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By Issy Ronald, James Frater and John Torigoe, CNN Portsmouth, UK (CNN) — When a vessel under attack in the Strait of Hormuz calls for help, a black phone in the corner of an office rings. It’s nothing special – just a normal office phone, a relic of the 1990s. But when a call comes

CNN By Issy Ronald, James Frater and John Torigoe, CNN Portsmouth, UK (CNN) — When a vessel under attack in the Strait of Hormuz calls for help, a black phone in the corner of an office rings. It’s nothing special – just a normal office phone, a relic of the 1990s. But when a call

By Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Cuauhtemoc, Mexico (CNN) — It all started when a 9-year-old boy went with his parents to visit relatives in Seminole, Texas, early last year. After he returned home to Mexico, a red rash erupted on his skin. Within weeks, so many of his classmates fell ill that their school shut

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo, Brad Lendon, CNN Incheon, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea received North Korean athletes for the first time in more than seven years on Sunday, when a women’s soccer team arrived to contest the Asian club championship. Thirty-nine players and staff from Pyongyang’s Naegohyang Women’s Football Club rushed past a

By Kosta Gak, Chris Lau, Yong Xiong, Lucas Lilieholm, CNN (CNN) — At least three people were killed near Moscow after Ukraine targeted Russia with more than 500 drones overnight, Russian state news agency TASS reported Sunday, citing local and military officials. The attack on Moscow is “the largest in over a year,” according to

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of four missing Italian scuba divers who died last week have been found, Maldives government said Monday, following a fraught mission to locate them in an underwater cave. Five Italians died while exploring the Vaavu Atoll caves on Thursday, prompting a multinational effort to find and retrieve

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — When some 150,000 people descended on London in September for a rally organized by Tommy Robinson – an agitator who spreads anti-Muslim bigotry and has several criminal convictions – it felt like a watershed moment in British politics. “Something in our country changed,” Sadiq Khan, the mayor of

By Sharon Braithwaite, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Saturday, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle’s driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city’s mayor. “The madman, I don’t know what to call him, the criminal who

By Issy Ronald, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a controversial rescue effort set him free. “The stranded humpback whale near Anholt is the same

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — US and Nigerian forces killed a senior ISIS commander on Friday, President Donald Trump said, in an operation he claimed had “greatly diminished” the militant group’s power. “Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission