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By Ross Adkin, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Police are hunting for suspects after three separate shootings overnight in South Africa left more than 30 people dead, as the country grapples with a spate of violent crime. South African police launched a manhunt Sunday after 17 people were killed and 15 wounded in a shooting

By Sophie Tanno, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — The rise of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) is causing widespread alarm, including in unexpected quarters – other far-right European parties. While the German party is winning record levels of support at home, some of its closest ideological allies elsewhere in Europe are keeping it at arm’s

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Theopista Masenge was at the hospital in Mbeya, Tanzania, rolling out new treatments for children with high HIV viral loads when she got the call: Stop work, now. It was January 2025, and the health care program the pediatrician was implementing, which provided services for HIV-exposed infants, children

By Steven Jiang, Issy Ronald, Mike Valerio, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two giant pandas on loan from the Chinese government as part of Beijing’s long tradition of “panda diplomacy” have arrived at Zoo Atlanta. The pandas — a male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang — arrived on a FedEx flight

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Billy Stockwell and Tim Lister (CNN) — Iran says it is waiting on the “definitive” response to its latest proposal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump publicly rejecting the offer. Under the plan, Iran would open the critical waterway within a week and resume nuclear talks

By Sebastian Shukla, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — There has been outrage after a small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution. ‘Stolpersteine,’ meaning ‘stumbling blocks’, are found across Germany, as well as in

Story by Reuters (CNN) — The organisers of the prestigious Goncourt literary prize said on Friday they had removed a smash-hit novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien from their longlist after accusations he used AI to write it. Orelien denied using AI to write “C’etait Ca ou Mourir” (“It Was Either That or Die”) as

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Newly uncovered archival documents have raised questions over whether Adolf Hitler could have murdered his half-niece, whose death in his Munich apartment in 1931 was officially ruled a suicide. Angela ‘Geli’ Raubal, 23, was found dead with a gunshot wound to her chest in Hitler’s Munich apartment in September

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Seven months after escaping with his life from a US-coordinated Israeli airstrike that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top diplomat walked the streets of Manhattan this week under the protection of the US Secret Service. As leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, Abbas

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that US President Donald Trump will allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles, a key demand as Kyiv tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks. “There are concrete agreements in place,” Zelensky told reporters. “During our last meeting, President Trump emphasized that, yes,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Nearly four years ago, a peace deal ended the brutal war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. Now, the violence has returned — but the battle lines have changed. Tigrayan rebels are again fighting the federal government, while forces that were

By Erin Burnett, Billy Stockwell, CNN New York (CNN) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s media appearances in Iran are tightly controlled affairs. But on Thursday he sat down to face questions from a group of journalists in New York, where despite being the leader of a country at war with the United States, he is

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A baby has been born on the remote Scottish island of North Ronaldsay for the first time in more than three decades. Duncan Wilder Thorstein Traill Suarez Ford was born on September 15, marking the first birth on the island in 34 years, his mother Alice Traill Ford told

By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The son of Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter was critically injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday afternoon, according to regional authorities, one day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech at the United Nations. Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier

CNN By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry has joined calls for an urgent slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, calling it the “ultimate sycophant” and warning that technology is moving too fast for researchers to keep pace. The Duke of Sussex made the comments at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry has joined calls for an urgent slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, calling it the “ultimate sycophant” and warning that technology is moving too fast for researchers to keep pace. The Duke of Sussex made the comments at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Eleven people, including a woman believed to be pregnant, were killed when gunmen opened fire at a house south of the South African city of Durban, police said Wednesday. Three gunmen entered the house in the Ziko area of KwaMakhutha on Tuesday night and shot the group as they

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Rome’s world-famous Colosseum was closed to the public on Wednesday for the first time since the Covid pandemic after a specialist rope worker fell to his death, Italy’s Culture Ministry said. Andrea Moretti, 22, was suspended above the highest point of the amphitheater when he fell around

By Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — The Spanish cabinet has allowed a US extradition request for James “Fergie” Chambers, an American millionaire and Gaza donor, to proceed to Spanish courts in a decision that his lawyers warn will set a “dangerous precedent” for the defense of the Palestinian cause in Europe. The Council of Ministers’

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian authorities found €3.2 million ($3.6 million) hidden in the walls, floors and furniture at an apartment in Naples on Monday, in a dawn raid that led to the arrests of 34 people. Anti-mafia law enforcement officials found the cash in bundles of 50-euro notes at an