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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — The Casamonica crime family, a mafia-style organized crime syndicate that operates in and around Rome, has been blamed for a black coffin that was left in front of an anti-mafia activist’s home Sunday, police said. The activist, Tiziana Ronzio, is president of the Toripiubella anti-mafia group,

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A violent standoff between Philippine police and followers of a fugitive preacher wanted by both the FBI and local law enforcement on sexual abuse and human trafficking charges entered a fourth day on Tuesday as nearly 2,000 officers surrounded a sprawling church compound. Pastor Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, a self-styled

By Brad Lendon and Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan says a Chinese military intelligence-gathering aircraft entered its territorial airspace off remote islands in the East China Sea on Monday, the first time Tokyo has accused the People’s Liberation Army Air Force of an airspace violation and a new irritant in frosty relations between

By Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — At least 30 people have been killed following the collapse of a dam in Sudan’s northwest Red Sea State, according to the United Nations’s emergency relief agency. Hundreds more are believed missing, Reuters reported. Flash flooding decimated 20 villages and damaged a further 50 after the Arba’at Dam collapsed

By Hira Humayun and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV said Monday. The rescue operation, which started Sunday evening, is now complete, with police saying no more people are trapped under the ice, according

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — The captain of the luxury Bayesian yacht that sank near Porticello, off the coast of Sicily, last week will face an investigation into possible charges of manslaughter and negligent shipwreck, the Italian prosecutor’s office announced Monday. James Cutfield, 51, was the head of crew aboard the 56-meter (184-foot)

CNN By Rebecca Wright, Anna Coren, Salman Saeed and Mark Phillips, CNN Feni, Bangladesh (CNN) — Wading through muddy floodwaters up to chest height, hundreds of people slowly make their way to safety, their belongings held high above their heads to keep them dry. Entering the city of Feni in southeast Bangladesh, it becomes clear

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — John Alfred Tinniswood was born the same year the Titanic sank and when New Mexico and Arizona became US states. Now, the world’s oldest living man, who was born on August 26, 1912, is celebrating his 112th birthday. Tinniswood is marking the occasion with friends and family at his

By Svitlana Vlasova, Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova and Christian Edwards, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia launched a “massive” missile and drone attack aimed at energy infrastructure across Ukraine at the start of the week, marking the biggest air assault since the war began, Ukrainian officials said. Moscow has since followed that with a second wave of strikes

By Ivana Kottasová and Kosta Hak, CNN Pokrovsk, Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — The empty boxes are piling up on the floor as Halyna goes through her medical kit, taking out packs of pills and discarding any unnecessary packaging. She can’t afford to waste space. She’s running away and the journey ahead is long and risky.

By Rebecca Wright, Anna Coren, Salman Saeed and Mark Phillips, CNN Feni, Bangladesh (CNN) — Wading through muddy floodwaters up to chest height, hundreds of people slowly make their way to safety, their belongings held high above their heads to keep them dry. Entering the city of Feni in southeast Bangladesh, it becomes clear why

By Niamh Kennedy, Lauren Kent, Michelle Velez and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — A British safety adviser for the Reuters news agency was killed and two journalists injured when a Russian strike hit a hotel in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday night. Reuters had a six-person crew staying at the Hotel Sapphire as part of

CNN By Dana Karni, Tamar Michaelis, Alex Marquardt and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — The Israeli military launched what it called “preemptive” strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, as the Iran-backed militant group said it carried out its own attacks in response to the killing of a top commander. The overnight strikes are

By Tareq Al Hilou, Abeer Salman and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem, Tel Aviv ( (CNN) — Ibrahim Salem, 34, said he felt a deep sense of dread when a soldier ordered him to undress during his captivity in Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman prison. “They told me to strip,” the Palestinian said, reflecting on

By Dana Karni, Tamar Michaelis, Alex Marquardt and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — The Israeli military launched what it called “preemptive” strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, as the Iran-backed militant group said it carried out its own attacks in response to the killing of a top commander. The overnight strikes are some

By Sophie Tanno, Nadine Schmidt and Chris Stern, CNN (CNN) — A Syrian man turned himself in and confessed to stabbing to death three people and wounding several others at a festival in the western German city of Solingen on Friday, police said. Two men, aged 67 and 56, and a woman aged 56 died

By Michael Mitsanas, Tanbirul Miraj Ripon, Helen Regan, Rebecca Wright and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had stormed their village of Byine Phyu,

By Joseph Ataman, Lex Harvey, Robert Ilich, and Michelle Velez, CNN Paris (CNN) — The detention of the Russian-born billionaire founder of Telegram, a messaging app known for its unfiltered content, has sparked debate about freedom of speech and illegal content on the internet. Pavel Durov, 39, was detained at Paris’s Bourget Airport Saturday on

By Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israel said Saturday its military was prepared for any possible retaliatory attacks by Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah or Iran for the killings of their senior leaders. The news comes amid claims in the Israeli media that there are situational assessments that Hezbollah could attack soon. Both Hezbollah and Iran

By Niamh Kennedy and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Italy have opened a manslaughter investigation into the sinking of a superyacht, which killed British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others off the coast of Sicily earlier this week. Announcing the probe, prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said investigators found it was not the