When the sun started to beat down in Chorley, in the north of England, 13-year old Dylan Ramsay did what many children do when the summer heat arrives: Jump into water. On the warm July day, Dylan and his friends left the local playground and headed for a nearby quarry. He was looking for a bit of fun and a way to cool down, but Dylan never came home. He was in the water only a short while before he got into difficulty. Another swimmer pulled him out, but it was too late.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/climate/europe-heatwaves-drownings-intl-cmd
The last time Norma saw her son was in late January, when she dropped him off at an airport in Peru’s capital, Lima. He told her he found a job as a cook for the Russian army advertised on social media, assuring her he’d be far from the war in Ukraine, make good money and even have a shot at obtaining Russian citizenship. Norma was instantly suspicious. Her 31-year-old son had never left Peru before and had never even held a weapon. (CNN is not publishing Norma’s full name or that of her son to protect both from retaliation.) “I wanted to lock him in the house, but he had made up his mind already,” Norma told CNN. She considered even calling the police. “He told me ‘Mom, please, understand, I am just going as a cook.’ But a mother’s heart knows, if not I wouldn’t have felt so anxious.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/americas/russia-ukraine-peruvian-fighters-latam-intl
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/world/video/venezuela-earthquake-rescue-digvid-vrtc
Venezuelans are grappling with a stark question: after years of economic and political strife and now devastating twin earthquakes, can their country recover, or are the cracks just too deep? Rescue teams and neighbors are still searching for survivors as the scale of the disaster comes into sharper focus — more than 1,400 are dead and thousands more remain missing. “Some very tough days are coming,” said Caracas resident Neida Pernilla. Her apartment in the Venezuelan capital was destroyed in Wednesday’s 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that came within seconds of each other. But she says she is among the more fortunate — she and her relatives survived.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/americas/venezuela-earthquake-crisis-future
The family of a 17-year-old Thai girl whose body was found in a suitcase in Pattaya said they were devastated by her death, for which an Australian man has been arrested and charged with murder. Thai police said they arrested an Australian man in his 40s at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport early on Saturday in connection with the killing in Pattaya, about 150 km (93 miles) east of Bangkok. The suspect, identified as Simon Peter Carman, faces charges of murder, concealment of a body, moving or destroying a body, and taking a minor for sexual purposes.