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By Adam Pourahmadi, Niamh Kennedy, Jomana Karadsheh and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday in protest over what she said was the jail’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment, according to a family statement provided to CNN. The 51-year-old rights activist

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — At the top of the world, northern Greenland’s huge glaciers — long thought to be relatively stable — are in trouble, a new study shows. As the ocean warms, Greenland’s last remaining ice shelves are rapidly weakening, destabilizing the nearby glaciers and threatening potentially “dramatic” consequences for sea level

By Christian Edwards, Daria Tarasova, Maria Kostenko and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said safety rules had been “violated,” leaving soldiers and civilians exposed to a deadly Russian missile strike on a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, which he described as “a tragedy that could have been avoided.” A Ukrainian military

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first images captured by a powerful space telescope designed to create the most detailed 3D map of the “dark side” of the universe have been revealed. Launched by the European Space Agency in July, the Euclid telescope’s initial release includes five observations made from its orbital home 1

By Rob Picheta, Maria Kostenko, Gul Tuysuz, Victoria Butenko, and Kostyantyn Gak, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — An aide to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s military was killed after receiving a live grenade as a birthday present that was immediately detonated by his 13-year-old son. Major Gennadiy Chastyakov, who served as the assistant to Valery Zaluzhny,

By Oscar Holland, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN Singapore (CNN) — An agritech startup that helps female farmers in India to cut food waste using solar-powered dehydration equipment is among the five green innovations to scoop the Prince of Wales’ prestigious Earthshot Prize. The winners of the annual eco-awards were revealed on Tuesday evening

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Aluminum rockets and steel skyscrapers; slick high-speed shuttles and glassy facades: that’s how “the future” has been imagined for decades. But that’s not what Koji Murata imagines. A researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, Murata has been exploring how biological materials could be used in space. Murata wondered if

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN Lagos (CNN) — Irish chef Alan Fisher has unseated Nigeria’s Hilda Effiong Bassey to take the world record for the longest cooking marathon, the Guinness World Records (GWR) committee said Tuesday. Fisher “cooked for an incredible 119 hours and 57 minutes at his restaurant in Japan,” GWR said,

CNN By Ed Lavandera, Sarah Boxer and Rhea Mogul, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — Mourning his 8-year-old daughter believed killed in Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, Thomas Hand said he was at least partially consoled militants had not taken her hostage. Of all the terrible possibilities for her, death was the least painful, he said. But

By Ed Lavandera, Sarah Boxer and Rhea Mogul, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — Mourning his 8-year-old daughter believed killed in Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, Thomas Hand said he was at least partially consoled militants had not taken her hostage. Of all the terrible possibilities for her, death was the least painful, he said. But then

By Rachel Wilson, Rosa de Acosta, Alex Leeds Matthews and Alex Newman, CNN (CNN) — It is a month since Hamas launched its unexpected and brutal attack on Israel. More than 1,400 Israelis were killed in the assault, and more than 240 were taken hostage, according to a count by Israeli officials. The Ministry of Health in