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By Robbert Iddiols and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says he will run for another term in elections set to be held in 2025, a move likely to extend the long rule of a key ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko, while speaking to journalists at a polling station after voting

By Laura Paddison, Jack Guy and Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days. Gomez, who

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — As the Jorō spider continues to spread across the southeastern United States, its spindly homes can be spotted almost anywhere — even on power lines and stoplights hovering over busy roads. Typical spiders — and most creatures — tend to find the noise and wind disturbance from nearby busy roads

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Russia is nearing a presidential election that is all but certain to extend Vladimir Putin’s rule throughout this decade and into the 2030s. The vast majority of votes will be cast over three days from 15 March, though early and postal voting has already begun, including in occupied parts

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Gazing at February’s full snow moon, which will illuminate the night sky this weekend, may feel a little more special than usual after a dramatic lunar landing. Just over a week after launching, the uncrewed Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lander, also called Odysseus or “Odie,” successfully touched down near the

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The body of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been given to his mother more than a week after he died, Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Saturday. “Alexey’s body was handed over to his mother. Many thanks to all those who demanded this with us,” Yarmysh posted to

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — The Nigeria Customs Service says it is investigating reports people were trampled to death during a sale of bags of confiscated rice amid growing anger over skyrocketing prices of food in Africa’s most populous country. “There was a chaotic situation caused by the impatience of people to follow the laid down procedures

By Darya Tarasova and Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — The widow of the late dissident Alexey Navalny said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is engaging in “satanism” by refusing to release her husband’s body. “No true Christian could ever do what Putin is now doing with a body of Alexey,” Yulia Navalnaya said in video

By Chris Lau and Akanksha Sharma, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 15 people were killed in a fire thought to have been started by an electric bicycle parked at a high-rise residential building in eastern China early Friday morning, state media have reported. Forty-four people were also injured during the blaze that engulfed the

By Ivana Kottasova, Olga Voitovych and Crendon Greenway, CNN Kostyantynivka, eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Artem spends a lot of time thinking about the shots he can’t afford to take. As a battery commander in the 26th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian military, he decides when his gunners fire and when they need to hold off.

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — This weekend marks two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, upended long-held international norms and has no clear end in sight. In more than one sense, Russia’s President Vladmir Putin has failed: Ukraine remains a sovereign nation, with Moscow in

By Max Foster, Radina Gigova and Chris Lau, CNN London (CNN) — The many messages of support King Charles III received following his cancer diagnosis “reduced me to tears most of the time,” the British monarch has said in a new statement released by Buckingham Palace Friday. The King has received more than 7,000 letters