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CNN By Peter Wilkinson and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — At least two people were killed in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, northern England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Three other people are in a serious condition after the incident in Crumpsall, north

By Peter Wilkinson, Sana Noor Haq, Billy Stockwell, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — At least two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others seriously injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have deleted the information, according to UK media reports. The perpetrators had stolen the data from

By Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s nearly two-year war pushed parts of Gaza into “man-made” famine, according to a report published in August by a United Nations-backed initiative, deepening the Palestinians’ struggle for survival under relentless bombing, mass displacement and the spread of disease. The

Story by the Associated Press (CNN) — Canada’s last captive whales will remain at the Marineland park near Niagara Falls for now after the federal government denied the zoo’s request to ship the 30 belugas to China. The Canadian government will not grant an export permit to send the whales to the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom

By Masrur Jamaluddin, Helen Regan, CNN Sidoarjo, Indonesia (CNN) — A rescue team crouched under huge slabs of concrete and corrugated iron as they carefully slid 13-year-old Syailendra Haikal to safety from the twisted wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian boarding school; a brief glimmer of hope in the middle of a disaster. Haikal was taken

By Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — A new visa category launched by the Chinese government to attract young science and technology professionals is causing fervent backlash in China, where well-educated young people are already struggling to find work. The new “K-visa,” launched October 1, has been touted by Chinese officials as a boon for the

CNN By Jack Guy, Billy Stockwell, Lex Harvey, Gerardo Lemos, Dana Karni and Abeer Salman (CNN) — The Israeli military has intercepted dozens of boats sailing as part of an aid flotilla towards Gaza, detaining hundreds of passengers including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, organizers said, and triggering global condemnation. The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)

By Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Anti-government demonstrations gripped Morocco for a fourth straight night as youth filled the streets of cities throughout the country and destruction and violence broke out in several places. With billions in investment flowing toward preparations for the 2030 World Cup, promises to fix Morocco’s strained social services haven’t

By Jack Guy, Billy Stockwell, Lex Harvey, Gerardo Lemos, Dana Karni and Abeer Salman (CNN) — The Israeli military has intercepted dozens of boats sailing as part of an aid flotilla towards Gaza, detaining hundreds of passengers including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, organizers said, and triggering global condemnation. The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was

By Svitlana Vlasova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s advance into Ukraine slowed by almost half in September, according to the monitoring group DeepState, with Moscow capturing its smallest amount of territory since May. “The Russians managed to capture 259 square kilometers (100 square miles)” in September, DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source mapping site that

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Millions of people around the world today are observing Yom Kippur, the most sacred holiday in the Jewish faith. It is traditionally marked by fasting, repentance and prayer, as worshippers seek atonement and spiritual renewal. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with

By Tricia Escobedo, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91. Her field studies with chimpanzees not only broke barriers for women and changed the way scientists study animals, but documented

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — French prosecutors are piecing together clues over the death of South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa. Early findings, authorities said, suggest Mthethwa had apparently fallen from a high-rise Paris hotel on Monday, hours after sending a “disturbing message” to his wife that he planned to kill

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — After weeks of repeated incursions into European airspace, officials are meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen where they are expected to discuss several measures intended to protect the continent’s skies, including a flagship “drone wall” initiative. The commission, alongside the European Union, is working to build a “Defence Readiness

By Max Saltman, Inke Kappeler, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — German police arrested three suspected Hamas members who were allegedly procuring weapons “for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions,” German prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday. The three accused, who police only identified by first names and initials of their last names, were charged with

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan to skeptics in his hardline cabinet Tuesday evening, telling ministers that coordination with Washington “is closer than you think,” according to two Israeli officials who participated in the meeting and another official briefed on

CNN By Helen Regan, Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN (CNN) — Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers. In one pocket of the mangled concrete of the collapsed century-old Al Khoziny boarding

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Japanese warship is on the way to the United States to be fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the latest move by Washington and its Asian allies to beef up firepower as adversaries like China and North Korea expand theirs. The JS Chokai, an Aegis-equipped guided-missile

By Helen Regan, Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN (CNN) — Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers. In one pocket of the mangled concrete of the collapsed century-old Al Khoziny boarding school,