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By Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui and Tanushree Pandey, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s top court has declined to legally recognize same-sex unions in a landmark ruling that also emphasized the rights of the LGBTQ community to be free of prejudice and discrimination. Campaigners had sought to obtain the right to

CNN By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from Egypt and launch attacks into Israel. But there exists a second underground network that the Israel Defense Forces colloquially refer to as the “Gaza metro.” It’s a vast labyrinth of tunnels, by some

By Jessie Yeung, Tara John and Zahid Mahmood, CNN (CNN) — Palestinian officials say hundreds were killed by a massive blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, as humanitarian concerns mount over Israel’s deprivation of food, fuel and electricity to the enclave’s population. Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was sheltering thousands of displaced people when it was

By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China on Tuesday kicked off a summit marking the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road Initiative – an ambitious yet controversial undertaking to boost connectivity and trade across the world with Chinese money and know-how in infrastructure development. World leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin

CNN By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Zahid Mahmood, CNN Gaza and London (CNN) — Ibrahim Dahman and his family entered the hotel room and looked out toward the blue of the Mediterranean Sea. His two young sons were excited to spot a swimming pool below their window, but this was no vacation. “But they don’t strike…

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Zahid Mahmood, CNN Gaza and London (CNN) — Ibrahim Dahman and his family entered the hotel room and looked out toward the blue of the Mediterranean Sea. His two young sons were excited to spot a swimming pool below their window, but this was no vacation. “But they don’t strike… they

By Yahya Abou-Ghazala (CNN) — When Palestinians in north Gaza heeded the warnings issued in the Israeli military’s phone calls, text messages, and fliers advising them to head south, they thought they were fleeing to potential safety. The Israeli Defense Forces issued the guidance Friday, telling all civilians in north Gaza to evacuate to areas

By Catherine Nicholls, Sharon Braithwaite, Mylene Loubiere, Kathleen Magramo and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A gunman suspected of killing two Swedish nationals in a terrorist attack in Brussels has died after being shot by police, bringing an end to an overnight manhunt. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office confirmed Tuesday that the suspect, whose identity

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Southern Lebanon (CNN) — On the face of it, the crossfire on Lebanon’s border with Israel appears marginal, dwarfed by the scale and intensity of the Hamas-Israel war further south. The fighting has stayed within a roughly 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) radius of either side of the demarcation line, with at least 13

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If you missed the annular eclipse that created a “ring of fire” over the Americas on Saturday, don’t worry: Another eclipse is on the way, and it will provide a different kind of spectacle. Sky-gazers across North America are in for a treat in 2024 when a total solar eclipse

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If you missed the annular eclipse that created a “ring of fire” over the Americas on Saturday, don’t worry: Another eclipse is on the way, and it will provide a different kind of spectacle. Sky-gazers across North America are in for a treat in 2024 when a total solar

By Abbas Al Lawati, Eoin McSweeney and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel and Hamas are at war, after the Palestinian militant group launched surprise cross-border raids from Gaza on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people and taking hostages. In response, Israel has been pounding the territory, strikes which Palestinian authorities say have killed