A suicide attack on a busy commercial street in Baghdad has left at least 28 people dead and scores wounded, according to local authorities.

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Brazilian police are questioning the widow of the Greek ambassador to that country, along with a military police officer described as her lover and another man in the death of the diplomat, authorities said Friday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump, rather than President Barack Obama, in his annual New Year's greetings statement to foreign heads of state and government.

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Rebels in the Free Syrian Army have warned they will no longer adhere to Syria's fledgling ceasefire if the regime continues to violate it, according to a statement seen by CNN.

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Edgar Matobato's days are spent -- for now, at least -- in a verdant, bucolic compound some way outside Manila.

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China has announced a plan to phase out all ivory processing and trade by the end of 2017, the government said on Friday, a move that conservationists hope will stymie the mass killing -- and threat of extinction -- of African elephants.

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Allan Williams, the club owner and promoter widely credited with the discovery of The Beatles, has died. The music impresario, who also supported the group through their earliest years, was 86.

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For the first time in the United States, New York City issued a birth certificate reading "intersex" in the gender field.

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President Barack Obama and his first secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, entered the White House in 2009 with visions of a "Russian reset." But Obama will leave office next month in the midst of a shadowy Cold War-era fever dream, as Washington and Moscow are, once again, beset by accusations of diplomatic chicanery and outright espionage.

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Donald Trump loves to imagine himself as the best dealmaker in America. But many Democrats are not buying it. When they look at the new White House, they see little room for finding common ground. The President-elect ran a campaign that was antithetical to their party values, in addition to, they believe, consistently lying and spreading falsehoods. And now he has assembled a right-wing cabinet, which makes many Democrats' skin crawl.

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It may not have been the dominant headline, but make no mistake -- 2016 was the year when mass atrocities against children became the new normal.

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Khemaridh Hy did the unthinkable. In 2015, at age 35, the rising star quit a very lucrative Wall Street career. He didn't have another job lined up -- or even a real game plan of exactly what he was going to do.

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Just about anyone who had money in the market is saying, "Thank you, 2016!"

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Congrats Americans! Your stock markets rallied to record levels this year. But you're not the only ones reveling in sweet stock market gains.

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on foreign cyber threats to the United States, including the Russian hacking in the 2016 US presidential election, a committee aide told CNN.

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An autopsy on the body of on pop star George Michael proved inconclusive and further tests will be carried out, UK police said.

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Who remembers Mohamed Bouazizi? The answer, maybe, is not many of us.

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War-ravaged Syria has entered its first day of a nationwide ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey.

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Millions of households in the Sahel region of West Africa live under a growing threat.

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It's dawn in Lhasa, Tibet, and the quiet is punctuated only by the gentle chanting of Buddhist pilgrims.

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When European explorers discovered the Yoruba kingdoms in West Africa in the fifteenth century, they found a civilization already established over 500 years earlier.

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Israel, and by extension the United States, are poised at the entrance to a dangerous path. The model democracy of the Middle East risks transforming into a global pariah on the scale of South Africa when it was in the depths of its apartheid nightmare.

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Guacamole and margaritas take a back seat as Mexico's new wave pioneer rethinks a classic cuisine

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What's your standout sporting memory of 2016?

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Russia's Foreign Ministry has recommended that the Kremlin expel 35 US diplomats from Russia in response to sanctions announced by Washington, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

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President-elect Donald Trump said it's time for the US to "move on to bigger and better things" following the sanctions announced by President Barack Obama Thursday against Russia, but said he'd be briefed next week about the issue.

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President Barack Obama, at long, long last, responded forcefully to Russia's unprecedented interference in America's democratic process. We can all wonder what might have happened if he had acted sooner, but that question no longer matters.

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The carcasses of thousands of sea creatures have mysteriously washed up on the western coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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A huge open-pit coal mine has collapsed in eastern India, trapping at least 30 people and killing at least five, police officials say.

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You may never have heard of him, but without this bear you might never have seen a panda in your local zoo.

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In 2016, more countries legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes.

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Milo Yiannopoulos, a self-proclaimed internet "super-villain," has struck up a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster.

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Amazon may one day use blimps stocked with drones to get packages to customers even faster.

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The head of the Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has resigned after the suicide of a junior employee was linked to a company culture that required staffers to work huge amounts of overtime.

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I know, I know. You're SO over me. You lost a favorite celebrity. Your Samsung Galaxy exploded. You got really tired of Pokemon Go really fast. But look a little closer. I was also all kinds of awesome - in ways that left you a better place.

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After months of no signs of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, a US official told CNN on Thursday, "in the last few weeks we've been aware of some of Baghdadi's movements."

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte denied throwing a person off a helicopter in an interview with CNN Philippines Thursday, contradicting a statement he made on live television earlier this week.

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The Syrian government and opposition rebels have agreed to terms for a ceasefire in the country's long-running civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday.

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When London-based fashion photographer Salvatore di Gregorio was invited by Cuba's minister of culture to shoot a photo essay in December 2015, he was intent on capturing the country's celebrated comparsas: the flamboyantly dressed performers who have become the face of carnival throughout the Caribbean and South America.

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I know, I know. You're SO over me. You lost a favorite celebrity. Your Samsung Galaxy exploded. You got really tired of Pokemon Go really fast. But look a little closer. I was also all kinds of awesome - in ways that left you a better place.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un heads into 2017 with two things that loom ominous for the rest of the world -- he's tested a nuclear weapon, and no one really knows how willing he'd be to use one in anger.

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A new report claims North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered 340 people to be executed he came to power in 2011.

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A North Korean defector says Kim Jong Un is determined to strengthen the country's nuclear program before new leaders in the US and South Korea can stop him. CNN's Saima Mohsin reports.

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to throw officials out of a flying helicopter if they misuse public funds -- and admitted on live television that he's done it before.

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Australia police ended a two-and-a-half year drug investigation on Christmas day by busting a cartel and seizing 1102 pounds (500 kilograms) of cocaine. The December 25 bust, along with a seizure of 1336 pounds (606 kilograms) of cocaine from the same syndicate earlier this year, was worth about $259 million (AUD$360 million) and is Australia's largest ever haul from a single cartel.

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Even if you're not a fan of New Year's Eve fireworks, you'll have another reason to look to the skies.

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Iraqi security forces are advancing in Mosul and could defeat ISIS in the country "within three months," said Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

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2016 has been a roller coaster of a year, and currency markets are no exception.

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Among the many foreign policy uncertainties created by Donald Trump's election, there is one prediction we can take to the bank: The United Nations is going to get hammered. An unapologetic nationalist is bound for the White House, Republicans are in control of both houses of Congress—and the world body is in their crosshairs.

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