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Detained Americans Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at some recent cases of foreign governments detaining US citizens. For information about missing Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA in Iraq and Afghanistan Fast Facts. Currently Detained Americans China Mark SwidanNovember 13, 2012 – Swidan, a businessman from Texas, is arrested on drug related

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Kim Jong Un Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Personal Birth date: January 8 (Widely believed to be in his mid-30s, though birth year is publicly unavailable.) Father: Kim Jong Il Mother: Ko Yong Hui Marriage: Ri Sol Ju Children: Ju Ae, reportedly two others

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Protesters march late last week through downtown Seattle after the release of body camera footage of a city officer apparently joking about the death of Jaahnavi Kandula.

A grad student ‘full of dreams and hopes’ was fatally struck by a police car. What an officer said about her later has sparked outrage from Seattle to Capitol Hill

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — An effervescent young woman with a bubbly laugh and a radiant smile. A stellar student on the cusp of earning her master’s degree. A beloved daughter making her mark thousands of miles from home. That’s how Jaahnavi Kandula’s loved ones describe the 23-year-old graduate student from India who, police

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Russian President Vladimir Putin met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Bishkek

Nagorno-Karabakh crisis lays bare Armenia’s deteriorating relations with Russia

By Clare Sebastian, Anna Chernova, Katharina Krebs, Tim Lister and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh has come amid a sharp deterioration in the relationship between historic allies Armenia and Russia, and has been amplified by sometimes incendiary commentary from prominent individuals in Moscow. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other officials

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Andrew Lester

White homeowner pleads not guilty in shooting of Black teen who rang the wrong doorbell

By Holly Yan and Virginia Langmaid, CNN Liberty, Missouri (CNN) — The 85-year-old White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang the wrong doorbell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Andrew Lester did not speak during the brief arraignment in a courtroom in Clay County, Missouri.

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Al-Sayegh wants to engage more people in the Middle East with climate change issues. Pictured

This storm chaser captures stunning photographs of extreme weather

By Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, video by Kriti Gandhi, CNN (CNN) — In 2023, it isn’t hard to imagine we’re living through the end times, with apocalyptic weather events happening throughout the year and across the globe. Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a “staggering rise in climate-related disasters,” according to the UN. Between 2000 and 2019, 3.9

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A damaged residential building in Stepanakert

Azerbaijan says it has retaken breakaway Armenian enclave after separatists surrender

By Tim Lister, Anna Chernova, Christian Edwards and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Azerbaijan said it had taken back the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after launching a lightning 24-hour assault that forced ethnic Armenian forces to surrender and agree to a Russia-brokered ceasefire. Under the agreement, Azerbaijan said it would halt its military offensive –

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Opening statements began September 20 in the trial of two Aurora

Prosecutor, defense attorneys deliver openings in the trial of officers charged in the death of unarmed Black man Elijah McClain

By Andi Babineau, Christina Maxouris and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Prosecution and defense attorneys delivered opening statements Wednesday in the trial of two Aurora, Colorado, police officers who arrested Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died after their encounter more than four years ago. “You will hear no evidence in this case,

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Authorities say Kevin Mason was mistakenly released from an adult detention center in Indiana's Marion County on September 13.

$10,000 reward offered for information leading to capture of suspected killer who was accidentally released from Indianapolis jail

By Jared Formanek and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The US Marshals Service is offering $10,000 for those who come forward with information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a 2021 killing who was released from a detention center in Indianapolis last week due to a clerical mistake, officials said. Kevin Mason, 28,

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Australia braces for severe bushfires as Sydney swelters under record September heat

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — The threat of intense bushfires looms over New South Wales as record spring temperatures and high winds fan the flames of more than 60 blazes already burning in Australia’s most populous state, authorities have warned. Several cities along the east coast saw record spring temperatures Tuesday, according to Australia’s

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Utah woman accused of killing her husband with fentanyl claims a letter in her jail cell is part of a fictional book she’s writing, prosecutors say

By Jeremy Harlan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A Utah woman charged with killing her husband with fentanyl and subsequently accused of writing a letter encouraging her brother to provide false testimony claims the letter was part of a fictional book she was writing, court documents show. Kouri Richins is facing murder and drug

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