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By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, he didn’t even realize what it was. “I got into the culture visually

By Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Some cases are so awful that dog rescuer Catherine Lumsden doesn’t have the words to express how angry they make her feel. One evening in August, the founder of Catherine’s Puppies, a shelter in Sai Kung, a district in northeastern Hong Kong, received a call about Chloe

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the next two years while its overall population is expected to plummet to levels not seen since the 1970s. The new data underscores the demographic timebomb

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong police on Thursday placed HK$1 million ($128,000) bounties on five more democracy activists living in self-imposed exile in a move condemned by the United States and United Kingdom. Police accuse the five – including US citizen Joey Siu and Frances Hui, who has been granted asylum

By Lindsay Isaac and Paula Newton, CNN (CNN) — They live an ocean apart from one another but now share a bond of anguish and outrage over the suicide deaths of their children. David Parfett and David Ramirez describe stories of grief that are remarkably similar. Both are fathers to young adults who were talented

By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana said Thursday that they would not use force against each other amid a dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land and agreed to create a joint commission to address the territorial spat. Still, the two countries’ positions on the Essequibo region remained

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Fast radio bursts, or bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves in space, are one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos — and they just became a little stranger. The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007, and since then, hundreds of these quick,

CNN By Scott McLean and Isil Sariyuce, CNN (CNN) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief foreign policy and security adviser has defended his country’s decision to host senior Hamas figures, saying Turkey is engaging with Hamas “to bring about peace.” Hamas members can freely come and go from Turkey and have a permanent presence

By Scott McLean and Isil Sariyuce, CNN (CNN) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief foreign policy and security adviser has defended his country’s decision to host senior Hamas figures, saying Turkey is engaging with Hamas “to bring about peace.” Hamas members can freely come and go from Turkey and have a permanent presence in

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Italian ecologist Francesco Ficetola was at a conference two years ago when it dawned on him that emojis can help power global conservation efforts. Ficetola does a lot of research on salamanders. But with no salamander emojis available, it’s hard to send a quick message to his colleagues when

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Fast radio bursts, or bright, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves in space, are one of the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos — and they just became a little stranger. The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007, and since then, hundreds of these quick, intense

By Maya Szaniecki, Joseph Ataman, Caitlin Danaher, Alex Hardie and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — A British boy who disappeared six years ago is set to return home as early as this weekend after a driver discovered him walking along a roadside in southern France. Alex Batty has not been seen since he was 11

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at Russian opposition leader, Kremlin critic and activist Alexey Navalny. Personal Birth date: June 4, 1976 Death date: February 16, 2024 Birth place: Butyn, Soviet Union Birth name: Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny (sometimes spelled Alexei, Aleksei) Father: Anatoly Navalny, former military officer and basket-weaving factory owner Mother:

By Jessie Gretener, Nadine Schmidt, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Benjamin Brown and Sophie Tanno, CNN Berlin (CNN) — Four alleged Hamas members suspected of plotting terror attacks on European soil have been arrested by German and Dutch authorities, Germany’s federal prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday. Three people were arrested in Germany and one in the Netherlands on suspicion

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The major gas leak from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline last year pushed Sweden’s annual planet-heating emissions up by 7%, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency reported Thursday. The agency’s estimates show the largest part of the 2022 leak occurred within Denmark’s economic zone, but a whopping 5.8 million tons

By Luke McGee, James Frater and Mariya Knight Brussels, Belgium (CNN) — Hungary blocked a crucial European aid package for Ukraine, hours after EU leaders agreed to open membership talks with Kyiv. “Summary of the nightshift: veto for the extra money to Ukraine,” Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted on X, formerly Twitter, after a

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After spending 1,000 days on the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new details about the history of an ancient lake and river delta on the red planet. The new insights, detectable thanks to the rover’s detailed on-the-ground sleuthing, are helping scientists piece together the puzzle of Mars’

CNN By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment. The assessment, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

By Rob Picheta and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that a dialogue over the detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is ongoing, but that it is “not easy,” as the White House continues to push for his release. Putin said talks with the US are ongoing, and expressed hope for reaching

By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Scott McWhinnie and Rachel Clarke, CNN Rafah, Gaza (CNN) — 20-month-old Amir Taha lies silently on the bed – his fluffy hair sticking up, his baby soft skin violated by a raw, jagged wound across his forehead. Purple bruises swell around one of his big brown eyes. He’s an orphan