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By Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea Monday killed at least 22 people, most of them foreign nationals, local officials said. The blaze broke out at around 10:31 a.m. local time at a facility operated by battery maker Aricell in Hwaseong,

By Kathleen Magramo and Jerome Taylor, CNN (CNN) — Russia is reeling from another major terror attack, with at least 19 people killed and 25 injured in what appeared to be coordinated shootings at various places of worship in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan republic. The attack is the second in the last three months after more

By Ben Wedeman, CNN Marjayoun, Lebanon (CNN) — In the town of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, around five miles north of the Israeli border, the main square seems almost abandoned. A few men play billiards in a storefront nestled in a building crowned with life-sized statues of the Virgin Mary and Saint Charbel, a revered

By Brad Lendon, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A United States Navy aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea for a show of force as Washington, Seoul and Tokyo released a joint statement on Monday condemning deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia. The nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt docked in the port of Busan

By Lauren Izso and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the “intense phase of the war with Hamas (in Gaza) is about to end,” and that the military’s focus could then shift to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where fighting with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah has intensified in

By Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — A woman staying at a French safari zoo was attacked by several wolves on Sunday after she entered a part of the zoo usually accessible only by car. “Luckily the medical staff intervened very quickly and we were able to save this person,” the zoo’s CEO Christelle Bercheny told

CNN By Darya Tarasova, Jen Deaton and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — At least nine people have been killed and 25 injured in what appear to be coordinated attacks by gunmen in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province, local authorities say. Attacks have been reported at multiple places of worship and a police traffic stop in the

By Zahid Mahmood, Darya Tarasova, Xiaofei Xu and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and over 100 injured when missile fragments scattered over beachgoers during a Ukrainian strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia-occupied Crimea, authorities say. “Unfortunately, we currently have 124 victims, of which three [are] dead children and two

By Darya Tarasova, Jen Deaton, Mariya Knight, Andrew Raine and Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Gunmen opened fire on places of worship in two cities of Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province on Sunday, killing at least 15 police officers and four civilians, including an Orthodox priest, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. Sergey Melikov,

By Housam Ahmed and Zahid Mahmood, Mostafa Salem and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said Sunday that more than 1,300 people died on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage – with “numerous cases” due to heat stress and “unauthorized” trips accounting for more than four out of five of the fatalities. “The health system addressed

By Michael Schwartz, Tim Lister and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his decision to go public about delays in the supply of weapons from the United States, saying months of private discussions did not yield any results. At the beginning of a cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu said that