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Maya Angelou Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Grammy-winning author and poet Maya Angelou. Personal Birth date: April 4, 1928 Death date: May 28, 2014 Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri Birth name: Marguerite Annie Johnson Father: Bailey Johnson, doorman Mother: Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, nurse Marriages: Paul du Feu (1973-1980, divorced);

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Palestinians mourn at the funeral of four members of the Odeh family who were killed in their car by Israeli forces in a raid in Tammun

Israeli forces shoot and kill 4 members of Palestinian family, officials say, after opening fire on car in West Bank

By Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Four members of the same Palestinian family, including two boys aged 5 and 7, who were out on a late-night drive after breaking the daily Ramadan fast, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Palestinian officials reported. Israel’s military said the

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A Russian drone is shot down by Ukrainian air defences during a night strike on Kyiv on June 17

Ukraine worries about ‘losing the Americans’ as global attention shifts to the war in the Middle East

By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine does not “want to lose the Americans” while they are “without question, currently more focused on the Middle East,” President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. There is growing apprehension in Kyiv that the conflict in the Middle East will divert attention, and weapons, from the war that

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Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland is shown.

Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Streetlights shaped like alien heads line the roads of Roswell, New Mexico, where murals of flying saucers streak across storefronts and tourists pose beside statues of little green men. Nearly eight decades after a mysterious crash in the desert sparked global fascination with extraterrestrials, the small city remains synonymous

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Cuba's Colonel Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro

With the US pressuring Cuba, a Castro known as ‘the Crab’ is making appearances. Here’s why it matters

By Mauricio Torres, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, grandson of former Cuban President Raúl Castro, appeared in several public events led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday, raising questions, according to analysts, about his role in Cuba’s leadership as the island faces calls for regime change from the United States.

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