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By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — From a little garden in New Zealand, comes a lonely snail looking for love. Ned is ying to another mollusc’s yang, but finding a match for him has become a nationwide effort. That is because Ned’s shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells. It’s

By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Catherine Nicholls, Betsy Klein Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — European leaders expressed outrage after Kyiv was bombarded by Russia’s second-biggest aerial attack since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with at least 23 people killed, including four children, according to officials. Buildings belonging to the European Union and the British

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Russia and China have conducted their first-ever joint submarine patrol in the Pacific, according to reports in state-run media. The patrol by diesel-electric submarines began in early August, and the Russian sub involved, the Volkhov, covered around 2,000 miles during its voyage from its Vladivostok base, according to a

By Chris Lau and Nectar Gan Hong Kong (CNN) — The judges in the trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai on Thursday retired to consider their verdict on three national security charges that could see the 77-year-old pro-democracy firebrand jailed for life. Lai, the outspoken founder of the Apple Daily – a tabloid

By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be among more than two dozen foreign leaders to attend China’s massive military parade next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. The parade, to be held in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on

Exclusive by Abeer Salman, Lauren Kent, Thomas Bordeaux, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — Israel has faced global condemnation for back-to-back strikes on the biggest hospital in southern Gaza this week, which killed at least 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews and five journalists. The attack on the hospital came just

By Junko Ogura, Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Large clouds of smoke billow from Japan’s most famous mountain. In no time, volcanic ash spreads to the heavily populated capital of Tokyo, fogging up the air and blanketing buildings and vehicles. This is all from an AI-generated video released by Japan’s government to warn Tokyo’s

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — Worlds away from the public outrage and cries of protest echoing through Tel Aviv’s packed streets on Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beamed from the podium in Jerusalem, his words greeted with laughter and applause. The contrast was unmistakable. In Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of protesters demanded

By Amarachi Orie and Philippe Cordier, CNN France has returned three skulls to Madagascar more than a century after they were taken, including one believed to be that of a 19th-century Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops. The repatriation of the skulls to the island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa marks