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3 days ago | 
cnn.com | Svitlana Vlasova |Christian Edwards
Ad Feedback World Europe • 1 min read CNN CNN — Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said on Tuesday that it had hit the bridge connecting Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula with explosives planted underwater. “The Security Service of Ukraine carried out a new unique special operation and struck the Crimean Bridge for the third time – this time underwater! The operation lasted several months,” the SBU wrote on Telegram.
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4 weeks ago | 
cnn.com | Christian Edwards |Lauren Kent |Christopher Lamb |Rob Picheta
Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images Live Updates India and Pakistan trade blame as conflict spirals Stoyan Nenov/Reuters Live Updates Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Sistine Chapel Live Updates Video Ad Feedback Hear first American pope address the world 11:16 - Source: CNN Hear first American pope address the world 11:16 • Taking the helm: Newly chosen Pope Leo XIV will celebrate mass today at the Sistine Chapel, a day after being chosen by the cardinals on the second day of the conclave. •...
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1 month ago | 
cnn.com | Elise Hammond |Christian Edwards
Live Updates 2700 miles from DC, a rural school feels the impact of Trump’s first 100 days 04:54 - Source: CNN 2700 miles from DC, a rural school feels the impact of Trump’s first 100 days 04:54 • Ukraine war talks: US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Moscow today.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
wral.com | Sharon Braithwaite |Christian Edwards |Adam Pourahmadi
(CNN) — Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was detained in Italy at the request of the United States following a drone attack that killed three Americans, has been released. Abedini, 38, was arrested in Milan in December on a warrant issued by the US and charged in connection with a drone strike that killed three US Army soldiers and injured dozens more in Jordan last year.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
wral.com | Christian Edwards |Anna Chernova
(CNN) — In the capital of Transnistria, a self-declared microstate sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, the festive New Year’s lights have gone dark ahead of schedule. This separatist sliver of Moldova will run out of energy in three weeks, the head of its Russia-backed government has said. Once proud, go-it-alone and richer than their neighbors in Moldova proper, Transnistrians are now burning wood to keep warm through hours-long blackouts as winter bites.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
wral.com | Maria Kostenko |Christian Edwards |Nick Walsh
(CNN) — Russia has claimed that its forces captured a battered but strategic town in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv launched a counterattack in the Russian region of Kursk. After months of intense fighting, Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday said its troops had “completely liberated” Kurakhove, a small industrial town that is a stepping stone to the key city of Pokrovsk and wider southern frontlines. Ukraine has not yet commented on the claim.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
erienewsnow.com | Eyad Kourdi |Christian Edwards |Nic Robertson |Avery Schmitz
By Eyad Kourdi, Christian Edwards, Nic Robertson and Avery Schmitz, CNN(CNN) — Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus “free” after entering the city to scant resistance from regime forces, while claiming President Bashar al-Assad has fled the capital, losing his decades-long grip on power. “We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” the Military Operations Command wrote in a post on Telegram on Sunday.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
wpsdlocal6.com | Eyad Kourdi |Mostafa Salem |Christian Edwards |Allegra Goodwin
(CNN) — Syrian armed rebels have entered Aleppo just three days into their surprise offensive, marking the first time they have set foot in the country’s second largest city since government forces recaptured the city in 2016. Rebel forces launched a surprise attack this week, sweeping through several villages outside the city and reigniting conflict that had been largely static for years.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Jeremy Diamond |Christian Edwards
Smoke billows above Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday. Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images CNN — The Israeli security cabinet on Tuesday voted to approve a ceasefire deal in Lebanon, an Israeli official told CNN, potentially bringing an end to more than a year of cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah and months of a full-scale war that has killed thousands.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Christian Edwards
CNN — Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, Russian state media reported Tuesday, citing the country’s Defense Ministry, after the Biden administration gave Kyiv the green light to use the longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia. Russian air defenses shot down five ATACMS missiles over the Bryansk region, the Defense Ministry said, according to TASS.
