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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Gazing at February’s full snow moon, which will illuminate the night sky this weekend, may feel a little more special than usual after a dramatic lunar landing. Just over a week after launching, the uncrewed Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lander, also called Odysseus or “Odie,” successfully touched down near the

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The body of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been given to his mother more than a week after he died, Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Saturday. “Alexey’s body was handed over to his mother. Many thanks to all those who demanded this with us,” Yarmysh posted to

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — The Nigeria Customs Service says it is investigating reports people were trampled to death during a sale of bags of confiscated rice amid growing anger over skyrocketing prices of food in Africa’s most populous country. “There was a chaotic situation caused by the impatience of people to follow the laid down procedures

By Darya Tarasova and Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — The widow of the late dissident Alexey Navalny said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is engaging in “satanism” by refusing to release her husband’s body. “No true Christian could ever do what Putin is now doing with a body of Alexey,” Yulia Navalnaya said in video

By Chris Lau and Akanksha Sharma, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 15 people were killed in a fire thought to have been started by an electric bicycle parked at a high-rise residential building in eastern China early Friday morning, state media have reported. Forty-four people were also injured during the blaze that engulfed the

By Ivana Kottasova, Olga Voitovych and Crendon Greenway, CNN Kostyantynivka, eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Artem spends a lot of time thinking about the shots he can’t afford to take. As a battery commander in the 26th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian military, he decides when his gunners fire and when they need to hold off.

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — This weekend marks two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, upended long-held international norms and has no clear end in sight. In more than one sense, Russia’s President Vladmir Putin has failed: Ukraine remains a sovereign nation, with Moscow in

By Max Foster, Radina Gigova and Chris Lau, CNN London (CNN) — The many messages of support King Charles III received following his cancer diagnosis “reduced me to tears most of the time,” the British monarch has said in a new statement released by Buckingham Palace Friday. The King has received more than 7,000 letters

By Louise McLoughlin and Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — An unexploded bomb from World War II has been taken out to sea and detonated after being found in a garden in the English city of Plymouth, authorities said Friday. As many as 10,000 people were impacted when parts of the southern English city were

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Three escaped prison inmates may have killed two people, believed to be American citizens, on a yacht they are thought to have hijacked as they tried to make their way from Grenada to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to Grenada police. Police in the small Caribbean nation said Thursday