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By Kareem Khadder and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The head of Médecins Sans Frontières said Tuesday that he had been “trapped” with staff inside a hospital in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp amid an ongoing Israeli raid in the densely populated area. Two Palestinians died from their wounds after ambulances could not

By Chris Lau and Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures are one step closer to learning their fate in the city’s largest national security case to date, as prosecutors and lawyers returned to court Wednesday to make closing speeches almost three years since the mass arrests.

By Maya Szaniecki and Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — France will ban smoking on beaches and public parks, the country’s health minister said on Tuesday, presenting a series of measures as the government looks to prevent 75,000 tobacco-related deaths per year. The measures — part of a government plan to combat smoking — aim to

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Cold weather is stretching across the US while parts of the East are getting walloped by lake-effect snow. This occurs when cold air blows over warmer lake water, picking up more moisture and often dumping large amounts of snow in a short period of time. Here’s what else

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, two of them while wearing keffiyehs, in a crime their families have said was “fueled by hate.” Although keffiyehs are worn across the Middle East, in recent decades they have come to be identified in particular

By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — A UN report released Tuesday details a wave of violence that has swept Haiti’s rural reaches, describing gang raids on villages and alarming levels of food insecurity caused by the targeting of farmers in the country’s historic breadbasket. The report, from the UN Human Rights Office and the UN