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Story by Reuters Jakarta (Reuters) — Indonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers’ benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have killed at least five people in the country’s worst violence in decades. Protests began on Monday over what demonstrators called excessive pay and housing allowances

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Consider this job offer: A one-year contract to live and work in China, flying, repairing and making airplanes. Pay is as much as $16,725 a month with 30 days off a year. Housing is included, and you’ll get an extra $700 a month for food. And there’s an extra

By Sashikala VP, Hanako Montgomery, Yasmin Coles. Video by Tom Booth, Angus Watson, Ladan Anoushfar, , Manila, Philippines (CNN) — All names of minors have been changed at their request to protect their identities. A boundary wall separates Baseco’s residents from Manila Bay, a natural harbor in the heart of the Philippine capital. Over 64,000

By Masoud Popalzai, Billy Stockwell, Helen Regan, Char Reck, and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A huge earthquake ripped through eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing hundreds of people and setting off a mammoth rescue operation along a mountainous stretch of provinces where communities already face hunger and economic crises. At least 800 people were

By Catherine Nicholls, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Iran-backed Houthi rebels stormed the offices of two United Nations agencies in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, a day after Israel said it killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government. The offices the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations children’s

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has pleaded for an end to the “pandemic of arms” as he made his first public comments on gun control while offering prayers for the victims of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic school in Minneapolis. The first American pope made his remarks following the August 27

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — The Israeli security cabinet convened on Sunday to review plans for seizing control of Gaza City, as the government faces mounting international pressure and unprecedented domestic opposition, even from Israel’s own security leaders. The review is merely a formal update for the full security cabinet, as Israeli

CNN By Mahmoud Atef, Eugenia Yosef, Kareem El Damanhoury, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Israel is set to halt airdrops over Gaza City and reduce the entry of relief trucks ahead of a major offensive, a source told CNN, as the Red Cross warned that Israeli plans for

By Aishwarya S. Iyer, Chris Lau, Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — Five-year-old Pulsing Ajnera was playing with his brothers in a field near their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat, when a lion “came out of nowhere,” his grieving father told CNN. “This lion grabbed the child, my youngest, and left. My family

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Three Scottish brothers have made history by completing the fastest unsupported non-stop row across the Pacific Ocean – the world’s largest ocean – with 139 days at sea. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean rowed 9,000 miles from Peru to Australia, also becoming the first team on record to successfully

By Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan, Rhea Mogul, CNN Tianjin, China (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping told India’s Narendra Modi the “right choice” is for their countries to be friends as the two met in China for first time in seven years – a new milestone in a nascent rapprochement between the world’s most populous