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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Lost dogs rarely capture international attention but for several weeks the world has watched and waited for updates on the search for Valerie, a miniature dachshund missing in the Australian wilderness. Then on Friday night, after 529 days roaming Kangaroo Island, off South Australia, the tiny dog

By Lauren Kent, CNN Vatican City (CNN) — The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City, where tens of thousands of mourners gathered to give a final send-off to a pontiff who was celebrated during the service as a champion of migrants and

By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, who alleged Britain’s Prince Andrew abused her when she was a teenager, has died by suicide, her family said. She was 41. “It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the death of Osama bin Laden. On May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces during an early morning raid at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Facts about the compound – Built in approximately 2006.– Significantly larger than other

By Verónica Calderón and José Álvarez, CNN (CNN) — Two Mexican activists who publicized a grisly “extermination camp” linked to organized crime were killed on Wednesday in Jalisco, according to Mexican authorities and the advocacy organization they were affiliated with. The victims are María del Carmen Morales, 43, and her son Jaime Daniel Ramírez Morales,

By Lauren Kent, CNN Vatican City (CNN) — Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying in state at the Vatican. About 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Francis, who was the first pope

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The Magic Circle has readmitted a female magician expelled for tricking her way into the previously all-male institution by disguising herself as a man. “We’re proud to welcome back magician Sophie Lloyd to The Magic Circle,” said the London-based magic society in an Instagram post Thursday. “Over 30 years

By Sharon Braithwaite and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ World Food Programme has run out of food in Gaza, the organization said Friday, almost two months into Israel’s humanitarian blockade of the besieged enclave. The agency says it delivered its final food stocks to kitchens in Gaza on Friday, and the kitchens

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — The United States and Iran wrapped up a third round of nuclear talks on Saturday, which experts have described as a more difficult phase of technical negotiations as Washington lays out its conditions. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the “negotiations this time

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine should recognize Russia’s control over Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed more than a decade ago, is threatening to upend international law and order. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has long made it clear this is a red line for him.

By Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová, Nick Paton Walsh and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine are “very close to a deal” that would end their three-year war, after his envoy met with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in talks Moscow said were “constructive and very useful.” “A good

By Todd Symons and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Moscow has inflicted another round of deadly strikes on Ukraine despite US President Donald Trump’s plea for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP!” attacking its neighbor. At least eight people were killed in drone strikes across the country, a night after Russia launched its deadliest bombardment

CNN, VATICAN MEDIA By Lauren Kent and Jack Guy, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, has broken with tradition when it comes to where he is being laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica instead of the grottoes of the Vatican. Popes are usually buried within Vatican City, beneath