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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Rebels in Syria have made rapid advances towards the country’s second biggest city, Aleppo, reigniting a conflict that had largely laid dormant for years. After making only limited gains in recent years, the rebels have already captured some 60 towns and villages that were controlled by government forces, as

By Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN (CNN) — A former British soldier whose escape from a London prison last year sparked a three-day man-hunt has been found guilty of spying for Iran. A jury convicted 23-year-old Daniel Khalife despite his claims that it had been an attempt to work as a double agent to help British

By Niamh Kennedy and Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN (CNN) — Ireland’s youngest ever prime minister, Simon Harris, may have thought he had a victory in Ireland’s upcoming general election all but shored up. Touted as the TikTok taoiseach, Harris had used his last seven months in power to try and reassure Ireland’s young population that,

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s parliament has passed a world-first law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to tighten security before a cut-off date that’s yet to be set. The Senate approved the social media ban late on Thursday, the last sitting day of the

By Steven Jiang and Nectar Gan, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China has suspended a top military official and placed him under investigation for corruption, the defense ministry said, as leader Xi Jinping broadens a sweeping purge in the upper ranks of the world’s largest military. Admiral Miao Hua, a member of the powerful Central Military

By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Edward Szekeres and Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike Ukraine again with a new nuclear-capable ballistic missile following Moscow’s latest widespread attack on critical energy infrastructure. More than a million households in Ukraine were left without power following the overnight bombardment,

By Mauricio Torres and James Legge, CNN (CNN) — Six so-called “narco subs” stuffed with cocaine were captured in a Colombian-led international anti-drug operation, authorities in the Latin American nation said Wednesday, as part of a huge global bust. The mission, involving 62 countries, seized more than 1,400 metric tons of drugs – mostly marijuana

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese acrobat who lost his wife and performance partner to a terrifying fall on stage last year was seriously injured in another show this week, state media reported. Zhang Kai, 39, plunged several meters to a hard cement ground while performing an aerial silks routine on

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Seoul residents awoke to a gleaming world of white this week, as record snowfall caused both disruption and delight across the South Korean capital. The city recorded 16.1 centimeters (6.3 inches) of snow on Wednesday – the heaviest daily snowfall in November since

By Jennifer Hauser and Kia Fatahi, CNN (CNN) — It started out as a regular Tuesday morning for two men heading out on a trail for work in the backcountry of Canada’s northeast British Columbia when they spotted another man trudging out of the wilderness. They recognized him as the lost hiker Sam Benastick, who

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader for crimes committed against the persecuted Rohingya minority group. In his request for the warrant, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan alleged that Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing “bears criminal responsibility for

By Eyad Kourdi and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Syrian rebels have launched a large-scale attack on regime forces in western Aleppo, according to a Free Syrian Army source and local residents, marking the first major flare-up in years between both sides. Opposition factions announced the offensive Wednesday on their Telegram channel, calling it the

By Rob Picheta, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson and Soph Warnes, CNN (CNN) — The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah is a major diplomatic breakthrough that follows 13 months of escalating conflict, upheaval and displacement in Lebanon. It starts a 60-day truce that the US and other stakeholders hope will be permanent. In that time,

By Jeremy Diamond and Mike Schwartz, CNN Shtula and Nahariya, northern Israel (CNN) — A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is now in force, but many residents of Israel’s northern communities refuse to return home, while those who have remained say the deal is unlikely to bring permanent peace. The Israeli security

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh and Kosta Gak, CNN Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine (CNN) — The Russian assault, caught in grainy feeds from multiple drones, is relentless and daily. Aging armored vehicles race across a pockmarked field. Then, in broad daylight, one tank is stopped by Ukrainian attack drones. Yet two vehicles make it to the

By Nick Paton Walsh and Kosta Gak, CNN Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine (CNN) — The Russian assault, caught in grainy feeds from multiple drones, is relentless and daily. Aging armored vehicles race across a pockmarked field. Then, in broad daylight, one tank is stopped by Ukrainian attack drones. Yet two vehicles make it to the treeline

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A mother who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed for almost three years has been jailed for seven and a half years in Britain. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed at Chester Crown Court in northwest England after the judge

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to state-affiliated media in the Southeast Asian country. The deaths of two Australian teenagers, a British woman, an American man

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — North Korea is expanding a weapons plant that manufactures missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, according to new research from a US-based think tank. The facility produces both KN-23 missiles (Hwasong-11A) and KN-24 missiles (Hwasong-11B), according to researchers at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old woman with a Taser in an Australian nursing home has been found guilty of manslaughter after the jury found that the great-grandmother, who was holding a knife, did not pose an “imminent” threat. Senior Constable Kristian White was one