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By Ivonne Valdes, Hira Humayun and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — An Italian scientist has been found dead in Colombia, according to local authorities, after several pieces of a human body were discovered lying on a path in the coastal city of Santa Marta on Sunday. City police said their investigation showed that a bracelet

By Max Saltman and Angélica Franganillo-Díaz, CNN (CNN) — More than 200 people, including 17 US citizens, died after the roof of the popular Jet Set nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Domingo, this week in one of the Caribbean country’s deadliest tragedies. Footage from the scene early Tuesday morning showed how a

By Kareem Khadder, Eugenia Yosef and Pauline Lockwood, CNN (CNN) — Israel has released a Palestinian man who was controversially arrested at the age of 13, after he spent nearly a decade in jail. Ahmad Manasra has been reunited with his family, his lawyer Khaled Zabarqa told CNN. “Ahmad has completed his 10-year sentence and

By Niamh Kennedy, Nadeen Ebrahim, Zeena Saifi and Avery Schmitz, CNN London and Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates at the United Nations’ top court of violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in its Darfur region. “A genocide is being committed against the ethnic group of the

By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — A suspect accused of facilitating the deadly Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 has been extradited by the United States to India, 17 years after the country was jolted by one of the worst tragedies to occur on its soil. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen of

By Eugenia Yosef and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military has fired Air Force reservists who publicly called for an immediate return of the remaining hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate ceasefire, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In a letter published in Israel’s major newspapers,

By Sophie Tanno, Ana Melgar and Verónica Calderón, CNN (CNN) — Dominican Republic authorities have ended their rescue operation and turned to recovery efforts following the collapse of a nightclub roof on Tuesday, which left more than 200 people dead. The deadly incident in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the Jet Set nightclub

By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, Kylie Atwood, Zeena Saifi, Jennifer Hansler, Matthew Chance and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Russian-American woman Ksenia Karelina, who was serving a 12-year prison sentence for treason in Russia, has arrived in the United States after being released as part of a prisoner exchange. Karelina, who was exchanged for an