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By Ivan Watson, Kunal Sehgal, Deepak Rao and Rhea Mogul, CNN Balasore, Odisha (CNN) — Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake. “Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side,” the 32-year-old

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, who stepped down from her post earlier this year, has been made a dame in one of the country’s highest honors. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced the appointment on Monday to mark the King’s Birthday public holiday, with Ardern among 182 recipients receiving

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A woman condemned as Australia’s worst female serial killer has been pardoned after serving 20 years behind bars for killing her four children in what appears to be one of the country’s gravest miscarriages of justice. New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley intervened to order Kathleen

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — At their modest home in Kenya’s western Bungoma County, Rodgers Shibutse noticed that his mother Pamela had become captivated by a popular but controversial televangelist known as Paul Mackenzie. Pamela Mukalasinga, 54, a small-scale trader and mother of five, would tune in religiously to Mackenzie’s Times

By Pierre Meilhan, Richard Allen Greene, Salma Abdelaziz, Allegra Goodwin, Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN Jerusalem/London (CNN) — Three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian policeman have been killed in a rare border crossing incident. Details of the incident – the first of its kind in more than a decade – remain disputed. Egypt claims

By Kunal Sehgal, Ivan Watson, Ajay Bedi and Deepak Rao, CNN Bahanaga, India (CNN) — Authorities investigating one of the deadliest train crashes in India’s history were examining whether a signal failure led to the disaster, as rescue workers finished their search for survivors and overturned train cars were cleared from the tracks on Sunday.

By Aditi Sangal, CNN (CNN) — Rayman Mathoda was driving down Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles in the year 2000 when she decided that she had made a mistake. She needed to live her truth and get back together with her girlfriend whom she had broken up with earlier. She could not go back to

By Brad Lendon and Eric Cheung, CNN Singapore (CNN) — China’s defense minister on Sunday accused the United States and its allies of trying to destabilize the Indo-Pacific – just hours after warships from the two countries were involved in a near collision. In a combative speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore,

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kongers living overseas are helping to keep the flame of remembrance alive for the victims of China’s Tiananmen massacre as authorities in a city that once hosted huge annual vigils continue to stamp out dissent. Until recently Hong Kong was the only place within China where

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — When the call came in, the staff at Animals Asia jumped into action. A bear in Vietnam’s northeastern Haiphong region had been kept captive for years, her bile harvested in painful and invasive ways – and the farmer was finally giving her up. The team found a familiar scene

By Celina Tebor and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A fifth person was found dead after a group went missing during a fishing trip in northeastern Quebec, authorities announced Sunday. Authorities say they found the body of Keven Girard, 37, in the St. Lawrence River Saturday night. He went missing after his 11-person fishing

By Rebekah Riess and Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his involvement in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise has been sentenced to life in prison, Florida court records show. Judge Jose E. Martinez handed down the sentence to Rodolphe Jaar on Friday

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Imagine your daily routine — but with gravity removed from the equation. While it’s entertaining to think of floating through your home, zero gravity can make tasks more difficult — even something as simple as drinking coffee. Liquids don’t flow in space without Earth’s gravity pulling them down, which

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — When the first astronauts venture to Mars in the future, the crew will need access to healthy, fresh food — but there are no cosmic grocery stores along the way. And the round trip to the red planet is expected to take about three years. Food

By Ashley Strickland, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — When the first astronauts venture to Mars in the future, the crew will need access to healthy, fresh food — but there are no cosmic grocery stores along the way. And the round trip to the red planet is expected to take about three years. Food is

By Chris Lau Hong Kong (CNN) — Two women have been stabbed to death in a Hong Kong mall in a frenzied – and apparently random – attack that has shocked a city where violent crime is rare. Graphic video clips circulating on social media appear to show the attacker pinning one of the women