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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As scientists scramble to understand why the world’s oceans are in their second year of record-breaking heat, one of the most important programs to gather ocean data in the US is in danger of going dark and cutting off research at a critical time for the planet. Known as the

By Eve Brennan and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A child has died and two others have been seriously injured in a school shooting in Finland, according to the country’s national police. The victims were 12 years old. A suspect, also aged 12 and a student at the same school, fled on foot but was

By Helen Regan, Hamdi Alkhshali and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN (CNN) — Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern conflict. The

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea test-fired a presumed intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, its latest military maneuver since leader Kim Jong Un’s New Year declaration that he was ending a policy seeking reconciliation with the South. Pyongyang made no immediate comment on the suspected test, which

By Simone McCarthy, Kareem Khadder, Eyad Kourdi and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network Al Jazeera following the passage Monday of a sweeping law allowing the government to ban foreign networks perceived as posing a threat to national security. Netanyahu said he intended “to act

CNN By Abeer Salman, Caitlin Stephen Hu, Muhammad Darwish, Eyad Kourdi and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Seven aid workers, including foreign nationals, from the non-profit World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli military strike as they were delivering food to starving civilians in Gaza. World Central Kitchen said its aid workers were traveling

By Abeer Salman, Caitlin Stephen Hu, Muhammad Darwish, Eyad Kourdi and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Seven aid workers, including foreign nationals, from the non-profit World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli military strike as they were delivering food to starving civilians in Gaza. World Central Kitchen said its aid workers were traveling in

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the total solar eclipse traces a path across Mexico, the United States and Canada on April 8, spectators can anticipate a multitude of awe-inspiring moments. During a total solar eclipse, the moon completely blocks the face of the sun for a brief period known as totality — and

By Hande Atay Alam, Adam Pourahmadi, Tara John, Lauren Kent and Allegra Goodwin, CNN (CNN) — Top Iranian military commanders were among the seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) officials killed in an airstrike on the country’s consulate building in Damascus, Syria, according to Iranian officials and state-affiliated media, which blamed Israel for the attack.

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — A key Ukrainian defensive line on the eastern front appears to have partially fallen to Russian forces in the past week, according to a British defense intelligence statement and military bloggers quoting sources on the ground. The United Kingdom’s defense intelligence agency on Saturday released an unusually negative assessment of

CNN By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Eclipse mania is approaching fever pitch as people with the best laid plans — and those who have yet to make them, too — strategize about getting into the path of totality for a clear view of the celestial event on April 8. For some, plans for where