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By Jessie Yeung, Duarte Mendonca, Abeer Salman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — A UNICEF spokesperson has defended the death toll being reported out of Gaza, saying the organization’s figures had historically matched those of the Hamas-controlled Gazan health ministry. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in the past month –

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Unusually early heavy snowfall blanketed swathes of northeastern China this week, forcing airlines to cancel flights, halting trains and shutting schools and roads in the country’s first major blizzard of the season. The first snowfall in northeast China usually takes place between late November and early December,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two powerful NASA telescopes have detected the oldest and most distant black hole ever found. Data captured via energetic X-rays by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers spot the signature of a growing black hole within the early universe just 470 million years

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christian Edwards, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italy will build two detention centers in Albania to house migrants trying to reach its shores, Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said Monday, in an attempt to control migration figures that have almost doubled in the year since she took office. Meloni said the facilities

By Adam Pourahmadi, Niamh Kennedy, Jomana Karadsheh and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN. The 51-year-old rights activist

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — At the top of the world, northern Greenland’s huge glaciers — long thought to be relatively stable — are in trouble, a new study shows. As the ocean warms, Greenland’s last remaining ice shelves are rapidly weakening, destabilizing the nearby glaciers and threatening potentially “dramatic” consequences for sea level

By Christian Edwards, Daria Tarasova, Maria Kostenko and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said safety rules had been “violated,” leaving soldiers and civilians exposed to a deadly Russian missile strike on a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, which he described as “a tragedy that could have been avoided.” A Ukrainian military

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first images captured by a powerful space telescope designed to create the most detailed 3D map of the “dark side” of the universe have been revealed. Launched by the European Space Agency in July, the Euclid telescope’s initial release includes five observations made from its orbital home 1

By Rob Picheta, Maria Kostenko, Gul Tuysuz, Victoria Butenko, and Kostyantyn Gak, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — An aide to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s military was killed after receiving a live grenade as a birthday present that was immediately detonated by his 13-year-old son. Major Gennadiy Chastyakov, who served as the assistant to Valery Zaluzhny,

By Oscar Holland, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN Singapore (CNN) — An agritech startup that helps female farmers in India to cut food waste using solar-powered dehydration equipment is among the five green innovations to scoop the Prince of Wales’ prestigious Earthshot Prize. The winners of the annual eco-awards were revealed on Tuesday evening