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By Hassan Tayier, Gul Tuysuz and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — Eleven people were killed in a blast at an explosives and ammunition factory in the village of Kavakli in the Karesi district of Balikesir province in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, according to the country’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya, who said that an investigation had

By Yoonjung Seo and Chris Lau, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea has become a “super-aged” society with one in five people aged 65 or older, official data showed Tuesday, underscoring the country’s deepening demographic crisis. The number of people aged 65 and older stands at 10.24 million, accounting for 20% of South

By Catherine Nicholls and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — A Moscow court has on Tuesday sentenced a US citizen to 15 years in prison for espionage, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Gene Spector, who was born in Russia but later moved to the United States and received citizenship, had previously been sentenced to

By Nectar Gan and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese court has issued a suspended death sentence to a man who rammed his car into crowds outside a primary school in southern China last month, injuring more than two dozen people in one of several violent attacks that has recently rattled the

By Nic Robertson, CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor (CNN) — 2024 was the year of the vote. More than 60 countries – home to nearly half the planet’s population – selected their leaders. In the history of democracy, it is a first. In the history of humankind, it was a remarkable coming of age, an evolution,

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Protests erupted in Christian neighborhoods of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another town by unidentified men on Monday evening. A video showing men setting fire to a publicly displayed Christmas tree in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near the city of

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A Swiss International Air Lines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday due to smoke in the cabin and cockpit, the airline said. Flight LX1885 was en route from Bucharest, Romania to Zurich when the crew decided to abort the journey due to engine issues and smoke

By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Russian scientists presented the carcass of a baby mammoth, whose incredibly well-preserved remains were found in the Siberian region of Yakutia in June after more than 50,000 years. The carcass of the female juvenile mammoth, nicknamed Yana, was discovered by local residents after a permafrost crater expanded, according to

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — The residence of the Argentine ambassador in Caracas, Venezuela, is mostly silent these days. Rather than diplomatic chatter or Christmas carols at this time of the year, the only noise is that of a small diesel power generator the residents turn on twice a day to charge their phones.

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles will deliver his Christmas Day message from a church with links to the medical community, Buckingham Palace said Monday, in a break with tradition amid his continued cancer treatment. The 76-year-old monarch revealed in February that he was battling an unspecified cancer and

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia is working to verify the authenticity of a video that purportedly shows one of its nationals captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine. The video, posted to Russian Telegram accounts, shows a man with a muddied face being questioned in a forested area by another

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A former US Marine accused of training Chinese military pilots will be extradited to face charges in the United States, Australia’s Attorney General confirmed Monday, dealing a blow to supporters who have mounted a public campaign for his freedom. Daniel Duggan, a naturalized Australian, was arrested in

By Victoria Butenko and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia were given fake military documents with Russian names and birthplaces, the Ukrainian military said, amid claims from Kyiv that Russia is trying to conceal the presence of foreign fighters on the battlefield. Ukraine’s special operations forces said in a statement

By Lauren Kent and Maria Kostenko, CNN London and Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — She arrived in London with just one suitcase, full of mostly children’s clothes, and her young daughter in tow. Her home engulfed by war, Ukrainian mother Yana Felos found herself in the United Kingdom in April 2022 with no friends, no family

By Kareem Khadder, Tim Lister and Nadeen Ibrahim, CNN Jenin, West Bank (CNN) — For more than a week, the sprawling Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has echoed to the sound of heavy gunfire – with masked snipers on roof tops and muffled explosions within its warren of alleyways. But the combat

By Joyce Jiang and Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A 9-year-old girl pushes back against period shame, telling adults at the dinner table, “more than half the world’s population bleeds.” Two men fight for a woman’s heart by boasting how many books they’ve read by Japanese feminist icon Chizuko Ueno. A stalker following

By Duarte Mendonca and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A small plane has crashed into an urban center in the southern Brazilian city of Gramado, killing all 10 people on board and injuring over a dozen more on the ground, according to Brazilian authorities. The crash happened minutes after the aircraft took off on Sunday

By Matthew Chance and Benjamin Brown, CNN Magdeburg, Germany (CNN) — Its glühwein stalls, festooned with Christmas lights and tinsel, stand emptied and shuttered. On the cordoned off market street, in the center of Magdeburg, German police stand guard as, one officer told CNN, forensic teams carefully examine the crime scene before scrubbing the blood

By Mohammed al Sawalihi, Ibrahim Dahman, Tim Lister and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Eleven people were killed in an Israeli air strike in central Gaza on Saturday night, including several members of one family, according to hospital authorities. Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, told CNN that others had been injured in the

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least 32 people were killed in crowd crushes at two separate charity events in Nigeria on Saturday, police say. Some 22 people were killed at an event held in a community center in Okija in the southeastern state of Anambra, state police said on Sunday. The event was