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Laura Sharman, Esha Mitra (CNN) — Tragedy hit a campaign rally for a popular Indian actor turned politician on Saturday, when at least 41 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in a crowd crush. Tens of thousands of people had gathered at a public event in the southern state of Tamil Nadu where Vijay,

By Sophia Saifi, CNN Lahore, Pakistan (CNN) — On a wet monsoon evening in Pakistan’s bustling city of Lahore, the generators sputter and the lights flicker in Maniax, a grimy but legendary gaming arcade powering the country’s unlikely dominance of a lucrative corner of the Esports world. Three out of the world’s top 10 players

Associated Press Milan (AP) — The devil wore Dolce & Gabbana on Saturday, with Meryl Streep taking a front-row seat at the designing duo’s Milan theater in character as Miranda Priestly for “The Devil Wears Prada” sequel. Streep wore Priestly’s customary sunglasses and a Dolce & Gabbana vinyl trenchcoat as she entered the theater escorted

By Jennifer Hansler and Tim Lister (CNN) — The Trump administration has proposed a 21-point Gaza peace plan that calls for all hostages held by Hamas to be released within 48 hours of an agreement and sets out a roadmap for Gaza once the war ends, according to a source familiar with the proposal. US

By Dana Karni and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Israeli citizens have received calls from Iran’s intelligence service in attempts to recruit them, the country’s police force said Saturday. “Hundreds of citizens” reported that they received phone calls from an unknown number on Saturday morning, Israel Police said in a statement. When they

By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Iran was hit with so-called snapback sanctions on Sunday local time, at a time of high tension in the Middle East. But what does that mean? The term is used for the reimposition of United Nations sanctions against Iran a decade after they were suspended as part of a

By Lex Harvey, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Russia has agreed to help China equip and train an airborne battalion, according to leaked documents reviewed by a leading think tank, illustrating the ever-deepening military partnership between Beijing and Moscow. Russia in 2023 agreed to sell a suite of military equipment to China’s People’s Liberation Army

By Diego Mendoza, Todd Symons, CNN (CNN) — The United States announced it would cancel the visa of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Friday, after he publicly called on its soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump, further straining relations between Washington and Bogota. Petro, who has previously clashed with the Trump administration on migration and

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A major fire at South Korea’s national data center has halted hundreds of online government services including postal and tax facilities, Reuters reported. The blaze likely began with an explosion of a battery at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon city, about 85 miles (130 kilometers) south of

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Without firing a shot, Russian President Vladimir Putin has over the past week managed to bring the war in Ukraine to millions of Europeans largely untouched by the conflict. And it started not with a bang but a whimper. As Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, told anxious Danes

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla will undertake a state visit to the Holy See this fall, Buckingham Palace has announced. The trip – which will take place in late October – will see the royal couple hold their first meeting with Pope Leo XIV, who was elected

Personal essay by Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after arriving to Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly a seminal moment for Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member (perhaps now

By Tal Shalev, Jennifer Hansler, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out on Friday at Western countries’ recent recognition of Palestinian statehood, accusing world leaders of “buckling under the pressure of a biased media, radical Islamist constituencies and antisemitic mobs.” Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu rejected

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Doha (CNN) — CNN interviewed a key Hamas negotiator and member of the militant group’s political bureau, Ghazi Hamad, this week, at a key moment in the war with Israel. Two weeks earlier, Hamad had survived an attack on the Hamas delegation in Doha, the capital of Qatar, which has been

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced Friday. According to the short announcement, Shakur, who was also known as Joanne

By Sophie Tanno, CNN London (CNN) — Data including photos, addresses and the names of more than 8,000 children has been stolen by cyber hackers targeting a nursery chain in the United Kingdom, British news outlets have reported. The hackers published some of the stolen photos and profiles from the Kido nursery group on the

By Christina Macfarlane, Sana Noor Haq, Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — At first, health workers thought Majd Alshaghnobi had been killed. He was waiting to collect flour, like so many children in northern Gaza, when Israeli shrapnel tore through his face at the Kuwait Roundabout in February 2024, inflicting a blast injury on his jaw

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — As Moldova prepares for a crucial parliamentary election on Sunday, Russia is ramping up its efforts to interfere in the vote, officials say, in what they describe as a brazen attempt to halt the westward lurch of the former Soviet state and install a government more pliant to Moscow.

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Jeremy Diamond, Andrew Carey, CNN Doha, Qatar (CNN) — A senior Hamas official has defended carrying out the deadly October 7 attacks on Israel, telling CNN that it created a “golden moment” for the Palestinian cause despite the tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza. In a wide-ranging interview in Doha, two

By Ana María Cañizares, Isa Cardona, CNN (CNN) — A violent clash between rival gangs at a prison in the coastal city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, has left at least 17 dead, according to a statement from the National Police. “The situation stems from an external order from Los Tiguerones organized crime group to eliminate members