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By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A nationalist Ukrainian lawmaker was shot dead in a “carefully planned” attack in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, officials said, with the killer still on the loose. Andriy Parubiy was shot several times with a short-barreled firearm, police said, adding that the

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Tianjin, China (CNN) — Autocrats, populists, friends and foes, a strongman waging a war in Europe and the leader of the world’s biggest democracy will all be hosted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping this weekend at a summit designed to showcase Beijing as a global leader capable of providing a counterweight

By Olivia Kemp, CNN London (CNN) — In the United States, the Stars and Stripes are everywhere: on porches, lawns and pickup trucks. The national flag is part of the scenery, almost invisible in its ubiquity. In England, flags are rarer. They usually surface only for royal jubilees, military commemorations or major sporting events. But

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Migrants sent by the United States to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch, which called

By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Police in Ontario, Canada, said Friday that they consider the stabbing of a Jewish woman at a kosher supermarket in Ottawa earlier this week to be a “hate-motivated” crime. The woman was shopping with a friend on Wednesday when she was approached and stabbed by a man who did

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The alleged killing of two police officers who attempted to serve a warrant on a self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen” in Australia shows how a movement that originated in the United States has taken root in the country and now carries the threat of violence, experts say. Hundreds of

By Tamar Michaelis, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel released a clip of the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Friday evening as it faces international condemnation over its imminent assault on Gaza City. The video shows the attack on the home of the Taasa family in Netiv HaAsara, a community just north of Gaza.

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law. Facts In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden.” The group also refers to itself as Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, meaning “People