a missile strike against a children’s hospital in Kyiv has reportedly been shot in northwestern Russia on Thursday. The Russian Investigative Committee said it opened an investigation into the attempted murder of a military service member

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denied accusations that the government ignored warnings about an impending mass border crossing from Morocco to the enclave of Ceuta. Sánchez has been under intense pressure over the crisis, which saw an estimated 72,000 people cross the border. Dozens died and many remain

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — As the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into port in Thailand on Wednesday, observers were shocked by its appearance. The almost 1,100-foot-long warship was covered in rust from bow to stern. But experts say that’s to be expected from what the Navy says was 286 days at sea

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — A Mexican musician, his pregnant wife and 3-year-old daughter, as well as their nanny and a family dog were found dead on Tuesday, in a gruesome homicide case. Jonathan Meléndez, the 38-year-old keyboardist of the well-known indie rock band Camilo Séptimo, was among those found dead in

By Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The airline behind a remarkably low planned flyover of a packed rugby stadium said Wednesday it will turn over data from the planes’ black boxes to show the maneuver was done in accordance with governmental rules. The two 98-seat Embraer-190 regional jets from South African airline Airlink

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla were joined by the French president and first lady at the British Museum in London on Wednesday for a private tour of the Bayeux Tapestry — a world-famous artwork depicting a fateful battle between the two nations. Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Joshua Wong, the former teenage activist who became a key leader of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, faces the prospect of many more years in prison after he pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the latest national security case brought by prosecutors. Wong, now 29, was accused of conspiring

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand on Wednesday, its first regular port call in more than eight months, ending a marathon stint at sea in the Middle East that raised concerns about the welfare of its crew. The Lincoln, the length of its hull stained by

By Ivana Kottasová, Sebastian Shukla, CNN (CNN) — Germany has accused Russia of being responsible for the drone attack targeting Leipzig airport last month, and announced a slew of new measures against Moscow. “We are not at war, but we are a daily target of hybrid attacks,” Germany’s interior minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters on

By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Kosta Gak, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — As children arrived at the Ukrainian Global School in Kyiv for the start of a new school year on Tuesday, they went straight to the basement. Given the near-constant Russian attacks on the capital over the past few days, the school decided

By CNN Staff Beijing (CNN) — She kept calling and calling – countless times – but her husband never picked up. The woman, who CNN has given the pseudonym Lili, said her husband had spoken with a friend at 8:27am on Wednesday. That was roughly 10 minutes before an enormous landslide careened down a mountain

By Kara Fox and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Manchester, England (CNN) — A husband accused of drugging and sexually abusing his wife for more than two decades will go on trial in Manchester, England, this week, alongside a dozen other men accused of taking part in or helping to facilitate the abuse. The husband, a man

By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Svitlana Vlasova CNN (CNN) — Ukraine is urgently trying to develop interceptors capable of countering a new generation of Russian jet-powered drones that have wreaked havoc across the country in recent months. Along with the Kremlin’s ballistic weapons and a new type of cruise missile, the jet-drones have caused

By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir has made it a point to post videos of himself on social media taunting or mocking Palestinian prisoners. He boasted of threatening the most high-profile Palestinian prisoner. He showed off activists from a Gaza flotilla bound on the floor. And he

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hopes are fading for a quick rescue operation as Nepali crews and foreign specialists race to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. Around 900 workers are missing at various hydropower projects

By Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and seized a home while its owner was inside in the latest brazen settler attack in the area. Despite the Israeli military saying there were “dozens of rioters” when they arrived at the

By Ross Adkin, Hanako Montgomery, Daniel Campisi and Balmukunda Humagain, CNN (CNN) — As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal’s Trishuli river.

By Tim Lister, Oliver Sherwood, Gul Tuysuz, CNN (CNN) — A search and rescue operation was continuing uninterrupted in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry carrying nearly 270 people capsized while traveling from northern Cyprus to Turkey, killing at least eight people. Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman said 241 people had been rescued alive, but

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — The Friendship Bridge, connecting Brazil and Paraguay near the iconic Iguazu Falls, has long been a route for smugglers moving cheap, illicit goods, like cigarettes and electronics. But in recent years, Brazilian authorities say smugglers have found a far more lucrative product: weight-loss drugs. As demand for GLP-1 based