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By Brandon Miller, Robert Shackelford, Chris Liakos, Louise McLoughlin and Hande Atay Alam, CNN (CNN) — At least 14 people have died and several remain missing across Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria as torrential rain and severe flooding batter southern Europe. Flooding has claimed at least three lives in mainland Greece, seven in Turkey and left

By Earl Nurse, CNN (CNN) — Grammy-winning Nigerian recording artist Burna Boy has become the first-ever international Afrobeats artist to earn the No. 1 spot on the official weekly UK album chart, published on September 1. The achievement is for Burna’s latest album, “I Told Them…” – his fourth album to make the UK charts

By Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — Ani Kirakosyani found out she was pregnant a month after the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh began. In her village of Haterk, tucked in a valley between the Caucasus hills, food supplies ran out quickly and the shops started to close, Kirakosyani told CNN. The only food available was what she

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — A grave unearthed in 1960 led researchers to hypothesize that Neanderthals interred their dead with flowers — challenging the prevailing view that the ancient humans were dumb and brutish. Now scientists say a key piece of evidence from the site, which helped shape the study of Neanderthals, might have been

By Kayla Smith, CNN (CNN) — Africa is widely considered the birthplace of coffee, and today, beans from Ethiopia and Kenya are renowned as some of the best in the world. But there’s an emergent player from the continent looking to make a name for itself: Mozambique. This year, the country joined the International Coffee Organization,

By Andrew Carey and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv Wednesday on what is his third trip to the Ukrainian capital since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The visit comes as Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into its fourth month, with both political and military

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — As heat waves continue to bake parts of the world, scientists are reporting that this blistering, deadly summer was the hottest on record – and by a significant margin. June to August was the planet’s warmest such period since records began in 1940, according to data from the European

By Manveena Suri and Helen Regan, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Dinner invites referring to India by its Sanskrit name have fueled a political row and public debate over what the country should be called, its history and colonial legacy as New Delhi prepares to welcome world leaders for the G20 summit. Invites issued by

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Three men on board an inflatable catamaran were pulled from the sea in the early hours of Wednesday after “several shark attacks” left their vessel partially sunken off the Australian northeastern coast. Two Russians and one French national, ages 28 to 63, were on board the boat as it

By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has taken mixed positions on its policies involving Haiti – with one federal agency warning that the Caribbean country is too dangerous for US citizens, while another agency deports Haitians back to the violence-torn country. Violence in Haiti during the second quarter of

By Vasco Cotovio and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s forces have started covering some of their attack aircraft with car tires, in what experts say could be a makeshift attempt to protect them from Ukrainian drone strikes that have had increased recent success in targeting Russian military airports. Satellite imagery from Maxar of Engels

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — US officials have warned North Korea it will “pay a price” if it strikes an arms deal with Russia, after saying that negotiations were “advancing” between the two nations. If Pyongyang provides weapons to Moscow to use in the war against Ukraine, it is “not going to reflect well