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By Darya Tarasova and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — An 88-year-old Russian man, who gained local fame for building his own aircraft, has died after attempting to take off in a homemade helicopter. The man, a resident of the Omutninsky district of western Russia’s Kirov Region, attempted the flight in the self-built aircraft on Thursday,

By Michael Rios, Saskya Vandoorne, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — The French government will deport a Gaza student accused of reposting alleged antisemitic content on her social media and halt all evacuations from the territory, the country’s foreign minister said Friday as outrage grows over her reposts. “She must leave the country. She does not

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, Lauren Kent, Max Saltman, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The death toll from Russia’s heavy bombardment of Ukraine’s capital this week has risen to 31 people, marking the deadliest single attack on Kyiv in a year, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. The vast majority were killed in a single strike

By Ibrahim Dahman, Christian Edwards, Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Steve Witkoff, the United States’ special envoy to the Middle East, on Friday visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza, one of three such locations near which hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks trying to reach scarce food supplies. Witkoff

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Wright, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kramatorsk (CNN) — When wars kill many over years, the names of the dead can bleed into faceless lists. But each loss still burns a black hole in the worlds they left behind. And few more so than Tymur Hryhorenko. Most of the

CNN By CNN’s Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia says its forces have captured the key town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine after nearly 18 months of fierce fighting in the area. The Ukrainian military confirmed Thursday that Russian forces had attacked locations near Chasiv Yar, which lies

By Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Securing the trucks carrying aid into Gaza is a tight balancing act for the Abu Mughsaib clan. Getting too close to the Israeli military checkpoints can turn deadly. But staying too far away gives looters a chance to get to the precious cargo first. “This

By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A host of European leaders welcomed the news that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law restoring independence to his country’s main anti-corruption agencies. A total of 331 out of 340 lawmakers present voted in favor of the bill on Thursday, forming an overwhelming constitutional

By Christian Edwards, Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — At least 23 people were injured, three of them critically, when a fairground ride buckled in Saudi Arabia, sending passengers crashing to the ground, state media reported Thursday. Videos verified by CNN showed the “360 Big Pendulum” ride collapse while in use, causing the passenger-bearing circular carousel

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A 76-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison after several children became ill at a summer camp in England, police said Thursday. After an initial report was made by a third party on Sunday, officers and ambulance workers were deployed to the camp in the village