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By Josh Pennington and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Moscow is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to the existence of the Russian state but “there has never been such a need,” President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state media published Wednesday. The Russian leader made the comments to

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A deadly suspected gas explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in northern China on Wednesday, leaving a scene of devastation. The powerful blast occurred just before 8 a.m. at a ground-floor restaurant in a residential area of Sanhe city, Hebei province, east of the capital Beijing, state

By Cristopher Ulloa and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — Chilean aviation authorities are on their way to New Zealand to investigate the LATAM Airlines flight that had a mid-air drop Monday, as teams on the ground remove the plane’s flight data recorders for analysis. Several passengers described to CNN the terrifying flight from Australia to

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Jeremy Diamond and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by a border police officer in Shuafat refugee camp in occupied east Jerusalem, according to hospital officials and an Israeli police spokesperson. In a video obtained by CNN, the boy – Rami Al Halhouli

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Europa Clipper aims to launch on its highly anticipated mission to an icy moon in October, the spacecraft will carry a unique design etched with names, poetry and artwork symbolizing humanity. The US space agency has a long history of sending names and meaningful designs aloft aboard

By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — An American delegation on religious freedom cut short its visit to Saudi Arabia after one of its members was asked to remove his Jewish head covering, or kippah. The delegation from the US Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) was on an official visit to the UNESCO heritage site of

By Darya Tarasova and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Alexey Navalny’s chief of staff was attacked in Lithuania Tuesday, the Kremlin critic’s team said, as Lithuania’s intelligence agency pinned the blame on Russia as the “likely” force behind the assault. “Leonid Volkov has just been attacked outside his house. Someone broke a car window and

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Jennifer Hansler and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation following a meeting of regional Caribbean leaders on Monday, bowing to the inevitable as law and order in the country collapsed and international pressure grew for him to step aside. Henry has been in the

By Christian Edwards, Olga Voitovych and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Pro-Ukrainian groups of Russian fighters claimed to have launched cross-border attacks in two regions of Russia on Tuesday, hours after Kyiv fired a wave of drones at targets across the country. The Freedom for Russia Legion – a group of Russian dissidents fighting for

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is some background information about the trials and execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Facts Hussein was charged with premeditated murder, imprisonment and the deprivation of physical movement, forced deportation and torture. Seven other defendants stood trial with Hussein: Barzan Hassan, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Awad al-Bandar, Abdullah Ruwaid,

By Matthew Chance, CNN Moscow (CNN) — There is an inevitability about the outcome of Russia’s looming presidential election. Like it or not, Vladimir Putin, the man driving a catastrophic war in Ukraine, a brutal crackdown on dissent, and a lurch toward isolation in Russia, now the most sanctioned nation on earth, is poised to win a

By Nadine Schmidt, CNN Berlin (CNN) — An American man has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a tourist and the attempted murder of her friend – both US citizens from Illinois – in a gruesome attack near one of Germany’s most popular tourist sights. A German court convicted