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By Sophie Tanno and Shawn Deng, CNN (CNN) — Sixteen people were killed after a fire broke out at a shopping mall in southwest China on Wednesday, according to Chinese state media. Dramatic images showed a huge column of black smoke billowing from the 14-story building in the city of Zigong, Sichuan province. Several people

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Keir Starmer, Britain’s new prime minister, pitched himself as an antidote to “the snake oil charm of populism” on Wednesday, unveiling sweeping plans to target housebuilding, crime, illegal migration and a breakdown in public trust during the first ceremonial King’s Speech of his government. King Charles III formally opened

By Kareem Khadder, Lucas Lilieholm and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Hamas-led armed groups committed “numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity” against civilians during the October 7 attack in southern Israel, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Wednesday. In a 236-page report titled “‘I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind’: Palestinian

By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, and Manveena Suri, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Six people, including two US citizens, who were found dead inside a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok likely drank from tea and coffee cups laced with cyanide following a dispute linked to bad investments, Thai police said Wednesday. The grisly discovery was made

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The fatal stabbing of two people by a man at a residential compound in southern China has ignited an online debate that has amplified during a summer scarred by a spree of similar crimes across the country. Two days after those June 28 killings in the Guangxi region, national

By Michael Mitsanas, Audry Jeong and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — A prominent North Korea expert and former CIA analyst has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of secretly working for the South Korean government in exchange for designer goods, Michelin star meals and $37,000 for a fund that she controlled.

By Chris Lau and Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — One in 10 young people in Japan – the vast majority women – have been groped on trains and in other public places, a government survey has found, highlighting an often unreported crime that has long plagued the country despite official efforts to fight it.

By Sahar Akbarzai, Michael Rios, Michael Mitsanas, Helen Regan and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — From Afghanistan to Bangladesh, India to Nepal, flash flooding and torrential rain have killed hundreds of people in recent weeks, as the climate crisis amplifies the effects of the monsoon season, bringing widespread devastation to South Asia. Millions of people

By Abel Alvarado and Osmary Hernández, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-one “arbitrary detentions” have been reported within days of the start of campaigning for Venezuela’s presidential election, according to a human rights NGO. A report by Laboratorio de Paz released Monday said that 48 of those detentions involved people who had provided some type of service

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Dozens of Indian nationals held in “slave-like” working conditions near Verona in northern Italy have been freed, a spokesperson for Italy’s financial police told CNN. Thirty-three Indian farm laborers were allegedly forced to work more than 10 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of

By Heather Law and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — The jihadist ISIS group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite-Muslim mosque in the Gulf Arab state of Oman that killed six people Monday evening. The Sunni-Muslim Islamist group said in a statement late on Tuesday that three of its “suicide attackers” fired

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — At least 29 people are dead in Peru after a bus plummeted over 650 feet into a ravine on Tuesday while traveling from the capital Lima to the southern city of Ayacucho, authorities said. Search and rescue operations are underway, the country’s Interior Ministry said on X, adding that

By Pauline Lockwood, Benjamin Brown, Mike Schwartz and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — An Israeli citizen has been charged with colluding with Iranian spies, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency and police announced in a joint statement Tuesday. Twenty-one-year-old Elimelech Stern is suspected of completing “missions” given to him by a social media user with the

By Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — The families of five female Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 have released photographs from their early days in captivity, urging Israel’s government to reach a deal that would secure the release of those still held in Gaza. The women were Israel Defense Forces (IDF) observers stationed

CNN, POOL, FOX NEWS By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Many of America’s closest allies were already dreading the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now that the former president has picked JD Vance as his running mate, they potentially have a lot more to worry about. By choosing Vance, Trump has

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Many of America’s closest allies were already dreading the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now that the former president has picked JD Vance as his running mate, they potentially have a lot more to worry about. By choosing Vance, Trump has sent a clear signal

By Kocha Olarn and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Six people, including two Vietnamese Americans, have been found dead inside a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok, with Thai police exploring the possibility that they were poisoned. The bodies were discovered by staff in a fifth floor room at the Grand Hyatt hotel, after the

By Joseph Ataman and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government, but asked him to remain in post to act as a caretaker until a new cabinet is appointed. Attal offered to step down last week after Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance

By Louis Mian and Maeva Labbe-Maalouf, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist influencer, has been banned from leaving Romania while awaiting trial, after a Romanian court of appeal on Tuesday overturned a previous ruling. Tate was arrested in late 2022 and indicted in mid-2023, along with his brother, Tristan, and two Romanian citizens

By Leah Collins, Jack Guy and Maeva Labbe-Maalouf, CNN (CNN) — The body found on the Spanish island of Tenerife on Monday has officially been identified as that of missing British teenager Jay Slater, a Spanish court said Tuesday. The court confirmed “by fingerprints that the body found yesterday in the mountains of Masca is