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By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on defense every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Houthi militants from Yemen. Despite acquiring state-of-the-art weapons systems from the United States and Europe and possessing multi-layered

By Issy Ronald, Nick Paton Walsh, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom has entered a new phase of national security as a “more contested era” replaces the stability of the post Cold War years, the head of the domestic security service MI5 said Tuesday, warning that threats from states and terrorists could be supercharged

By Benjamin Brown, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s Nuremberg airport temporarily suspended flights on Tuesday after an emergency code was transmitted in error by an incoming plane due to a “brief malfunction.” Corendon Airlines said a flight from the Greek island of Corfu to Nuremberg, southern Germany, sent out the alert “while in Croatian

By Lauren Kent, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Eleven sailors are missing following a drone attack on a vessel off the coast of Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian officials, prompting the country’s government to summon the Russian ambassador. Overnight there were two attacks on merchant vessels in the Black Sea, Bulgarian officials said, with one Guinea-Bissau-flagged

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — One teenager was killed and others were wounded in an explosion during an Israeli school trip near the Lebanon border, according to Israeli emergency response services. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an initial review by soldiers at the scene indicated that the explosion was caused by an unexploded

By Gonzalo Zegarra, Mitchell McCluskey, Dakota Smith, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Simon weakened to a Category 2 storm on Monday with sustained winds of 105 mph as it moves off Mexico’s west coast, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The storm will likely pack near 100 mph winds as it makes landfall

By Tim Lister and Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Iran is stepping up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf in an effort to restore its leverage over the critical waterway. More than a dozen strikes on shipping have occurred since the end of September, reducing the volume of oil transiting

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — As Saudi Arabia reckons with the deadliest attack on its soil in more than a decade, questions swirl over how Riyadh will respond as Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis continue to wreak havoc on the kingdom. The kingdom launched a major offensive last week to support Yemeni government forces fighting the

CNN By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has announced he will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule that was discovered during recent health checks. The 71-year-old pope made the announcement to those gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer on Sunday. The Vatican said he will be

By Laura Sharman, Tim Lister, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said it intercepted and destroyed three Houthi ballistic missiles on Monday, as the main international airport in the kingdom’s capital remained closed following a series of attacks that have killed at least 20 people and wounded hundreds over the past week. The Saudi

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A man has died after suffering serious injuries when he entered a tiger enclosure at a UK wildlife park. A police statement said: “At 1.35pm today (Saturday 10 October) we received reports of a man entering a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.” “Emergency services attended and sadly, despite

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wanted to make his kingdom a magnet for investment, tourism and the world’s biggest sporting events. Now drones and missiles launched from Yemen are slamming into Saudi cities, drawing the kingdom deeper into the regional turmoil he hoped to leave behind. The civil

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Kenya had spent months preparing for Ebola, one of the world’s deadliest viral diseases, screening hundreds of thousands of travelers and training nearly 5,000 health workers in case it crossed the borders. Then Ebola arrived. A man who had been ill for weeks and was later confirmed to have

By Ayushi Shah and Deepak Rao New Delhi (CNN) — A New Delhi court Sunday released the founder and leaders of a surging youth-led political movement who were detained in a crackdown that stifled a major protest a day earlier in the Indian capital. Abhijeet Dipke was detained along with other leaders of the Cockroach

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches have

By Eyad Kourdi, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The alleged Flydubai hijacker had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and was inspired by the 9/11 attacks, a preliminary investigation has found. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on board last week’s flight from Dubai to

By Issy Ronald, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law. As her colleagues in