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By Nimi Princewill and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 prisoners have escaped from a medium security prison in Nigeria after heavy rainfall destroyed part of the facility, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) said in a press release on Thursday. A total of 118 inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centres in Suleja,

By Larry Madowo and Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people and left at least 236 injured, the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Thursday. More than 10,000 houses have been damaged and upwards of 200,000 people have been affected, Majaliwa told the Tanzanian parliament in the capital Dodoma.

By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Some Hamas officials are signaling that the militant group could give up armed struggle against Israel if the Palestinians get an independent state in territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war. The messaging suggests a softening of Hamas’ position as its fate hangs in the balance with

By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — The record-breaking rain that fell over the United Arab Emirates and Oman this month, triggering deadly floods and chaos, was driven partly by the climate crisis, according to a scientific analysis published Thursday, which pointed directly at humans burning fossil fuels. A team of 21 scientists and researchers, under

By Duarte Mendonca and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation on Thursday, handing power over to a transitional council that will seek to gain control of the violence-ravaged nation. Henry wrote in his resignation letter dated Wednesday that, “given the current state of affairs,” the time was right

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022, according to his lawyer. “An order for the execution of Toomaj Salehi has been issued,” Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian tweeted Wednesday. The rapper has been detained, held

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the glowing gas ejected from a dying star, which in this case happens to resemble a “cosmic dumbbell.” The portrait may also include evidence that the star gobbled up another star, in a form of stellar cannibalism, before

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Kashmir, a region in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. India, Pakistan and China all claim partial or complete ownership of Kashmir. Facts Kashmir is an 86,000-square mile region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. India and Pakistan have been fighting over Kashmir since

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Two Household Cavalry horses which broke free and ran through the streets of London on Wednesday are in a “serious condition,” a British government minister has said. Six soldiers and seven horses were taking part in an exercise on Wednesday morning when the animals became spooked after some concrete

By Teele Rebane, Heather Chen and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — A dramatic operation to save the lives of more than 100 pilot whales ended in partial success on Thursday after wildlife officials managed to return most of the stranded animals to sea. Rescue teams rushed to the beach located in the coastal town of Dunsborough,

By Ella Nilsen and Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a highly anticipated suite of rules to cut hazardous, planet-warming pollution generated by power plants in one of its most significant environment and climate actions to-date. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules will compel coal and new natural gas power plants to

By Mariya Knight, Richard Roth and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that proposed a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia described the