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By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and 33 injured in a tornado Saturday that struck Guangzhou, a city of 19 million people in southern China, according to Chinese state media. Authorities say 141 factory buildings were damaged but no residential houses collapsed, according to the Xinhua news agency. It

By Lauren Izso and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Hamas on Saturday published a video of two hostages, American-Israeli Keith Siegel and Israeli Omri Miran. In the video, Siegel, who appears to be speaking under duress, pleads for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a hostage release deal with Hamas. This is the first

By Zeena Saifi, Kareem Khadder and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A desperately needed shipment of food aid destined for Gaza departed from Cyprus on Saturday, weeks after humanitarian efforts in the besieged enclave were severely disrupted following a deadly Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers. The deaths of the

By Olga Voitovych, Darya Tarasova and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — A Russian court has placed Forbes journalist Sergey Mingazov under house arrest after he was detained for allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian armed forces, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti has reported. Forbes Russia says its journalist will be under house

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — From a speck of bone, scientists can tease out astonishing information about the past. Analysis of ancient DNA recovered from human remains has illuminated the traits and ancestry of historic individuals — be it a mummified iceman, Chinese emperor or legendary composer. As techniques improve, researchers are harnessing this

By Aqeel Najim, Nechirvan Mando and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi social media star Ghufran Sawadi, better known as Umm Fahad, was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, on Friday night, a Baghdad police source told CNN. The attack took place in the Zayouna area east of

By Zeena Saifi, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A 64-year-old British man is receiving “critical care” after he was attacked by a shark 10 meters from the shore in Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago. According to Farley Chavez Augustine, the Chief Secretary of Tobago, the man was attacked on Friday morning local time by what appeared to be

By Olga Voitovych and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine launched drone attacks on Russia’s Kushchevsk military airfield in the southern Krasnodar region, as well as two oil refineries, a source with knowledge of the operation told CNN. The source dubbed the operation “explosive,” and said that fires broke out at the three locations. The

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has rolled out the largest restructuring of its military in almost a decade, focusing on technology-driven strategic forces equipped for modern warfare, as Beijing vies with Washington for military primacy in a region rife with geopolitical tensions. In a surprise move last week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping

By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Soweto, South Africa (CNN) — Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. “This is where the students who were marching peacefully had a first confrontation with the police,” he says. It was June 16, 1976.

By José Álvarez, CNN en Espanol (CNN) — Guatemalan authorities raided the offices of the NGO Save the Children on Thursday citing complaints over the treatment of Guatemalan children in Texas, the country’s public prosecutor told CNN. The raid was carried out by authorities from the Special Public Prosecutor Against Impunity and the Civil Police, government lawyers said, after an investigation was opened

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life. Nearly a century later, newly digitized letters shed light on Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Everest,

By Louis Mian, Larry Madowo and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — The death toll due to floods in Kenya has risen to 76, with 29 people injured and 19 still missing, a government spokesperson said as authorities ordered more evacuations of people from at-risk areas due to ongoing heavy rainfall. “Nairobi is currently experiencing the highest impact,

By Jeremy Diamond, Eugenia Yosef, Alex Marquardt and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — An Egyptian delegation is in Israel in an effort to advance stalled negotiations aimed at releasing hostages and implementing a ceasefire in Gaza, Egyptian and Israeli officials told CNN on Friday. The delegation is also set to continue discussions with Israeli officials

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles III is making plans to install around 2,000 solar panels in the grounds of Sandringham Estate, in a sustainability drive that could see the entire country property powered by zero-carbon energy. It’s an ambitious proposal, which, if approved, will produce enough power to meet the “current

By Jennifer Hansler and Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the US and China should be “partners rather than adversaries” as he met with top American diplomat Antony Blinken in Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People on Friday. The meeting, which took place on the final day of Blinken’s

By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Gaza have concluded their search of mass graves at a hospital in the south of the strip and said they have uncovered a total of 392 bodies, including some still wearing surgical gowns. Speaking at a Thursday news conference, an official from the