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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As humans, we’ve left our mark on every place we’ve been — including other worlds. Rover tracks crisscross the red surface of Mars, and iconic boot prints from the Apollo era still dot the moon. Closer to home, footprints across the globe have revealed the presence of different species over

By Ibrahim Dahman, Hadas Gold, Lauren Iszo, Amir Tal, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Richard Allen Greene and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” on Saturday, after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A drag queen who dressed as Jesus Christ and performed a rock rendition of The Lord’s Prayer has been arrested in the Philippines under the country’s obscenity laws, sparking a fierce debate about free speech and protections for members of the LGBTQ community. The Philippines is a deeply Christian

By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old boy who was killed by Russia’s strike on the city of Kharkiv on Friday was apparently asleep when missiles hit residential buildings, Ukrainian officials said. A picture purporting to show the boy’s body lying in the middle of the rubble was posted on social media by the

By Mariya Knight (CNN) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday that by arming Ukraine, the United States is pushing Russia toward using nuclear weapons. “I am getting the impression – I say again that it is my opinion – that Americans are pushing Russians toward using the most terrifying weapon. They arm Volodymyr Oleksandrovych

CNN By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has fled to Armenia, with many thousands more still scrambling to evacuate, a week after the breakaway region surrendered following a lightning Azerbaijani offensive. More than 50,000 people – including 17,000 children – had fled by Wednesday morning, after Azerbaijan lifted a 10-month

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, a NASA mission is setting off on a distant journey to visit a metal world in our solar system. Getting up close with the asteroid known as Psyche is the only way to determine whether it’s the rare exposed core of an early planetary building

By Mia Alberti, Bertha Ramos, and Caitlin Hu, CNN (CNN) — A bus crash in the Mexican state of Oaxaca killed 16 people on Friday, according to local authorities, who say most of the passengers were migrants. Three children and two women are among the victims, all of whom are from Venezuela and Haiti, the

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Kostyantin Gak and Daniel Hodge, CNN Hroza (CNN) — Two women slowly approach a makeshift memorial in the village of Hroza. They pause for a moment, carefully laying a red rose each as tears stream down their face. “My neighbors, my neighbors,” cries Valentina Kozienko, her face puffed red in

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Amazon has officially joined the race to build massive constellations of satellites that can blanket the globe in internet connectivity — a move that puts the tech company in direct competition with SpaceX and its Starlink system. The first two prototype satellites for Amazon’s network, called Project Kuiper, launched

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Amazon has officially joined the race to build massive constellations of satellites that can blanket the globe in internet connectivity — a move that puts the tech company in direct competition with SpaceX and its Starlink system. The first two prototype satellites for Amazon’s network, called Project Kuiper, launched aboard

By Eve Brennan, Chris Liakos and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — Morocco and Algeria have introduced measures to limit the risk of bedbug infestation, as France reportedly grapples with a surge in numbers of the blood-sucking insect. The Moroccan health ministry “has taken all appropriate measures to limit the risk of introduction and spread of

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — More than 43 million children have been driven from their homes by floods, storms, droughts and wildfires over the six years between 2016 and 2021, according to new data from UNICEF. That works out to 20,000 children displaced every single day due to extreme weather fueled by climate change.

By Aimee Look, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — A group of United Arab Emirates residents has found more than 140 cats dumped in a desert lot in the capital Abu Dhabi, in a phenomenon that has drawn criticism from international animal rights organizations and prompted a government investigation. Cats of all breeds, including non-native

By Jomana Karadsheh and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — With the help of intermediaries, Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was able to send a letter to CNN from inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. Mohammadi and her family believe she will be further penalized for speaking out once again through CNN, but that did not and

CNN Staff, Rachel Wilson, Lou Robinson and Henrik Pettersson (CNN) — Russia’s invasion has pitted Ukraine against a country with a massive military and one of the world’s biggest economies. Ukraine has been able to keep the fight going in large part due to nearly $350 billion in aid that’s been committed by mostly Western

CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Helen Regan, CNN Hroza, Ukraine (CNN) — There were no military targets in the village that was hit by a Russian missile strike Thursday, a top Ukrainian police official said, in what was one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began and which

By Christian Edwards, Ed Upright and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday.

CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Helen Regan, CNN Hroza, Ukraine (CNN) — There were no military targets in the village that was hit by a Russian missile strike Thursday, a top Ukrainian police official said, in what was one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began and which

By Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Helen Regan, CNN Hroza, Ukraine (CNN) — There were no military targets in the village that was hit by a Russian missile strike Thursday, a top Ukrainian police official said, in what was one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began and which the