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By Saskya Vandoorne, Melissa Bell and Oleksandra Ochman (CNN) Mykola Kulichenko struggles to recount a tale he shouldn’t be alive to tell. But this Ukrainian man believes he was allowed to cheat death so he might speak for all those who cannot. By the side of a remote road in the northern Chernihiv region of

By Mick Krever, CNN On a dusty street in the eastern Ukrainian town of Sloviansk, a man in a long-sleeved black shirt and cargo pants smokes a cigarette. He’s being watched. “He’s ours,” a man says into a radio from his car down the road. “Here he goes.” From the other direction, a van swerves,

By Tim Lister, Taras Zadorozhnyy, Victoria Butenko and Jack Guy, CNN Ukrainian forces have completed their “combat mission” in Mariupol, according to a statement by the country’s military, bringing the months-long battle for the besieged city close to an end. Commanders of units stationed at the city’s massive Azovstal steelworks plant have been ordered “to

By Kareem Khadder and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN The brother of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Monday blasted the violent intervention by Israeli police into her funeral as “unacceptable and unjustifiable.” “They could have easily blocked the road if they didn’t want to see the funeral leave the hospital but the attack was intentional

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Somalia’s parliament elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the country’s tenth president on Sunday, in a vote broadcast live on national TV. Mohamud previously served as president from September 2012 to February 2017 and is now the first leader of the country elected twice as Somalia’s head of state. After his election

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN When masked Russian soldiers ransacked Nina’s home in northeastern Ukraine at 6 a.m. one day in late April, they were not searching for weapons. Instead, they were looking for her Ukrainian textbooks. The troops held her husband and daughter at gunpoint, but the 48-year-old told CNN she knew

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By Tim Lister and Sanyo Fylyppov, CNN Every day, hundreds, or even thousands, of people are trying to flee the Russian-occupied region of Kherson in southern Ukraine, gathering up whatever they can cram into their cars, or even piling onto tractors. And every day they run a gauntlet of harassment and worse from Russian troops.

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Lebanese citizens voted Sunday in a high-stakes parliamentary election, the first since a 2019 popular uprising demanded the downfall of the ruling elite, blaming traditional parties for corruption and mismanagement. Several new political groups sprung out of the protest movement and are competing in Sunday’s race, coming head to head with