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By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea claims it tested a new nuclear weapons command-and-control system Monday, with the firing of projectiles carrying simulated nuclear warheads from multiple rocket launcher units. Leader Kim Jong Un directed the drill, which simulated a nuclear counterattack, according to a report from the state-run Korean

By Andrew McNicol, CNN (CNN) — Teenage Indian chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju, better known as Gukesh D, became the youngest player to claim the men’s Candidates Tournament in Toronto, Canada Sunday. The 17-year-old grandmaster’s win sets up an opportunity to dethrone reigning world champion Ding Liren of China at the 2024 World Chess Championship later

Story by Reuters Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Two Malaysian navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a naval parade on Tuesday, killing all 10 crew members aboard, the navy said in a statement. The incident occurred at the Lumut naval base in the western state of Perak at 9:32 a.m. local time, the navy said. “All victims were confirmed

By Andy Carey and Tim Lister, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine say the final approval in the US Congress of a $60 billion military aid package for Kyiv will serve as a giant morale boost as Russia looks to step up its advance. US President Joe Biden has said he

By Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — The UK parliament has finally passed a contentious bill that will allow the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be considered by the East African nation. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s efforts had been stuck between opposition in the Houses of Parliament and challenges in the British courts, as lawmakers and activists have

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos. Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Early results from Ecuador’s referendum suggest President Daniel Noboa has won public backing for security measures aimed at boosting his war on crime. His government looks on track to win support for nine of the 11 proposals it put forward in Sunday’s vote, including for four of its key

By Maria Kostenko and Andrew Carey, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — The top section of a giant television tower in Kharkiv has crashed to the ground after the structure was hit by a Russian missile, a Ukrainian official says. Video circulating on social media shows the moment the top of the mast broke, rotated through 180

By Ivonne Valdes and Fidel Gutierrez, CNN (CNN) — Mexican authorities have detained the brother of the drug kingpin known as “el Mencho,” a federal source with knowledge of the case told CNN Monday. Abraham Oseguera – alias “Don Rondo” – was detained in the western state of Michoacán and is currently in the custody

By Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A mass grave with more than 300 bodies has been uncovered at a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Gaza Civil Defense workers said, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area earlier this month. Col. Yamen Abu Suleiman, Director of

By Chris Stern, Stephanie Halasz and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Three people in Germany have been arrested under suspicion of spying for China, while two people have been charged in the United Kingdom for espionage offenses. Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said three German nationals, two men and a woman, were arrested for allegedly violating

By Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — “They stole six years of my life, and I committed no crime,” writer Behrouz Boochani tells CNN from New Zealand, where he now lives. He does not mince his words as he describes the impact of being detained as an asylum seeker on a remote island in Papua New