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Shot at while they drowned. Executed in the desert. Those who collected the bodies recount ‘one of the worst days’ in Darfur’s genocide-scarred history

Exclusive by Tamara Qiblawi, Allegra Goodwin, Nima Elbagir and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and streets strewn with corpses. The state governor had just

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‘Still alive and wriggling:’ Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps. “I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find them

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Schools egged, businesses harassed: Japan suffers Chinese backlash over Fukushima release

By Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka and Saki Toi, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A wave of online harassment and vitriol directed at Japanese people following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from Fukushima has sent tensions between Japan and China soaring, prompting Tokyo to summon the Chinese ambassador. China’s heavily censored internet exploded in

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New Jersey officials investigating fatal police shooting of mentally ill man after police said he lunged at them with knife

By Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — The New Jersey Attorney General’s office is investigating the fatal shooting of a man who family and authorities say was mentally ill, after police said he lunged at them with a knife. Andrew Jerome Washington was fatally shot by Jersey City police officers on Sunday, Jersey City Mayor Steve

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No ‘silver bullet’: Ukraine faces many challenges in getting the F-16 into combat

By Tim Lister and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — After months of intense lobbying, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ebullient about the upcoming transfer of Dutch, Norwegian and Danish F-16 fighter jets to the Ukrainian air force. In many ways, the US-made F-16 is the ideal platform for the Ukrainians. It’s multi-role: it can provide

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Yale agrees to settle lawsuit alleging discrimination against students with mental health disabilities

By Nicki Brown and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Yale University agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging the prestigious university discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, according to a joint statement from the university and plaintiffs. The lawsuit, filed in Connecticut federal court last November by current students and the non-profit Elis for Rachael,

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Former US swimmer’s death in the US Virgin Islands caused by accidental fentanyl intoxication, autopsy says

By Steve Almasy and Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — The death earlier this year of former US swimming champion Jamie Cail has been ruled accidental and fentanyl related, according to a Facebook post from the US Virgin Islands Police Department. An autopsy report from the US Virgin Islands Office of the Medical Examiner listed Cail’s

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Libya dismisses foreign minister after meeting with Israeli counterpart causes outcry

By Mostafa Salem and Michael Schwartz, CNN Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem (CNN) — Libya’s internationally recognized government dismissed Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush on Sunday after a meeting she held with her Israeli counterpart sparked an uproar in the country. Israel’s foreign ministry announced on Sunday night that the meeting had taken place in Rome last

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‘What’s not dug up is mined’: Ukrainian troops face more tough challenges as they try to push south

By Tim Lister and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Even as Ukrainian forces have breached the first line of Russian defenses on part of the southern front, soldiers taking part in the counteroffensive have revealed just how difficult it is to make more than incremental gains in the face of complex and multi-layered fortifications. Ukrainian

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