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By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of new marriages recorded in China is on course to fall this year to the lowest level since records began, official data shows, as the country’s demographic crisis deepens despite a sweeping government campaign to boost matrimony and encourage births. Plummeting marriages – and births

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. A video circulating on social media and shared by rights group Amnesty International shows the woman sat outside the

By Atika Shubert, CNN (CNN) — Angry residents booed and threw eggs at Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia as they visited the Valencia region, where more than 200 people have died in devastating floods. The king faced chants of “murderer” as he visited hard-hit Paiporta, just outside of Valencia city, along with Prime Minister

By Kostyantyn Hak, Darya Tarasova and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s army chief has warned that his forces are facing “one of the most powerful Russian offensives” since the start of the war as Russia claimed it captured more settlements on the eastern frontline. Russia has steadily been making gains in the eastern Donbas

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A lightning strike killed 14 people during a prayer service in a refugee camp in Uganda on Saturday, authorities in the east African country said. The strike, in northern Uganda’s Lamwo district, injured 34 others, police said in a Sunday statement. “The victims, yet to be identified, had gathered

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow. Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during the Cold War era

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Midway through the documentary “No Other Land,” journalist and activist Basel Adra recounts a 2009 visit to his village by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a navy suit and crisp tie, surrounded by security detail and photographers, Blair walked through the village for seven minutes, Adra says

By Mick Krever, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Benjamin Netanyahu sat down for his regular cabinet meeting and had some words for a new ally – and an old enemy. “Last week I met with US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley,” the Israeli prime minister told his colleagues. “I thanked her, on your behalf

By Tamar Michaelis and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military says it has captured a senior Hezbollah operative in an amphibious special forces raid in northern Lebanon. Members of the elite Shayetet 13 force seized the alleged Hezbollah operative after landing on the coast in Batroun, a town in northern Lebanon, then took

By Vasco Cotovio and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised a “teeth-breaking” response to Israel and the United States after Israel targeted Iranian military sites in retaliatory strikes late last month. “The enemies, both the US and the Zionist regime (Israel), should know that they will definitely receive

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Moldovans are voting in the second round of a crucial presidential election, which could determine whether the post-Soviet country stays its course toward Europe or lurches back into the Kremlin’s orbit. Maia Sandu, the pro-Western president, is seeking reelection after guiding Moldova closer to the European Union than ever

CNN By Atika Shubert, CNN Valencia, Spain (CNN) — Adan Ortell Mor had a 7:30 p.m. appointment to cut a client’s hair at his salon in La Torre, Valencia, on Tuesday night. But when the client called to cancel because traffic was bad, it may have saved Mor’s life. Instead, he went home and saw

By Mitchell McCluskey and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — An armed group has taken control of a military post in central Bolivia and is holding more than 200 personnel hostage. The Bolivian military said Friday that an “irregular armed group” had kidnapped military personnel and seized weapons and ammunition from the base situated near the

By Edward Szekeres and Brad Lendon, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China appears to have built a new and unusual aircraft carrier, intriguing experts with a potentially first-of-its-kind vessel that could further increase Beijing’s rapidly expanding maritime power. Satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows a vessel with a large, open flat top under construction at

By Lauren Kent and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — The full horror of the flash flooding in Spain began to emerge on Friday, just as new rainfall lashed southern parts of the country. The storm has killed at least 205 people, with 202 of those in the hardest-hit region of Valencia, emergency services in the

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Prince William has said he comes with “no other agenda” than wanting to “help people who are in need,” in a documentary series that follows the future King as he launches a five-year program he hopes will help end homelessness in six locations across the United Kingdom. The “Homewards”

By Sophie Tanno and Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — At least 14 people have died after the roof of a railway station collapsed in northern Serbia on Friday, according to CNN affiliate N1. Serbia’s interior minister, Ivica Dačić, announced the updated death toll, N1 said, adding that rescue operations are still underway in the city

By Atika Shubert, CNN Valencia, Spain (CNN) — Adan Ortell Mor had a 7:30 p.m. appointment to cut a client’s hair at his salon in La Torre, Valencia, on Tuesday night. But when the client called to cancel because traffic was bad, it may have saved Mor’s life. Instead, he went home and saw reports

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel expects its “Iron Beam” laser defense system to be operational within one year, saying it will bring “a new era of warfare” as it engages in a war of drones and missiles with Iran and its regional partners. The Jewish state spent more than $500 million on deals

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The winner of the US presidential election could have a sweeping impact on the contentious relationship between the world’s two largest economies and rival powers. But in China, where election news is filtered through heavily censored state and social media, the focus has been more on spectacle