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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — American and Chinese military commanders spoke in a long-anticipated call Tuesday as the two powers seek to manage their intensifying rivalry in a contentious Asia-Pacific region – and repair lines of military communication severed more than two years ago. US Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Samuel Paparo and Gen.

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s historic attempt to bring samples from Mars to Earth could launch as soon as 2028, two years earlier than previously stated, according to a senior mission official. The country’s Tianwen-3 mission would carry out two launches “around 2028” to retrieve the Martian samples, chief mission designer

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kareem Khadder and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza has killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters

By Reuters SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country is now implementing a nuclear force construction policy to increase the number of nuclear weapons “exponentially,” state media KCNA said on Tuesday. In a speech on North Korea’s founding anniversary on Monday, Kim said the country must more thoroughly prepare its “nuclear capability and its readiness

By Matthew Chance and Yon Pomrenze, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — Ahead of a key US presidential debate this week, families of several American hostages held in Gaza are calling on US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to offer new ideas for securing the immediate release of their loved ones. “We want to

By Hira Humayun, Lauren Izso, Niamh Kennedy, Avery Schmitz, Richard Roth and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Shots were fired during the Israeli military’s hours-long detention of a convoy of United Nations vehicles in Gaza, the UN Secretary General’s spokesperson said Tuesday. The situation “escalated quickly” after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stopped the convoy

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — An airstrike targeting civilian areas in southeastern Sudan has left more than 20 people dead and dozens of others wounded, authorities in the embattled Sennar state said, as civil war rages between the country’s army and a paramilitary militia. At least 21 civilians were killed and 63 injured in

CNN By Max Foster and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, has said she has completed her chemotherapy and is “doing what I can to stay cancer free,” as she plans to return gradually to public life in the coming months. Catherine, who revealed in March she has been diagnosed with

By Max Foster and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, has said she has completed her chemotherapy and is “doing what I can to stay cancer free,” as she plans to return gradually to public life in the coming months. Catherine, who revealed in March she has been diagnosed with cancer,

By Abeer Salman, Tim Lister, Mohammed Al Sawalhi and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Jerusalem and Gaza (CNN) — A 14-year-old boy lies in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, severely burned from an Israeli airstrike. Doctors say nearly his entire body is affected. His wounds have now become infested with maggots. “(He has) advanced

CNN By Christopher Lamb, Helen Regan and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Dili, East Timor (CNN) — Pope Francis arrived in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor on Monday for the penultimate stop of the 87-year-old leader’s marathon trip through Asia and the South Pacific. Thousands of Timorese lined the streets of the capital Dili

By Christopher Lamb, Helen Regan and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Dili, East Timor (CNN) — Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, where almost half the population turned out for an open-air Mass on Tuesday. The 87-year-old leader’s visit marks the

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A man wanted for allegedly throwing scalding coffee on a baby in an unprovoked attack at a park in the northern Australian state of Queensland is now the subject of an international manhunt. Queensland Police Detective Inspector Paul Dalton said Monday that officers were working with international partners to find the man, identified as a