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A health worker conducts a Covid-19  test during a Covid lockdown in Pudong district in Shanghai on April 17. Shanghai reports Monday first official Covid deaths in weeks-long lockdown.

Shanghai reports first official Covid deaths in weeks-long lockdown

By Nectar Gan, CNN Shanghai reported three Covid-19 deaths Monday, the first officially announced fatalities from a raging Omicron outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of people despite a government-enforced city-wide lockdown. Three elderly people aged between 89 and 91 died from Covid on Sunday, after their condition deteriorated in hospital, the Shanghai Municipal

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A lone sneaker lies near the scene where police say a shooting took place in Pittsburgh early Sunday morning.

More than 90 shots were fired at a party in Pittsburgh, killing two teens and injuring several others. Here’s what we know

By Michelle Watson, Tina Burnside, Ramishah Maruf, Keith Allen and Emma Tucker, CNN Two teens were killed and several other people were injured in a shooting that stemmed from a large party in Pittsburgh over the weekend, according to police. Investigators are searching for multiple suspects in the shooting, which occurred early Sunday in the

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Oleksander Obedinsky with granddaughter Kira

Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage, a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl is recruited for Moscow’s information war

By Phil Black, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Before Russia’s war on Ukraine began, Kira Obedinsky was a joyful, loved 12-year-old girl. Now orphaned, injured and alone in a Russian-controlled hospital in eastern Ukraine, she has become an unwitting pawn in Moscow’s information war. Obedinsky’s mother died when she was a baby.

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Oleksander Obedinsky with granddaughter Kira

Injured, alone and destined for a Russian orphanage, a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl is recruited for Moscow’s information war

By Phil Black, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Before Russia’s war on Ukraine began, Kira Obedinsky was a joyful, loved 12-year-old girl. Now orphaned, injured and alone in a Russian-controlled hospital in eastern Ukraine, she has become an unwitting pawn in Moscow’s information war. Obedinsky’s mother died when she was a baby.

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