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Story by Reuters (CNN) — Kim Ki Nam, one of the longest-serving North Korean officials who served all three generations of its leaders cementing their political legitimacy and heading the propaganda apparatus for the dynastic state, has died, official media said on Wednesday. North Korea leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim at

By Laura Paddison, Rachel Wilson, Jhasua Razo and Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — The world has passed a clean energy milestone, as a boom in wind and solar meant a record-breaking 30% of the world’s electricity was produced by renewables last year, new data shows. The planet is reaching “a crucial turning point” toward clean

By Chris Lau and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN (CNN) — The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York City – as the east Asian country continues to struggle with its ever-declining population. Abandoned houses are known in Japan

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Earth’s magnetic field plays a key role in making our planet habitable. The protective bubble over the atmosphere shields the planet from solar radiation, winds, cosmic rays and wild swings in temperature. However, Earth’s magnetic field almost collapsed 591 million years ago, and this change, paradoxically, may have played

By Olga Voitovych, Christian Edwards, Victoria Butenko and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has detained two security officials allegedly involved in a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky, which Kyiv’s state security service (SBU) said it foiled. Two colonels in Ukraine’s government protection unit were accused of carrying out “subversive activities against Ukraine

By Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — At least six people have died and 48 so far unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday afternoon in the South African city of George, officials said Tuesday. Rescue missions remain underway, and 26 people have been removed from the rubble since the building collapsed in the Western

By Christian Edwards, Lauren Kent, Clare Sebastian and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Putin has formally begun his fifth term as Russia’s president in a carefully choreographed inauguration ceremony, in a country he has shaped in his image after first taking office nearly a quarter of a century ago. Putin won Russia’s stage-managed election

CNN By Simone McCarthy and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping pushed back against allegations of his country’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine during meetings with European leaders, as the Chinese leader makes a six-day visit to the continent amid a period of rising China-Europe tensions spurred by concerns of Beijing’s

By Xiaofei Xu, Simone McCarthy and Shawn Deng, CNN (CNN) — At least two people were killed and another 21 injured in a knife attack in a hospital in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan on Tuesday, local authorities said. The attack took place just before midday at Chengnan Hospital in Zhenxiong, the county’s public security

By Simone McCarthy and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping pushed back against allegations of his country’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine during meetings with European leaders, as the Chinese leader makes a six-day visit to the continent amid a period of rising China-Europe tensions spurred by concerns of Beijing’s close

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Australia has accused a Chinese fighter jet of firing flares into the path of a naval helicopter last weekend over international waters of the Yellow Sea, an action that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blasted as “completely unacceptable.” The Australian MH-60R Seahawk helicopter was on patrol enforcing

By Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — The husband of Ana Maria Knezevich Henao, a woman who was reported missing while in Spain in February, has been arrested in Florida, the FBI confirmed Monday. David Knezevich, 36, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is in federal custody for his alleged involvement in his wife’s kidnapping on or about

CNN By Abeer Salman, Christian Edwards, Becky Anderson and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel said the terms of a ceasefire proposal Hamas accepted on Monday remained “far from” meeting its demands and warned its military operations in Rafah would continue, even as it sent negotiators to talk to mediators. In a statement Monday, Hamas

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two NASA astronauts had reached the final hours before a long-awaited launch attempt aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule, the first crewed mission of the new spacecraft. But the mission was scrubbed about two hours before the countdown clock hit zero because of an issue with a valve on the Atlas

By Anna Chernova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian forces to rehearse deploying tactical nuclear weapons, as part of military drills to respond to what he called “threats” by the West. Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Putin has repeatedly made veiled threats to use tactical nuclear weapons against the

By Jack Guy and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN (CNN) — The death toll from a series of catastrophic floods in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 83, the state’s civil defense unit said Monday. Authorities are also investigating another four deaths to determine if they were related to the

By Juan Carlos Paz and Mia Alberti, CNN (CNN) — José Raúl Mulino, a rightwing former public security minister, was declared the “unofficial” winner of Panama’s presidential election on Sunday, the country’s electoral court confirmed. With over 90% of the total vote counted, Mulino secured about 34% of the ballots. His next closest rival, Ricardo

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts. The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court last week, shines a light on a

CNN By Kathleen Magramo and Karol Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Three bodies found dumped in a well with gunshot wounds to the head have been confirmed as missing tourists, including a US citizen, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Relatives of American Jack Carter Rhoad and Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson identified their bodies without having