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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Wimbledon tennis championships. July 3-16, 2023 – Wimbledon takes place in London. June 27-July 10, 2022 – Wimbledon takes place in London. 2023 Results Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 in the men’s final, to win his first Wimbledon title.

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The war in Ukraine has brought an enormous human toll: Thousands of civilians have been killed, millions have been forced to flee overseas, it has destroyed homes, schools and hospitals. But beyond the immediate, visceral impacts, the conflict is also causing a climate disaster at a time when the

By Zahid Mahmood, CNN London (CNN) — A UN war crimes court has ruled that 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga is no longer capable of “meaningful participation” in his trial. The court said their conclusion was based on information obtained from medical records and staff who care for him which suggest “a significant decline

By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan swore in a new cabinet over the weekend, ushering in what he has called “a new period of glory” for the Turkish Republic as it begins its second century, and one that he hopes will cement his rule over the nation of 85

By John Allen, Valentina Di Donato and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis underwent a successful, three-hour operation on his abdomen, the Vatican said Wednesday, after renewed fears over the 86-year-old’s fragile health. There were no reported complications, the Vatican said. It had earlier said the pope would remain in the hospital for

By Josh Pennington, Jo Shelley, Olga Voitovych, Julia Kesaieva and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has sparked fears of an ecological catastrophe, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describing the situation as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction.” Water levels on Wednesday continued to rise after

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — A teenage girl is stabbed and bludgeoned to death as members of the public walk by. An even younger girl suffers a similar fate, allegedly at the hands of her own father because she and her mother wanted to sleep on the patio. These two horrifying events took place

By Bertha Ramos, CNN (CNN) — Human remains found in 45 bags discovered in a suburb of Guadalajara belong to call center workers who went missing in May, Mexican authorities have confirmed. The Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) said Tuesday its tests had confirmed the remains belonged to the missing workers and said the

By Carlotta Dotto, Krystina Shveda and Lou Robinson, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Every day, countless mopeds criss-cross the congested city of Hanoi, in Vietnam, with commuters traveling to work or motorbike taxis dropping off everything from parcels to cooked food and clients. One of them is Phong, 42, who starts his shift at 5

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Markina Tarasova, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — Nadejda Chernishova breathes a sigh of relief as she steps off a rubber dinghy, moments after being rescued from her flooded home in Kherson. “I’m not afraid now, but it was scary in my home,” the 65-year-old retiree said.

By Chris Liakos, Tara John, Michael Conte and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — An Air India flight from India to San Francisco was diverted due to a technical issue with one of the plane’s engines and has landed safely in Russia’s Magadan airport, in the country’s far east, according to a statement from the carrier.

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — There are an estimated 600 million domestic cats in the world, and 80% of them are feral or stray animals. Spaying and neutering cats helps prevent homeless kittens and overcrowded animal shelters. Curbing feral cat populations also reduces the risk of these animals preying on wild animals, such as birds,

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — A four-lane concrete bridge being built across the River Ganges in the east Indian state of Bihar has collapsed for the second time in just over a year, once again raising questions about the quality of its construction. Video shows the 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) bridge dramatically crashing into the river

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry will take to the witness stand Tuesday as his years-long battle against Britain’s tabloid media reaches its most dramatic stage so far. The royal is preparing to face questions in a London court as part of his case against a major newspaper publisher. The appearance of

By Jonny Hallam, Josh Pennington, Helen Regan, Olga Voitovych, Irene Nasser, Sebastian Shukla, Ivana Kottasová, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Jo Shelley, CNN (CNN) — A major dam and hydro-electric power plant in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine suffered a collapse early Tuesday, prompting mass evacuations and fears for large-scale devastation as Ukraine accused Moscow’s forces of committing an

By CNNE’s Jessica Hasbun (CNN) — Shocking footage of a young child hanging from the arms of a detained woman through the barred door of a truck in the Dominican Republic has generated outrage in the country. Social media videos of the incident, which occurred Saturday in the municipality of Santo Domingo, showed the child

By Caitlin Hu and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of homes in Haiti have been flooded following heavy rains over the weekend, leaving at least 42 people dead and 85 injured, according to a statement released by the country’s Civil Protection Agency on Monday. The intense rainfall caused several rivers throughout Haiti to overflow,

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — Two more suspects have been named in the alleged murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, including the alleged mastermind of the crime, Brazilian police say. Phillips and Pereira were shot dead a year ago while they were returning from a reporting trip in the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around one-third the size of a

By Masoud Popalzai, Ehsan Popalzai and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan’s Sangcharak district, Mohammad Rahmani, the head of Education Department in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, told CNN. The intelligence unit of the provincial

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about major rail accidents since 1900. Notable International Rail Accidents January 1915 – Guadalajara, Mexico: More than 600 people die when a train derails into a ravine during a steep descent. May 22, 1915 – Gretna, Scotland: The United Kingdom’s worst rail disaster occurs when three

By Ivan Watson, Kunal Sehgal, Deepak Rao and Rhea Mogul, CNN Balasore, Odisha (CNN) — Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake. “Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side,” the 32-year-old

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, who stepped down from her post earlier this year, has been made a dame in one of the country’s highest honors. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced the appointment on Monday to mark the King’s Birthday public holiday, with Ardern among 182 recipients receiving

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A woman condemned as Australia’s worst female serial killer has been pardoned after serving 20 years behind bars for killing her four children in what appears to be one of the country’s gravest miscarriages of justice. New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley intervened to order Kathleen

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — At their modest home in Kenya’s western Bungoma County, Rodgers Shibutse noticed that his mother Pamela had become captivated by a popular but controversial televangelist known as Paul Mackenzie. Pamela Mukalasinga, 54, a small-scale trader and mother of five, would tune in religiously to Mackenzie’s Times

By Pierre Meilhan, Richard Allen Greene, Salma Abdelaziz, Allegra Goodwin, Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN Jerusalem/London (CNN) — Three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian policeman have been killed in a rare border crossing incident. Details of the incident – the first of its kind in more than a decade – remain disputed. Egypt claims

By Kunal Sehgal, Ivan Watson, Ajay Bedi and Deepak Rao, CNN Bahanaga, India (CNN) — Authorities investigating one of the deadliest train crashes in India’s history were examining whether a signal failure led to the disaster, as rescue workers finished their search for survivors and overturned train cars were cleared from the tracks on Sunday.

By Aditi Sangal, CNN (CNN) — Rayman Mathoda was driving down Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles in the year 2000 when she decided that she had made a mistake. She needed to live her truth and get back together with her girlfriend whom she had broken up with earlier. She could not go back to

By Brad Lendon and Eric Cheung, CNN Singapore (CNN) — China’s defense minister on Sunday accused the United States and its allies of trying to destabilize the Indo-Pacific – just hours after warships from the two countries were involved in a near collision. In a combative speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore,

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kongers living overseas are helping to keep the flame of remembrance alive for the victims of China’s Tiananmen massacre as authorities in a city that once hosted huge annual vigils continue to stamp out dissent. Until recently Hong Kong was the only place within China where

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — When the call came in, the staff at Animals Asia jumped into action. A bear in Vietnam’s northeastern Haiphong region had been kept captive for years, her bile harvested in painful and invasive ways – and the farmer was finally giving her up. The team found a familiar scene

By Rebekah Riess and Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his involvement in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise has been sentenced to life in prison, Florida court records show. Judge Jose E. Martinez handed down the sentence to Rodolphe Jaar on Friday

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Imagine your daily routine — but with gravity removed from the equation. While it’s entertaining to think of floating through your home, zero gravity can make tasks more difficult — even something as simple as drinking coffee. Liquids don’t flow in space without Earth’s gravity pulling them down, which

By Ashley Strickland, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — When the first astronauts venture to Mars in the future, the crew will need access to healthy, fresh food — but there are no cosmic grocery stores along the way. And the round trip to the red planet is expected to take about three years. Food is

By Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Under the scorching summer sun at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, an almost invisible drone approaches in the distance. Difficult to spot, the remote-controlled aircraft is also nearly impossible to hear. “It’s very stealthy,” drone maker Valeriy Borovyk says. “We

By Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — German police are preparing to mobilize in cities across the country on Saturday, with protests expected amid a mounting backlash after a court sent several left-wing militants to prison over attacks on neo-Nazis. Earlier this week, a court in Dresden convicted four activists, including a well-known

By Akshaya Kumar Sahoo, Rhea Mogul, Sandi Sidhu and Manveena Suri, CNN Bhubaneswar, India (CNN) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expected to inaugurate a new high-speed train, the Vande Bharat Express, on Saturday as part of his government’s massive investment into modernizing the country’s sprawling railway network and other infrastructure. But, instead, he

By Jimena de la Quintana, CNN (CNN) — Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, will be temporarily transferred to US custody on June 8 to face extortion and fraud charges, Peruvian authorities told CNN. Javier Llaque Moya, the president of Peru’s National Penitentiary Institute, said,

By Sahar Akbarzai, Deepak Rao and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — More than 200 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a collision involving two passenger trains and a goods train in the Indian city of Balasore, in one of the worst rail crashes in recent history. At least 233 people have died and

By Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — China remains the “leading long-term challenge” to the existing international order and there is no evidence that Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine has changed Beijing’s thinking around “the timescale or methodology” for any potential attack on Taiwan, a top strategic think tank said ahead of a regional security summit

By Juan Carlos Paz, Karol Suarez, Florencia Trucco, Fidel Gutierrez, CNN (CNN) — Forty-five bags containing human remains with characteristics matching seven missing call center staff has been discovered in a ravine in a suburb of Guadalajara, according to the state prosecutor’s office in Jalisco. The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office investigating the deaths said it

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — More than 20 years after British comedian Ricky Gervais gave insufferable middle-manager David Brent global fame, an Australian version of the hit show “The Office” is being made, this time with a female lead. Australian comedian Felicity Ward will play Hannah Howard, the managing director of packaging company Flinley

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The synthetic drug trade in Asia is roaring to “extreme levels,” with crime groups establishing new trafficking routes to evade enforcement crackdowns and methamphetamine prices hitting fresh lows, according to a new report released Friday. The research by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

By Caitlin Hu and Karol Suarez, CNN (CNN) — One month after four children vanished into the Colombian Amazon, a preliminary report by the country’s Civil Aviation Authority offers clues to how they could have survived the devastating airplane crash that killed every adult onboard. The extraordinary story of the missing children has drawn intense

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — More lengthy delays could be in store for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which is designed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station and compete with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Boeing had been working toward a late July launch of the first crewed Starliner test flight. But “we did

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko Father: name unavailable publicly Mother: Yekaterina Lukashenko, milkmaid Marriage: Galina (Zhelnerovich) Lukashenko (1975-present) Children: with Galina (Zhelnerovich) Lukashenko: Viktor

Pterosaurs, the world’s oldest flying reptiles, once flew in Australia’s skies as far back as 107 million years ago, according to a study published Wednesday.

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s most decorated soldier lost a multi-million dollar defamation case against three newspapers who accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan – including the murder of unarmed prisoners – as a judge ruled their reports met the standards of truth. The ruling, delivered by Federal Court

By Eric Cheung, Will Ripley and John Mees, CNN Kinmen, Taiwan (CNN) — As the sun sets over Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, the neon lights of mainland China dazzle in the distance just 2.5 miles away. Yet as striking as the lights on the horizon are the reminders, everywhere, of war. Kinmen’s beaches are lined with

By Rosa Flores, CNN (CNN) — Mexico is launching a new app to speed up its asylum process amid record levels of asylum seekers, even after a similar US app came under fierce criticism for glitches and difficulty of use. Andrés Ramírez, head of Mexico’s refugee assistance agency (COMAR) told CNN he believed an app

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A team of 16 experts and scientists assembled by NASA aims to publish its first report on unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOS, by midsummer. “Unidentified anomalous phenomena has truly captured the attention of the public, of the scientific community and nowadays, the US

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Kim Yo Jong, senior North Korean official and sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said a North Korean military reconnaissance satellite will soon enter space orbit and begin its mission, according to state news agency KCNA on Thursday local time. Kim defended Wednesday’s failed launch and North

By Eve Brennan, Jessie Gretener and Chris Stern, CNN (CNN) — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said European Union states have “consistently neglected the needs of Afghans” in a report published on Wednesday, where it found that only 271 of the more than 270,000 Afghans identified as needing permanent protection were resettled in the bloc

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Qatar’s prime minister met secretly with the Taliban’s top leader earlier this month in Afghanistan, two sources familiar with the meeting confirmed to CNN. The meeting happened in the southern city of Kandahar on May 12, between the Taliban Supreme Leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada and Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1964 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Father: Stanley Johnson, environmentalist, writer, former politician Mother: Charlotte Johnson Wahl, painter Marriages: Carrie Symonds

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Radovan Karadzic, who was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity related to ethnic violence during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place: Petnjica, Montenegro Father: Vuk Karadzic Mother: Jovanka Karadzic Marriage: Ljiljana

By Melissa Mahtani, CNN (CNN) — It’s been just over 100 days since Nicaraguan opposition leader Felix Maradiaga was released from prison, along with at least 221 other political prisoners, and flown to the United States. His sudden release after 611 days of detention – many of them in solitary confinement, he says – came