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A child riding on his father's shoulders smiles as they stroll through a park lined with yellow autumn-touched leaves -- that is the typical image of a Japanese "ikumen".

"Papa died last night, but his death is not the end."

Honduras has formally cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, its ministry of foreign affairs announced Saturday.

The founder of one of the world's biggest dumpling empires has died.

While the fury of conflict echoes across the eastern Donbas region, a very different war is being waged in Crimea: one of night-time explosions, sabotage and disinformation.

President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration is withdrawing his name from nomination, a person familiar with the decision told CNN.

At least two people are dead and nine are unaccounted for following an explosion at a candy factory in eastern Pennsylvania on Friday, officials said.

No. 9 Florida Atlantic stunned No. 3 Kansas State 79-76 in the elite eight on Saturday to advance to the school's first Final Four.

Russia plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.

Former President Donald Trump baselessly railed against what he called "prosecutorial misconduct" at a campaign rally Saturday night in Texas, denying any wrongdoing amid investigations in New York, Georgia and Washington.

At least one tornado rolled through western Mississippi on Friday night, damaging homes and knocking out power as the threat of storms remain overnight for neighboring Alabama and Tennessee.

Kangaroos are on Australia's coat of arms and the tail of the national airline, but every year state authorities allow licensed hunters to kill millions of them.

After earlier and incorrectly predicting his own arrest this week, former President Donald Trump veered into the more sinister business of predicting violence and catastrophe if he's arrested.

Former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin's new threat to place strategic nuclear weapons inside Ukraine's neighbor, Belarus.

A 32-year-old man has died following a shooting at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe, located in Stateline, Nevada, on Saturday, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

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Storm chaser Zachary Hall describes the destruction in Mississippi after powerful storms and at least one tornado pummeled the Southeast, ripping roofs off homes, nearly leveling some neighborhoods and knocking out power for thousands, officials said.

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