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By Chris Lau, Heather Law, Manveena Suri and Vedika Sud, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Maldives is facing a boycott from one of its biggest sources of tourism income after three of its officials mocked India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sparking calls from Indian citizens and celebrities to shun the sun-kissed getaway for domestic beaches

By Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA leadership is expected on Tuesday to announce a “months-long delay” to the first crewed mission of the agency’s flagship Artemis program, according to one current and one former NASA employee. The delay affects NASA’s Artemis II mission, which aims to send four astronauts on a

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Odd radio circles in space have mystified astronomers since the cosmic objects were first discovered in 2019. Now, scientists think they may understand what forms these mysterious celestial structures, and the answer could provide insights into galactic evolution. The odd radio circles, also known as ORCs, are so massive

By Tara John, Catherine Nicholls and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has called for a universal ban on surrogacy, calling the practice “deplorable” in a speech in Vatican City on Monday. “I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the

By Ivana Kottasová, Kareem Khadder and Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) — About one in every 100 people in Gaza has been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on October 7, according to Palestinian statistics. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah announced in its daily update on Monday that at least

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — When retired postman Rodney Holbrook set up cameras to try to find out who was tidying his shed almost every night, he found an unexpected helper scurrying around his workbench. The black-and-white, night-vision footage revealed that a tiny mouse was behind the mysterious tidying, helpfully moving objects

By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — Astrobotic Technology, the company that developed the first lunar lander to launch from the United States in five decades, said it is abandoning an attempt to put its Peregrine spacecraft on the moon less than 24 hours after the vehicle took flight. The spacecraft has suffered

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — When retired postman Rodney Holbrook set up cameras to try to find out who was tidying his shed almost every night, he found an unexpected helper scurrying around his workbench. The black-and-white, night-vision footage revealed that a tiny mouse was behind the mysterious tidying, helpfully moving objects left

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — Astrobotic Technology, the company that developed the first lunar lander to launch from the United States in five decades, said its spacecraft has suffered “critical” propellant loss attempting to correct itself after running into a major issue in space. Just hours after launching from Florida

By Tamara Qiblawi and Charbel Mallo, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — A senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his car in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese security source told CNN on Monday, as fears of a wider regional conflict escalate. The official, Wissam Tawil, is the most senior member of the

By Yong Xiong, Simone McCarthy and David Culver, CNN San Diego, California (CNN) — They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border exhausted from the stress of the journey north.

CNN By Yong Xiong, Simone McCarthy and David Culver, CNN San Diego, California (CNN) — They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border exhausted from the stress of the journey

By Niamh Kennedy, Anna Chernova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Russia has begun to evacuate residents from the border region of Belgorod following a surge in deadly Ukrainian strikes, in a rare admission of the dangers posed by a war from which Moscow has sought to isolate its citizens. Approximately 300 residents of Belgorod

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Police in Australia have dismantled what they believe is a smuggling ring that was attempting to export native lizards and reptiles worth more than 1.2 million Australian dollars ($800,000) to Hong Kong. Three men, aged 54, 59 and 31, and one woman, aged 41, were arrested in Sydney as

By Manveena Suri, Aishwarya S Iyer and Jessie Yeung, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s top court on Monday reversed a state government’s decision to release 11 men convicted of gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002, and ordered for them to be sent back to jail. The men were part of

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A towering new rocket has taken flight, carrying what could be the first commercial lander to touch down on the moon — and the first lunar landing mission to launch from the United States since 1972. The Vulcan Centaur rocket, a never-before-flown model developed by United Launch Alliance, a

By Jessie Yeung, Radina Gigova and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — More than 10 children on average have lost one or both of their legs every day in Gaza since October 7, with many amputations performed without anesthesia, a charity said Sunday, underscoring the dire humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave following more than three

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — When a rocket makes its inaugural liftoff attempt on Monday, it will carry nothing less than the first lunar lander to launch from the United States since NASA’s final Apollo mission in 1972. The stakes are high. The success of the rocket, developed by the joint venture of Lockheed

By Heather Chen, Jennifer Hauser, Emiko Jozuka and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — An elderly woman in her 90s has been rescued from under the rubble of a two-story house more than five days after a powerful earthquake struck Japan. Rescuers found the woman in Suzu City in Ishikawa prefecture on Saturday evening – 124

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Three months ago, speaking to citizens rocked by a horrific day of attacks by Hamas, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a promise. “The IDF will immediately use all its strength to destroy Hamas’s capabilities,” Netanyahu said. “We will destroy them.” Now, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is shifting