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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of five people, missing their hands and feet, at a former Nazi military base in Poland. They were discovered at a Nazi command center known as the Wolf’s Lair in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, after the group unearthed a fragment of human skull during a

By Wayne Chang, CNN (CNN) — A highway collapsed in southern China early on Wednesday after days of torrential rain, sending cars plummeting down a hill and killing dozens of people, Chinese state media reported. At least 48 people were killed following the collapse of a section of the expressway linking Meizhou city with Dabu

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — China’s newest, largest and most-advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, took a big step to joining the world’s largest naval fleet on Wednesday as it set out from Shanghai for its first sea trials. The naval assessment is expected to take place in the East China Sea,

By Rhea Mogul, Aishwarya S. Iyer, Kunal Sehgal and Will Ripley, CNN Varanasi, India (CNN) — The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is India’s spiritual capital. And here, in

By Simone McCarthy and Yong Xiong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In the early days of 2020, as science looked for answers to a mysterious viral outbreak in central China, a prominent Chinese virologist stepped forward to share critical data with the world. Zhang Yongzhen’s disclosure of the genome of the virus that causes Covid-19 was

By Radina Gigova and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and more than 30 injured in a Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Monday, Ukrainian authorities say. Dramatic video footage of the attack, released by the office of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, showed dozens of

CNN By Hira Humayun and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has named one of its members as council president and proposed a new interim prime minister amid efforts to control the gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The council, which is responsible for paving the way

By Hira Humayun and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has named one of its members as council president and proposed a new interim prime minister amid efforts to control the gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The council, which is responsible for paving the way for

CNN By Becky Anderson and Jeremy Diamond, CNN Riyadh and Jerusalem (CNN) — Hamas is considering a new framework proposed by Egypt that calls for the group to release as many as 33 hostages kidnapped from Israel in exchange for a pause in hostilities in Gaza, an Israeli source familiar with the negotiations and a foreign diplomatic source told CNN. The latest proposal, which Israel helped

By Emily Blumenthal and Monica Garrett, CNN (CNN) — A nearly 300-year-old settlement once submerged beneath a major dam in the Philippines has reemerged as sweltering heat and drought dry up the reservoir. Structures, including part of a church, tombstones and a municipal hall marker, reappeared in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija

CNN, AFPTV, NTV KENYA, STATE HOUSE KENYA By Larry Madowo and Isaac Oyombe, CNN Mai Mahiu, Kenya (CNN) — At least 91 people are missing after heavy flooding across Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the government said Tuesday, after weeks of heavy rain and flash floods ravaged parts of the country. Some 76 people are missing after

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — What did people in the Stone Age eat before the advent of farming around 10,000 years ago? A long-held stereotype — one that’s influenced modern fad diets — is that ancient humans hunted large animals and chowed down on mammoth steak. But new research on a Paleolithic group called

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ top court struck down a demand by Nicaragua that Germany immediately halt its arms exports to Israel on Tuesday, saying it cannot issue emergency measures against Berlin under the current circumstances. “The court, by 15 votes to 1, finds that the circumstances as they present themselves

By Radina Gigova and Sarah Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian writer who has been in an Israeli prison for 20 years has won a prestigious prize for Arabic fiction for his novel “A Mask, the Color of the Sky.” Basim Khandaqji won the prize on Sunday for his book, and was awarded $50,000 and

CNN By Larry Madowo and Isaac Oyombe, CNN Mai Mahiu, Kenya (CNN) — At least 91 people are missing after heavy flooding across Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the government said Tuesday, after weeks of heavy rain and flash floods ravaged parts of the country. Some 76 people are missing after flooding near the hard hit town

By Larry Madowo and Isaac Oyombe, CNN Mai Mahiu, Kenya (CNN) — At least 91 people are missing after heavy flooding across Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the government said Tuesday, after weeks of heavy rain and flash floods ravaged parts of the country. Some 76 people are missing after flooding near the hard hit town of

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles III, who is being treated for an unspecified cancer, returned to public duties on Tuesday with his first official engagement since his diagnosis after his doctors were said to have been “very encouraged” by his progress. The 75-year-old monarch revealed he was battling cancer in early

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The Duchess of Edinburgh has become the first member of the British royal family to visit Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in 2022, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday. Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, who is the wife of Prince Edward, King Charles’ youngest sibling, travelled to Ukraine on Monday to “show her solidarity

By Jackelyn Prager, CNN (CNN) — On delivery day at the Manganese Metal Company’s industrial complex in Mbombela, South Africa, truckloads of manganese ore from the Kalahari Basin in the Northern Cape are ushered inside for processing. Manganese is commonly found in the Earth’s crust. The mineral is not only known for its nutritional benefits,

By Kathleen Magramo, Dhruv Tikekar and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — China’s coast guard fired water cannons that damaged a Philippine vessel on Tuesday, marking the latest flare-up of violence between the two countries in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine authorities said. The Philippine Coast Guard said the incident occurred as one of its ships