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By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping has urged Vietnam to resist “unilateral bullying” and uphold free and open trade, as he begins a high-stakes diplomatic tour of the region’s major export-reliant economies in a bid to position his country as a stable partner in contrast to the United States. The Chinese

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — New satellite images show what could be North Korea’s biggest warship ever – possibly more than double the size of anything in leader Kim Jong Un’s naval fleet. Images taken by independent satellite providers Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs on April 6 show

By José Álvarez and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism and who once ran for president, has died at age 89, according to his family. “It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas LLosa, passed

By Michael Rios, Ana María Cañizares and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa won the country’s presidential election on Sunday based on preliminary results, an electoral official said, as his main rival demanded a recount of the vote following a race overshadowed by drug-fueled violence that has consumed the once-peaceful South American

By Abeer Salman, Dana Karni, Ibrahim Dahman and Tim Lister (CNN) — An Israeli air strike early on Sunday has incapacitated the last fully functioning hospital in Gaza City as the military expands and intensifies its campaign across the territory. No casualties were reported from the strike but the Anglican church in Jerusalem – which

By Svitlana Vlasova and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Russian ballistic missiles ripped through the busy center of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 35 people and striking terror into residents who were out enjoying Palm Sunday and attending morning church services. It was the deadliest attack of the

By Ivana Kottasová and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Asked why she and other Ukrainian people choose to keep living under Russian occupation instead of fleeing, the woman paused for a moment. “I don’t know how to explain the feeling,” she said. “It’s like you just can’t believe that evil could win. Even after three

By Andrew Carey and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — When US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink resigned her post two days ago, she was both under pressure from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office in Kyiv, and feeling the strain of working for her ultimate boss in Washington, President Donald Trump, according to people who knew her.

By Tim Lister and Oren Liebermann (CNN) — The Israeli military is extending its ground operations deep into Gaza, creating a large buffer zone between the Strip and Israeli territory and pushing hundreds of thousands of civilians into an ever-smaller area on the Mediterranean coast. By CNN’s tally, the Israel Defense Forces has issued 20

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Survival guides, stockpiling and mass evacuation drills. Europe is scrambling to prepare its citizens for the growing threat of conflict arriving on its doorstep. Several European nations have been offering sobering guidance in recent months – envisioning garages and subway stations transformed into bunkers and promoting psychological resilience. One

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ emergency and disaster response agency will reduce its global workforce by 20% and scale back operations in nine countries, as it confronts a severe funding crisis and escalating global needs, it announced on Friday. In sobering letter to staff shared on the agency’s website, the Office

By Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — “Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a small city in the country’s southeast. Back then, male violence against

By Betiana Fernández Martino and Hira Humayan, CNN (CNN) — Doctors in Argentina were already on high alert when a pregnant Russian woman showed up at the hospital on March 21 with two other women to give birth. Hospital staff in the Patagonian city of Bariloche had seen them before – four days earlier, they

By Alessandra Castelli and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain related to a wound sustained when he was stabbed on the campaign trail seven years ago. The source of the pain was a “complication in the small intestine,” caused by the multiple surgeries he underwent

By Tamar Michaelis and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A small group of reservists from Israel’s elite military intelligence unit joined a call for an immediate return of the hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate end to the war, in a sign of a growing protest movement after more than 18

By Lauren Kent and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Peace is out of reach for Ukraine due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing aggression, European defense ministers stressed Friday, even as the United States pushed ahead with talks with Moscow. Top Trump administration official Steve Witkoff met Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shaking hands

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said his nation is “not afraid,” in his first public comments on the escalating trade war with the United States, as Beijing raised tariffs on US goods to 125%. The tariff hike is the latest in a tit-for-tat battle between the world’s

By Junko Ogura and Helen Regan, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns. Three senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi visited the Hyogo Prefectural

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, Kylie Atwood, Zeena Saifi, Jennifer Hansler, Matthew Chance and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Russian-American woman Ksenia Karelina, who was serving a 12-year prison sentence for treason in Russia, has arrived in the United States after being released as part of a prisoner exchange. Karelina, who was exchanged for

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A major Australian IVF clinic has apologized for giving the wrong embryo to a woman who then gave birth to another couple’s baby, blaming the mix-up on “human error.” Monash IVF, which operates more than 100 clinics across Australia, said in a statement staff were “devastated” by