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Mexican drug lord appears before US judge, pleads not guilty to murder, kidnapping charges in DEA agent’s 1985 killing

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

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Investigation highlights Israeli intelligence failures in lead-up to Hamas’ October 7 attack

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

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Hungarian government clamps down on Pride march, citing ‘child protection’ reasons

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

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Kim Jong Il Fast Facts

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

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Jiang Zemin Fast Facts

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

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Yasser Arafat Fast Facts

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

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Kofi Annan Fast Facts

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

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Shinzo Abe Fast Facts

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)

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Arab countries will give Trump a plan for Gaza ‘within weeks,’ Jordanian official sources say

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

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Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency with Turkey

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

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Andrew Tate and brother arrive in Florida after leaving Romania, spokesperson says

By Amy Croffey, Christian Edwards, James Legge, Catherine Nicholls and Emmanuel Miculita, CNN (CNN) — Right-wing influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after leaving Romania on a private jet Thursday, according to Mateea Petrescu, the brothers’ spokesperson. The Tate brothers, who are dual US and UK nationals, had

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Rights group says Israel has systematically abused Palestinian health workers for their profession

By Sana Noor Haq and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI). Between July and December, lawyers working with

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Coffins said to contain hostages’ bodies arrive in Israel and Palestinian prisoners freed as Gaza truce nears expiry

By Jeremy Diamond, Hira Humayun, Laura Izso, Abeer Salman and Helen Regan, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Four coffins said to contain the remains of Israeli hostages have been received by Israel, as Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in an overnight exchange as part of the

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What we do and don’t know about Trump’s ‘very big deal’ on Ukraine’s mineral resources

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United States and Ukraine are trying to hammer out a natural resources agreement that would give Washington access to Kyiv’s untapped mineral riches in exchange for investment and what Ukraine hopes would be concrete security guarantees. While US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a deal has been

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