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CNN  —  China-based hackers breached the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns as part of a recent targeted intelligence-gathering campaign, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN. The hackers also accessed the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, who recently traveled with Secretary

CNN  —  Ukrainian troops have started firing the cluster munitions provided by the US as part of their counteroffensive against Russia, according to two US officials and another person briefed on the matter. The US is still waiting for updates from Ukrainian forces about how effective the munitions have been on the battlefield, one of

Editor’s Note: Robyn Ryle is a professor of sociology and gender studies at Hanover College. She is the author of “Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy,” “She/He/They/Me” and “Fair Game.” The views expressed here are her own. Read more opinion on CNN. CNN  —  The 2023 Women’s World Cup Championship begins this week in Australia and

CNN  —  A US soldier in Hawaii is receiving the military’s highest award for valor not in combat on Wednesday for saving a woman’s life and repeatedly fighting off a man who was attacking her. Spc. Rene Rodriguez, who is stationed in Hawaii with the 25th Infantry Division, told CNN that he was driving home

Prague CNN  —  It was a rare moment when the publicly visible Kremlin matched the reality behind closed doors. That is according to the head of Britain’s Mi6, who in a rare speech in Prague, gave the first confirmation from western intelligence that the boss of private military group Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin did indeed strike

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have declared open season on Ukraine’s consequential grain exports, targeting the port city of Odesa with new ferocity and jeopardizing worldwide food prices. With the

CNN  —  Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is playing out like an apocalypse movie: a tale of heat, floods and fire. But scientists warn this may only be a preview of the unpredictable chaos to come if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution. Just over halfway through July and already a slew of

Seoul, South Korea CNN  —  The US Army has identified a soldier who crossed the demarcation line into North Korea as Pvt. Travis King, a cavalry scout who joined the military in January 2021. King was set to be administratively separated from the US Army after facing disciplinary action for assault, an Army official tells

Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar says Ukraine is creating conditions to continue advancing along the southern front.“The enemy’s task is to stop our advance and they are putting a lot of effort into this. Our enemy is strong. Therefore, our troops have to move in an extremely difficult situation,” Maliar said on Ukrainian national television

CNN  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin just reminded the world that he has the capacity to apply pain far beyond the excruciating torment he’s inflicting on Ukraine. Russia’s suspension of a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain from a region fabled as the world’s bread basket threatens to cause severe food shortages in Africa