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By Eve Brennan, Sophie Tanno, Niamh Kennedy and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — The Nobel Foundation has U-turned on a controversial decision to invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to the Nobel Prize award ceremony after facing widespread criticism. The foundation announced in a press release Saturday that ambassadors from the three countries

CNN By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Mohamed Al-Fayed, the outspoken Egyptian tycoon who transformed the fortunes of two London institutions, the Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club, and waged a war of words with Britain’s royals after his son was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, has died, according

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Indonesian archaeologist Thomas Sutikna was nursing a fever in a hotel room on September 2, 2003, when a coworker shared news of what turned out to be a once-in-a-generation discovery. Earlier that day, a colleague’s trowel had hit a tiny human-like skull encased in 6-meter (19.7-foot) deep sediment in

By Ana María Cañizares, Marlon Sorto and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Fifty prison guards and seven police officers have been freed after being taken hostage by inmates held in six prisons across Ecuador, authorities said, part of a coordinated protest against security operations being conducted inside the country’s violence-plagued penitentiaries. The protests began on

By Nouran Salahieh and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — “Persistent bear activity” forced fire crews to leave a camp in British Columbia, Canada, authorities said Thursday. The camp near the community of Gold Bridge was housing crews working on the Downton Lake wildfire, which was reported on July 13 and has consumed more than 9,000

By Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed a cabinet proposed by the country’s new prime minister, Srettha Thavisin. The announcement was published on a Thai government website, Royal Gazette on Saturday. Srettha has also been confirmed as the country’s Finance Minister. Thailand’s parliament on Tuesday voted for Thavisin to be

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — India launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying the sun, building on a month of historic successes for the country’s civil space efforts. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, launched from Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal, at 11:50 a.m. Saturday local time (2:20 am ET). And it’s headed

By Merlin Delcid, CNN (CNN) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo alleged Friday that powerful groups within the country’s justice system who are opposed to his victory in the August 20 presidential runoffs are involved in an “ongoing coup.” Arévalo said during a press conference that the groups – which he said were headed by the

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The cold-blooded killing of a mother bear known as Amarena has angered animal rights groups and local politicians in Italy. The brown bear was shot by a local resident of San Benedetto dei Marsi just outside the national park of Abruzzo in central Italy, the park confirmed

By Mariya Knight and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s Security Service says it has identified a Russian commander who is accused of giving orders to shoot civilians. The SBU announced in a statement on Thursday that it is investigating Vadym Ovchinnikov, the commander of a Russian intelligence group, who it alleges ordered the shooting

By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of August 29, swarms of Ukrainian drones flew across seven Russian regions. Many were intercepted; some were not. Several reached a Russian airbase in Pskov, some 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, destroying two Russian military transport aircraft and damaging two more. It was the

By Mitchell McCluskey and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — A new draft law that would enshrine harsh punishments for women and girls who fail to wear a hijab in Iran could amount to “gender apartheid,” UN experts said in a statement on Friday. “The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid,