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By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Search and rescue operations are underway after a US special operations aircraft crashed off the shore of Japan’s Yakushima Island on Wednesday. The aircraft, an Air Force CV-22B Osprey assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Wing, was carrying eight airmen when it experienced an “aircraft

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — At 10-months-old, Kfir Bibas has now spent more than a fifth of his young life in captivity, his doe-eyed face and bright red hair a vivid symbol of the pain and suffering endured by Israel’s hostage families. More than 50 days since his abduction by Hamas militants from their

CNN By Jomana Karadsheh, Florence Davey-Attlee and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Picking through the rubble of his destroyed home, Khaled Nabhan lifts a doll that had belonged to his granddaughter and kisses it. Toys and memories are all he has left of his beloved grandchildren, 3-year-old Reem and 5-year-old Tarek, who were killed last

By Jomana Karadsheh, Florence Davey-Attlee and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Picking through the rubble of his destroyed home, Khaled Nabhan lifts a doll that had belonged to his granddaughter and kisses it. Toys and memories are all he has left of his beloved grandchildren, 3-year-old Reem and 5-year-old Tarek, who were killed last week

By Clare Sebastian, CNN London (CNN) — In early November, drone video surfaced online appearing to show a targeted strike blowing up three antennas on the roof of an apartment block. The Ukrainian drone commander who posted it claimed to have destroyed a Russian Pole-21 electronic warfare system on the eastern front near Donetsk. Ukraine

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

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of people are heading to Dubai in early December for COP28, the annual international climate summit convened by the United Nations. With time quickly running out to prevent fossil fuel pollution from causing irreversible harm, discussions between global leaders, negotiators, climate advocates and industry representatives have

By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Finland will close the last operating checkpoint on its Russian border on Thursday, entirely shutting off the NATO country’s eastern border with Russia for two weeks. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in the release that “Russia is enabling the instrumentalization of people and guiding them to the Finnish border

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly and altering space-time around it, a new study has found. Space-time is the four-dimensional continuum that describes how we see space, fusing one-dimensional time and three-dimensional space together to represent the space fabric that