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By Inke Kappeler and AJ Davis, CNN (CNN) — A hostage situation that halted all flights to and from Hamburg Airport is now over, according to police in the northern German city. A 35-year-old male suspect has now left his car with his 4-year-old daughter, Hamburg police said on X, formerly Twitter. He did not

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — More than 700 migrants traveling on four different boats were rescued near the shores of Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish officials said Saturday. Some 247 people were aboard one boat, 238 on another, and 254 on the other two, according to a post on “X,” formerly Twitter, by the Canary

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The snow-capped Andes in South America have long fascinated humans with their soaring peaks and alien landscapes. Near the summit, there is no vegetation in sight, and freezing temperatures and howling winds add to the inhospitable conditions — which is why scientists were surprised to find life in such

By Svitlana Vlasova, Yulia Kesaieva and Victoria Butenko, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — For many Ukrainians, a recent somber assessment of the battlefield by Ukraine’s military chief was not a surprise. It’s what they have been hearing in conversations with friends, seeing on social media and experiencing personally on the frontlines as Russia’s war against

CNN Rebecca Wright and Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett Re’im, Israel (CNN) — Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival. “People just dropped everything and left,”

Rebecca Wright and Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett Re’im, Israel (CNN) — Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival. “People just dropped everything and left,” Samuel

By Sugam Pokharel, Jennifer Hauser and Jerome Taylor, CNN Kathmandu (CNN) — At least 157 people have been killed in an earthquake that struck a remote part of northwestern Nepal overnight on Friday and toppled multiple buildings, according to police, as officials warned that the death toll could rise. The quake measured magnitude 5.6 according

By Fred Pleitgen, Katharina Krebs and Rob Picheta, CNN Vienna, Austria (CNN) — “This takes us back to the darkest times,” Chief Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer told CNN, as he surveyed piles of destroyed holy books in a blackened and burnt out ceremonial hall. A brutal arson attack on the Jewish cemetery in Vienna on Wednesday

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Australia’s troubled ties with China in recent years have had far-reaching costs – sweeping trade curbs from Beijing devastated the Australian wine industry, hit the livelihoods of farmers and fishers across the country, and impacted billions of dollars in trade. Now, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is headed

By Andrew Carey and Tara John and Kevin Flower, CNN (CNN) — Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people. At least 15 people were killed and 50 others wounded, the Hamas-run health

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Lucy mission flew by its first asteroid this week, its cameras captured a surprise. The Lucy spacecraft zoomed by the small asteroid Dinkinesh, located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But what astronomers thought was one asteroid is really

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The theory, called the giant-impact hypothesis, explains many fundamental features of the moon and Earth. But one

By Paul Murphy, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Eliza Mackintosh, Ivana Kottasová, Lou Robinson and Henrik Pettersson, CNN (CNN) — Israeli ground forces are closing in on Gaza City, the largest and most densely packed population center in the Palestinian enclave, satellite imagery and videos from open and official sources suggest. CNN’s analysis of the imagery helps shed

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Pablo Escobar’s notorious “cocaine hippos” are facing a cull, according to a statement from Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development Thursday. The herd, which the Colombian government said currently stands at 169 animals, has rapidly reproduced from the original population of one male and three females the drug

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Five hundred years ago, a teenage girl who was part of the Inca culture was sacrificed and buried near the summit of Ampato, a dormant volcano in the Andes Mountains. Since the discovery of her incredibly well-preserved frozen remains in 1995, she has become known by many names —

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigeria’s government has come under fire over a budget that included a 6 billion naira ($6.3 million) presidential yacht and luxury cars, as the country grapples with mounting debts and a cost-of-living crisis. Lawmakers rejected the plans for a presidential yacht before approving the N2.1 trillion ($2.7

CNN By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — Jean Jacques “JJ” Wallis spends a lot of his time searching for his next extreme adventure in his home country of South Africa. But as a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wing flyer, adventure usually finds him first. Wallis founded BASE Jump Africa in 2017, an online community

By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — Jean Jacques “JJ” Wallis spends a lot of his time searching for his next extreme adventure in his home country of South Africa. But as a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wing flyer, adventure usually finds him first. Wallis founded BASE Jump Africa in 2017, an online community where

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — At least six people have died in Tuscany, according to the region’s president, after torrential rain and strong winds from Storm Ciarán swept northern and central Italy overnight Thursday. Several more people are missing in Tuscany and elsewhere across the country, including a firefighter who fell into

By Issy Ronald and Barbara von Bulow, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a centuries-old skeleton complete with a metal prosthetic hand to replace four missing fingers. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation said in a statement published last week that archaeologists used carbon dating to estimate that the man died some