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By Duarte Mendonca and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — At least eight people are dead following an accident involving a hot air balloon in Brazil’s southern region of Santa Catarina on Saturday, according to the local governor. “We are all shocked by the accident involving a balloon in Praia Grande, this Saturday morning. Our rescue

CNN By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Joseph Ataman, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Diplomacy with Iran can “easily” be started again if US President Donald Trump orders Israel’s leadership to stop its strikes on Iran, Majid Farahani, an official with the Iranian presidency told CNN on Friday. “Iran believes in civilian dialogue,” he said.

By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Joseph Ataman, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Diplomacy with Iran can “easily” be started again if US President Donald Trump orders Israel’s leadership to stop its strikes on Iran, Majid Farahani, an official with the Iranian presidency told CNN on Friday. “Iran believes in civilian dialogue,” he said. “Directly

By Oren Liebermann and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s self-imposed two-week delay to decide whether to strike Iran has sparked confusion and conjecture in Israel. Some of Israel’s most senior officials had openly pushed for US involvement, arguing that American military involvement can shorten the conflict and allow Israel to achieve

By Becky Anderson and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Fearing the repercussions of a total regime collapse in Iran, Gulf Arab states have intensified their outreach to the Trump administration and Tehran over the past week. The United Arab Emirates, a US ally that has long been opposed to an unsupervised Iran nuclear program, has

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Ten months after the luxury superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily in a sudden storm, salvage crews managed to lift it 50 meters (164 feet) from the seabed on Friday afternoon, the company running the $30 million recovery operation said. The superyacht was scheduled to

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Lawmakers in Britain have narrowly approved a bill to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill people, capping a fraught debate in Parliament and across the country that cut across political, religious and legal divides. MPs passed the bill by 314 votes to 291, in their final say on

By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — Pro-Palestinian activists broke into Britain’s largest air base and damaged two military aircraft in central England early Friday. Palestine Action, a UK-based group that aims to disrupt the operations of weapons manufacturers supplying the Israeli government, posted footage of the action to its X account. The video shows

By CNN staff (CNN) — After days of tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran, for the civilians caught up in Israel’s bombing campaign, life is filled with uncertainty. “This is war,” one 58-year-old father of two in the capital, Tehran, told CNN, adding, “no one really understands what that means.” A week into the conflict,

By Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — A serial rapist who was convicted of raping 10 women in the United Kingdom and China has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years. Zhenhao Zou, 28, was sentenced Thursday at Inner London Crown Court. Judge Rosina Cottage told him he would serve 22 years

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A Nigerian university is facing backlash after a viral video appeared to show young women who were queuing for exams being checked for whether they were wearing bras before being allowed in. In a short clip that spread quickly on social media, two women seem to be

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing increasing pressure to step down, after appearing to criticize the military in a 17-minute leaked phone call she had with Cambodia’s powerful former leader over an escalating border dispute. The scandal, which sparked widespread anger in the country, brings

By Esha Mitra and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Leaving hospital with wounds still fresh, the sole survivor of last week’s Air India plane crash solemnly carried the coffin of his brother, performing the last rites for a life lost in the deadly disaster. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, appeared overcome with grief

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Concern is rising in Gulf Arab states about the possibility of environmental contamination or reprisal attacks if Israel or the United States strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities just across the Persian Gulf. In Oman, users on messaging apps circulated advice on what to do in the event of a nuclear

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Hackers stole the equivalent of roughly $90 million from Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Wednesday, according to multiple independent crypto-tracking firms. A skilled pro-Israel hacking group known as “Predatory Sparrow” took credit for the cyberattack, which appeared to be aimed at further weakening Iran amid Israeli’s military strikes on

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — The United States appears to be moving closer to joining Israel’s conflict with Iran with a possible strike on the country’s key nuclear facilities – including the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which is hidden deep inside a mountain. Days into Israel’s attacks on Iran and its nuclear program, Israeli

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — British lawmakers voted Tuesday to decriminalize abortion for the pregnant woman – in striking contrast to the crackdown on reproductive rights in the United States. Lawmakers voted by an overwhelming majority to invalidate Victorian-era legislation that makes it possible to prosecute a woman for ending her pregnancy in

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales dropped out of a planned engagement at Royal Ascot at short notice on Wednesday. Kate, 43, had been expected to join her husband Prince William as well as King Charles and Queen Camilla at the horse racing event. Racegoers were hoping to

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Since Israel began its concerted attack on Iran, calls for regime change have grown louder, with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raising the possibility of targeting Tehran’s all-powerful leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Many Iranians have firsthand experience with the United States enforcing a regime

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent an enormous ash cloud more than six miles into the sky, disrupting or canceling dozens of flights to and from the tourist island of Bali. Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted at 5:35pm local time on Tuesday, unleashing a 6.8-mile (11-kilometer) hot ash column