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By Leila Gharagozlou, Tim Lister, Eyad Kourdi and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — At least 28 people have been killed and 800 injured in a huge explosion at the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, state media report. The explosion sent a huge plume of thick, gray smoke from the Shahid Rajaee part of

By Svitlana Vlasova, Catherine Nicholls, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his country’s forces have recaptured Kursk, the border region where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive last year, though Kyiv insists its troops are fiercely battling to preserve their foothold in the territory. “The Kyiv regime’s adventure has

By Tim Lister, Catherine Nicholls and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump questioned whether Russian leader Vladimir Putin wants a peace deal, shortly after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday. Saturday marked the

By Aishwarya S Iyer, Esha Mitra and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — One victim had recently returned home after decades working abroad to enjoy a retirement filled with travel and family time; another hoped the trip into the beauty of Indian-administered Kashmir would cheer the spirits of his semi-paralyzed wife. Both men were among 26

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Lost dogs rarely capture international attention but for several weeks the world has watched and waited for updates on the search for Valerie, a miniature dachshund missing in the Australian wilderness. Then on Friday night, after 529 days roaming Kangaroo Island, off South Australia, the tiny dog

By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, who alleged Britain’s Prince Andrew abused her when she was a teenager, has died by suicide, her family said. She was 41. “It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night

By Verónica Calderón and José Álvarez, CNN (CNN) — Two Mexican activists who publicized a grisly “extermination camp” linked to organized crime were killed on Wednesday in Jalisco, according to Mexican authorities and the advocacy organization they were affiliated with. The victims are María del Carmen Morales, 43, and her son Jaime Daniel Ramírez Morales,

By Lauren Kent, CNN Vatican City (CNN) — Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying in state at the Vatican. About 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Francis, who was the first pope

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The Magic Circle has readmitted a female magician expelled for tricking her way into the previously all-male institution by disguising herself as a man. “We’re proud to welcome back magician Sophie Lloyd to The Magic Circle,” said the London-based magic society in an Instagram post Thursday. “Over 30 years

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — The United States and Iran wrapped up a third round of nuclear talks on Saturday, which experts have described as a more difficult phase of technical negotiations as Washington lays out its conditions. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the “negotiations this time

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine should recognize Russia’s control over Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed more than a decade ago, is threatening to upend international law and order. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has long made it clear this is a red line for him.

By Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová, Nick Paton Walsh and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine are “very close to a deal” that would end their three-year war, after his envoy met with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in talks Moscow said were “constructive and very useful.” “A good