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By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak carried out a dramatic Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, firing his divisive home secretary and bringing back former premier David Cameron to the heart of government after a seven-year absence from politics. The hardline Home Secretary Suella Braverman was fired early on Monday

By Kathleen Magramo and Jinky Jorgio, CNN (CNN) — A Philippine court has granted bail for Leila De Lima, one of the most vocal critics of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs” after being held in police custody for over six years. “I have to rebuild my life. My life that they have tried to destroy,” De Lima

By Hamdi Alkhshali, Jo Shelley, Helen Regan, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive in “catastrophic” conditions, the hospital director has warned, as Israeli firepower pounds surrounding streets and

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Iceland has declared a state of emergency and more than 3,000 residents have been urged to evacuate the small, coastal town of Grindavík as the country’s authorities anticipate the imminent eruption of a volcano in its southwestern peninsula. Scientists monitoring the situation, including those at Iceland’s Met Office,

By Radina Gigova and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Sunday to call out a sharp rise in antisemitic acts since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. In Paris, an estimated 105,000 demonstrators joined the march, making it the largest mobilization against antisemitism since

By Aishwarya Iyer, Rhea Mogul and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A frantic effort is underway in northern India to rescue dozens of workers trapped after a mountain tunnel they were helping to construct collapsed on Sunday, leaving them confined behind a pile of rubble with little oxygen and water. As many as

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Sophie Tanno and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday refused to answer whether he would take responsibility for failing to prevent the October 7 attack on Israel, saying that there would be time for such “difficult” questions once the war is over. In an interview with CNN’s

CNN By Nadeen Ebrahim, Sophie Tanno and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday refused to answer whether he would take responsibility for failing to prevent the October 7 attack on Israel, saying that there would be time for such “difficult” questions once the war is over. In an interview with

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — When Xi Jinping last set foot in the United States, former-President Donald Trump welcomed the Chinese leader to his palm-tree-lined home at Mar-a-Lago. In the glow of warm candlelight, the two leaders bonded over the “most beautiful piece of chocolate cake” and a popular Chinese folk song

By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — A lion that escaped from a circus in the Italian town of Ladispoli, near Rome, on Saturday has been recaptured after several hours on the loose, the local mayor has announced. Just after 10 p.m. local time (5 p.m. ET) on Saturday, Ladispoli mayor Alessandro Grando announced on his

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Taurid meteor shower is not quite finished, with one of its two streams set to peak this weekend. When the Northern Taurids, an annual minor shower, is at its most active, sky-gazers could catch sight of a bright meteor or two streaking across the night sky. The Southern

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — When Laura Larocca visited Denmark in 2019, the climate scientist sifted through thousands of old aerial photographs of Greenland’s icy coastline, which were rediscovered in a castle outside Copenhagen about 15 years ago. Now housed in the Danish National Archives, the historical images inspired her and other researchers to

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Mohammed Ghneim has not left his hospital in Gaza City in four weeks. He can’t remember the last time he slept or ate, and his blue scrubs are stained in the blood of patients who’ve died in his arms. His voice cracks under the weight of the horrors

By Jomana Karadsheh, Kareem Khadder, Niamh Kennedy, Abeer Salman, Tamar Michaelis and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Heavy fighting near Gaza’s largest hospital has left it in a “catastrophic situation,” with patients and staff trapped inside, ambulances unable to collect the wounded and life-support systems without electricity, health officials and aid agencies are reporting. Hostilities

By Daria Markina Tarasova, Victoria Butenko, Kostan Gak, Josh Pennington, Yulia Kesaieva and Maria Kostenko, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — The battle for dominance in the Black Sea raged on this week between Ukraine and Russia, as elsewhere each side’s forces continued the bitter fight for control in Ukraine’s east with winter looming. Ukraine claimed it

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The cosmos is filled with unexpected surprises. Observatories such as the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory see the universe in different wavelengths of light, showcasing new details that the human eye would never detect on its own. But when their powerful capabilities are

By Livvy Doherty, Dan Wright, Eve Brennan, Niamh Kennedy, Radina Gigova, and Sophie Tanno, CNN London, UK (CNN) — Around 300,000 people turned out for a large pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday as police arrested scores of counter-protesters for attempting to confront the marchers. There was heavy police presence in central London’s Hyde Park

By Sophie Tanno, Adam Pourahmadi, Caroline Faraj, Matog Zalah and Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Arab and Muslim leaders decried Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza at a summit in Riyadh where Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a first public meeting. The extraordinary summit, which gathered 57 leaders, demanded

By Teele Rebane and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Iceland has declared a state of emergency, with police officials urging residents to evacuate the coastal town of Grindavík following an intense wave of earthquakes in the southwest of the country linked to a possible volcanic eruption. Nearly 800 quakes were recorded between midnight and 2

By Ivana Kottasová and Adi Koplewitz, CNN Bethlehem, West Bank (CNN) — To be at work by 9 a.m., Joseph Handal gets up at 4:30 a.m., even though his workplace, a Franciscan church in the Old City of Jerusalem, is only a few miles from his home in Bethlehem. The journey should take 25 minutes