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By Radina Gigova and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Amid the raging war and constant threat of Russian missiles, a successful heart transplant has been performed on a 6-year-old girl in Kyiv, authorities with the Heart Institute of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday. The three-hour operation, which took place on Sunday evening, gave

By Lauren Kent, Pierre Bairin and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed to Wagner Group fighters that a senior mercenary named Andrey Troshev now command the private military group, according to comments the Russian leader made to the Kommersant newspaper. Putin appears to have created a split between senior fighters

By Sharon Braithwaite, Henrik Pettersson and Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) — Swedish authorities have approved a protest involving the burning of Torahs and Bibles outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden’s national radio broadcaster reported on Friday. A person who has applied to hold a public gathering on Saturday to burn the holy books

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As the sun nears the peak of its current solar cycle, our star is growing increasingly active. And that peak may be occurring sooner than predicted, according to scientists. Every 11 years or so, the sun experiences periods of low and high solar activity, which is associated with the

By Nathan Hodge, CNN (CNN) — Now you see Wagner, now you don’t. Weeks after an armed uprising by the Russian mercenary group Wagner revealed cracks in Russia’s system of one-man rule, the Kremlin has been on a PR offensive. The message is simple: Russian President Vladimir Putin is firmly in control, now please move

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 62,000 people died heat-related deaths last year during Europe’s hottest summer on record, a new study has found — more heartbreaking evidence that heat is a silent killer, and its victims are vastly under-counted. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, found that 61,672 died in

By Sharon Braithwaite (CNN) — The United Nations said it was “very concerned” about the widespread use of violence by police against protesters in Kenya, after clashes against tax hikes reportedly turned deadly. Protests broke out across the country on Wednesday, including the capital Nairobi, where Opiyo Wandayi, who leads the opposition in Kenya’s parliament

By Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — President Mahmoud Abbas, the 87-year-old veteran who has led the Palestinian Authority for nearly two decades, is trending on Palestinian social media – but not in the way he might like. When he made a rare flying visit to Jenin this week, eight days after the largest Israeli

CNN 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

By Sharon Braithwaite and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani condemned the brawl that erupted Thursday in Kosovo’s parliament between opposition and ruling party MPs, CNN’s affiliate N1 reported. In a live video broadcast of the Kosovan parliament, Prime Minister Albin Kurti was interrupted by opposition MPs and had water thrown at

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