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By Nectar Gan and Eric Cheung, CNN Hong Kong/Taipei (CNN) — Following a military blockade, panic and chaos rip through a besieged island: residents scramble to withdraw cash, foreign nationals rush to be evacuated, riots break out in prisons and television networks are hacked into broadcasting enemy propaganda. These fictitious scenes have stirred emotion and

CNN By Saskya Vandoorne, Teele Rebane, Sophie Tanno, Zeena Saifi, Lucas Lilieholm and Alireza Hajihosseini, CNN (CNN) — Several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and France have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon as heightened tensions in the region spark fears of a widening Middle East conflict. The warnings come after the

By AnneClaire Stapleton and Mitch McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Mali has severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine after the country supplied intelligence to Malian rebels involved in an ambush against Wagner Group forces in July. “The transitional government of the Republic of Mali condemns the hostility of the authorities of Ukraine who do not observe that Mali

By Kareem Khadder, Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers in Gaza raced to dig victims from the rubble on Sunday after Israeli airstrikes on two school buildings left at least 30 people dead, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. The strikes continue a bloody weekend, after a similar lethal attack

CNN By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine marks “a new chapter” for the country’s Air Force, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday as he confirmed for the first time that the combat aircraft are in the country. Ukraine has been urging allies to transfer the coveted jets since the start

By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine marks “a new chapter” for the country’s Air Force, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday as he confirmed for the first time that the combat aircraft are in the country. Ukraine has been urging allies to transfer the coveted jets since the start of

By Radina Gigova, Duarte Mendonca, Mia Alberti and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Rioters set fire and broke into hotels used to shelter asylum seekers in northern England on Sunday, as the country grapples with the worst social unrest it has seen in years. The violence was triggered by the stabbing of three young girls

By Saskya Vandoorne, Teele Rebane, Sophie Tanno, Zeena Saifi, Lucas Lilieholm and Alireza Hajihosseini, CNN (CNN) — Several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and France have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon as heightened tensions in the region spark fears of a widening Middle East conflict. The warnings come after the US

By Dana Karn, Ibrahim Dahman and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Two people have been killed in a stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv, medical officials have said. The two killed were a 66-year-old woman and an “approximately 80-year-old man,” medical officials said. Two others were injured. Police said the

By Radina Gigova, Maria Kostenko and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military has claimed it sank a Russian submarine in a port in Crimea, in what would be another major setback for Moscow in the occupied peninsula. The submarine Rostov-on-Don was hit in the port of Sevastopol on Friday, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Ruqia Haidari was the baby of the family. The youngest of five children, she was born in Afghanistan in 1999, just a month before her father, a fruit and vegetable seller, was killed by the Taliban. So desperate was her mother to protect her children that she

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates what he sees as major victories against Hamas and Hezbollah this week, the mood in Tel Aviv is far from celebratory. Often bustling with crowds on a weekend, the coastal city of more than 400,000 residents was

By Lauren Izso, Jeremy Diamond and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Anti-government rallies erupted in several cities across Israel this weekend, as tens of thousands of Israelis demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu find a path to a deal with terror group Hamas, in order to free more than 100 hostages still held in Gaza.

By Kareem Khadder, Ibrahim Dahman, Lauren Izso and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Israeli airstrikes on two school buildings in the north of Gaza City killed 17 Palestinians, most of them children, and left at least 63 injured according to Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal on Saturday. “The schools were targeted a second time