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By Darya Tarasova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that any Western troops in Ukraine would be considered “legitimate targets for defeat,” a day after it was announced that dozens of Western countries have pledged to contribute to a potential peacekeeping force there if a ceasefire deal is agreed.

By Christian Edwards and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned following a scandal over her failure to pay the correct amount of property tax, adding to the woes of the country’s struggling center-left government. Rayner’s departure is another headache for the United Kingdom’s increasingly unpopular leader, Keir

By Tamar Michaelis, Ibrahim Dahman and Oren Liebermann (CNN) — Hamas on Friday released a video of two hostages being driven around Gaza City, in a move apparently aimed at swaying Israeli public opinion as the military ramps up its assault on the city. The propaganda video shows captive Guy Gilboa-Dalal in a car in

By Sebastian Shukla, Nadine Schmidt, Claudia Otto, CNN Berlin (CNN) — “When I think about the trip today, I wouldn’t do it again – it was so dangerous. What I remember is that many people died, they drowned … there were too many people on that boat.” Anas Modamani, who as a teenager fled Syria’s

By Nectar Gan, Yoonjung Seo, Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un have pledged to deepen strategic coordination in their first formal summit in six years, after they put on an unprecedented show of unity against the West alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a massive military parade.

By Haicen Yang and Fred He, CNN Hong Kong and Beijing (CNN) — At a busy market in a small town of China’s Hebei province, Labubu is no longer the coveted collectible displayed in glass cases. Here, they’re treated like sweet potatoes or cabbages, dumped by the dozen into large plastic bags, or piled into

By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra suddenly left the country on his private jet Thursday days before a court ruling that could see him imprisoned, raising speculation that he might not return to face the verdict. His departure came a day before Thailand’s parliament picked veteran

By Lex Harvey, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the International Criminal Court to investigate and arrest Israeli leaders over accusations of war crimes in Gaza. Late last year the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former

By Stefano Pozzebon and Andrew Raine, CNN Chichiriviche de la Costa, Venezuela (CNN) — Work starts early for the fishermen of Chichiriviche de la Costa, a remote village on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, some two hours of unpaved driving from the capital Caracas. On Thursday, Eduard Ulloa, 47, was at the shore before six

CNN By Stefano Pozzebon and Andrew Raine, CNN Chichiriviche de la Costa, Venezuela (CNN) — Work starts early for the fishermen of Chichiriviche de la Costa, a remote village on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, some two hours of unpaved driving from the capital Caracas. On Thursday, Eduard Ulloa, 47, was at the shore before

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A man killed his sister and wounded seven others in a mass stabbing at an Indigenous community in central Canada, police said Thursday. The man, a 26-year-old from Hollow Water First Nation, an Anishinaabe community on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, fled the scene in a stolen vehicle