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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — As the Gaza ceasefire takes hold, aid workers caution that the toughest challenges are yet to come, describing the truce as only the first step on a long road to recovery. For humanitarian workers and aid agencies, the road is expected to be long and arduous

By Issy Ronald and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ailing. Almost as soon as the Kaikyokan

By Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN (CNN) — When Innocent James completed his chores after school, he would light a kerosene lamp and lay down to read his books. There was no electricity in James’ part of Arusha, a region in northern Tanzania, and so his family was forced to burn expensive oil for him to

By Nectar Gan and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has executed a man who killed 35 people by plowing his car into crowds at a sports center in November, in the country’s deadliest known attack against the public in a decade, state media reported Monday. Fan Weiqiu, 62, was executed just over

CNN By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is expected to attend Monday’s

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is expected to attend Monday’s inauguration

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.” The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders by the incoming president, who will

By Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said. Twenty others were injured in the violence that has forced thousands to flee as Colombia’s army scrambled

CNN By Sophie Tanno, Lauren Kent and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Three hostages were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel on Sunday, as a highly anticipated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect. The agreement delivers the first reprieve for the people of Gaza in

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Carrying her small daughter, an Israeli mother stood amid a crowd of people next to the helipad of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, which on Sunday received the three former hostages released in a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas. “How

By Sophie Tanno and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — World leaders have been rushing to get on Donald Trump’s good side since his reelection as US president, arguably none more so than Ukraine. In his annual New Year address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had “no doubt that the new American president is willing

By Reuters Brazil (Reuters) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused the country’s supreme court of persecuting him on Saturday after his appeal against a travel ban was rejected. Speaking at the airport in Brasilia, Bolsonaro, who had called on the Supreme Court to reconsider a previous decision barring him from traveling to the United

By Catherine Nicholls and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were injured after a ski lift collapsed at a resort in Spain, emergency officials told CNN. Some 30 people were injured in the incident, which happened at around 12:00 p.m. local time at the Astun ski resort in the Pyrenees mountains, the Aragon

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Two veteran Iranian Supreme Court judges, known for handling high-profile cases, were shot dead in Tehran by an assailant who later took his own life. The judiciary’s media office was cited by state-affiliated media as saying that the attacker had no pending legal cases. Details of the incident remain

By Maria Kostenko, Catherine Nicholls and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Three people were killed and three others were injured in an attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Saturday, according to officials, in a move Russia said was in retaliation for Ukraine using US-made ATACMS missiles. The deaths and injuries occurred in the

By Lauren Izso, Mick Krever, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — The long-awaited ceasefire and hostage release deal between the Israeli government and Hamas will take effect on Sunday, potentially signaling a new chapter in a bloody 15-month conflict that has enflamed the Middle East. The deal, which is made

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic (CAR), where armed groups are yearning to oust him. “Without the protection of Wagner (a private Russian military

By Christian Edwards, Shawn Deng and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump said he held a “very good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, as the US-president elect prepares to return to the White House next week. “I just spoke to Chairman Xi Jinping of China,” Trump wrote on his social media platform,

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Four vehicles and the former home of a Jewish community leader were defaced in Sydney early Friday, with two cars set alight, in the latest antisemitic attack condemned by Australian authorities, who vowed to “hunt down” the perpetrators. The attack in Dover Heights, one of the Australian

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Oświęcim, Poland (CNN) — With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility, given its immediate neighbor: the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Inside