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By Claudia Colliva, Chris Liakos and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Paris (CNN) — France’s highest court on Thursday upheld the government’s ban on students in public schools from wearing the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, in a decision that rights groups warn will lead to more discrimination. “As things stand, the

By Krupskaia Alís and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Mexico seems set to elect its first female president in next year’s election after the country’s leading parties both unveiled women candidates. Ruling party Morena said Wednesday that Claudia Sheinbaum will be its nominee for the 2024 general election. She is set to take on Senator

By Chris Liakos and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from severe floods in Greece, local officials said, after extreme rainfall turned streets into deadly rivers, tore down buildings and bridges and left whole villages submerged. The rainstorms also hit neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey,

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — During this summer of dangerous, record-shattering heat almost no one on Earth escaped climate change-fueled temperatures, a new analysis has found. Researchers from climate research group Climate Central mapped the influence of climate change on temperatures in more than 200 countries and territories. They found that between June and

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The inaugural Africa Climate Summit drew to a close on Wednesday, with the host, Kenya’s president William Ruto, saying that a total of $23 billion had been pledged to green projects by governments, investors, development banks and philanthropists. The summit, which focussed on driving green growth and climate finance

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After completing a historic landing on the lunar surface, putting India in the tiny club of countries that have safely placed a spacecraft on the moon, the Chandrayaan-3 lander is now asleep — resting through the 14-day lunar night before mission controllers attempt to reawaken the spacecraft later this

By Sugam Pokharel, Niamh Kennedy, Sana Noor Haq and Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — More than 150 police officers are searching for a terror suspect who escaped from a London prison by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery van, as questions mount over how the audacious breakout was allowed to happen. The

By Christian Edwards and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The United States has decided to send controversial depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine for the first time, as part of a new aid package worth more than $1 billion announced Wednesday. The 120mm rounds can be fired from the US-made Abrams M1 tanks and are set

CNN By Rob Picheta, Teele Rebane and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — A drone attack caused an explosion near Russia’s military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, as Kyiv continues a campaign of strategic aerial strikes in Russian territory. Social media videos geolocated by CNN showed the attack in the vicinity of the

By Rob Picheta, Teele Rebane and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — A drone attack caused an explosion near Russia’s military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, as Kyiv continues a campaign of strategic aerial strikes in Russian territory. Social media videos geolocated by CNN showed the attack in the vicinity of the military

By Mostafa Salem, Celine Alkhaldi and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers are rushing to save an American man trapped in the third-deepest cave in Turkey after he became ill, the Turkish Caving Federation said. Some 150 rescuers are involved in a “complex” operation to save Mark Dickey, who was part of a research team

By Larry Madowo, Mitchell McCluskey and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — The military leaders who staged a coup in Gabon have freed ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba and he is now allowed to travel abroad, a junta spokesperson said Wednesday. Bongo has reportedly been held in house arrest since the coup in the Central African

By Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Mary Achieng’s family is in the malaria ward at Nightingale Hospital in western Kenya almost every month. On this visit in late August, she’s being treated along with her two sons, aged 4 and 12. All three are recovering from a disease that has long devastated

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Myanmar’s already dire human rights situation is deteriorating and the junta should release all political prisoners, the United Nations’ chief said Wednesday, as a leading local news outlet revealed one of its journalists had been jailed for 20 years for covering the aftermath of a cyclone. UN Secretary General

By Michael Rios and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Children are migrating through Latin America and the Caribbean in record numbers, driven by gang violence, poverty, instability and climate change, the United Nations reported Wednesday. In the first seven months of 2023, more than 60,000 children crossed the Darien Gap, a major migration route and

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The dramatic ocean saga that led to three men being rescued this week from a sinking inflatable catamaran off the Australian coast has been pinned on an unusual culprit: a small, cigar-shaped shark that leaves such perfectly round wounds it’s called the cookiecutter. The sailors, two Russians and one

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Bangladesh is battling its worst dengue outbreak on record, with more than 600 people killed and 135,000 cases reported since April, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, as one of its experts blamed the climate crisis and El Nino weather pattern for driving the surge. The country’s health care

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Jubilant movie fans thronged Indian cinemas before the crack of dawn on Thursday, bursting fire crackers and dancing on the street to welcome the latest release by one of the country’s biggest stars. Some screenings began at 5 a.m. as die-hard fans of Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan packed

By Stefano Pozzebon, Michael Rios and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — Over thirty people are dead after heavy rains and floods in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, state governor Eduardo Leite said Wednesday. Leite visited the disaster area on Wednesday morning and pledged on social media that no effort would be spared

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A revolutionary satellite that will reveal celestial objects in a new light and the “Moon Sniper” lunar lander lifted off Wednesday night. The Japanese Space Agency launch, which was rescheduled several times due to bad weather, occurred aboard an H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center at 7:42 p.m. ET