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By Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Cuauhtemoc, Mexico (CNN) — It all started when a 9-year-old boy went with his parents to visit relatives in Seminole, Texas, early last year. After he returned home to Mexico, a red rash erupted on his skin. Within weeks, so many of his classmates fell ill that their school shut

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo, Brad Lendon, CNN Incheon, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea received North Korean athletes for the first time in more than seven years on Sunday, when a women’s soccer team arrived to contest the Asian club championship. Thirty-nine players and staff from Pyongyang’s Naegohyang Women’s Football Club rushed past a

By Kosta Gak, Chris Lau, Yong Xiong, Lucas Lilieholm, CNN (CNN) — At least three people were killed near Moscow after Ukraine targeted Russia with more than 500 drones overnight, Russian state news agency TASS reported Sunday, citing local and military officials. The attack on Moscow is “the largest in over a year,” according to

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — International cave divers have arrived in the Maldives to step up the search for the remains of four Italians who died while scuba diving in the island paradise, a day after a military officer lost his life in the recovery attempt. Three Finnish divers from the Divers Alert Network,

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — When some 150,000 people descended on London in September for a rally organized by Tommy Robinson – an agitator who spreads anti-Muslim bigotry and has several criminal convictions – it felt like a watershed moment in British politics. “Something in our country changed,” Sadiq Khan, the mayor of

By Sharon Braithwaite, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Saturday, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle’s driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city’s mayor. “The madman, I don’t know what to call him, the criminal who

By Issy Ronald, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a controversial rescue effort set him free. “The stranded humpback whale near Anholt is the same

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — US and Nigerian forces killed a senior ISIS commander on Friday, President Donald Trump said, in an operation he claimed had “greatly diminished” the militant group’s power. “Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Anthony Seldon has written biographies of each of the last eight British prime ministers. When he embarked on the project in the 1990s, the work was mammoth but measured. Then, the occupants of 10 Downing Street would spend several years in office, allowing him to scrutinize his subjects

By Helen Regan, and Su Chay, CNN (CNN) — Maung Nu Sein needs fuel to plow, and fertilizer to nourish his rice as planting season approaches. But the ships carrying his crucial cargo are trapped 2,000 miles away by Iran’s stranglehold of one of the world’s most important waterways. Now, the farmer is running the

By Eugenia Yosef, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Despite a fragile US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, Israel carried out strikes on Gaza City killing Hamas’ most senior military leader, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, according to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency. The Israeli strikes on Friday killed at least seven

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Somali pirates are profiting from the war in Iran as commercial ships, bypassing conflict routes through lengthy detours around Africa, sail into their strike zone. The intensifying conflict in the Middle East has choked traffic through the Strait of Hormuz – a vital route for roughly 20% of the

By Jessie Yeung, Sylvie Zhuang, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump spent his final morning in Beijing in Zhongnanhai — the highly secretive, tightly guarded leadership compound of China’s ruling Communist Party. Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping strolled through its pristine gardens, with Trump admiring the roses and Xi offering to send seeds

CNN By Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba’s dire energy woes are about to become even more critical, the nation’s energy minister warned Wednesday. A Russian donation of oil in late March has been exhausted, Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines Vicente de la O Levy said in a special televised appearance Wednesday night. “The

By Patrick Oppmann, Hira Humayun, Michael Rios, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — The US is ramping up pressure on Cuba’s government, preparing an indictment against former President Raúl Castro, according to sources, as Washington demands reforms from the Cuban government in exchange for humanitarian relief from an energy crisis it orchestrated. News of the potential

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 peacocks are wreaking havoc in the Italian seaside town of Punta Marina on the Adriatic coast, leading to local divisions over what to do about the swelling colony. By some estimates, nearly 150 peacocks are roaming free, causing a ruckus and showing aggressive

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A prolonged stalemate in Gaza risks cementing the territory’s permanent division, a top international official overseeing the ceasefire has warned, as Israel deepens its control over the enclave. Nikolay Mladenov, the official in charge of implementing the US-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza, said failure to advance the agreement

By Kosta Gak, Svitlana Vlasova, Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A huge wave of Russian strikes overnight targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired more than 1,560 drones on Ukraine since the start of Wednesday

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Wes Streeting has resigned as Britain’s health secretary, saying Thursday that he has “lost confidence” in Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership and that it would be “dishonourable and unprincipled” to remain in his government. The move comes after days of speculation about whether Streeting would formally challenge Starmer’s

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry has warned of Britain’s “deeply troubling rise in anti-Semitism” following a string of antisemitic attacks directed against the country’s Jewish community. In an op-ed published Thursday by British left-wing magazine The New Statesman, Harry outlined his fears for what he called “a divided kingdom” and urged people