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By Lex Harvey and Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people have been arrested after clashes between police and protesters outside a major defense expo in Australia on Wednesday, during which police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators and both sides accused the other of violence. Video from the scene showed protesters setting fire to

By Sebastian Shukla, Kosta Gak, Frederik Pleitgen and Scott McWhinnie, CNN Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, (CNN) — Lurking in the bushes near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is a unit of men who have two things in common: The short amount of time they have served defending their nation and time spent behind bars. The 15 infantry

By Tara John, David Shortell and Jose Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Mexican Senate narrowly passed a controversial judicial reform early Wednesday, hours after protesters broke into the chamber in a chaotic scene and forced a suspension of the proceedings. The Senate vote was the last major hurdle for the sweeping constitutional reform, under which

By Hira Humayun and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli official has floated the possibility of offering Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar safe passage out of Gaza, once all remaining hostages held in the Palestinian territory are released. Israel’s coordinator for hostages and the missing, Gal Hirsch, told CNN’s Jessica Dean on Sunday that if

Ivan Sarmenti, CNNE (CNN) — The last captive orca in all of Latin America cuts a lonely figure. “Kshamenk” has lived in the Mundo Marino oceanarium in the Argentine city of San Clemente del Tuyú since 1992 – the majority of that time, following the death of his female companion in 2000, as the lone

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Nobel Prize, an international award given yearly for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics and peace. October 6-13, 2025 – The Nobel Prizes are announced. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to María Corina Machado for “promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Irene Nasser and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Israel has launched multiple strikes on southern Lebanon over the last day, including one which killed a senior Hezbollah commander. Mohammed Qassem Al-Shaer, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was killed in a strike on the village of Qaraoun in the western Beqaa

By Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has called for “fundamental changes” to the way Israeli forces operate in the occupied West Bank after the killing of American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest last week. Blinken’s sharply worded rebuke came after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on

CNN 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 killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A Singaporean man has been ordered to repay more than 38 million Australian dollars ($25.7 million) after he lost big during a gambling spree at an Australian casino over the span of a few days. Queensland’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that Yew Choy Wong owed that amount to the

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