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By Svitlana Vlasova, James Legge, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in Kyiv and surrounding areas overnight as Russia fired more than two dozen ballistic and anti-ship missiles, none of which were intercepted by Ukrainian defenses. The deadly assault underlines the worsening danger for urban civilians far

By Hira Humayun, Sarah Hutter, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Omar Lotfi’s family has been crushed under the weight of unanswered questions ever since he went missing. From pleas on social media to contacting hospitals, aid groups and authorities, they’ve left no stone unturned. Lotfi, 24, went missing on July 31, after leaving his hometown

By Merlin Delcid, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The days-long eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, which has forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from nearby towns, is reducing in intensity but still remains dangerous, authorities said Wednesday. Even though volcanic activity is showing a “progressive reduction,” accumulated material at the top of the volcano

By Issy Ronald and Camille Knight, CNN (CNN) — More than 150 migrants were rescued in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a boat caught fire in the English Channel in an attempt to travel from France to Britain. The boat’s engine caught fire and its “condition deteriorated very rapidly,” forcing French and British

By Billy Stockwell and Camille Knight, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of World War II shells and munitions have been discovered in the French village of Le Porge, as residents return to the ravaged community in the wake of last month’s blazes, according to local authorities. Explosions were heard near the village in France’s Gironde region

By Rocio Munoz, Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The United States sent back more than 100 Venezuelans on a repatriation flight on Monday, the first time since deadly earthquakes ravaged the South American nation in late June. The Trump administration had been deporting hundreds of Venezuelans per week prior to June, but its deportation drive

By Yumi Asada, Jessie Yeung, Briana Waxman, CNN (CNN) — Three lions at a Tokyo zoo died within a week of suspected heat stress, as extreme temperatures sweep across Japan and other parts of East Asia. The Tama Zoological Park, located in Hino city in the greater Tokyo metropolis, closed its lion exhibit in late

By Kosta Gak, Lauren Kent, Anna Chernova, Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — At least seven people were killed in southern Russia on Monday after debris from a Ukrainian drone fell onto a crowded beach, according to local officials, in one of the deadliest incidents in recent weeks. Four of those killed in the incident

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — More than three days after US President Donald Trump unveiled an agreement to disarm Hamas as the next phase of his Gaza peace plan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has still not said publicly whether he accepts it. Instead, the Israeli leader’s silence was accompanied by a sharp increase

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The human tragedy was undeniable: around 72,000 desperate people surging across a breakwater barrier from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last Thursday, some drowning and others trampling their fellow migrants underfoot, leaving at least 72 dead. But while the dramatic incident passed almost as quickly as it

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages. The move was widely ridiculed in the Pacific Rim nation, where English is already widely used, including in courts and parliament. The English Language Bill states that the addition of English as

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s brutal heat wave has already sparked record-breaking temperatures, deadly wildfires and mass evacuations. Now a new crisis looms: an energy shortage. Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar warned on Monday that the “hardest five days are ahead of us” as the country’s sole nuclear power station teeters on the

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — What did you do in the past 29 days? New Zealand ultrarunner Sophie Woods ran 1,240 miles across eight countries to conquer one of the world’s toughest endurance challenges – breaking both the men’s and women’s time records. The 42-year-old conquered the Via Alpina, which involves traversing a vast

By Helen Regan, Ross Adkin, Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, in what appeared to be her first public meeting with a foreign official in several years, and which comes after

CNN By Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — Thunderstorms have disrupted Cuba’s attempt to restore electricity, the national grid operator said Monday, less than a day after the country suffered its sixth nationwide blackout of the year. “During the process of restoring the National Electric System, prevailing weather conditions caused disruptions to the grid, directly affecting

Story by the Associated Press Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Peru has temporarily suspended the operations of sightseeing airline Aerodiana after one of its planes crashed in the country’s Ica region on Saturday, killing 11 European tourists and two crew members. Aerodiana, which flies customers over the Nazca Lines archaeological site in southern Peru, must suspend all operations “until

Story by the Associated Press Ceuta, Spain (AP) — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Fernando García Velázquez took the admissions exam for Mexico’s most famous university four times before finally getting the result that should have guaranteed him admission. On his first three attempts, he had no option other than to travel the 400 km (250 miles) from his native Veracruz to

CNN Staff Dharamshala, India (CNN) — Cheogyal Dawa couldn’t contain his emotions when he finally came face-to-face with an image he hadn’t seen openly displayed since he was a small child: a portrait of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader. “I was so excited I burst into tears,” Cheogyal said of seeing the large