By Simone McCarthy and Wayne Chang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The world must “must act urgently” to stem the conflict in Gaza, China’s top diplomat said Monday during a meeting with officials from Arab and Muslim majority nations, as Beijing steps up its efforts to play a role in establishing ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Jessie Yeung, Jonny Hallam, Asmaa Khalil and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-eight premature babies arrived in Egypt in a convoy of ambulances from Gaza on Monday, according to an Egyptian government official, after the infants were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza. Four mothers and six nurses accompanied
Continue Reading By Tara John and Adi Koplewitz, CNN (CNN) — It should be the height of tourist season in Tiberias, an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee where the New Testament says many of Jesus’ miracles were performed. But instead of pilgrims, thousands of Israelis evacuated from communities close to the Lebanese border
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN Gaza City (CNN) — Even in the darkness, the utter devastation in northern Gaza is clear as day. The empty shells of buildings, illuminated by the last shreds of light, lurch out of the landscape on the dirt roads across the Gaza Strip. At night, the only signs of life are
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Florida law enforcement officials are investigating a woman’s disappearance as a homicide after they say they found her body in a storage unit registered to her estranged husband, authorities said Sunday. Shakeira Yvonne Rucker was reported missing after her family told the Winter Springs Police Department that they last
Continue Reading CNN Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues. “I realize how sad this time is for many, including myself,” said Bishop Robin Dease, the leader of the conference. “I
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A portion of Interstate 10 in downtown Los Angeles has reopened ahead of schedule after it was closed to traffic following a massive fire earlier this month, as police seek to identify a man seen near where the flames started. The shuttered portion of freeway, which typically sees more than
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Paterson, New Jersey (CNN) — Yusra Matari was eating lunch across Main Street from the apartment where she spent part of her childhood when an elderly woman two tables over asked where she was from. “Me? Palestine,” Matari said. “Beit Anan,” she added – her family’s village in the West Bank.
Continue Reading By Stefano Pozzebon, David Shortell, Abel Alvarado, Eva Rothenberg and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential elections on Sunday, wrenching his country to the right with a bombastic anti-establishment campaign that drew comparisons to that of former US President Donald Trump – all against the backdrop of one of the world’s highest inflation
Continue Reading Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — On September 25, 2000, Kevin Hines climbed over the rail of the Golden Gate Bridge. White fog hung below the gray skies that day. He recalled looking down at the rough, green waters below moments before he did the unthinkable: He jumped. “My hands left the rail and I had
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — If you haven’t shopped for your Thanksgiving feast yet, we’ve got good and bad news. The good? The overall cost of a meal for 10 people is down nearly 5% this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The bad? That’s still a whopping 25% higher
Continue Reading By Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — When Racha Mousdikoudine opens her kitchen faucet, she never knows what will happen. “Maybe I won’t get any water at all,” she told CNN. “Maybe I’ll get 30 minutes of water. Maybe the water will only come after hours of waiting.” For the last four months, Mousdikoudine and her
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A manhunt is over for the man suspected of fatally shooting four family members, including a 13-year-old girl, in Memphis, Tennessee, after police say he was found dead on Sunday from what appears to be a “self-inflicted gunshot wound.” The suspect, Mavis Christian Jr., 52, was
Continue Reading By Maria Kostenko, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Yulia Kesaieva, Olga Voitivych, Svitlana Vlasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — On the global stage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been consistently on message: In visits to Washington and other Western capitals, he has focused on keeping Kyiv supplied with more advanced arms, ammunition and financing. At home, however,
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, Su Chay and Chloe Liu, CNN (CNN) — Renewed hostilities between the Myanmar military and ethnic minority armed group the Arakan Army (AA) have spread to various townships in western Myanmar, including Pauktaw, where civilians have been caught in the crossfire as fighting escalates. A former member of parliament from Pauktaw township,
Continue Reading Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues. “I realize how sad this time is for many, including myself,” said Bishop Robin Dease, the leader of the conference. “I just
Continue Reading By Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — A grieving father says he wants to know what led to the death of his 22-year-old son on the day he was supposed to be released from an Alabama correctional facility. Daniel Terry Williams died November 9 after his family took him off life support following what the Alabama
Continue Reading By Jo Shelley, Andrew Carey and Eyad Kourdi CNN (CNN) — A school run by the United Nations in northern Gaza has been hit with apparently devastating impact, the UN confirmed Saturday, in what a top UN official described as a “horrifying” incident. Video from al-Fakhoura School in Jabalya – which was being used as a
Continue Reading CNN By Jo Shelley, Andrew Carey and Eyad Kourdi CNN (CNN) — A school run by the United Nations in northern Gaza has been hit with apparently devastating impact, the UN confirmed Saturday, in what a top UN official described as a “horrifying” incident. Video from al-Fakhoura School in Jabalya – which was being used as
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The last of four inmates who escaped from a central Georgia county jail last month has been taken back into custody, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. Joey Fournier, 52, of Macon was “apprehended near Stockbridge, Georgia just before noon on Saturday,” the news release read. Later today, the
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