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Israel behind deadly pager explosions that targeted Hezbollah and injured thousands in Lebanon

By Charbel Mallo, Tamara Qiblawi, Jeremy Diamond, Lauren Kent, Rob Picheta and Christian Edwards and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Hezbollah has vowed to respond to an Israeli attack that killed multiple people and injured thousands across Lebanon on Tuesday when pagers belonging to members of the Iran-backed militant group exploded almost simultaneously, exposing a

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Entire city evacuated after floods, 7 die in wildfires as extreme weather sweeps Europe

By Niamh Kennedy, Lauren Kent, Vasco Cotovio and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Lisbon, Portugal (CNN) — Swaths of Europe have been battered by deadly extreme weather, as rivers threaten to burst their banks in central Europe following torrential rainfall, and wildfires tear through Portugal. Seven people have now died in fires in Portugal since Sunday, including

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More than 200 inmates escape as Nigerian prison wall collapses in floods

By Mariya Knight and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — At least 274 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria’s Borno state following heavy flooding, the Nigerian Correctional Service said, as aid agencies reported more than 1,000 people had died across western and central Africa. Initially, 281 inmates escaped while they were being transferred to “a safe and

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‘We no longer study.’ Gaza’s children lose out on school, as Israel’s war disrupts a year of education

By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Multicolored posters, white streamers and Palestinian flags made of paper decorate a tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. School rucksacks stuffed with clothes, small pillows and floral blankets are strewn on the floor. More than a dozen girls and boys sit cross-legged

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US says claims of CIA plot to kill Maduro are ‘categorically false’ after Venezuela arrests six foreigners

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has rejected claims of CIA involvement in an alleged plot to kill Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, after Venezuelan authorities said they had arrested six foreigners, including a US Navy SEAL. The State Department called the allegations “categorically false,” adding in a statement that the United

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Israeli military says it has hit Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in several areas of Lebanon

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah “weapons storage facilities” in multiple airstrikes across Lebanon on Saturday. One of the strikes – on the outskirts of the town of Al-Kawakh, in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate – injured four people, three of them children, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The

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