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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia will defy the European Union and extend a temporary ban placed on Ukrainian grain imports, in a move likely to anger the bloc’s leadership. On Friday, the EU announced plans to suspend a temporary ban placed on the export of Ukrainian grain to a select

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — I once felt the immense force unleashed by an earthquake in 1999 when I was living in Taipei, Taiwan. A magnitude 7.6 quake rocked the island not long after I moved there. I remember my newly purchased mirror falling off the wall (it didn’t smash into pieces) before I rushed out

CNN By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna (CNN) — International rescue teams in Libya are calling for more help to retrieve the bodies of victims killed in devastating floods that swept through the eastern city of Derna, killing thousands. More than a week on, the teams said the majority of the victims’

By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) — It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out – but don’t click away in despair! There really are things everyone can do to help make the ocean cleaner and keep our environment healthier. Here are some easy (or mostly easy)

By Niamh Kennedy, Sophie Tanno, Nechirvan Mando and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Iranian authorities detained the father of Mahsa Amini on the one-year anniversary of her death Saturday, Iranian journalists and rights groups have said. Amini was killed in the custody of the morality police on September 16, 2022, after being arrested for allegedly

By Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna, Libya (CNN) — Tarek Fahim was taking videos of the water filling behind the dam in the Derna valley in Libya late Saturday night. Up until 1:30 am, Storm Daniel was just wind and rain. When he went home an hour later, it took very little

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Atlas Mountains, Morocco (CNN) — Khadija Ait Si Ali was just starting to rebuild her life when the earthquake struck. Her husband died in a road accident seven months ago. They had been married for less than a year and she was five months pregnant. “I was planning to start looking

By Adam Pourahmadi, Sarah El Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — Elahe Tavakolian’s shooter was so close, she could see him pointing his gun at her. “He was maybe 30 or 40 meters (100 to 130 feet) away,” she recalls. “He was a police officer. And everybody knew him.” Around her, she

By Yoonjung Seo, Akanksha Sharma, Josh Pennington and Aruzhan Zeinulla, CNN (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected warplanes, toured an airfield and visited a Pacific Fleet frigate on Saturday as the latest stop on his tour of Russia took him to Vladivostok. Russian state media reported that Kim had met Russian Defense

By Juliana Gonzales and Brad Parks, CNN (CNN) — Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been extradited from Mexico to the United States, the US Department of Justice has announced. The extradition was a “result of United States and Mexico law enforcement cooperation,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland

By Rhea Mogul and Vedika Sud, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is close to fulfilling a decade-old election promise months out from nationwide polls with the announcement that a controversial new Hindu temple will open on disputed land in January. The first detailed descriptions of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir were