By Nathan Hodge, Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova and Anna Chernova, CNN A twenty-year veteran of Russia’s diplomatic service announced his resignation Monday in protest against his country’s war on Ukraine, in a rare public protest by a Russian official, multiple media outlets reported. Boris Bondarev, a diplomat posted to Russia‘s mission to the United Nations
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By Atika Shubert, Abeer Salman and Lauren Izso, CNN A court in Jerusalem has issued a controversial ruling that critics say threatens the fragile agreement regulating access to Jerusalem’s most disputed holy sites. Israeli Magistrate’s Court Judge Zion Sahrai ruled Sunday that three Jewish youths were not violating security conditions when they recited a Jewish
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By Ramin Mostaghim, Celine Alkhaldi in Amman, Adam Pourahmadi and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN At least 24 people were killed in Monday’s collapse of a 10-story building in the Iranian city of Abadan, state news agency IRNA said on Friday as the search for survivors continued. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the Iranian Red
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By Daria Markina, Josh Berlinger and Jack Guy, CNN A 21-year-old Russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing an unarmed man in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial since Russia’s invasion. The soldier, Vadim Shishimarin, had pleaded guilty to shooting a 62-year-old civilian to death on the fourth day of the
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By Ivana Kottasová and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN “What would happen if we cut off your ear?” the soldiers asked Oleksandr Vdovychenko. Then they hit him in the head. The punches kept coming whenever his interrogators — a mixture of Russian soldiers and pro-Russian separatists — didn’t like his answers, he later told his family. The
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By Alex Hardie, CNN and Reuters Parts of Spain have experienced a record heatwave for the month of May as temperatures reached 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in one city, according to the country’s national weather agency AEMET. On Sunday afternoon, the weather agency had warnings of high temperatures in place across 17 Spanish
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EXCLUSIVE by Uliana Pavlova, CNN It took a few weeks of sleeping on crates of grenades for a bed and hiding his face from Ukrainians amid a growing sense of guilt, for the Russian junior officer to come to his conclusion: This wasn’t his battle to fight. “We were dirty and tired. People around us
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The pine forests around Irpin are Oleh Bondarenko’s happy place. He discovered them as a child, when his mom sent him to the area for summer camp, and he has been coming back ever since. “It’s a place full of memories. Vorzel, Irpin, Bucha, the forests, the fresh air. For me,
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By CNN’s Kareem Khadder, and journalist Lauren Izso A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed and an 18-year-old was critically injured by Israeli fire during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the West Bank Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health and Palestine TV later identified the teen who died as Amjad al-Fayed
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By Joshua Berlinger, CNN It is nearly three months since Russia invaded Ukraine — a 12-week period in which Russian forces have wrought devastation on the country and its people, resulting in death on a vast scale and causing millions to flee. But the invasion has not been the military success Moscow hoped, and is
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Russia’s actions in Ukraine provide enough evidence to conclude that Moscow is inciting genocide and committing atrocities intended to destroy the Ukrainian people, according to the first independent report into allegations of genocide in that country. The legal report, signed by more than 30 leading legal scholars and genocide experts, accuses
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By Tim Lister and Sanyo Fylyppov, CNN As thousands of Ukrainians continue to flee Russian-occupied parts of southern Ukraine, they run a gauntlet of harassment by Russian troops, sometimes coming under fire. More than a dozen people have spoken to CNN at length about their harrowing journeys out of the Kherson region, which has been
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