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By Mauricio Torres, German Padinger, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela has launched three days of military exercises and put on display its Russian-built fighter jets in a show of force aimed at the US amid rising tensions over Washington’s deployment of US warships to the Caribbean. More than 2,500 soldiers have been mobilized on

By Abeer Salman, Eugenia Yosef and Kara Fox (CNN) — Hamas issued its strongest messaging about the Israeli hostages in Gaza Thursday night, saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza City ground incursion means that Israel has lost any chance of getting its hostages out of the territory – dead or alive. In a

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, is launching a new online portal called Silent Courier, aimed at using the dark web to entice potential spies to send it secrets, particularly targeting Russia. The service will rely on the Tor internet browser, which will allow anonymous access to a secure

By Max Saltman, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Irish novelist Sally Rooney skipped an awards ceremony in London, saying that she risked being arrested under terror laws due to her support for the banned activist group Palestine Action. Rooney’s editor Alex Bowler read her statement at the Sky Arts Awards on Tuesday, where the author’s

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Keir Starmer, prime minister of the United Kingdom. Personal Birth date: September 2, 1962 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Keir Rodney Starmer Father: Rodney Starmer, toolmaker Mother: Josephine (Baker) Starmer, nurse Marriage: Victoria (Alexander) Starmer (2007-present) Children: A son and daughter

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV voiced concern over “some things” happening in the United States and revealed he turned down plans for an AI version of himself in his first major interview since his election. The first American pope highlighted the significance of a letter his predecessor Pope Francis had sent

By Lauren Izso, Tal Shalev, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has described Gaza as a potential real estate “bonanza” and claimed he was talking to the United States about how to divide up the war-torn enclave. Speaking at the Urban Renewal Summit in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the far-right minister

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — British police said Thursday that they have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for Russia. The group – a 41-year-old man, 46-year-old man and 35-year-old woman – were all arrested on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service in the county of Essex, northeast of London, a statement

By Wayne Chang, Nectar Gan, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan has unveiled a prototype cruise missile, developed jointly with a US arms maker and set to be manufactured on the island, as it tries to build up its weapons industry to deter any possible military threats from China. The government-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Medical tests on Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro this week showed the presence of an early type of skin cancer, doctors said Wednesday. According to results from a Sunday procedure to have skin lesions removed, doctors found squamous cell carcinoma, which starts in cells in the middle and outer

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s minister of culture has vowed to cut funding for the country’s film academy and its annual awards show after a movie about a Palestinian boy’s dream of seeing the ocean won big. On Tuesday night in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awarded the 2025

By Ibrahim Dahman Nadeen Ibrahim, Abeer Salman, Tim Lister, Lauren Izso and Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — Israeli tanks were stationed on the edge of Gaza City on Wednesday ahead of a planned ground operation into the enclave’s largest urban area, according to eyewitnesses and satellite imagery. Amid the military build-up, tens of thousands of

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — As Britain’s royal family welcomed US President Donald Trump to Windsor Castle in a lavish ceremony on Wednesday, the British public gave the American leader their own – markedly less friendly – response to his presence in their country. In an altogether different kind of greeting, Brits have

By Jack Guy and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Citizens of the Czech Republic are waiting with bated breath for a longstanding mystery to be solved: What were the last words of the country’s revered first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk? The final thoughts of the statesman, who governed the Czechoslovak Republic from 1918 to 1935,

By Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shukla and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said. Tests were carried out independently by two separate overseas laboratories, with

By Michael Rios, Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to hospital on Tuesday after feeling unwell, his eldest son, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, said on X. The former leader was suffering a severe bout of hiccups, vomiting and low blood pressure, according to his son. “I ask for everyone’s prayers

By Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel said it launched an expanded ground assault on Gaza City on Tuesday in defiance of international condemnation, as Palestinians fled the enclave’s largest urban area in waves amid escalating bombardment. The long-anticipated incursion began on the outskirts of the city, Israeli officials said, where Israel’s military has

By Rafael Romo, CNN (CNN) — A Chilean woman whose twin daughters were stolen from her in 1979 has reunited with them for the first time in four-and-a-half decades. The emotional reunion between María Verónica Soto, 64, and her daughters Maria Beatrice and Adelia Rose Mereu Chessa took place in the Chilean city of Concepción,

By Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Borisovsky Military Training area, Belarus (CNN) — As US’s NATO allies in Europe are feeling the pressure from Moscow, putting them on edge in an already-febrile atmosphere with Russian drones entering Poland’s airspace, Russia and its main ally Belarus are conducting massive military drills right on the alliance’s doorstep. The exercises,

By Tim Lister, Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones. Radoslaw Sikorski’s remarks follow an intrusion last week by Russian drones into Polish airspace. NATO fighter jets and air defenses shot