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By Andrew Carey, Victoria Butenko and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s capital came under heavy missile attack in the early hours of Thursday for the first time in six weeks just hours after a visit to the city by US national security adviser Jake Sullivan. More than 25,000 people took shelter in the city’s

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Two years after a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet nosedived 29,000 feet into a remote mountain, killing all 132 people on board, investigators in China have failed to offer new insight into the cause of the country’s deadliest air disaster in decades. In an update of its probe

By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the United States. Grass is as plentiful as sunshine, and under the right weather conditions is like gasoline for wildfires: All it takes is a spark for it to explode. Planet-warming

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that Washington still competes in a weapons arena where many perceive Beijing to have a distinct advantage. On March 17, a B-52 bomber

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The alleged murder of a 13-year-old boy by his classmates in rural northern China has shocked the nation, igniting heated debates about school bullying, juvenile crime and the plight of tens of millions of children raised in the absence of their migrant worker parents. Three teenagers have

Story by Reuters Hanoi, Vietnam (Reuters) — The Vietnamese Communist Party has accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, the government said on Wednesday, in a sign of political turmoil that could hurt foreign investors’ confidence in the country. The government said in a statement that Thuong had violated party rules, adding that those “shortcomings

CNN By Abeer Salman, Khader Al Za’anoun, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN. Palestinian reporters and

By Andrew Carey, CNN (CNN) — On his first visit to Kyiv since accompanying US President Joe Biden to the Ukrainian capital thirteen months ago, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reiterated his belief the US House of Representatives will eventually approve additional military aid for Ukraine despite it having been blocked – in various

By Abeer Salman, Khader Al Za’anoun, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN. Palestinian reporters and hospital

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Easter and Holy Week. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion. It also marks the end of the 40-day period of penance called Lent. Easter is considered to be the most important season of the Christian

By CNN Staff, Lou Robinson, Rachel Wilson, Henrik Pettersson and Gillian Roberts (CNN) — Russia’s invasion has pitted Ukraine against a country with a massive military and one of the world’s biggest economies. More than $380 billion in aid, committed by mostly Western nations since January of 2022, has helped Ukraine keep the fight going. That