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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-five people have been arrested in a global operation over AI-generated child sexual abuse material, said Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, in a statement Friday. Operation Cumberland, which was led by Danish law enforcement, is one of the world’s first cases involving this kind of child abuse

By Lauren Izso, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli man who was held hostage by Hamas for 491 days has described how he was starved while in captivity and recalled the moment on his release from Gaza – when he found out his wife and daughters had been killed during the

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — One of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts may be nearing its end, with ramifications that will be felt far and wide. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Turkey for independence in the southeast of the country, a region heavily populated by ethnic Kurds. The battle has

CNN By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The meeting between Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington on Thursday resulted in an “unprecedented” invitation to the US president from Britain’s King Charles III. But what was actually in the letter that Starmer handed over? Presenting Trump with the missive from the British

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The meeting between Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington on Thursday resulted in an “unprecedented” invitation to the US president from Britain’s King Charles III. But what was actually in the letter that Starmer handed over? Presenting Trump with the missive from the British monarch

Story by Reuters (CNN) — A bomb blast at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban killed six worshipers during Friday prayers, police said. Several others were wounded including the head of the religious school, Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq, son of the late Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, considered the father

By Robert Shackelford and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — Tropical cyclone Garance made landfall on the French Indian Ocean territory of Réunion on Friday, packing gusts of 166 kilometers (103 miles) per hour. Garance – the equivalent of a Category 2 Atlantic hurricane – made landfall on the northern coast of the mountainous island, France’s

By Nick Paton Walsh, Victoria Butenko and Daria Markina-Tarasova, CNN Irshansk, Ukraine (CNN) — The extractor’s part-rusting mechanical arm winds out over the frozen ground, over a sprawling lunar landscape of unnatural colors. The mining of titanium has a greater urgency than ever, here in Irshansk. The electricity that powers the vast machines is only

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Polo Sandoval, Jennifer Hauser, Mark Morales and Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — Forty years after his alleged involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was expelled from Mexico and appeared before a judge in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon. Caro Quintero

By Lauren Izso and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — An investigation into the failings of the Israeli military in the lead-up to the devastating Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, has highlighted gaps in intelligence gathering, flawed assumptions about Hamas, and “systemic” failures in the Israel Defense Force’s preparedness and response. The 19-page report released

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The Hungarian government is clamping down on the country’s annual Budapest Pride parade, which has been running for almost 30 years, saying that it should not “dominate public spaces” – citing what it claims are “child protection” issues. Gergely Gulyas, the chief of staff for Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor

CNN Library (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of the late Kim Jong Il, former Leader of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Details of his life were mysterious and varied from source to source. Personal:Birth date: February 16, 1942 (some sources say 1941) Death date: December 17, 2011 Birth place: Sources vary

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Personal Birth date: August 17, 1926 Death date: November 30, 2022 Birth place: Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China Birth name: Jiang Zemin Father: Jiang Shijun Mother: Wu Yueqing Marriage: Wang Yeping Children: Jiang Miankang and Jiang Mianheng Education: Shanghai Jiao

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of the late Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority. Personal Birth date: August 24, 1929 (some sources say August 4th) Death date: November 11, 2004 Birth place: Cairo, Egypt (claimed he was born in Jerusalem) Birth name: Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al Qudwa

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Personal Birth date: April 8, 1938 Death date: August 18, 2018 Birth place: Kumasi, Ghana Birth name: Kofi Atta Annan Father: Henry Reginald Annan, provincial governor in Ghana Mother: Victoria Annan Marriages: Nane

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Personal Birth date: September 21, 1954 Death date: July 8, 2022 Birth place: Nagato, Japan (some sources say Tokyo) Father: Shintaro Abe, former Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Mother: Yoko Kishi Marriage: Akie (Matsuzaki)

By Jomana Karadsheh and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Arab foreign ministers are aiming to travel to Washington “within weeks” to present US President Donald Trump with a “solid” proposal to rebuild Gaza without displacing the Palestinian population, Jordanian official sources told CNN. Earlier this month, the American president proposed expelling 2.1 million Palestinians from

By Gul Tuysuz, Isil Sariyuce, Max Saltman, Nadeen Ebrahim, Eyad Kourdi, Nechirvan Mando and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey that is estimated to have killed

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrived in the United States on Thursday after being allowed to leave Romania, where the pair were arrested three years ago and face charges of human trafficking. Here’s what to know about the aggressively misogynistic influencer and the online “manosphere” community where he

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — The Prince and Princess of Wales got to work in the kitchen during their visit to a community in Wales on Wednesday. On their visit to Pontypridd, a Welsh town hit by severe flooding last year, William and Catherine tried their hand at making traditional Welsh cakes. The couple