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China's leader Xi Jinping hit out at the United States with unusually direct comments as he called on the country's private companies to "fight" alongside the Communist Party at a time of mounting challenges at home and abroad.

Parts of Asia's largest cities could be under water by 2100 thanks to rising sea levels, according to a new study that combines both the impact of climate change with natural oceanic fluctuations.

New video purportedly shows a Russian soldier saying he is refusing to obey orders after his unit suffered heavy casualties on the front lines in Ukraine.

The US is planning to relax Covid-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday, a source familiar told CNN Tuesday, citing a decline in Covid cases, hospitalizations, and deaths and more data surrounding the variants that were circulating in China.

The two Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico and found dead have been identified as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, a US official familiar with the ongoing investigation tells CNN. The two survivors have been identified as Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams, according to the source. CNN's Rosa Flores has more.

CNN's Selina Wang discusses the restrictions that journalists face at China's annual parliamentary meeting.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about his military strategy as Russian forces continue to make gradual gains in the city of Bakhmut. Watch the full exclusive interview on Wednesday, March 8 at 9 p.m. ET.

Two of the four Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico have been found dead, according to Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal Anaya. One of the two survivors has injuries, he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to "find the murderers" involved in a video that he said showed the execution of a Ukrainian soldier by Russian troops, as officials in Kyiv roundly condemned the incident as a war crime.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made an unannounced trip to Baghdad on Tuesday, according to the US press pool traveling with him.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports on the standoff between Yevgeny Prigozhin of Wagner and the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

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China's new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that "conflict and confrontation" with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role.

New video from the scene where four US citizens were kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico shows people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck. CNN's Kylie Atwood reports.

Japan's maiden launch of its new flagship space rocket ended in failure on Tuesday when controllers issued a destruct command just 15 minutes after liftoff, the country's space agency said.

Young Afghan women gathered outside Kabul University on Monday to protest the ruling Taliban's ban on female education as their male peers returned to school for a new academic year and the United Nations heard the restriction may amount to a crime against humanity.

Horrific video appears to show a Ukrainian soldier, allegedly a prisoner of war, executed seemingly by Russian soldiers after he says: "Glory to Ukraine." CNN's Erin Burnett reports.

CNN political analyst and senior political correspondent for the New York Times Maggie Haberman discusses what she thinks is a strategy being employed by former President Donald Trump in his bid for the presidency in the 2024 election.

Ex-President Donald Trump and his most serious potential rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, laid out with unprecedented clarity this weekend how their sharply contrasting personalities and approaches would define the 2024 race for the Republican nomination.

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who did not show up to court in Washington, DC, on Monday, when she was set to go to trial on federal charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.

At least 23 people face domestic terrorism charges after being arrested Sunday evening amid violent protests at the site of a planned law enforcement training facility in Atlanta dubbed "Cop City" by opponents who claim it would propagate militarized policing and harm the environment.

The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6 killed at least 45,000 people, rendered millions homeless across almost a dozen cities and caused immediate damage estimated at $34 billion -- or roughly 4% of the country's annual economic output, according to the World Bank.

Much of Russia's energy exports have been hit by Western sanctions since the country launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with a notable exception — nuclear power.

At least nine police officers were killed and 11 others injured in a suspected suicide blast in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Monday, authorities said, the latest in a string of recent attacks against security personnel in the South Asian nation.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from this week's BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, the tournament announced on Sunday, suggesting that his visa application to enter the United States had been unsuccessful.

A committee of US senators has called on the United Nations to investigate a network of secret torture centers in Iran exposed by a CNN investigation last month.

Wayne Couzens, the former London police officer who abducted, raped and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in 2021, has been sentenced to 19 further months in prison for indecent exposure incidents that took place while he was serving in the force.

Alex Murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and son, but his days in court are far from over.

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A year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Xi Jinping's backing of Vladimir Putin has opened the door for the United States and partners in the Pacific to shore up sometimes frayed relationships to the detriment of Beijing.

CNN's Kristie Lu Stout and Clare Sebastian report on latest U.S.-China-Russia relations

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have received an invite to the coronation of King Charles III -- but the couple have yet to confirm if they will attend, the Duke's spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.

For the first time in eight months, the Russians are on the cusp of taking a Ukrainian city, albeit a small one already abandoned by more than 90% of its prewar population.

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen tells CNN's Jim Acosta why he doesn't think Trump will win the GOP nomination in 2024.

Families of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which disappeared mysteriously nearly nine years ago, called on the Malaysian government on Sunday to allow US seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity to mount a new search for the missing plane.

As president, Donald Trump made some of his most thoroughly dishonest speeches at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

Former US defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta joins CNN's Jim Acosta to discuss the possibility of another Trump presidency.

Patricia Kopta, 83, disappeared more than 30 years ago and was believed to be dead by her family. She was recently found living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico, her family and police said at a news conference.

Fresh protests broke out in Greek on Sunday over a deadly train collision, despite an apology from the prime minister.

When Sweden and Finland declared their intention to join NATO last May, it was seen by many as a poke in the eye for Russia and evidence of a shift in European thinking. Historically, both countries had committed to non-alignment with NATO as a way of avoiding provoking Moscow. The invasion of Ukraine changed that.