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By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that the US government is “deeply concerned” by the arrest of activist and security analyst Rocio San Miguel in Caracas, Venezuela. “This is a time when Mr. Maduro needs to meet the commitments that he made about how they’re going

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Two of Pakistan’s major political parties – the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) – say they will form a coalition government after last week’s inconclusive elections. The move means the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan will not be in power,

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short story, “The Kiss.” He wasn’t alone in his flowery thoughts about kissing. Romantic kisses

By Lauren Izso, Vasco Cotovio, Jessie Gretener and Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military released a video that purportedly shows the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar inside a tunnel below the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, with his wife, children and his brother Ibrahim Sinwar. Israel has publicly accused Sinwar of being the “mastermind” behind Hamas’ terror attack against

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Some European countries say they have stalled arms exports to Israel amid growing consternation about the way it is waging war against Hamas in Gaza, while the United States Senate on Tuesday passed a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes further security assistance for Israel. A court in

By Sebastian Shukla, Anna Chernova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities on Tuesday launched unprecedented criminal proceedings against Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, charges the leader of the Baltic state alleged were politically motivated. The Kremlin accused Kallas, Estonian Secretary of State Taimar Peterkop and Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys of destroying or

CNN By Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several

By Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several operations

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — Egypt is boosting its security presence at its border with the Gaza Strip, wary of a spillover of Israel’s war on Hamas onto its territory should the Israeli military begin its ground assault on the enclave’s southernmost city, Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s

By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — The area of Greenland’s ice loss in the past three decades is roughly 36 times the size of New York City — land that is rapidly giving way to wetlands and shrubs, a study published Tuesday shows. The amount of vegetation in Greenland doubled between the mid-1980s and mid-2010s,

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine claims it has evidence Russia fired an advanced hypersonic missile – one that experts say is almost impossible to shoot down – for the first time in the almost 2-year-old war. The government-run Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise said in a Telegram post that debris recovered

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will soon walk free from detention after his parole was approved, according to Thailand’s justice minister, just six months after his dramatic return to the kingdom. The announcement caps an extraordinary decades-long political saga that will see

By Abeer Salman and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — After being trapped in a building for more than a week in a neighborhood of Gaza City besieged by Israeli troops, a group of Palestinian women told CNN they were forced to flee south with their children, leaving other family members behind and some walking barefoot

By Kathleen Magramo and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Polls opened in the vast country of Indonesia on Wednesday with more than 200 million voters casting their ballots to elect a new president, in what is billed as the world’s biggest single-day election. The sprawling Southeast Asian nation, the world’s third-largest electoral democracy and largest

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age — and could change what’s known about how hunter-gatherers lived around 11,000 years ago. Researchers and students from Kiel University in Germany first came across the surprising row

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After a failed lunar landing mission last month, NASA is pinning its hopes on a second spacecraft — developed by a separate company — to make the first touchdown on the moon for the United States in more than five decades. The lunar lander, nicknamed Odysseus, or Odie for

CNN, POOL, IDF, KAN NEWS, THE HOSTAGE AND MISSING FAMILIES FORUM, ISRAEL FOREIGN MINISTRY AFFAIRS, PROJECT HOPE, The Hostage and Missing Families Forum/Israel Foreign Ministry Affairs By Abeer Salman, Jessie Yeung and Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — Two Israeli-Argentinian men taken captive by Hamas on October 7 were rescued on Monday in an early morning

By Abel Alvarado and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have cracked one of the mysteries hidden within a Roman egg, discovering that it still contains its liquid almost two millennia after it was first laid. “This is the oldest unintentionally preserved avian egg I have ever seen,” Douglas G.D Russell, senior curator of birds’ eggs and nests

By Angela Dewan and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Female leatherback turtles are among the world’s most intrepid creatures, making journeys as far as 10,000 miles after nesting to find food in far-away seas. They’ve been known to set off from tropical Southeast Asia up to the cold waters of Alaska, where jellyfish are abundant.