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By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors. Chun Ki-won was sentenced to five years in prison last week for abusing six teenage victims between 2016 and 2023,

By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented a car to his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un, state media said Tuesday, in another sign of warming ties between the two countries that have raised concerns in the United States. The Russian-made car for Kim’s

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A European Space Agency satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii Wednesday afternoon and there have been no reports of damage, according to the agency. The agency’s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, monitored and tracked the Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite

By Kareem Khadder, Alex Stambaugh, Richard Allen Greene and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — Israeli troops forced doctors and other medical staff to leave the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, strip down to their underwear, and wait in the cold for hours before the troops allowed five doctors to go back into the building to

By Tim Lister, Maria Kostenko and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Avdiivka was on the front lines of war between Kyiv and Moscow for almost a decade. Fierce fighting raged there for months following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago. The withdrawal was far less drawn out. When the Ukrainian military abandoned

By Lauren Izso and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Israel will expand military operations in the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah if hostages held by Hamas are not returned by the start of Ramadan, war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has warned. “The world must know, and Hamas leaders must know — if by Ramadan our

By David Shortell, Amir Tal, Lauren Iszo and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — The International Court of Justice began hearing historic oral arguments Monday over the Israeli occupation of territory claimed by Palestinians, thrusting the decades-old debate before a panel of international judges as the region remains locked in an unprecedented war. Fifty-two countries will

By Sebastian Shukla, CNN (CNN) — The widow of the Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of being responsible for his death and indicated she will pick up her husband’s mantle, for a “happy, beautiful Russia.” Yulia Navalnaya posted an eight-minute video on her dead husband’s social media outlets Monday, saying

By Angus Watson and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — At least 49 bodies were found at the site of a gun battle between tribes in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands, police told CNN Monday, in a gruesome escalation of hostilities in the country. Those killed were believed to be warring members of the Ambulin and

By Nick Paton Walsh and Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — Russia is entering its third year of war in Ukraine with an unprecedented amount of cash in government coffers, bolstered by a record $37 billion of crude oil sales to India last year, according to new analysis, which concludes that some of the crude was refined by

By Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China is increasing patrols in waters near a group of frontline islands controlled by Taiwan, as tensions rise after two Chinese fishermen drowned during a pursuit by Taiwan’s coast guard who accused them of trespassing. China’s coast guard said Sunday its Fujian division will

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — He hadn’t yet won enough votes to clinch Indonesia’s presidential election, but with the confidence of a man poised to take power of one of the world’s largest democracies, Prabowo Subianto gave a press conference, half-naked, from his private swimming pool on the outskirts of Jakarta. At 72, the

By Sophie Tanno and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — The death of Alexey Navalny has been met with an outpouring of grief across the world, and even inside Russia – where the smallest acts of political dissent carry great risk – people have been honoring his memory. Russians have been turning out at makeshift memorials, with

By Chris Liakos and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Israel said Sunday it is summoning the Brazilian ambassador to the country over what it says were “shameful and serious” remarks by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Speaking earlier Sunday in Addis Ababa at the African

By Tim Lister and Maria Kostenko (CNN) — The Russian flag has been raised in several parts of the eastern town of Avdiivka in Donetsk, hours after Ukrainian forces beat a hasty retreat from the ruins of a town they’ve been defending for a decade. But Ukraine’s army is under pressure at several other points along the

By Svitlana Vaslova, Joseph Ataman and Victoria Butenko, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — When Natalia Kyrkach-Antonenko’s husband Vitalii was killed on the frontlines fighting Russia, she was 13 weeks pregnant with their daughter, Vitalina. Despite his death, Kyrkach-Antonenko found some new meaning, hope and purpose with the birth of their child. “My child is my whole life now.

CNN By Richard Roth, CNN (CNN) — The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that if the Algerian proposed resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza were to come up for a vote at the UN Security Council as drafted, it would not be adopted by Washington. In a statement

By Richard Roth, CNN (CNN) — The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that if the Algerian proposed resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza were to come up for a vote at the UN Security Council as drafted, it would not be adopted by Washington. In a statement Saturday,

By Josh Pennington, Alex Stambaugh and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — At least 75 people have been rescued after being trapped on an ice floe that broke away from the shore of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East on Sunday. Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island, is a 1,000-kilometer strip of land (621 miles) that lies off

By Kocha Olarn, Alex Stambaugh and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released from detention on Sunday, having served six months in prison following his return to the kingdom after more than 15 years in self-imposed exile. Thaksin, who served as prime minister from 2001 until he was ousted