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By Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his top general amid a shakeup of the country’s military leadership and wants his army to “gird for a war,” state media reported Thursday. Gen. Pak Su Il was dismissed as chief of the General

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Australian police investigating the suspected murder of a woman whose remains were found inside a concrete wall last year say they have identified the victim and believe she was killed more than a decade ago. Tanya Lee Glover, born in 1971, was vision and hearing impaired, and would have

CNN By Jonny Hallam, Ana Maria Cañizares, Karol Suarez and Helen Regan, CNN Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated at a campaign event Wednesday, President Guillermo Lasso confirmed on social media, vowing the killing will not go unpunished. Villavicencio was shot dead at a Movimiento Construye

By Jenny Marc, CNN Accra, Ghana (CNN) — Kennie MacCarthy rummages through a knee-deep pile of clothes, pointing out their flaws: sweat stains, overstretched collars, holes and rips. They belong to a vendor in one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets, who plans on selling these clothes for a small profit. But MacCarthy estimates

CNN By Jenny Marc, CNN Accra, Ghana (CNN) — Kennie MacCarthy rummages through a knee-deep pile of clothes, pointing out their flaws: sweat stains, overstretched collars, holes and rips. They belong to a vendor in one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets, who plans on selling these clothes for a small profit. But MacCarthy

By Jonny Hallam, Ana Maria Cañizares, Karol Suarez, Helen Regan and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated at a campaign event in the capital Wednesday as a deadly escalation of violence and crime grips the South American country. Six foreign nationals have been

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest moss, called Takakia, has persisted in some of Earth’s most extreme environments for millions of years. And despite the fact that this ancient plant is one of the fastest-evolving species of moss known to science, it may not survive the climate crisis. A team of researchers