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CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, Kylie Atwood, Zeena Saifi, Jennifer Hansler, Matthew Chance and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Russian-American woman Ksenia Karelina, who was serving a 12-year prison sentence for treason in Russia, has arrived in the United States after being released as part of a prisoner exchange. Karelina, who was exchanged for

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A major Australian IVF clinic has apologized for giving the wrong embryo to a woman who then gave birth to another couple’s baby, blaming the mix-up on “human error.” Monash IVF, which operates more than 100 clinics across Australia, said in a statement staff were “devastated” by

By Gawon Bae and Lex Harvey, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea sent two helicopters to battle a wildfire inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul’s military said Friday, adding it had warned North Korea in advance of its firefighting mission along the heavily armed border area. The blaze in the east of

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Social media influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate has been accused of holding a gun to a woman’s head and threatening “there’ll be hell to pay,” according to UK court documents , Britain’s PA Media news agency reported. Four women have accused the professional kickboxer-turned-internet demagogue of rape,

By Rebecca Wright and Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it has abandoned the country in its hour of need – and is ceding global leadership on disaster response to its rivals. The 7.7-magnitude quake, which struck on

By Alex Marquardt and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — When discussions began over releasing Israeli hostages shortly after the October 7 attack by Hamas, the negotiators tasked to strike a deal were mostly intelligence and security professionals. But in February, Israel made an important change that those now involved say has had a profound slowing

By Ivonne Valdes, Hira Humayun and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — An Italian scientist has been found dead in Colombia, according to local authorities, after several pieces of a human body were discovered lying on a path in the coastal city of Santa Marta on Sunday. City police said their investigation showed that a bracelet

By Max Saltman and Angélica Franganillo-Díaz, CNN (CNN) — More than 230 people, including 17 US citizens, died after the roof of the popular Jet Set nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Domingo, this week in one of the Caribbean country’s deadliest tragedies. Footage from the scene early Tuesday morning showed how a

By Kareem Khadder, Eugenia Yosef and Pauline Lockwood, CNN (CNN) — Israel has released a Palestinian man who was controversially arrested at the age of 13, after he spent nearly a decade in jail. Ahmad Manasra has been reunited with his family, his lawyer Khaled Zabarqa told CNN. “Ahmad has completed his 10-year sentence and

By Niamh Kennedy, Nadeen Ebrahim, Zeena Saifi and Avery Schmitz, CNN London and Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates at the United Nations’ top court of violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in its Darfur region. “A genocide is being committed against the ethnic group of the

By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — A suspect accused of facilitating the deadly Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 has been extradited by the United States to India, 17 years after the country was jolted by one of the worst tragedies to occur on its soil. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen of

By Eugenia Yosef and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military has fired Air Force reservists who publicly called for an immediate return of the remaining hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate ceasefire, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In a letter published in Israel’s major newspapers,