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By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko appears to have cast doubt on Russia’s claims that Ukraine was involved in the brutal attack at a Moscow concert hall last week. ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre, which killed at least 139 people, and released graphic footage of the incident, but Russian President

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Picture a dolphin. Now imagine one that’s twice the size of a person. Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon. And

By AbdelQadder Sabbah, Kareem Khadder, Jomana Karadsheh, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — At least 12 Palestinians drowned off the northern Gaza coast near Beit Lahia on Monday while trying to reach airdropped parcels that had landed in the sea, according to local paramedics. Footage obtained by CNN shows hundreds of Palestinians

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Following several failed attempts over five months of Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. The United States, which had been the only remaining hurdle to such a call, decided not

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Claudia Rebaza and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has fended off the threat of immediate extradition to the United States after the High Court in London asked the US for more assurances. US authorities say Assange, 52, put lives at risk by publishing secret military documents and

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry and as companies race to make it bigger, smarter and more complex, its thirst for electricity will increase even further. This sets up a thorny problem for an industry pitching itself as a powerful tool to save the planet: a huge carbon footprint. Yet according

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The former head of China’s official soccer association has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in the central Chinese province of Hubei, in the latest crackdown on the country’s corruption-plagued professional football league. The ex-soccer chief, Chen Xuyuan, was jailed on Tuesday alongside multiple

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Beijing has lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks, calling the Western allies’ move an act of “political manipulation.” The US and the UK announced Monday a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for

By Nick Paton Walsh, Alex Marquardt, Florence Davey-Attlee and Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian front-line troops say they are experiencing connection problems with the vital Starlink internet service, owned by Elon Musk and used to run Kyiv’s fleet of attack drones, while also reporting an increase in Russian use of the devices, despite this being prohibited

By Heather Law and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27-year-old Brigitte García, was found shot dead Sunday morning, the country’s national police said. In a statement posted on X, police said that García, the mayor of San Vicente, a small coastal city, was in what is believed to be a rental car