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By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he was

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he

By Maria Kostenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Radina Gigova and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen people, including a 12-year-old girl, are among those killed in a Russian strike that hit a large store in Kharkiv at the weekend, regional officials have said, making it the deadliest attack Ukraine has endured in several weeks. Five people remain missing,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Ten people were killed and 160 others, including children, were abducted during a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on a remote village in north-central Nigeria, a local official told CNN on Monday. The attack occurred in Kuchi village, Munya district, in Niger state, beginning at about 5:30 p.m.

By Ingrid Formanek and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — At least 134 people have been killed in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, since May 10 due to intense fighting, according to a statement from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Sunday. MSF reported that one of its colleagues, a watchman at the

By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Sarah El Sirgany and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday an airstrike that killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, was a “tragic error.” “Despite our best effort not to harm

CNN By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Sarah El Sirgany and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday an airstrike that killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, was a “tragic mistake.” “Despite our best effort, not to

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The cockroach that emerged from your sink drain and scuttled under the fridge? The nocturnal critter was most likely a German cockroach, and its ancestors were pestering people more than 2,000 years ago in southern Asia, a new study found. The research, published May 20 in the journal Proceedings

By Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — Burkina Faso’s military regime will extend its rule by five years under a new agreement reached during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman Colonel Moussa Diallo said on state television. Diallo said the extension would start on July 2 and last five years, at the end of which

CNN By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A pilot and passenger emerged unscathed from a light plane that made a dramatic crash landing in Australia after flying perilously close to houses in suburban Sydney. The Cessna plane lost power during the flight on Sunday, forcing the pilot to make a mayday call to report an