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By Nimi Princewill and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN At least 400 people have died after floods and landslides hit the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province last week, officials told CNN. Heavy rainfall through last week caused rivers to overflow and created mudslides that devastated the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi in South Kivu’s Kalehe

CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Clare Sebastian and Martin Bourke, CNN A cargo train loaded with tanks chugs along under the crisp, spring sun. “Wow,” a woman says, pointing her camera phone at the convoy. “This is the second train, there was one like it just before.” The video, seemingly filmed in late March, shows old

By Helen Regan, Julia Kesaieva, Mariya Knight, Katharina Krebs, Kostan Nechyporenko and Stephanie Halasz, CNN The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has raised concerns as to the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, describing the situation as “increasingly unpredictable,” after Moscow ordered the evacuation of residents from Russian-occupied areas close to the facility. More than

By Vasco Cotovio, Clare Sebastian and Martin Bourke, CNN A cargo train loaded with tanks chugs along under the crisp, spring sun. “Wow,” a woman says, pointing her camera phone at the convoy. “This is the second train, there was one like it just before.” The video, seemingly filmed in late March, shows old Soviet

By Tim Lister, Stephanie Halasz and Christian Edwards, CNN Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, has apparently backtracked on a threat to withdraw his forces from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, after Russia’s Ministry of Defense promised to provide more ammunition to his troops. In an explosive, expletive-laden rant this week, Prigozhin

By Oliver Briscoe and Joseph Ataman, CNN France’s finance minister is in the spotlight. But it’s not the country’s downgraded credit rating, nor the government’s hated retirement age hike that’s got people talking. His work “Fugue Americaine” — which includes a scene with an unforgettable phrase about an anus — has brought mockery, even in

By Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN Russian-appointed authorities in Crimea reported on Sunday that their air defense forces and electronic warfare units had fended off at least three Ukranian drone attacks in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. The Russian-back governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev said that “more than ten drones” were sent

By Mariya Knight Russia has blamed the “Kyiv regime” and several Western nations for the bombing of military blogger Zakhar Prilepin’s car on Saturday. The claim was made by a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, but she provided no proof for the allegation. In reaction, the Security Service of Ukraine told the online newspaper

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Sharon Braithwaite and Heather Chen, CNN A group of climate activists in Italy have poured what they described as “a charcoal-based black liquid” into the water of Rome’s famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) — to “sound the alarm about the black future that awaits humanity.” “Our

By Duarte Mendonca and Josh Pennington, CNN Dutch police arrested 154 football supporters in Amsterdam on Saturday due to the singing of antisemitic chants, a police statement said. According to the statement, the football fans were warned several times to stop singing as they made their way to the Johan Cruijff Arena on the subway.

By Mariya Knight and Josh Pennington, CNN The head of the Wagner private military company says his men will begin withdrawing from Bakhmut this week, because dwindling ammunition supplies and mounting losses mean there is “nothing left to grind the meat with.” On his official Telegram channel on Saturday, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin blamed the

CNN By Mariya Knight and Josh Pennington, CNN The head of the Wagner private military company says his men will begin withdrawing from Bakhmut this week, because dwindling ammunition supplies and mounting losses mean there is “nothing left to grind the meat with.” On his official Telegram channel on Saturday, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin blamed

By Darya Tarasova and Sophie Tanno, CNN An acclaimed theater director and playwright have been arrested in Russia and accused of “justifying terrorism” for their play about Russian women being recruited online to marry Islamic State fighters in Syria. Yevgenia Berkovich was arrested on Friday alongside the play’s author, Svetlana Petriychuk, after investigators alleged that

By Alex Hardie, Maria Kostenko and Darya Tarasova, CNN A Russian military blogger has been injured and his driver killed after their car was blown up, Russian state media reported, the latest attack on a pro-war figure. Zakhar Prilepin was hospitalized with a leg injury in the blast in the Nizhny Novgorod region, about 250

By Maria Kostenko and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Ukraine says it has for the first time used a US-made Patriot air defense system to intercept a Russian hypersonic missile. Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, said on Telegram Saturday: “Yes, we have intercepted the ‘unmatched’ Kinzhal,’” adding an emoji of the Ukrainian flag.

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Britain’s King Charles III has been crowned in a once-in-a-generation royal event witnessed by hundreds of high-profile guests inside Westminster Abbey, as well as tens of thousands of well-wishers who gathered in central London despite the rain. While Charles became King on the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II last

The service is conducted by The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan Processions Procession of Faith Leaders Procession of the Commonwealth Realms The choir proceeds to places in Quire. Members of foreign Royal Families arrive at the Great West Door and are conducted to