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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Korean War. Although hostilities ceased in 1953, there has been no formal end to the war. Causes of the Korean War Korea was under Japanese rule before and during World War II, and was divided into two parts after the Japanese surrender. The Soviet Union

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family-first” government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. These birth certificates belong to 33 children of Italian women who

By Chris Stern, Fred Pleitgen and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Local authorities in Germany said Friday that they are ending a search operation for what was previously believed to be a lioness on the loose in the suburbs of Berlin. “After examining several hints, there was not a single indication concerning a lioness or

CNN By Manveena Suri, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui, Tara John, Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on social media and prompted the country’s leader Narendra Modi

By Mick Krever, Nathan Hodge, Olga Voitovych, Uliana Pavlova and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — A prominent Russian pro-war blogger who has criticized President Vladimir Putin and his military’s mishaps in Ukraine was arrested on Friday, in a move that suggested the Kremlin’s patience with dissent has grown thinner in the wake of the Wagner

By Mick Krever, Sharon Braithwaite and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his ambassador to the United Kingdom on Friday. The ambassador, Vadym Prystaiko, had criticized Zelensky over his reaction to recent remarks by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who had suggested Ukraine had not expressed sufficient “gratitude” for Western

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese engineers on Thursday broke ground on a new super deep borehole that will burrow far into the Earth’s crust as the country steps up its search for natural resources hidden tens of thousands of feet underground. The hole will eventually reach 10,520 meters (34,514 feet) into

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s far-right Vox party looks set to continue its meteoric rise in Sunday’s general election, and it aims to use its growing influence to roll back decades of progress in women’s rights by blocking abortion access, repealing legislation on gender-based violence and shutting down the ministry of equality. The

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a damaging political blow on Friday as voters rejected his party in two parliamentary elections it could ordinarily have expected to win. The Conservatives lost to the resurgent Labour Party in Selby and Ainsty, a region in the north of England

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a swarm of boulders around the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally hit last fall. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, weighing about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms), slammed head-on into Dimorphos at 13,000 miles per hour (20,921 kilometers per hour) on September

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament, located on the Thames River in London. Facts The meeting place of Great Britain’s bicameral legislature – composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords – is also known as Westminster Palace. Visitors are subject to airport

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Summer Olympics, which is held every four years. The 2020 Olympic Games were held July 23-August 8, 2021, in Tokyo. The Games were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Paris is slated to be the host city for the 2024 Olympic Games. The 2028

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered ice core taken from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet decades ago has revealed that a large part of the country was ice-free around 400,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to those the world is approaching now, according to a new report – an alarming finding that

By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovich, Mick Krever, Alex Marquardt, Scott McWhinnie and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Odesa and Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine has been struggling to repel a wave of Russian strikes against the southern city of Odesa, its air defenses unable to cope with the types of missiles that Moscow has used to pummel the

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovich, Mick Krever, Alex Marquardt, Scott McWhinnie and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Odesa and Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine has been struggling to repel a wave of Russian strikes against the southern city of Odesa, its air defenses unable to cope with the types of missiles that Moscow has used to pummel

By Manveena Suri, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui, Tara John, Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A graphic video showing two women forced by a mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on social media and prompted the country’s leader Narendra Modi to break

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe. Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O’Doherty spotted a spinning celestial space object in March 2018. The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation

By Ivana Kottasová and Olga Voitovich, CNN (CNN) — The head of the Belarusian Red Cross has sparked an international outcry with his announcement that the organization is involved in the relocation of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied areas to Belarus, a stark admission that potentially could make the group complicit in what Ukraine says is

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — At least 110 people have been injured after tennis ball-sized hail rained down on a region of northern Italy overnight Wednesday. In a surprise storm, hailstones of up to 10 cm in diameter pelted the streets of Veneto, according to regional president Luca Zaia. Emergency services responded to