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Ukrainian emergency personnel work among the rubble of a destroyed hotel in Kramatorsk on Sunday.

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British safety adviser for Reuters?killed in Russian strike on Ukraine hotel

Live Updates Israel and Hezbollah trade fire in major flare-up

The Middle East may have backed off?from the brink of a regional war – for now

Israel launches ‘preemptive’ strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires back hundreds of rockets

Syrian man confesses to stabbing to death 3 people at German festival

Ukraine’s president signs law banning Russia-linked religious groups

A screengrab of a video released by Yemen’s Houthis on August 21, 2024, shows fires onboard a Greek-flagged oil tanker that was attacked by the Houthi militants in the Red Sea.

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Fires on board Greek-flagged tanker after Houthi attack in Red Sea, says maritime agency

Hezbollah: What weapons does it have? A visual guide

American detained in Turkey suspected of murdering Russian woman, state media reports

Kyiv’s incursion into Russia sends a defiant message to its Western backers: We can win this war

ISIS-affiliated inmates kill four prison officers at Russian penal colony

Final body, believed to be that of tech tycoon’s daughter, recovered from wreck of sunken Sicily superyacht

India’s Modi arrives in Ukraine for talks with Zelensky weeks after Putin meeting

How Gaza’s hospitals became battlegrounds

How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

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Video Hezbollah leader: We will ‘wait and see’ if there will be more strikes 2:26

<p>Bianna Golodryga talks with Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about what Ukraine hopes to achieve from its surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, as it also fends off a Russian assault to its east.</p>

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Video On GPS: Ukraine’s two raging battlefronts 6:24

<p>Bianna Golodryga hears from Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution and Haaretz journalist Amos Harel about the implications of some of the fiercest cross-border strikes between Israel and Hezbollah in months.</p>

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Video On GPS: A closer look at the Israel-Hezbollah escalation 7:06

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Video Israel and Hezbollah exchange strikes 3:44

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Russian soldier defects to Ukraine after spying for resistance group for months

World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117

Former co-defendant of British tycoon missing in luxury yacht sinking dies after being struck by car

Six people missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, and one dead after tornado sinks luxury yacht off Sicily

Ukraine aims to create Kursk ‘buffer zone,’ Zelensky says, as Kyiv’s forces blow up second Russian bridge

Chechen warlord shows off gun-mounted Tesla Cybertruck

Middle East

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A leaked photograph of an enclosure where detainees in gray tracksuits are seen blindfolded and sitting on paper-thin mattresses. CNN was able to geolocate the hangar in the Sde Teiman facility.

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‘They told me to strip.’ Former Palestinian detainee says he was sexually abused in an Israeli prison

Israel says it is prepared for any retaliatory attack from Iran or Hezbollah

Children are drinking from puddles and wading through sewage pools, as Israel pummels water systems in Gaza

Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public

Questions mount over six hostages’ fate in Gaza after IDF finds gunshot wounds

Greek-flagged oil tanker poses ‘environmental hazard’ after attack in Red Sea

World in photos

TOPSHOT - This aerial view shows customers having dinner during an event organised by Polish restaurant service of Belgian origin 'Dinner in the Sky', which uses a crane to hoist its guests, table, and waiting staff 50 meters into the air, in Warsaw on August 17, 2024. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

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People in Stockholm, Sweden, watch the super blue moon rise behind Nacka on Monday, August 19.

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In pictures: The rare super blue moon

People watch as a Super Blue Moon rises behind Nacka, in Stockholm, on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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In pictures: The rare super blue moon

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Africa

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A handout image shows aid trucks with relief material for Sudan's Darfur region, at a location given as the border of Chad and Sudan, released on August 21, 2024.

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Humanitarian aid resumes in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur after 6-month border closure

African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’

Man suspected of murdering 42 women escapes from police custody in Kenya

Sudanese government agrees to reopen key border crossing for humanitarian aid

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A member of the Tactical Aeronaval Operations (OTA) group monitors during a deportation process of migrants to Colombia at Albrook 'Marcos A. Gelabert' International Airport in Panama City, Panama, 20 August 2024. The Panamanian government deported the first group of 29 migrants who crossed the Darien illegally, as established by a memorandum of understanding between the governments of Panama and the US.
Panama deports 29 migrants who crossed the Darien to Colombia, Panama City - 17 Aug 2024

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Panama to launch deportation flights to China and India, as well as regional neighbors

Brazil will restrict entry of some Asian migrants, aiming to curb flows to US and Canada

Canada’s Conservative Party removes patriotic video mistakenly showing Russian fighter jets

Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close

Asia

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‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid

Drugmakers at fault over toxic cough syrup, Indonesia court finds

Plane carrying 9 people crashes in forest near Thailand’s capital

Indonesia?scraps plan to change election law amid protests

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A bison looks back as it crosses the road near Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park.

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You’ve come across a bison in the wild. It’s looking at you. Do you know what to do next?

A grizzly bear was standing on his back and went in for the ‘kill bite.’ He survived to tell the story

The world’s best city for nightlife, according to Time Out

How it all went wrong for tourism

Maximize your travel rewards: How to save big on flights and hotels with Capital One Travel offers

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VW Beetle Mexico

The VW Beetle evokes memories of years gone by, but in Mexico it’s still part of the present

All the fashion Ella Emhoff wore this week at the Democratic National Convention

Huge 2,492-carat diamond, believed to be world’s second-largest, unearthed in Botswana

Beyoncé launches whiskey inspired by ‘moonshiner’ great-grandfather

Thin eyebrows are back, but should they be?

Weather

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Hurricane Hone approaches Hawaii early Sunday morning.

Hone strengthens into a hurricane as it threatens Hawaii with fire and floods

2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Fast Facts

New forecast reveals when and where hurricane season could get active after Ernesto

Ernesto restrengthens to a hurricane as dangerous beach conditions continue along East Coast

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speeches during a joint press conference after Russian-Hungarian talks at the Senat Palace of the Moscow's Kremlin on July 5, 2024 in Moscow, Russia. Hingarian Prime Minister Orban arrived to Moscow after his talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

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Ukraine’s march into Russia exposes Putin’s crisis management problem

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A still from a video shows a volcano erupting in southwestern Iceland on Thursday, August 22.

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Volcano spews red-hot lava in new eruption on volatile Iceland peninsula

Roxanne Tickle pictured leaving the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney.

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Australian transgender woman wins landmark case against female-only app

Ukrainian servicemen fire artillery toward Russian positions in an undisclosed area in the Pokrovsk district of Ukraine.

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Parents hide children from mandatory evacuations as Ukraine says Russia advancing fast on key city

How yoga, mindfulness, and meditation help CNN Heroes take their work to the next level

A humpback whale trapped in a rope in Sydney Harbour has been freed after a rescue mission.

Whale tangled in fishing debris freed in Sydney Harbour

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‘Shrapnel was flying everywhere’: Ukrainians flee shattered city as Russians close in 1:42

Romanian Gendarmes from the Special Intervention Brigade escort Andrew Tate outside the Tate brothers residence in Pipera, Ilfov, near Bucharest, Romania, August 21, 2024. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. ROMANIA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ROMANIA

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Andrew Tate put under house arrest in Romania over new allegations

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Russia opens criminal investigation into CNN correspondent for reporting in Ukrainian-occupied Russia

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Architecture around the world

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Is it possible to build cities that are resilient to earthquakes and flooding? Architecture firm Foster + Partners hope to do just that with their masterplan for the city of Antakya, in southeastern Turkey (pictured here in a rendering).

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An earthquake ravaged this city ‘beyond imagination.’ Now it’s being rebuilt to withstand any natural disaster

Why turning cities into ‘sponges’ could help fight flooding

Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

The next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-feet-high battery

How this fashion designer transformed a ‘tragic disaster’ into a picturesque home

Sports

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Aug 25, 2024; Bronx, New York, USA; Home plate umpire Nick Mahrley (48) is checked on after getting hit by a broken bat in the fifth inning during the game between Colorado Rockies and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports

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Umpire at Yankee Stadium taken off on a gurney after being struck by broken bat

‘As open as I’ve ever seen it’: Which ‘cranky’ star will be crowned US Open champion in New York?

Lando Norris beats Max Verstappen at Dutch Grand Prix to set up intriguing F1 title race

Minnesota Lynx defeat Caitlin Clark and Indiana Fever on Maya Moore’s jersey retirement night

Tech

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Elon Musk’s AI photo tool is generating realistic, fake images of Trump, Harris and Biden

ChatGPT on App Store displayed on a phone screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on June 5, 2024.

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OpenAI worries people may become emotionally reliant on its new ChatGPT voice mode

Chief Technology Officer of X Elon Musk speaks onstage during the "Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk" session in Cannes, France on June 19, 2024.

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How Elon Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine