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By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — As French citizens get set to vote in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday hundreds of contenders have bowed out in an effort to block the far-right party from the gates of power. Over 200 candidates from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp and the left-wing alliance have stepped down in

By Amy Cassidy, CNN, and Eugenia Yosef (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after The New York Times published an article citing six current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a

CNN By Zahid Mahmood and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Thirty passengers were injured after a flight from Madrid to Uruguay was hit by “strong turbulence” and had to make an emergency landing in Brazil, Spanish airline Air Europa said on Monday. “Our flight UX045 bound for Montevideo has been diverted to the Natal airport

By Aishwarya S Iyer, Mariya Knight, Sugam Pokharel, Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A crowd crush at a religious gathering in northern India killed more than a hundred people Tuesday, mostly women, in one of the deadliest such incidents the country has seen in recent years. Many of the scores

By Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made his first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s full-scale war began, and urged Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider a “ceasefire” in order to “speed up peace talks” with Moscow. Standing alongside Zelensky on Tuesday, Orban, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin

By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Michael Schwartz and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders on Monday for areas in southern Gaza, including eastern Khan Younis and Rafah. This forced residents, many already displaced, to find new shelter, due to the suggestion of the possibility of another ground operation. The

By Duarte Mendonca, Manveena Suri and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — India’s T20 World Cup-winning cricket team will finally be able to fly home Tuesday after being stuck in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl, a powerful storm churning through the Caribbean. The team, which claimed a seven-run victory over South Africa on Saturday to lift the

By Helen Regan, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — The head of Gaza’s largest hospital has claimed he was repeatedly tortured during his seven months in Israeli detention, following his sudden release Monday, in a move that highlighted growing rifts in the Israeli establishment. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of the

By Mariya Knight and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has foiled an alleged plot to overthrow the government that “would have played into Russia’s hands,” security officials in the war-torn country said Monday. In a Telegram post, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claimed the plot organizers planned to trigger a riot in Kyiv on June

By Abel Alvarado and Omar Fajardo, CNN (CNN) — The US and Panama have signed an agreement on immigration issues that aims to “close the passage of illegal migrants” through the Darién Gap, the Central American government announced Monday. “In the agreement signed today by the Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha and the Secretary of

By Scott McLean and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that targeted Syrian businesses and cars in the city. According to Turkish state news agency Anadolu, a Syrian man was arrested on allegations that he sexually abused