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By Angus Watson and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese-Australian writer who has been detained in China for more than four years said he fears he could die in jail, after a large cyst was found on his kidney. Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen and democracy activist, was detained in 2019 during a visit

CNN By Jennifer Hauser and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have killed” Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and said there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine. Writing in a Daily Mail op-ed on Saturday, Johnson speculated about Prigozhin’s last

By Michelle Velez, CNN (CNN) — At least seven people are dead after a gang opened fire on a church-led protest in a suburb of Haiti’s capital on Saturday, according to local human rights groups. Hundreds of people gathered by a Christian church leader, marched in Canaan, a northern suburb of capital Port-au-Prince, and rallied

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The launch of a revolutionary satellite that will reveal celestial objects in a new light and the “Moon Sniper” lunar lander has been postponed. Liftoff was expected at at 8:26 p.m. ET Sunday, or 9:26 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Monday, but inclement weather — and specifically high upper

Analysis by Al Goodman, CNN Madrid (CNN) — More than a week after Spain’s historic win over England in the Women’s World Cup final, there is little talk of soccer. Instead, the victory has been overshadowed by an unwanted kiss that has sparked global outrage and put the spotlight on Spain’s enduring culture of machismo

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A 37-year-old banker from Turin is being hailed a hero after miraculously catching an Italian toddler who fell from her family’s fifth floor balcony on Saturday. Mattia Aguzzi said he and his girlfriend were walking to a bread shop in central Turin, Italy just before 11 a.m.

CNN By Heather Chen, Brad Lendon, Angus Watson, Jake Kwon and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Three US Marines have been killed and several others seriously wounded after an Osprey aircraft crashed during military exercises in Australia. Of the 23 Marines on board the MV-22B Osprey aircraft, three died and five others were taken to

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Sunday at the International Space Station, concluding a one-day trip to rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory after launching from Florida. The capsule made first contact with the space station at 9:16 a.m. ET Sunday and its hatches opened at 10:58 a.m.

By Uliana Pavlova, Radina Gigova and Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Russian investigators have confirmed that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the 10 people killed when their plane crashed Wednesday, after carrying out genetic tests. Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin, had previously been named as one of those on board

By Jennifer Hauser and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have killed” Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and said there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine. Writing in a Daily Mail op-ed on Saturday, Johnson speculated about Prigozhin’s last moments,

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — One of only 15 competition prize editions ever published of a rare “Harry Potter” book, which nearly went up in flames earlier this year, will soon go up for auction. In 2012, a then-15-year-old Carina Haouchine, from Scotland, scored a winning copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s

By Mariya Knight and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The Ukrainian Air Force has paid tribute to a well-known pilot who belonged to the “Ghost of Kyiv” unit after he died in a plane crash during a combat mission. Andriy Pilshchikov, who went by the call sign “Juice”, and two other pilots died in the

By Ivana Kottasová, Uliana Pavlova and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — For more than nine years, Russian tourists vacationing in Crimea didn’t need to give much thought to the fact that their country was waging war on Ukraine – or that their sun lounger was parked on occupied territory. But with Kyiv’s counteroffensive underway, the

By Irene Nasser (CNN) — North Korea has announced it will allow its citizens living abroad to return home in an easing of its coronavirus-era border controls. But it will still require them to do a one-week quarantine. The country has decided to “adjust the anti-epidemic degree in reference to the eased worldwide pandemic situation,”

By Eleni Giokos and Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Athens, Greece (CNN) — In Agia Paraskevi, one of the villages dotted around Mount Panitha, just 15 miles north of Greece’s capital, Athens, we found a familiar sight: a woman standing in front of a burned house, its black, skeletal roof beams reaching imploringly into the smoldering sky

By Heather Chen, Brad Lendon, Angus Watson, Jake Kwon and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Three US Marines have been killed and several others seriously wounded after an Osprey aircraft crashed during military exercises in Australia. Of the 23 Marines on board the MV-22B Osprey aircraft, three died and five others were taken to the

By Nimi Princewill, Shirin Faqiri and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner in the country’s presidential elections on Saturday after securing an absolute majority in a tense presidential contest that was marred by delays. “The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has announced the 2023 presidential election results. His Excellency

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A manual laborer from India has successfully sued his employers in Singapore for negligence after he fell off the back of an overcrowded lorry, in a rare legal win for migrant workers that has renewed debate about their treatment in the wealthy city state. Ramalingam Murugan, a 37-year-old father

By Berry Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — When Han lost her job as an interface designer in Beijing in February, she figured her 10 years of experience meant she wouldn’t need to look long for alternative work. But with the job hunt dragging on, she’s beginning to worry. She’s sent off

By Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Three Ukrainian pilots, including a well-known pilot who went by the call sign “Juice,” have died in a plane crash, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday, August 25, near the city of Zhytomyr, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) west of Kyiv. The crews