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By Dana Karni, Abeer Salman, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Dozens of Israeli settlers set Palestinian vehicles and homes on fire in a village in the occupied West Bank on Monday after Israeli forces tore down settlers’ illegal outpost structures in the area. Two videos geolocated by CNN show multiple vehicles and a building

By Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — For a year, Mohamed Saad’s family had no idea whether he was alive or dead. The 28-year-old Egyptian fisherman had gone out on a routine trip off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and never returned. Relatives searched for months with no word from authorities. When

By Joseph Ataman and Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine will purchase “up to 100” French-made Rafale fighter jets as well as anti-air defenses and drones from France, the Elysee Palace confirmed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Paris on Monday. “We will have the greatest air defense system, one of the greatest in the

By Catherine Nicholls, Antonia Mortensen, Charlotte Reck, and Char Reck, CNN (CNN) — Polish officials have pointed the finger at Russia after a key train track was destroyed in what Warsaw said was an “unprecedented act of sabotage” committed by two Ukrainian citizens who were “collaborating with Russian services.” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said

By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that led to the collapse of her government. A panel of three judges from the International

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — When Sergiy Klimov speaks about wine, his excitement is infectious, even to those with a less than sophisticated palate. Since 2014, Klimov has championed Ukrainian-made wine in numerous ways. He runs a chain of wine bars in the capital city, Kyiv, stocking only Ukrainian-produced wine. He is an ambassador

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — To combat a severe water crisis, Iranian authorities have begun cloud-seeding operations to induce rainfall, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, amid the driest fall in half a century. Iran’s National Weather Forecasting Center of the Meteorological Organizations said Saturday that rainfall across the country has decreased

By Nina Subkhanberdina, Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday said it had arrested a man accused of helping plan last week’s deadly car bombing near Delhi’s Red Fort, which killed at least 10 people and injured more than 30. In a statement posted on social media, the NIA said

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español (CNN) — Wilmer Geovanny Chavarría Barré, known as “Pipo,” the alleged leader of drug trafficking gang Los Lobos – Ecuador’s most powerful and violent criminal organization – has been arrested in Spain, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced on Sunday. “Today we captured ‘Pipo’ Chavarría, the

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has described his country’s nuclear program as still “intact” despite admitting that US and Israeli strikes badly damaged facilities earlier this year. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen Sunday, Khatibzadeh said Iran’s “peaceful nuclear program is intact, as we are speaking,”

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — “Do you really think, Mr. Netanyahu, that you can rename wars, hand out medals, tell tales of your heroism – and still avoid investigating the greatest national failure in Israel’s history?” Eyal Eshel’s voice cracked with rage as he stood on stage in Tel Aviv Saturday

By Christian Edwards, Laura Sharman, CNN London (CNN) — Britain plans to carry out the most significant reform of its asylum policy in modern times by making refugee status temporary and quadrupling the wait for permanent settlement to 20 years, as the Labour government confronts a “broken” asylum system that has fueled support for right-wing

Story by the Associated Press A group of suspected Haitian gang members fired this week on American forces protecting the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince, a spokesman said Saturday, in an incident that highlighted the tense security situation in the Caribbean nation. Capt. Steven J. Keenan, a spokesman for the US Marines, wrote in an email

By Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — One of India’s most prestigious universities has been accused of compromising its academic freedom by cancelling a seminar on democracy the same day it issued a directive to staff to promote a summit on cow welfare. Cows are revered as sacred by many Hindus, but critics say

By Michael Rios, Cristopher Ulloa, Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Chile faces a stark range of candidates in Sunday’s presidential election where the frontrunners include a longtime Communist Party member and two ultraconservatives. As the country grapples with growing crime rates, surging immigration and discontent with the policies of the leftist President Gabriel Boric, some

By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — On the frontlines in Ukraine, changing weather has brought treacherous conditions – but also opportunities – for both sides. Although swathes of fog are limiting the use of drones by both the Russians and Ukrainians, both sides have also managed to turn the mist to

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Hollywood stars met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where the pontiff called cinema a “workshop of hope” and lamented declining audiences. The line-up of film stars and directors meeting the first American pope on Saturday included Oscar-winners Cate Blanchett, known for “Aviator” and “Elizabeth”, and Spike Lee, who

By Eugenia Yosef, Tal Shalev, Ibrahim Dahman, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Deep underneath the wreckage of Rafah, southern Gaza, the war is not over. Scores of Hamas militants, split up into independent cells, are trapped in tunnels underground behind Israeli lines, as mediators try to find a solution that doesn’t collapse the month-old ceasefire

By Michael Rios, Sophie Tanno, Mary Trina Mena, and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro criticized “irresponsible” plans for the United States to hold five days of military drills in Trinidad and Tobago beginning on Sunday. Supporters of the regime gathered on Saturday to watch Maduro’s address in the eastern Caracas neighborhood

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump says he intends to sue the BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion “probably sometime next week” despite the broadcaster’s apology to him over a documentary Trump’s lawyers described as defamatory. “I think I have to do it,” Trump told reporters. “They’ve even admitted

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — It was a late September night when muffled blasts and a stream of bubbles broke the surface of the Baltic Sea. Explosions had ripped through the two Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia’s gas highway into Europe, months after Moscow’s full invasion of Ukraine. Years later, shockwaves from that

By Laura Sharman, Helen Regan, Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A Russian man wanted for extradition by the United States over cyber-crime allegations has been arrested on the Thai holiday island of Phuket, local police have announced. Denis Obrezko is allegedly part of the notorious group Void Blizzard, Thai police said, a cyber espionage gang

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China has warned its citizens against traveling to Japan as it escalates a backlash over comments by the country’s prime minister about the island of Taiwan. The dictum is Beijing’s most substantive retaliation yet to Sanae Takaichi’s remarks. Even as it may be more symbolic than anything, the

By Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — Doaa Musallem’s high school grades were so good that she got a congratulatory call from the Palestinian Minister of Education. But for the 18-year-old, the celebration was bittersweet. Like some 56,000 other students from Gaza’s class of 2025, the last two years of her education have been nearly

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega, much like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro today, had become public enemy number one in Washington, amid

By Simone McCarthy, Joyce Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — As US duties on Chinese imports spun higher and higher earlier this year, Derek Wang braced for major disruption. With US orders ground to a halt, Wang, 36, who sells intelligent cookware out of southern China’s Guangdong province, looked elsewhere to fill the gap. After finding

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for stealing a signed print of Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon” artwork in a smash-and-grab theft from a London gallery. Larry Fraser, 49, was sentenced to 13 months in prison on Friday for stealing the 2004 print

By Sana Noor Haq, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested in Wales on suspicion of imitating a highly distinguished navy officer at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony has been charged. Jonathan Carley, from the Harlech area of Gwynedd in northern Wales, has been charged with wearing uniform or dress bearing the mark of the

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace has marked King Charles III’s 77th birthday Friday with the release of a new photo of the monarch. The image, taken in May by photographer Millie Pilkington, shows Charles in the gardens of Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, with the sprawling stately home behind him. Other photos, seemingly

CNN By Tareq Alhelou, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Gaza City (CNN) — Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out. Officials in Gaza have received

By Tareq Alhelou, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Gaza City (CNN) — Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out. Officials in Gaza have received “hundreds

By Sophie Tanno, Lex Harvey and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine struck a key oil terminal in the Russian port city of Novorossiysk overnight, causing infrastructure damage and igniting a blaze, as deadly overnight Russian strikes pounded Kyiv. The depot, one of Russia’s largest oil export facilities, was targeted by Ukrainian forces in an

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Friday more than a week later than their scheduled arrival, capping an extended stay in space after a suspected debris strike left their spaceship with a cracked window. The crew of the Shenzhou-20 spaceflight had been due to finish their mission

By Yoonjung Seo, Brad Lendon, Mike Valerio, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Secret drone flights from South Korea to the heart of Pyongyang were part of a ploy by the former president to rattle the North Korean leader, South Korean prosecutors have alleged as they released new details of plot they say preceded a foiled attempt

CNN By Kara Fox, Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — A British journalist and political commentator detained by US immigration officers for more than two weeks warned of “an attack on the freedoms of ordinary Americans and citizens worldwide” as he returned to the UK Thursday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had detained Sami

By Eugenia Yosef, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government identified the deceased hostage whose remains were handed over by Hamas on Thursday as Manny Godard, 73, an Israeli resident of a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. Godard and his wife Ayelet were killed during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israeli

CNN By Stefano Pozzebon, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The people of the United States should unite with Venezuela for the peace of the Americas, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro told CNN’s Stefano Pozzebon in the middle of a rally in Caracas on Thursday. His exclusive remarks come amid heightened tensions with the US, which has

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Canadian police say a member of the public who took an Ontario transit bus for a joyride, with about 10 passengers still onboard, didn’t even leave “a ding.” Police say the man, who drove the articulated bus along its route through the city, also carefully denied entry to

By Stefano Pozzebon, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The people of the United States should unite with Venezuela for the peace of the Americas, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro told CNN’s Stefano Pozzebon in the middle of a rally in Caracas on Thursday. His exclusive remarks come amid heightened tensions with the US, which has deployed

By German Padinger, CNN (CNN) — The buildup of US naval forces in the Caribbean, boosted by the recent arrival near Latin America of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, has raised speculation that both the United States and Venezuela may be preparing for a larger conflict. While the US has characterized the buildup

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A self-styled clairvoyant who said a statue of the Virgin Mary cried tears of blood and claimed she could multiply gnocchi for her followers, has been charged with fraud, along with her husband. They are due to stand trial in April. For years, faithful Catholic pilgrims flocked

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have once again raised questions over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of his friendship with the late sex offender and his denials of the allegations of his accuser Virginia Giuffre. The former prince told Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “I can’t

By Zeena Saifi, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli settlers torched a mosque and sprayed it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks against Palestinians. The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said settlers attacked the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque