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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament, located on the Thames River in London. Facts The meeting place of Great Britain’s bicameral legislature – composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords – is also known as Westminster Palace. Visitors are subject to airport style

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Big Ben, the clock and bell in Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in London. Facts It is one of the most famous landmarks in England. The name Big Ben originally referred to just the bell but now it encompasses the clock, the tower and

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the terror attacks in Norway on July 22, 2011. Eight people died in a bombing in Oslo and another 69 people died on nearby Utoya island. This was the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II. The Perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik Pronounced: AHn-ders BRAY-vick Norwegian

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand. Personal Birth date: July 26, 1980 Birth place: Hamilton, New Zealand Birth name: Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern Father: Ross Ardern, police officer Mother: Laurell Ardern, school cook Marriage: Clarke Gayford (January 2024-present) Children: with

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Costco is raising membership fees for the first time since 2017. The hikes, which go into effect on September 1, are part of a larger effort to crack down on membership moochers and boost revenue for the warehouse chain. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Becky Anderson and Mostafa Salem, CNN Arish, Egypt (CNN) — Aged just four, Julia Abu Zeiter suffers from a rare neurological disease that can be fatal without medication. The nine-month war in Gaza nearly took Julia’s life, as the fighting and displacement cut off her access to treatment. After an arduous journey,

By Benjamin Brown, Louis Mian and Eve Brennan, CNN London (CNN) — A suspect wanted in connection with the triple killings of the wife and two daughters of a BBC sport commentator was found by British police Wednesday following a manhunt. The search for Kyle Clifford, 26, began on Tuesday evening when police were called

By Benjamin Brown and Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — A statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was vandalized with “Gaza” graffiti, drawing criticism from the city’s mayor. Photos show the word “Gaza” scrawled in red paint across the podium of the statue, which was erected in a park close to where Frank and her family

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Russia has promised to discharge Indian nationals who were “misled” into joining its army to fight in Ukraine, India’s foreign secretary said Tuesday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “strongly raised the issue of early discharge” to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his two-day trip to Moscow this week, stressing

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Listening to music, smoking hookah, and getting a Western-style haircut are all punishable acts under the suffocating rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to a new UN report. The Taliban’s so-called morality police have curtailed human rights – disproportionately targeting women and girls – creating a “climate of

By Yumi Asada, Rinka Tonsho, Nodoka Katsura, Manveena Suri, Sophie Jeong and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Tokyo/ Hong Kong (CNN) — A former soldier who was sexually assaulted while serving in Japan’s military has reached a civil settlement with three of her convicted attackers in a case that exposed a widespread culture of harassment in the

By Helen Regan, Michael Mitsanas, Mariya Knight and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital likely took a direct hit from a Russian missile on Monday, a United Nations assessment has found, as NATO agreed to strengthen Kyiv’s air defenses in the wake of the attack. Russia has repeatedly denied targeting the hospital

CNN By Helen Regan, Michael Mitsanas, Mariya Knight and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital likely took a direct hit from a Russian missile on Monday, a United Nations assessment has found, as NATO agreed to strengthen Kyiv’s air defenses in the wake of the attack. Russia has repeatedly denied targeting the

By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — The body of an American mountaineer has been discovered by a pair of fellow US climbers 22 years after he went missing following an avalanche in the Peruvian Andes. American brothers Ryan Cooper and Wesley Waren found the body of Bill Stampfl on June 27 on Mount Huascaran, according to Joseph Stampfl,

CNN By Brad Lendon and Mike Valerio, CNN Above the Korean Peninsula (CNN) — As the US Air Force AC-130J flies over South Korea’s towering apartment blocks, its powerful cameras can almost see inside windows on the highest floors. Aiming farther afield, the weapons officers on the four-engine aircraft, nicknamed Ghostrider, can pick out objects at

By Brad Lendon and Mike Valerio, CNN Above the Korean Peninsula (CNN) — As the US Air Force AC-130J flies over South Korea’s towering apartment blocks, its powerful cameras can almost see inside windows on the highest floors. Aiming farther afield, the weapons officers on the four-engine aircraft, nicknamed Ghostrider, can pick out objects at 50,000

By Eve Brennan and Fabien Muhire, CNN London and Nairobi (CNN) — The Rwandan government has hinted that it won’t reimburse more than $300 million it has received from the United Kingdom since 2022 for a deal to deport asylum seekers deemed to have arrived illegally in the UK to the East African nation. A

By Eyad Kourdi and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — The recent deaths of more Palestinian children due to hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip indicates that famine has spread across the entire enclave, according to a United Nations statement, citing independent experts. An estimated 495,000 people in Gaza – or 22% of the population – are

By Tamar Michaelis and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The head of the Golan Regional Council called for the Israeli government to attack Hezbollah “with force” and to move its offensive into the Lebanese side of the border Tuesday after a Hezbollah rocket attack killed two people. A woman and man were “killed on

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Tareq El Helou, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Lauren Kent, Tamar Michaelis and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike hit a school complex housing displaced people in southern Gaza and killed at least 27 people on Tuesday, local health officials said, in the fourth such attack in as many