German citizen sentenced to death in Belarus, charged with terrorism, mercenary activities
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Residents stage rare protest over power cuts in Russia’s Krasnodar
By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Residents in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar staged a rare protest on Saturday over electricity cuts and…
Continue ReadingIsrael strikes Yemen for the first time following deadly Houthi drone attack. Here’s what we know
CNN By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, Israel has struck inside Yemen, following a deadly drone attack launched by Houthi rebels…
Continue ReadingSouth African police discover multimillion-dollar meth lab on farm
By Amarachi Orie and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Police in South Africa arrested four people including two Mexican nationals after uncovering…
Continue ReadingAt least 6 killed, Houthis say, as Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen day after Tel Aviv drone attack
By Thom Poole, Sophie Tanno, Eyad Kourdi, Adam Pourahmadi, Andrew Carey, Lauren Izso, Hira Humayun and Andrew Raine, CNN (CNN) — At least six…
Continue ReadingAt least 13 killed in Israeli airstrikes on Nuseirat camp in central Gaza
By Ibrahim Dahman, Alex Stambaugh and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — At least 13 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on homes in…
Continue ReadingBridge collapses in China killing 15 after flash floods
By Chloe Liu, Hassan Tayir and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — At least 15 people have died after a bridge partially collapsed in China’s Shaanxi…
Continue ReadingIsrael’s invitation to this year’s atomic bomb commemorations in Japan has sparked a controversy over double standards
By Chris Lau, Nodoka Katsura and Rinka Tonsho, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the…
Continue Reading40 people killed in migrant boat fire off Haiti’s coast, says aid agency
By Hira Humayun and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — At least 40 people have died after the boat they were traveling in caught fire off the coast of…
Continue ReadingPolio detected in Gaza sewage water, threatening new health disaster
By Ibrahim Dahman, Caitlin Danaher and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in…
Continue ReadingTop UN court says Israeli occupation of West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal
By Nadeen Ebrahim and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ top court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and…
Continue ReadingIn Togo, these school uniforms are at the center of a movement offering girls and women a chance to build better lives
By Kathleen Toner, CNN Moscow, Idaho (CNN) — Sometimes, a book can have a life-changing impact. For Payton McGriff, that turned out to be true.…
Continue Reading‘He was a pious man’: The Gaza neighborhood shocked to find Israeli hostages in their midst
By Florence Davey-Attlee, Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Jeremy Diamond and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — The Aljamal family was widely respected in…
Continue ReadingBangladesh has erupted over jobs reserved for the children of ‘freedom fighters.’ Here’s what you need to know
By Samra Zulfaqar, Helen Regan and Andee Capellan, CNN (CNN) — Huge protests across Bangladesh escalated into deadly violence this week with…
Continue ReadingIsrael investigates security failures around deadly Tel Aviv drone strike
By Eugenia Yosef, Jennifer Hansler, Eyad Kourdi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Israel authorities are investigating the circumstances and…
Continue ReadingUN says Israeli evacuation orders are making it harder to reach those most in need in Gaza
By Tim Lister, Sharon Braithwaite and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — United Nations agencies say that a new round of evacuation orders by the…
Continue ReadingMacron’s party wins parliamentary president role despite rebuke from voters
By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — French lawmakers reelected Yaël Braun-Pivet as president of the National Assembly Thursday, overcoming a…
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the CN Tower, or Canada’s National Tower. Standing 1,815 feet…
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War,…
Continue ReadingPutin’s summer residence gets new air defenses as Ukraine steps up drone attacks
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — As Ukraine grows bolder in striking targets deep inside Russia, Moscow has quietly upped the security measures…
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