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By Anna Chernova and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — The Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, has voted in favor of a new law banning nearly all medical help for transgender people including gender reassignment surgery, in a raft of new anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia. The bill, which had its third and final

By Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN (CNN) — Plants naturally adapt to grow in challenging environments. Spontaneous natural mutations produce new traits, such as drought tolerance and disease resistance, which can help the plant to thrive. But the Earth’s climate is changing faster than plants can naturally evolve, meaning that many of the plants we rely on

By Jessie Yeung and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A major river overflowing near India’s capital has reached the highest level on record, authorities said, prompting mass evacuations and causing havoc with water supplies as northern states report rising deaths from heavy flooding. A tributary of the mighty Ganges River, the Yamuna River

By Sebastian Shukla, Alex Marquardt and Dasha Tarasova-Markin, CNN Dnipro, Ukraine (CNN) — The much-anticipated and controversial American-made cluster munitions that the United States agreed to supply to Kyiv are now in Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian general and the Pentagon. “We just got them, we haven’t used them yet, but it can radically change

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Survivors of one of New Zealand’s worst natural disasters have described the searing pain of being lashed by burning sand, ash and rocks during a volcanic eruption on Whakaari or White Island in 2019 that killed 22 people. Their evidence was heard this week during a criminal

CNN By Kocha Olarn and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s parliament blocked the prime ministerial nomination of the winner of May’s nationwide elections, Pita Limjaroenrat, on Wednesday, a blow to his progressive opposition party after nearly a decade of military-backed rule. Out of the 715 members of parliament present, 395 voted to block the

CNN By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — A court ruling that found a school janitor not guilty of groping a student because the act only lasted less than 10 seconds has sparked outrage in Italy. In their decision, the judges of the fifth criminal section of the Court of Rome said they acquitted the accused,

By Rhea Mogul, Sania Farooqui and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — India is bidding to become only the fourth country to execute a controlled landing on the moon with the successful launch Friday of its Chandrayaan-3 mission. Chandrayaan, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in

By Oliver Briscoe, CNN (CNN) — A police investigation has been launched after a chopped finger was sent to the official residence of the French president, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The package delivered to the Elysee palace contained “a piece of a finger, a fingertip it seems,” the prosecutor’s office told CNN on

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and other countries launched military operations known as Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Facts The Allied coalition was made up of 39 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia,

By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — A court ruling that found a school janitor not guilty of groping a student because the act only lasted less than 10 seconds has sparked outrage in Italy. In their decision, the judges of the fifth criminal section of the Court of Rome said they acquitted the accused, a

By Catherine Nicholls and Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey told a court in London Thursday in his ongoing sexual assault trial that he touched the complainant – who is one of four men who made allegations against the actor – in a “romantic and intimate” way. “He was funny and charming

By Merlin Delcid and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — A Guatemalan court has suspended the party of one of the candidates in next month’s presidential run-off election, raising questions over the vote. In a video posted on the Twitter account of the Guatemalan Public Ministry, Rafael Curruchich, the head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against

By Sharon Braithwaite and Lindsay Isaac, CNN (CNN) — The head of a United Nations agency has called for an investigation into the killing of at least 87 people who were discovered in a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur region. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has demanded a “prompt, thorough

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Some demonstrators were reportedly killed in clashes with Kenya’s security forces on Wednesday after protests flared for the second time in a week over a raft of unpopular tax hikes proposed by the national government, an opposition leader told CNN. Protests broke out across Kenya, including the capital Nairobi, where Opiyo

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — At last year’s NATO summit in Madrid, the alliance formally invited Sweden and Finland to join its ranks. At this year’s summit in Vilnius, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was hoping the alliance would extend his country the same favor. That was not to be. In its final communique, issued

By Max Foster, Sharon Braithwaite and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — One of the United Kingdom’s leading news anchors, Huw Edwards, was named by his wife on Wednesday as the BBC presenter who was suspended following allegations over payments for sexually explicit images. The longtime BBC anchor, one of the network’s highest-earning stars, has

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — As a series of welcoming cannon blasts rang out from a nearby colonial fort, the Russian navy’s training class ship Perekop sailed into Havana on Tuesday. While in Cuba for a four-day visit, the Perekop’s sailors will “carry out a wide range of activities,” according to Cuba’s

By Jessie Yeung and Candice Zhu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese officials on Wednesday unveiled new details about their plans for a manned lunar mission, as China attempts to become only the second nation to put citizens on the moon. Zhang Hailian, deputy chief engineer with the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), revealed the