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By Mia Alberti and Julia Jones, CNN (CNN) — A game entitled “Slavery Simulator,” where players can “buy and sell” enslaved Black characters, has been taken down from Google’s app store after widespread criticism from Brazilian social media users. The app, developed by Magnus Games, was launched on Google’s Play Store on April 20 and

CNN By Clare Sebastian, Allegra Goodwin, Svitlana Vlasova and Sarah Dean, CNN (CNN) — The chief of Russian paramilitary group Wagner told CNN on Thursday that he has handed the body of Nicholas Maimer, a retired US Army Special Forces soldier who was killed in the battle for Bakhmut, over to Ukraine. Yevgeny Prigozhin, when

By Sugam Pokharel, CNN London (CNN) — A man has been arrested after a car was driven at the gates of Downing Street in London, the official residence of the UK prime minister, police said Thursday. In video broadcast by the BBC, a small silver car can be seen driving at slow speed across Whitehall,

By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Concerns have been raised over the safety of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, who has not been heard from in over a month, according to a friend. Bialiatski is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus, where he was jailed in 2021 amid mass protests against

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images of the sun’s surface captured by a powerful ground-based solar telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail. The eight images, released on May 19, were taken using the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a 4-meter (13.1-foot) telescope located on the island of Maui

By Niamh Kennedy and Emily Blumenthal, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, the Irish public voted overwhelmingly to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment, overturning one of the strictest abortion bans in the European Union. There were scenes of jubilation as the referendum result was announced, with many in Ireland seeing it as a historic step that

By Larry Madowo, CNN Gaga, Chad (CNN) — Mastiura Ishakh Yousouff is only 22 but has been internally displaced in Sudan’s Darfur region for most of her life. But this is new territory even for someone who hasn’t known a permanent home – a refugee camp in eastern Chad, one of the world’s most destitute

By Emi Jozuka, Junko Ogura and Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in a shooting and stabbing incident that left four people dead in central Japan is now in police custody, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, citing local police early Friday. Police in Nakano City received a call on Thursday with reports that

By David McKenzie, CNN Johannesburg (CNN) — The most wanted fugitive in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been arrested in Paarl, South Africa after decades on the run. Fulgence Kayishema is accused of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 Tutsi refugees – women, men, children and the elderly – at Nyange Catholic Church

By Caolán Magee, CNN Dublin, Republic of Ireland (CNN) — Ahmed said that when he first arrived in Ireland after fleeing violence in his home country of Sudan, he was told by officials there was no place for him to stay. So, like many other refugees, he pitched a tent near Dublin’s International Protection Office.

By Rob Picheta, Luke McGee and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Net migration to Britain reached record levels last year, official figures showed Thursday, putting pressure on the UK government that has made the issue a political touchstone. Britain saw net migration of 606,000 people in 2022, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said,

CNN By Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — Russia has denied reports of a fire at its Ministry of Defense building in central Moscow, according to state news agency TASS, after the agency cited emergency services saying that a blaze had broken out on the balcony. “A fire broke-out on a balcony at the Ministry of

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — More than two years after the rotting foot of an alleged swindler washed ashore on an Australian beach, a coroner has delivered her findings in a case that has long captivated the country. New South Wales deputy state coroner Elizabeth Ryan found Thursday that despite fanciful theories

By Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — Russia has denied reports of a fire at its Ministry of Defense building in central Moscow, according to state news agency TASS, after the agency cited emergency services saying that a blaze had broken out on the balcony. “A fire broke-out on a balcony at the Ministry of Defense

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the life of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. Personal: Birth date: January 25, 1978 Birth place: Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine Birth name: Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky Father: Oleksandr Zelensky, computer science professor Mother: Rimma Zelenska, engineer Marriage: Olena (Kiyashko) Zelenska (2003-present) Children: Oleksandra and Kyrylo Education: