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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — After three difficult years, armed groups loyal to Tehran appear to be bouncing back across the Middle East, reinforcing Iran’s leverage in its war with the United States and Israel. For decades, experts say, these groups played a key role: acting as a powerful deterrent against direct attacks on

By Anna Chernova, Alessandra Freitas, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s mayor says a bomb blast that killed at least five people including the woman carrying the device and injured 19 others at a restaurant was a “terrorist attack.” An unidentified woman attempted to enter a private event at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya

By Sophia Saifi, Sana Noor Haq, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers have located the body of famed Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja who died alongside nine others after an avalanche struck his expedition in Pakistan last week. Purja, who made history over the years by climbing some of the world’s highest peaks, was part of

By Sophie Tanno, Kosta Gak, Helen Regan, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed his plea for Western air defenses following a deadly overnight Russian attack, hours after US President Donald Trump backed away from a public pledge to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors. The attack is the second major Russian

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Around 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta this week, a mass influx that overwhelmed local authorities. At least 57 people died during the crossings, which prompted tighter border security measures across Europe. Spanish leaders said they were working to expel all those who had entered

By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — While scores of people were fleeing Spain’s raging wildfires, the staff at Safari Madrid had others to think about. From birds, to reptiles, to large cats – all were in the path of danger and in need of saving. As the flames swept closer to the safari park, teams

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The security camera pointed at the entrance of Channel 12’s Tel Aviv headquarters captured the attack in all its simple brutality. A masked man ran toward the glass door of Israel’s most-watched television channel and shattered it with a brick. “Next time, the brick will be aimed at

By Jack Guy, Vasco Cotovio, Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denounced the “selfish” response of several EU member states to an influx of migrants crossing into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco this week, as the number of people who died rose to 67. Most of those 50,000

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — On the face of it, US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Hamas, and all other armed groups in Gaza, have agreed to disarm seems historic. Hamas has never agreed to a specific disarmament plan before and, if it does come to pass, it

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Wright, Farida Elsebai, Luke Unger, CNN (CNN) — The gas station was already aflame when policeman Mykhailo Tsypliakov and his colleagues ran in to help. He heard the buzz of a second drone descending and hit the ground. “I saw a flash, then got up right away,” Tsypliakov said. “I

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A top Chinese medical university is investigating the death of a young girl in an experimental gene-editing trial conducted by a leading expert at its affiliated hospital that has raised serious concerns about ethics in China’s booming biomedical industry. Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine said it has

By Jessie Yeung, Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Japan is launching a new centralized intelligence body for the first time since World War II – a controversial move that some fear deviates from Tokyo’s pacifist ideals, but one others say is much needed in a country so riddled with security weaknesses it has been called

By Lex Harvey, Ross Adkin, Xiaoqian Lin, Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — A search to find the rest of group of missing climbers, including world-renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja, continues in Pakistan, following an avalanche that killed at least four of them. Emergency crews on the ground and in helicopters have been scouring the Karakoram mountain

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has delved into his family history, revealing his ancestry included both enslaved people and slave owners. “I come from a family that my grandparents were immigrants,” the first American pontiff told NBC news in the Vatican Gardens of Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday. “On my mother’s side,

By Charlotte Reck, Laura Paddison, CNN London (CNN) — England is notoriously rainy — yet an “exceptionally serious” drought has hit half the nation after successive heat waves have parched the land, shrivelled rivers and put huge pressure on water supplies. A large stretch of central, eastern and southern England are enduring a “flash drought”

By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Matviy Voronov’s message reeks of desperation. “Is anyone from the Voronov family alive? Maybe someone has seen them?” he asked in a local community group on Thursday, after learning that Russia hit his home village in southern Ukraine with a ballistic missile. “Matviy, I was there. Only

By Lex Harvey, Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Anna Chernova, Issy Ronald, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — NATO and Poland scrambled military aircraft when a missile apparently fired by Russia landed deep inside Polish territory, as Moscow launched deadly long-range attacks across Ukraine that killed at least nine people. The missile landed and exploded about 90

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan – an island nation that sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates, the constantly-shifting slabs of the Earth’s crust. It also lies on the “Ring of Fire,” a 25,000-mile arc that

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning a close election that set an unprecedented milestone in Latin America. She edged out Roberto Sánchez, a candidate who had more support within the country but ended up losing after votes from citizens living abroad were counted. It’s the first

By Koko Nakajima, Alex Leeds Matthews, Renée Rigdon, Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, causing damage to buildings, killing several and injuring dozens in one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. The earthquake was recorded on Kyushu, the southwesternmost of Japan’s four