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Smoke rises in Irkutsk region

Ukraine hits air bases thousands of miles inside Russia in audacious military operation

By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Tim Lister, Mitchell McCluskey and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces have destroyed dozens of Russian warplanes parked at air bases thousands of miles from the front lines, according to a source in the country’s security services, in one of Kyiv’s most audacious and sophisticated counter assaults since the

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Athletes, coaches and officials among 22 killed in road accident in northern Nigeria

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Athletes, coaches and officials are among 22 people killed in a road accident in northern Nigeria as they returned from the country’s National Sports Festival on Saturday, local authorities have said. Others were left “seriously injured” by the accident, according to a statement issued by Kano’s government office. The

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Trans high school athlete wins two events at California finals in shadow of protests, Trump funding threats

By Emma Tucker, Julia Vargas Jones, Norma Galeana, CNN Clovis, California (CNN) — The transgender high school athlete whose participation in this weekend’s California track and field championships prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to remove state funding reached the podium in all three of her events Saturday. A.B. Hernandez, a public high school junior

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