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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

By Louise McLoughlin and Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — An unexploded bomb from World War II has been taken out to sea and detonated after being found in a garden in the English city of Plymouth, authorities said Friday. As many as 10,000 people were impacted when parts of the southern English city were

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Three escaped prison inmates may have killed two people, believed to be American citizens, on a yacht they are thought to have hijacked as they tried to make their way from Grenada to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to Grenada police. Police in the small Caribbean nation said Thursday

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday. The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus, also called “Odie” or IM-1, as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform

By Jennifer Hauser and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country had opened a new phase with Sweden during a joint press conference with Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson on Friday as Budapest prepares to ratify Stockholm’s long-delayed NATO bid. Hungary is the last member of the military alliance to

By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His prosthetic

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army, sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. Personal Birth date: March 12, 1942 Birth place: Kalnovik, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) Birth name: Ratko Mladic Father: Nedja Mladic Mother:

By Taylor Nicioli and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — February’s full moon, known as the snow moon, is set to peak on Saturday, shining bright around the world in the night sky. The moon will be at its most full at 7:30 a.m. ET Saturday, according to EarthSky, but to the human eye, the moon