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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Austin, Texas (CNN) — Humanoids that handle household chores or build habitats on the lunar surface may sound like something from science fiction. But the team at Austin-based robotics startup Apptronik envisions a future where general-purpose robots will handle “dull, dirty and dangerous” jobs so humans don’t have to. The design

CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lot of hope has been placed on the possibility of ending the strikes that have paused Hollywood productions. This week, major studios outlined their latest offer to striking writers, including what the studios say is the highest wage increase in 35 years. However, it remains unclear whether

By Issy Ronald, Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto, CNN (CNN) — A mountain guide found the body of a man believed to have died more than 20 years ago on a glacier in Austria, police announced on Tuesday. The guide discovered the body on Friday on East Tyrol’s Schlatenkees glacier at an altitude of approximately

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday was a dramatic day in Thailand as parliament staved off a potential political crisis by finally voting for a new prime minister as one of the country’s most polarizing figures returned from a 15-year self exile. Thai lawmakers chose real estate tycoon and political newcomer Srettha Thavisin of

By Anna Chernova and Sarah Dean, CNN (CNN) — A top Russian general who went missing after the mercenary group Wagner’s insurrection in June has been fired from his role as head of the country’s aerospace forces, Russian state media reported Wednesday citing unnamed sources. Gen. Sergey Surovikin has spent four decades as part of

CNN By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A jet ski rider detained by South Korea for allegedly entering the country illegally is a prominent Chinese dissident who rode hundreds of miles across the sea to escape from China, activists say. The man, who is in his 30s, was apprehended

By Jackie Wattles, Manveena Suri and Vedika Sud, CNN (CNN) — India has landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon, becoming only the fourth nation ever to accomplish such a feat. The mission could cement India’s status as a global superpower in space. Previously, only the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have

By Manveena Suri and Rhea Mogul, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — More than a dozen workers have been killed after a bridge under construction collapsed in northeast India Wednesday, the latest in a string of infrastructure failures that have resulted in multiple deaths in the country. The collapse of the bridge in the town of

By Jessie Yeung and Francesca Annio, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A new report into Japan’s military has found what it says is an entrenched culture of harassment and fear, with authorities promising reform and “drastic measures.” The report was commissioned by the Ministry of Defense and compiled by a panel of experts including lawyers and

By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A jet ski rider detained by South Korea for allegedly entering the country illegally is a prominent Chinese dissident who rode hundreds of miles across the sea to escape from China, activists say. The man, who is in his 30s, was apprehended August

By Nectar Gan and Jennifer Deaton, CNN (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday unexpectedly skipped a business forum of the BRICS economic group in South Africa, sending his commerce minister instead to deliver a fiery speech in his name that decried US hegemony. Xi, who arrived in Johannesburg on Monday for the annual

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Taliban fighters have committed hundreds of extrajudicial killings since taking power in Afghanistan in 2021, despite a “general amnesty” meant to protect the previous government, according to the United Nations. In a reported released Tuesday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) counted at least 218 extrajudicial killings

By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Battling anxiety and nausea, they huddled together in the ruptured cable car, gripped by fear as they dangled precariously hundreds of feet in the air. With little to drink and some of them drifting in and out of consciousness, the six children and two

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova, Mariya Knight, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Eve Brennan, Olga Voitovych and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces appear to have stepped up their efforts to weaken Russian air superiority in the war by attacking bases that house supersonic warplanes deep inside Russian territory. Kyiv said it had