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By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — With elections looming in October, Israel’s right wing is turning the push to rebuild Jewish settlements in Gaza into a central issue of their campaign. It is part of a broader effort to push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse the 2005 disengagement from the coastal enclave that saw

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Firefighters in Scotland have been working to extinguish a wildfire at Arthur’s Seat, a famous hill near the center of the capital city, Edinburgh. The blaze was reported on Sunday evening, according to a statement from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), published late on Monday morning. “Operations

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — “You cannot hide from a drone strike,” says Elsadig. For the 27-year-old, that is the terrifying reality of life in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Obeid, where even the simplest routines carry the threat of sudden death. For much of Sudan’s civil war, which began more than three years ago,

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Some Facebook and Instagram users reported international outages Sunday, leaving them unable to access their feeds, according to two internet watchdogs and a CNN check of the platforms. More than 23,000 users reported problems with Facebook in the United States alone between 3:44 and 5:02 a.m ET Sunday morning,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russia has launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks against Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion more than four years ago. Ukraine’s air force said Moscow had launched “a massive combined strike against Ukraine using attack UAVs and various types of air-

By Anabella Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catira Alejandra couldn’t contain her excitement when she was reunited with her family. Tail wagging, frenzied leaping, and loving licks to the face marked the moment the small dog finally saw the familiar faces she didn’t know if she would see again. But several days earlier, Catira was hunched

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — You wake up nervous. Try the comfort of a lucky shirt, maybe the same one you were wearing last time your team won. Grimace and nod through meetings; your eye is on the clock. Finally it’s kick off. Ugh. The dread only rises. Wait a second

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Around 300 protesters clashed with riot police in Venice on Friday evening over the arrival of US ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta’s $450 million mega yacht Boardwalk during the city’s annual Redentore (Redeemer) festival, police said. Fertitta, a close ally of and donor to US President Donald

By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian drone attacks have killed at least eight people at warehouses in Russia, according to regional officials. Seven of those killed were working at a distribution center at Kotovsk in the Tambov region. The eighth fatality was at a similar center in Elektrostal in the Moscow

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — As Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian walked alongside the coffin of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran last week, some of the black-clad mourners surrounding him chanted not in tribute to the late leader, but directly at him – “death to the compromiser.” Not far from that site, Abbas Araghchi,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Svitlana Vlasova, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Nikopol, in southern Ukraine, rarely makes the headlines – overshadowed by the threats to the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant directly across the river. But this city on the front line of Russia’s full-scale invasion has been attacked almost every day since the war began,

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke. From her home in Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, northwestern Ontario, the smoke appeared close. But the remote Indigenous community says that on that Monday, July 13, they were told by the Ministry of Natural Resources there was

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — Prominent Cuban dissident and performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrived in Miami on Saturday following his release from Cuban detention, according to his supporters and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A Facebook page created by his family and friends showed a photo of Otero Alcántara with

CNN By Uriel Blanco and Merlin Delcid, CNN (CNN) — A powerful earthquake in southern Mexico shook nearby countries Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, with the US Geological Survey (USGS) measuring its preliminary magnitude at 7.3. The earthquake’s epicenter was located 48 kilometers southwest of Aquiles Serdán, a town in the Mexican coastal state

By Uriel Blanco and Merlin Delcid, CNN (CNN) — A powerful earthquake in southern Mexico shook nearby countries Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, with the US Geological Survey (USGS) measuring its preliminary magnitude at 7.3. The earthquake’s epicenter was located 48 kilometers southwest of Aquiles Serdán, a town in the Mexican coastal state of

By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Ireland has approved landmark legislation to create the country’s first public register of domestic violence offenders, in a move campaigners say will empower people to check whether a potential partner has a history of violence. Known as Jennie’s Law, the Domestic Violence (Judgements) Register Bill passed Wednesday in the

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the new leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, and will become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade of extraordinary political instability when he succeeds Keir Starmer on Monday. In his acceptance speech, Burnham pledged to give people “hope back” and

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — A wave of jeers greeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s parliament prepared for a blitz of controversial legislation in the government’s closing days. “Shame, leave, go!” dozens of opposition lawmakers shouted on Tuesday. The commotion was so loud that Netanyahu left the chamber, sitting out the

By Susana Erazo, CNN (CNN) — Oswadeliz Núñez remembers arguing with her son Daniel when he decided to get a tattoo when he was 24. About four years later, that tattoo helped her identify Daniel’s body after he was killed in the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela last month. Daniel had arrived back in Venezuela

By Christiane Amanpour, Lauren Kent, Ben Kirby, Claire Calzonetti, CNN London (CNN) — The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under intense scrutiny as member countries prepare to vote this month on whether to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. For months, the United Nations watchdog has investigated claims