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A Taliban governor in northern Afghanistan has been killed by an explosion in his office, police officials have told CNN.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private Russian army Wagner Group, says he and his fighters have been pleading for more ammunition, but they have been "cut off" by Putin.

Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office recently offered former President Donald Trump the chance to testify next week before a grand jury that's been investigating a hush money payment scheme -- signaling they are nearing the end of their investigation, The New York Times reported Thursday.

CNN's Ivan Watson reports on Russia showering major cities across Ukraine with missiles, killing at least 6 people and injuring more than 20.

The UK government this week introduced proposed legislation that it couldn't say for certain complies with international law, its latest attempt to put a stop to migrant boats crossing the English Channel from France.

Jenna Ellis was censured by a disciplinary judge in Colorado Wednesday, in the latest effort to hold accountable attorneys who boosted former President Donald Trump's 2020 election reversal gambits.

As the American survivors of last week's bloody kidnapping in Matamoros receive medical treatment, and the bodies of those killed are repatriated, Mexico's broader epidemic of disappearances remains largely unsolved: More than 100,000 Mexicans and migrants have disappeared, with no explanation of their fate for families.

A lawyer representing one of five Proud Boys members on trial for seditious conspiracy asked a federal judge to throw out the case Thursday, saying that federal prosecutors hid "plainly exculpatory" US Capitol security footage played on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show.

Iran's longest-held American prisoner has made an emotional plea to US President Joe Biden to put the "liberty of innocent Americans above politics" and ramp up efforts to secure his release, in an unprecedented interview with CNN from inside Iran's notorious Evin prison.

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are at the federal courthouse in Washington on Thursday for a sealed proceeding on whether his defense attorney must answer more questions from a grand jury, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

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CNN's Kaitlan Collins asks Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) why he referred to himself as an American after he was asked if he still considers himself a Democrat.

Turkish riot police fired pepper spray to disperse a group of protesters pushing back against a line of police on Wednesday as a rally to mark International Women's Day was winding down in central Istanbul.

Protesters blocked the road to one of the main terminals of Israel's central international airport on Thursday, intensifying a nationwide movement against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to weaken the country's judicial system.

Georgia's ruling party has withdrawn a controversial "foreign influence" bill after two nights of protests in Tbilisi, but the opposition warned that more demonstrations were planned on Thursday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy may be the only top Western official who balked at boarding the train to Kyiv to stand with Ukraine's warrior president.

Protests have erupted in Georgia this week after the country's parliament passed the first reading of a draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents."

A deadly missile strike caused severe damage to infrastructure in Lviv, Ukraine, as Russia targeted critical infrastructure across the country with more than 80 missiles, Ukrainian officials said. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz has more details.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sat across from his defense minister in the Kremlin last April, slouched in his seat and gripping the table. They were discussing Russia's siege of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant in the strategic city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine.

Last year Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a blockade of the Ukrainian steel plant Azovstal in the port city of Mariupol. The siege ended in the evacuation of hundreds from the plant, the last holdout in the city under Russian bombardment. CNN has now obtained exclusive information detailing how the deal was struck, and who was involved in the sensitive talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describes what he expects the endgame for the war in Ukraine should be like in an exclusive interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton breaks down how some weapons could make a difference in the battle over the key Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

CNN's Kylie Atwood reports on the emotional hearing that took place on Capitol Hill about the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Ukrainian parliament member Inna Sovsun explains to CNN's Lynda Kinkade the push for new legislation surrounding same-sex partnerships in Ukraine and how it can benefit soldiers on the front lines of the war.

Fox News conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson began airing footage this week of the January 6th insurrection, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gifted to him exclusively. And just as I anticipated, the footage was manipulated and selectively edited to fit an extreme MAGA narrative espoused by Carlson, former President Donald Trump and the leaders of the new Republican House majority.

Two Americans have returned to the US from Mexico and are being treated at a hospital after an armed kidnapping left two of their friends dead and spurred a days-long search for the US travelers who had crossed the border for a medical procedure, officials say.

The world's oceans are polluted by a "plastic smog" made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.

Fox host Tucker Carlson is facing blowback from Republican leaders for peddling new falsehoods about the attack on the US Capitol on January 6. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) doubles down on his decision to give Carlson riot security footage.

The US Department of Justice will perform a review of the Memphis Police Department after the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols, the department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services announced Wednesday, ahead of the expected release of about 20 more hours of footage from Nichols' brutal January encounter with police.

The kidnapping and killing of US travelers this week in the Mexican city of Matamoros, just over the border from Brownsville, Texas, has put a glaring spotlight on violence in a country that millions of international visitors flock to each year.

CNN's Don Lemon speaks to the mother of LaTavia Washington McGee, one of the surviving Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico.

Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region's permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invites House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine to see the situation on the ground firsthand -- an invitation that comes as the Republican Party faces a divide over whether the United States should continue to provide aid to the country under attack from Russia.

Ukraine has denied any involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines following a media report citing new intelligence that a "pro-Ukrainian group" may have been behind last year's attack targeting Russia's gas deliveries to Europe.

Protests erupted in Tbilisi on Tuesday after Georgia's parliament passed the first reading of a controversial draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents." Rights groups have criticized the law as curtailing basic freedoms in the country.

Protests erupted in Tbilisi, Georgia after the nation's parliament passed the first reading of the controversial foreign agents bill that critics say could curtail basic freedoms in the country.

China should not be surprised Washington and its allies in Asia are deepening military ties given Beijing's aggressive behavior toward many of its neighbors, the US ambassador to Japan said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with CNN.

After three years of largely self-imposed isolation on the global stage, China is aiming to up its diplomatic offensive and win back lost ground -- all while hardening its public stance toward its superpower rival, the United States.