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By Ana María Cañizares, Sahar Akbarzai and Veronica Calderon (CNN) — Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas on Wednesday started a hunger strike in a Guayaquil maximum security prison, where he has been held since Saturday, a member of his team told CNN. “He is in a hole, without light,” the source said. On Monday,

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogota (CNN) — Latin America has seen plenty of diplomatic wrestling in recent weeks, from Argentina’s president calling his Colombian counterpart “a terrorist murderer” to Venezuela’s latest attempt to take back a territory ruled by neighboring Guyana. But none of that has been quite as hands-on as Ecuador’s highly controversial decision to raid Mexico’s embassy – a major

By Jake Tapper and Kirsten Appleton, CNN (CNN) — Israeli police are using forensic evidence, video and witness testimony and interrogations of suspects to document cases of rape amid the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Women and girls caught in the rampage were brutalized sexually, as well as physically tortured and killed, witnesses to the

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director. Personal Birth date: April 25, 1949 Birth place: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Birth name: Dominique Gaston Andre Strauss-Kahn Father: Gilbert Strauss-Kahn, a legal and tax advisor Mother: Jacqueline Fellus, a journalist Marriages: Myriam L’Aouffir (October 2017-present);

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The icy plains of Antarctica are a magnet for meteorite hunters such as Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. Some 1,000 space rocks are found in the region each year. Their dark hue is easy to spot in the

By Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — For the past quarter century, a remote corner of southwest New Zealand has provided a predator-free sanctuary for threatened species, including the world’s only flightless parrot and a lizard that’s found nowhere else on Earth. Chalky Island, a rugged yet lush 2-square-mile outcrop in the Pacific nation’s Fiordland, is

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — A 22-year-old French woman whose blood-drained body was found in an abandoned church in northern Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend had been looking for a haunted house believed to contain ghosts, according to police. She told family members about her plans before leaving the village

By Rob Picheta, Zeena Saifi, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Tareq Alhelou, Mohammad Sawalhi and Abdel Qadder Al-Sabbah, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad sits on the back of a donkey-drawn cart, trundling down what is left of a road, alongside the few belongings he managed to retrieve from his flattened home. Wednesday should have marked the celebration

By Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — The European Union’s plan to reform how it handles irregular migration passed a key hurdle on Wednesday, as the European Parliament voted through a package that will fundamentally change how the bloc tackles huge numbers of people, often seeking asylum while fleeing conflict in their own countries. The wide-ranging

By Sophie Tanno and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would listen to former US President Donald Trump’s ideas to end the war in Ukraine with “pleasure” but trod carefully around the issue during an interview at the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. The embattled Ukrainian leader’s remarks came after