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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Subrata Roy, the founder of Sahara, once one of India’s largest conglomerates, died on Tuesday, his company said in a statement. He was 75. Roy died in a Mumbai hospital following “an extended battle with complications arising from metastatic malignancy, hypertension, and diabetes,” the statement said. Roy was admitted

By David Shortell, Helen Regan, Abeer Salman, Mostafa Salem and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Israel said its military launched a “targeted” operation against Hamas early Wednesday morning inside Gaza’s largest hospital, where thousands of Palestinians are believed to be sheltering. Conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital, which has run out of fuel and is no longer

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spied an intriguing phenomenon in the distant universe — a galaxy that closely resembles the Milky Way — and it’s challenging key theories on how galaxies evolve. The faraway system, called ceers-2112, was spotted by an international team using the James Webb Space Telescope. Like our home

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The climate crisis is carrying a mounting health toll that is set to put even more lives at risk without bold action to phase out planet-warming fossil fuels, a new report from more than 100 scientists and health practitioners found. The annual Lancet Countdown report, released Tuesday, found that

By Maija Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — The government of Belize will suspend diplomatic ties with Israel over its refusal to implement a ceasefire in Gaza, adding to the list of countries in the Western Hemisphere voicing anger over the Israeli government’s war conduct. “The Government of Belize has repeatedly condemned the actions of the IDF

By Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A former Russian detective convicted for his role in orchestrating the 2006 assassination of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin after being recruited to fight in Ukraine, his lawyer told state media TASS. Sergey Khadzhikurbanov was sentenced to 20 years in prison for

Story by Reuters (Reuters) — Liberians voted on Tuesday in a run-off election between President George Weah and former vice president Joseph Boakai, in what is expected to be a closely fought vote between the two old rivals. Former soccer star Weah, 57, who came to power in 2018, won just 7,000 more votes than

By Chris Stern, Luke McGee and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — The European Union’s goal of supplying Ukraine with 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition is unlikely to be achieved, Germany’s defense minister said Tuesday, as Kyiv remains locked in a grinding war of attrition against Russia with winter approaching. “It can be assumed that

CNN By Nic Robertson, Rebecca Wright, John Torigoe and David Shortell, CNN Gaza (CNN) — The Israeli military’s focus on hospitals in Gaza is growing more intense with a spokesperson inviting news media to visit a medical center for children on Monday, where he alleged parts of the basement had been a Hamas “command and

By Nic Robertson, Rebecca Wright, John Torigoe and David Shortell, CNN Gaza (CNN) — The Israeli military’s focus on hospitals in Gaza is growing more intense as its campaign to eliminate Hamas from the enclave enters a sixth week. The IDF invited news media to visit a medical center for children on Monday, where a

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In the latest clear evidence that the world remains wildly off track when it comes to tackling the climate crisis, the UN has found that even if countries enact all of their current climate pledges, planet-heating pollution in 2030 will still be 9% higher than it was in 2010.

By Belén Zapata, CNNE Guadalajara, Mexico (CNN) — Mexico’s first openly non-binary magistrate and prominent LGBTQ activist Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo was found dead at home in the central state of Aguascalientes on Monday. A second person, who was identified as Baena’s romantic partner, was also found dead in the home where they both resided,

By Tara John and Adi Koplewitz, CNN Caesarea and Jerusalem (CNN) — Behind tables laden with more than 50 assault rifles, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, smiled at a crowd of people who had come to the coastal city of Caesarea for a ceremony to receive the firearms. The divisive politician has

By Hande Atay Alam and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — More United Nations aid workers have been killed in Gaza than in any other single conflict in the organization’s 78-year history, the UN said Monday, a stark reminder that humanitarian staff from global agencies have not been spared from Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigeria’s Lagos state marked a historic moment by making Africa’s inaugural appearance at the renowned Lord Mayor’s Show in London – an annual procession, steeped in 800 years of tradition, that celebrates the history and commerce of the city. The debut signals the state

By Niamh Kennedy and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Monday. “Nearly a hundred civilians, including women and children, are reported to have been killed in a massacre in the village

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara marked their first spacewalk this month with a tool bag floating through space. The pair concluded their maintenance work outside the International Space Station (ISS) in six hours and 42 minutes, according to the space agency. The spacewalk on November 1 saw

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — In the Bardiya region of Nepal, near the western border with India, Bhadai Tharu grew up with tales of tigers. They were not common in the forests around his home. At the turn of the 20th century, more than 100,000 tigers roamed Asia. But by the time Tharu was

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN; video by Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — Far from the watchful eyes of the coastguard, Scotland’s waters are home to a growing number of offshore wind farms, alongside their oil and gas rigs – and working on this remote infrastructure brings many risks. Accidents are all too common, and often deadly, says