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By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova and Victoria Butenko, CNN The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian state media. Armen Sarkisyan died Monday at a Moscow hospital from injuries sustained in an explosion

By Abeer Salman, Jomana Karadsheh and Tareq Al Hilou, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian toddler forced to wait weeks for permission to leave Gaza for life saving medical treatment has finally arrived in Jordan. The girl is now in hospital receiving critical medical treatment. Two-year-old Habiba al-Askari left the besieged Palestinian enclave after a mammoth

By Kareem Khadder, Zeena Saifi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — The mayor of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, told CNN on Monday that the Israeli assault on the Jenin Refugee Camp was akin to the war in Gaza, saying it had destroyed 120 buildings and displaced 15,000 people. “What has been happening in

By Larry Madowo, Catherine Nicholls, Nimi Princewill and Sarah Dean, CNN (CNN) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame has told CNN he doesn’t know if his country’s troops are in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese soldiers has killed more than 900 people and

By Samantha Waldenberg and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump reiterated his vow to “take back” the Panama Canal on Sunday, warning of “powerful” US action in an escalating diplomatic dispute with the Central American country over China’s presence around the vital waterway. “China is running the Panama Canal that was not given

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off aid over the alleged mistreatment of White farmers, denying Trump’s claim that authorities were “confiscating land.” “South Africa is a constitutional democracy that is deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice

By Hassan Tayir and Eric Cheung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Taiwanese actor Barbie Hsu, one of the most prominent stars in the Chinese-speaking world, has died of a flu-related illness at age 48, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported Monday, citing her sister. Hsu died of pneumonia after catching the flu during a family

By Abel Alvarado, CNN Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (CNN) — The main room in the El Buen Samaritano shelter in Ciudad Juarez, a city along the US-Mexico border, is quiet for most of the day. Rows of bunk beds stretch from wall to wall, each separated by thin curtains or hanging sheets. The mismatched mattresses are

By Mick Krever, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A deadline to begin talks on extending Gaza’s ceasefire arrived Monday with the Israeli prime minister in Washington, silence from his office about when a negotiating team might engage with Hamas, and considerable uncertainty about what the next stage of the fragile truce will look like. The ceasefire,

By Maria Kostenko, Kostyantyn Hak, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mariya Knight and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A Russian strike on a residential building in central Ukraine killed at least 14 people, including two children, emergency services said, one of many attacks across the country this weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia targeted the building

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Rebecca Wright and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Could a ceasefire deal be a disaster for Ukraine in disguise? That is the urgent question echoing in Ukrainian frontline bunkers and in the ruins of besieged towns, where ubiquitous exhaustion begs for peace, but where a costly learned distrust of Russia