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By Adam Pourahmadi and Audry Jeong, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is willing to release North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine in the Kursk region of Russia in exchange for Ukrainian soldiers being held captive in Russia. “Ukraine is ready to hand over (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un’s soldiers

By Sharon Braithwaite, Christian Edwards and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was detained in Italy at the request of the United States following a drone attack that killed three Americans, has been released. Abedini, 38, was arrested in Milan in December on a warrant issued by the US and charged

By Lauren Izso, Hira Humayun and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with US President Joe Biden about the progress in negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal. “The prime minister discussed with the American president the progress in the negotiations to release our hostages and updated him on the

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — When 35-year-old combat medic Tetyana Tsymbaliuk regained consciousness in the hospital room, she found her boyfriend waiting with a bunch of flowers. He proposed, but she declined. After a serious injury, her leg had been amputated; she worried about being a burden as a wife. “I realized

CNN By Associated Press Paris (AP) — Two trams collided in Strasbourg in eastern France on Saturday, causing dozens of injuries, though none critical, authorities said. The accident took place during the afternoon in a tunnel leading to the station near the city’s central train station. An additional 100 people, though uninjured, were assessed for

By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Jennifer Hauser (CNN) — Ukraine claimed Saturday to have struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in a drone attack, starting a fire at the facility more than 700 miles into Russian territory. The attack on the Taneco refinery in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan – one of the largest and

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — A former child star from Australia died when the Los Angeles wildfires ripped through his family’s Malibu estate in California earlier this week, according to his mother. Rory Callum Sykes was at the family’s 17-acre Mount Malibu TV Studios estate, where he had his own cottage, when it burned

By Associated Press Paris (AP) — Two trams collided in Strasbourg in eastern France on Saturday, causing dozens of injuries, though none critical, authorities said. The accident took place during the afternoon in a tunnel leading to the station near the city’s central train station. An additional 100 people, though uninjured, were assessed for shock

By Eugenia Yosef, Lauren Izso, Jeremy Diamond and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Israeli negotiators attending ceasefire and hostage release talks in Doha have expressed “cautious optimism,” even as some gaps between both sides persist, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. A high-level Israeli delegation, which includes Mossad director David Barnea, arrived in

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Germany is working to secure a drifting Russian oil tanker, believed to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” used to fund its war in Ukraine, after it lost control in the Baltic Sea. The Eventin tanker, carrying nearly 100,000 tons of oil thought to be from Russia, lost power

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot who sustained years of horrific sexual abuse by her then-husband and other men, has described how she’s certain her father drugged her and strongly suspects she was raped too. In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, Darian, aged 46, described the mental

By Shawn Deng, Christian Edwards, Allegra Goodwin and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Violent protests have erupted in China after the death of a teenage boy sparked accusations of a cover-up by authorities, videos from the northwestern region of Shaanxi have shown. In videos verified by CNN, dozens of protesters are seen confronting a wall

CNN By Shawn Deng, Christian Edwards, Allegra Goodwin and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Violent protests have erupted in China after the death of a teenage boy sparked accusations of a cover-up by authorities, videos from the northwestern region of Shaanxi have shown. In videos verified by CNN, dozens of protesters are seen confronting a

By Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said forces operating in the Kursk region of Russia have captured two North Korean soldiers, marking the first time that Ukraine has captured alive soldiers from the isolated state. “Our soldiers have captured North Korean military personnel in the

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Four lynx “illegally released” into the Scottish Highlands have been captured by park rangers in a rollercoaster two-day rescue effort. The search began on Wednesday afternoon when two lynx were spotted in the Cairngorms National Park, one of the last truly wild places remaining in the UK. The animals

By Gawon Bae and Chris Lau, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday. Officials probing the country’s deadliest aviation accident in almost three

By Joyce Jiang and Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In the wee hours of an October morning, dozens of dogs chased the hulking figure of an animal scrambling through a forest in northwestern China as a thermal drone whizzed overhead. “The dogs caught it! Just stab it! Stab it!” a drone operator shouted

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — Iran unveiled an underground missile storage facility and announced Friday that it is manufacturing “new special missiles,” according to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) affiliated Tasnim news. Video released on Iranian state TV IRIB on Friday showed IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. Personal: Birth date: January 25, 1978 Birth place: Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine Birth name: Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky Father: Oleksandr Zelensky, computer science professor Mother: Rimma Zelenska, engineer Marriage: Olena (Kiyashko) Zelenska (2003-present) Children: Oleksandra and Kyrylo Education: Kyiv

By Abeer Salman, Mohammed al Sawalihi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Two Palestinian former detainees who were recently released from Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman detention center said they saw the prominent Palestinian physician Hussam Abu Safiya there last month, saying he was in “poor condition” when he arrived. The former detainees said Abu Safiya