The Taiwanese government is preparing for a war they hope will never happen. For the first time this year, Taiwan combined two major civil defense exercises, with the drills lasting ten days. These drills have included urban combat, mass casualty simulations, emergency supply drops and cyber defense that could be enacted if an invasion was to occur. CNN's Senior International Correspondent, Will Ripley, reports.
The Taiwanese government is preparing for a war they hope will never happen. For the first time this year, Taiwan combined two major civil defense exercises, with the drills lasting ten days. These drills have included urban combat, mass casualty simulations, emergency supply drops and cyber defense that could be enacted if an invasion was to occur. CNN's Senior International Correspondent, Will Ripley, reports.
A 12-foot commercial sea drone captured rare close-up footage of what CNN identified as a Chinese Type 052D guided-missile destroyer during a test mission in the strategically important Bashi Channel. CNN’s Will Ripley reports how cheap autonomous vessels are transforming maritime surveillance.
CNN is on the ground in southwest France, ground zero of what has become France's largest wildfires on record. CNN's Melissa Bell meets a local that has lost everything to the fires.
Russia launched strikes on several cities across Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. The spate of attacks comes just hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had received a report from the Ukrainian Air Force that Russia was preparing a “massive attack” on the Ukrainian capital.
Video shared by CNN affiliate BFMTV shows a deer being rescued in the Gironde region, France. According to BFMTV, three people helped the animal after finding it dehydrated in a wildfire-hit area.
CNN is outside Aeon shopping mall in Kumamoto, southern Japan, where at least three people are dead and three are missing, its operator said, after the building partially collapsed in a likely gas explosion after Tuesday’s 6.8- magnitude earthquake. At least 14 people have died in the earthquake, CNN affiliate TV Asahi reported. CNN’s Yumi Asada reports.
Historic wildfires in southwestern Europe have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, one of the biggest evacuations efforts Europe has seen since World War II. What may have contributed to it?
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared alongside his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, who is widely seen as his likely successor, at events marking the anniversary of the Korean War armistice. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
