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By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — An official report on the world’s deadliest aviation accident in a decade has answered one key question – but raised others. Air India flight AI171 had barely left the runway last month when it lost momentum and crashed in a densely populated area of India’s western city of Ahmedabad,

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Rudy Guede, the only person definitively convicted of the brutal 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, will be back in court this fall facing charges of sexual assault and violence against a former girlfriend. Guede, a 38-year-old Ivory Coast native who has lived in

By Kareem Khadder, Kareem El Damanhoury, Jennifer Hansler, Eugenia Yosef and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli settlers killed a 20-year-old Palestinian-American man in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and an eyewitness, as settler violence against Palestinians ramps up in the occupied territory. Twenty-year-old Sayfollah Musallet “was martyred after being

By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Poland has finalized a deal to acquire a second batch of 180 South Korean tanks under a 2022 agreement that will eventually see Warsaw boost its arsenal with almost 1,000 of the armored vehicles. The deal underlines Poland’s emergence as a substantial European

By Laura Sharman and Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly shaking from earthquakes, having chosen to stay behind while his family are on safer ground. The 52-year-old said he is exhausted and frightened to

By Ana María Cañizares and Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin is headed to the United States. Jose Adolfo Macías, better known as “Fito,” agreed Friday to be extradited from Ecuador to the US, where he is wanted by the US Justice Department on charges of drug and weapons trafficking. The

By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — A cut in the fuel supply to the engines caused last month’s Air India crash that killed 260 people, a preliminary report has found. The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport when it hurtled back to earth. Everyone on board

CNN By Gul Tuysuz and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a conflict with the Turkish state that’s lasted nearly five decades

By Gul Tuysuz and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a conflict with the Turkish state that’s lasted nearly five decades and

By Simone McCarthy, Kylie Atwood and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — There is a “high probability” that US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet this year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday. “The odds are high,” Rubio told journalists gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday. “I think both

By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Kyiv was burning as Dr. Borys Todurov sped through the city in an ambulance, undeterred by the deep thuds of explosions and the terrifying sounds of Russian drones flying overhead. He was determined to deliver his precious cargo: a human heart. Todurov’s patient –

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A case in which more than 200 kindergarten students in northwestern China were found to have abnormal blood lead levels is revealing a deep distrust in local government, as members of the public question the findings of an official investigation. Authorities in the city of Tianshui in

By Hira Humayun and Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — Detained for more than 100 days without charge, and with the threat of deportation looming over him, Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil was convinced he would eventually prevail. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Khalil, who is now back with his young family, describes the

CNN By Hira Humayun and Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — Detained for more than 100 days without charge, and with the threat of deportation looming over him, Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil was convinced he would eventually prevail. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Khalil, who is now back with his young family, describes

By Will Ripley, Lex Harvey, Chris Lau, Lucas Lilieholm and Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he “unconditionally” supports all Russian actions during its war in Ukraine, as he welcomed Moscow’s top diplomat to a newly built beach resort on his country’s east coast. Kim met Foreign Minister Sergey

By Nick Paton Walsh, Masoud Popalzai and Sarah El-Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade. For months, Tehran

By Victoria Butenko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — An Ukrainian Security Service officer was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination. A spokesperson for the service told CNN that an SBU officer was killed in Kyiv and that investigation into the assassination was underway. The

By Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond, Ibrahim Dahman and Mohammad al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli strike killed 15 people, including women and children, gathered outside a health center in the central Gazan city of Deir Al Balah on Thursday, according to medical staff and officials in the enclave. The Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza

By Michael Rios and Rocio Muñoz-Ledo, CNN (CNN) — The words “Get out of Mexico” are still visible on one shop window as protestors violently kicked in the glass pane. In another clip, “Kill a gringo” is spray-painted on a wall in Mexico City as demonstrators carried placards demanding western foreigners “stop stealing our home.”

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The remains of a famous sycamore tree, which stood on Britain’s Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall in northern England for more than 200 years, has found a new home nearly two years after it was illegally felled. The removal of the tree from its spot known as “Sycamore Gap,” a pronounced