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By Meg Dunn, Laura Klairmont, Kathleen Toner, Allie Torgan, and Gabriel Kinder, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of immigrants, refugees, and locals are playing music together in Sweden, while 1,500 girls in Togo are attending school in locally made uniforms that help support their entire community. This is just some of the life-changing work of the

By Lauren Kent, Sophie Tanno, Atika Shubert, Taylor Ward, Mauricio Torres and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — At least 95 people have been killed by severe flash floods in Spain, according to authorities on Wednesday, as emergency responders scramble to find dozens of missing people. In the worst-affected region of Valencia, 92 people were killed,

By Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — A large fire has broken out at the site of one of Britain’s biggest defense companies. Emergency officials said early Wednesday that fire crews and police were responding to the blaze in the vicinity of BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, northwest England. BAE Systems is one of the largest defense

By Kathleen Magramo and Eric Cheung, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Taiwan are warning residents along its eastern coast to brace for the impacts Super Typhoon Kong-rey, which has rapidly intensified as it barrels towards the island after bashing the Philippines. Kong-rey, moving northwest over the Philippine Sea, reached super-typhoon strength on Wednesday, according to

By Betiana Fernández Martino, CNN en Español (CNN) — Montecarlo is a small city in the province of Misiones, Argentina, with just under 20,000 inhabitants. Those who walk through its neighborhoods can find cobblestone streets, but most of the roads are made of dirt. Anyone who wants to travel from this town to Posadas, the

By Taylor Ward, CNN and Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español (CNN) — Several bodies have been found after parts of southern and eastern Spain were hit by severe flash flooding on Tuesday, with some locations receiving up to 12 inches of rain in just a few hours. Footage from the city of Valencia showed mud-colored

By Abeer Salman and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The photo shows a large crowd of more than 200 people, crouching low amid the rubble of Jabalya in northern Gaza. Mostly men, many are almost naked, some are elderly, some visibly wounded. There’s at least one child among them. They were detained and most ordered to strip

By Lauren Kent and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The teenager charged with the murder of three young girls in a July stabbing attack at a dance class in northwest England will face a terrorism charge, British prosecutors announced Tuesday. The suspect Axel Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack but

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The group’s Senior Council elected Qassem as secretary-general, Hezbollah’s media office said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that Qassem is committed to prophet “Mohammed’s authentic

By Joaquin Caballero, CNN en Español (CNN) — A man has died and up to nine other people are missing after a 10-story hotel collapsed in Argentina. The 10-story Dubrovnik hotel in the city of Villa Gessell, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) from the capital Buenos Aires on the Atlantic coast, collapsed early on Tuesday

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Kosta Gak and Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday it had taken the Ukrainian town of Selydove, southeast of the key city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Russian forces have been advancing on Selydove in the last several weeks, according to frontline reports. It’s