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By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate. The Democratic Party, one of the leading voices of opposition in the semi-autonomous city for the past three

By Dana Karni and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the war in Gaza in the face of growing opposition to Israel’s ongoing military campaign. In a pre-recorded video Saturday night, Netanyahu said Israel has “no choice” but to keep fighting “for our very own existence until victory.”

By Kosta Gak, Catherine Nicholls, Victoria Butenko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a brief Easter ceasefire in his war with Ukraine, a declaration met with skepticism in Kyiv as the war enters a crucial phase and US-led negotiations stall. Putin said “all hostilities” would halt between 6 p.m. Moscow

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — US Vice President JD Vance met senior Vatican officials on Saturday for talks that follow sharp criticism by Pope Francis of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. The Vatican said that during the meeting an “exchange of opinions” took place concerning migrants, refugees, and prisoners. The vice president, a

By Kylie Atwood and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is ready to recognize Russian control of Crimea as part of the US proposal to drive an end to the war with Ukraine, an official familiar with the framework told CNN on Friday. Crimea, southern Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since it

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is defined by “biological sex” under the country’s equality law – excluding transgender women – in a case that is expected to impact accommodations for trans women in bathrooms, hospital wards, sports clubs and more. The court ruling

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday, and – though technologically impressive

By Abeer Salman and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months and the subject of a new documentary to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next month, was killed along with seven members of her family in an

By Fernando Ramos and Sanika Tank, CNN (CNN) — Colombia’s health ministry declared a nationwide health emergency on Thursday due to the “active circulation” of yellow fever. Since September 2024, there have been 75 recorded cases of yellow fever and 34 deaths from the illness, according to the Colombian Health Ministry. Nine of the country’s

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Despite being dead for more than 300 years, this Indian ruler is still making waves in the nation’s politics. Aurangzeb Alamgir has become so central to India’s fraught political moment, his memory is leading to sectarian violence across the country. The sixth emperor of the famed Mughal dynasty, he

By Mariya Knight and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet. Darya Kozyreva was sentenced to two years

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran concluded on Saturday, with both sides indicating progress. Delegations from both countries met in Rome for negotiations following an initial round in Oman last weekend. The Gulf Arab nation has mediated both rounds of the indirect talks,

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — UK police have seized a 4-foot-long caiman – a carnivorous reptile native to Central and South America – during a drugs raid in Essex, the force said on Friday. Officers found the animal at a property in Aveley, a small town in Essex on the outskirts of Greater London.

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Holy Week and Easter marks the high point of the Christian calendar. It is an intense period of prayer and reflection and a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of celebrations, presiding at several long public liturgies as Catholics mark the suffering,

By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — Turkey started hastily organized mass trials on Friday to prosecute some of the hundreds of people who took part in the widespread demonstrations over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the major rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Some 189 people, including journalists, students and activists,

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — A striking portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City has been named Press Photo of the Year. Photographer Samar Abu Elouf, who is also from Gaza, met nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour three months after an explosion severed one of his

CNN By Alex Stambaugh, Max Saltman, Victoria Butenko, Ross Adkin, Sophie Tanno and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The United States could end its efforts on ending the Ukrainian conflict within “days” if there are no signs of progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday. “If it is not possible to end the

By Alex Stambaugh, Max Saltman, Victoria Butenko, Ross Adkin, Sophie Tanno and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The United States could end its efforts on ending the Ukrainian conflict within “days” if there are no signs of progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday. “If it is not possible to end the war

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The death toll from US airstrikes on an oil port in western Yemen has risen to at least 74 people, the Houthi-run health ministry reported, marking the deadliest day since the United States escalated its aerial campaign against the Iran-backed group last month. US Central

By Abeer Salman, Tamar Michaelis and Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) — Hamas has rejected the Israeli ceasefire offer presented earlier this week, according to a senior Hamas official, instead calling for a “comprehensive” proposal to end the war. The official told CNN, “The offer is rejected in full and in detail.” The rejection prompted far-right Israeli