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CNN By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russian soldiers have been heard raising concerns about how North Korean soldiers will be commanded and provided with ammunition and military kit, leaked intercepts obtained by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine and released on Friday show. The Russian soldiers talk disdainfully about the

By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russian soldiers have been heard raising concerns about how North Korean soldiers will be commanded and provided with ammunition and military kit, leaked intercepts obtained by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine and released on Friday show. The Russian soldiers talk disdainfully about the incoming

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Two tickets for passage on what could be the first Chinese rocket ship to take tourists to space were sold Thursday, according to a livestream held by the company, as the country’s commercial space firms aim to join a small but expanding global space tourism industry. The

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — At the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born, a line of guides is waiting to tell you the story of the local boy who made it big. They can list the birthdays of Stalin’s family and recite the poems he

By Max Foster, Alex Stambaugh and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III has told world leaders that “none of us can change the past” but that nations can commit to finding “creative ways to right inequalities that endure,” as calls grow for reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade. The 75-year-old monarch

By Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — When Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7 last year, reservist Yotam Vilk wasn’t called up for military service – he volunteered to go and fight. Since then, he has spent more than 230 days serving with the Israeli military in Gaza. It has affected every part of his

By Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Heavy rain and high winds lashed parts of eastern India on Friday as a tropical storm hit coastal areas and rescue teams braced for its impact. Tropical Cyclone Dana made landfall along the northern coast of Odisha state as the equivalent of a tropical storm in the Atlantic basin

By Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse of rocks in the northeastern waters of the city, by Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department

By David Culver and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Violence is intensifying in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, this week, which saw a United Nations helicopter hit by gunfire and two gangs apparently target US embassy vehicles. A security source told CNN on Tuesday that two armored vehicles belonging to the US Embassy in Haiti were fired

By Niamh Kennedy and Darya Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — A group of North Korean soldiers have been spotted in Russia’s Kursk region, an area that borders Ukraine and has seen ongoing military operations, Ukraine’s military intelligence service announced Thursday. In a post on its official Telegram account, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said some North

By Rob Picheta and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s government and King Charles III are bracing for a heated conversation about reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, as the issue looks set to overshadow a summit of Commonwealth leaders in Samoa. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters on his journey to the

By Mick Krever, Jeremy Diamond and Abeer Salman | Video by Mark Baron and Agne Jurkenaite, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military has forced Palestinians to enter potentially booby-trapped houses and tunnels in Gaza to avoid putting its troops in harm’s way, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and five former detainees

CNN By Mick Krever, Jeremy Diamond and Abeer Salman | Video by Mark Baron and Agne Jurkenaite, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military has forced Palestinians to enter potentially booby-trapped houses and tunnels in Gaza to avoid putting its troops in harm’s way, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and five former

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Every year, thousands of South Koreans – mostly middle-aged men – die quietly and alone, cut off from their family and friends. It sometimes takes days or even weeks before their bodies are found. These are the country’s “lonely deaths,” known as godoksa in Korean. It’s part of a

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Personal Birth date: November 12, 1948 Birth place: Sorkheh, Iran Birth name: Hassan Feridon Marriage: Sahebeh Arabi Children: Has four children Education: University of Tehran, B. A., 1972; Glasgow Caledonian University, M. Phil., 1995; Glasgow Caledonian University, Ph.D.,

By Mostafa Salem, Isil Sariyuce, Benjamin Brown, Niamh Kennedy, Christian Edwards and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Armed assailants launched a deadly “terror” attack on Turkey’s state-run aerospace company near the capital Ankara on Wednesday, government officials said. At least five people were killed and 22 injured in the “terrorist attack” on the Turkish Aerospace

By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — The impact of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip could erase “over 69 years of progress” in the enclave, the United Nations has warned in a new report, saying that measurement for indicators such as life expectancy, education, income and standard of living are projected to drop to a level estimated for

By Helen Regan, Yoonjung Seo, Mike Valerio, Brad Lendon, Victoria Butenko and Maria Kostenko, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — There is growing intelligence that North Korea has been readying itself for a more direct role in Russia’s war in Ukraine, a move that could reverberate far beyond the frontlines of the war raging in

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — A massive fire is ripping through a protected wetland in New Zealand, threatening its delicate ecosystem and the rare species that live there – some found nowhere else on Earth. The blaze at the Waikato wetland on the country’s North Island is 15 kilometers (nearly 10 miles) in perimeter and

By Irene Nasser and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — The beachside home of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu was damaged in a drone strike claimed by Hezbollah, video footage geolocated by CNN shows, in an attack that penetrated deep inside Israel even as the militant group reels from sustained Israeli bombardment. Netanyahu and his wife were