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CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also called North Korea. It borders China, Russia and South Korea. About North Korea (from the CIA World Factbook)Area: 120,538 sq km, slightly smaller than Mississippi Population: 25,831,360 (July 2021 est.) Median age: 34.6 years Capital: Pyongyang Ethnic Groups: Racially

By Sophia Saifi, Aliza Kassim and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Authorities in Pakistan have warned it could take up to six months for deadly flood waters to recede in the country’s hardest-hit areas, as fears rise over the threat posed by waterborne diseases including cholera and dengue. Floods caused by record monsoon rains and melting glaciers

By Rhea Mogul, CNN From the pandemic to the climate crisis, disasters of the past five years have upended daily life, and a new report shows that in many countries the ensuing economic uncertainty has pushed millions into modern slavery. An estimated 50 million people worldwide are believed to be victims of forced marriage and

By Nectar Gan, Shawn Deng and Philip Wang, CNN As Russian forces suffer a string of stunning defeats in Ukraine, Moscow is playing up Beijing’s support for its invasion ahead of a key meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. Russian troops were forced to flee the strategic city

By Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over children’s books deemed to be seditious, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory. On Wednesday,

By Jake Kwon, CNN A massive 7.6 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday, causing landslides, cracking roads and damaging buildings. While the extent of the damage remains unclear, photos showed debris strewn across highways and cracks opening up in roads. The quake struck at a depth of 90 kilometers (roughly 56 miles) near Kainantu,

By Yoonjung Seo, Larry Register and Heather Chen, CNN North Korea has passed a new law declaring itself a nuclear weapons state in a move leader Kim Jong Un says is “irreversible.” Kim vowed the country would “never give up” its nuclear weapons and said there could be no negotiations on denuclearization as he hailed

By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong, and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s mega city of Chengdu has extended its Covid lockdown for a second time, with no end in sight as authorities struggle to eradicate an outbreak that is continuing despite stringent restrictions that have upended businesses and daily life. Home to 21 million people and the

By Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of a conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books on Wednesday, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory. The charges center around a

By Kathleen Magramo, Mengchen Zhang, CNN A man who lost control of his hydrogen balloon while harvesting pine nuts in China has been found and rescued — after landing in a forest two days later and more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) away. The man, surnamed Hu, had been working alongside a colleague on Sunday

By Javed Iqbal, Sameer Mandhro and Kathleen Magramo, CNN “There is too much water. We are going to drown.” That was the warning from the villagers of Sehta Sehanj, where flooding caused by the overflow of Pakistan’s largest lake has left many residents trapped by rising water levels and fearing for their lives. Lake Manchar

By Simone McCarthy and Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese leader Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on the sidelines of a summit in Uzbekistan next week, Russia’s envoy to Beijing Andrey Denisov told reporters on Wednesday, according to Russian state news agency Tass. The expected meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had not lost anything as a result of its ongoing military actions in Ukraine. Speaking at an economic forum in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Putin attempted to defend the costs of what he termed his country’s “special military operation” in

By Javed Iqbal, Sameer Mandhro and Kathleen Magramo, CNN It was raining when Kainat Solangi’s daughter was born on August 14 and it’s barely stopped since, stranding her family in a makeshift tent on a thin strip of land surrounded by Pakistan’s worst-ever floods. The family of eight built their shelter from furniture and sheets

By Simone McCarthy and Brenda Goodman, CNN China has become the first country to green-light an inhaled Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for potential use of the needle-free product in the country, where suppressing the spread of Covid-19 remains a top priority. The vaccine maker, CanSino Biologics, said in a statement Sunday that China’s medicines

By Masoud Popalzai, Anna Chernova, Eyad Kourdi and Ehsan Popalzai, CNN Two Russian embassy employees were among six people killed in a suicide blast near Russia’s embassy in Kabul on Monday. Russia‘s foreign ministry said in a statement that “an unknown militant set off an explosive device. As a result of the attack, two employees

By Nectar Gan, Shawn Deng and CNN’s Beijing bureau More than 70 Chinese cities have been placed under full or partial Covid lockdowns since late August, impacting more than 300 million people, as local authorities rush to stamp out infections at all cost in the final countdown to leader Xi Jinping’s expected third term. Since