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By Kareem El Damanhoury and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The death toll from US airstrikes on an oil port in western Yemen has risen to at least 74 people, the Houthi-run health ministry reported, marking the deadliest day since the United States escalated its aerial campaign against the Iran-backed group last month. US Central

By Abeer Salman, Tamar Michaelis and Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) — Hamas has rejected the Israeli ceasefire offer presented earlier this week, according to a senior Hamas official, instead calling for a “comprehensive” proposal to end the war. The official told CNN, “The offer is rejected in full and in detail.” The rejection prompted far-right Israeli

By Dana Karni, Tamar Michaelis and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Jewish worshippers visited a Jerusalem holy site during the holiday of Passover as far-right Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot boasted, “Arabs aren’t allowed to come near us.” Sukkot, a member of the Religious Zionism party, visited the al-Aqsa compound in the Old City

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Four people were killed and one severely injured when their cable car plunged into a ravine in Italy on Thursday, local authorities said. The accident happened after a cable on the Monte Faito cableway near Sorrento snapped in severe weather, according to Vincenzo De Luca, the president of

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Police in Germany have raided the home of a teenage boy suspected of making and storing ricin, a highly toxic and deadly biological warfare agent. The 16-year-old is accused of producing “several vials” containing a mixture of ricin and aconitine, another potent plant toxin, in a makeshift laboratory in

By Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — A restaurant chain has apologized after sparking outrage when it cut down an oak tree in London that was believed to be up to 500 years old. Described by British conservation charity the Woodland Trust as “one of London’s largest and most significant ancient trees,” the huge oak was

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud arrived in Tehran on Thursday, in a rare visit by a senior Saudi royal to the Islamic Republic. Prince Khalid met Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Iranian news outlet ISNA reported, adding that “developing

By Christian Edwards, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Pierre Meilhan and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — European and Ukrainian officials met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris on Thursday after weeks of being sidelined in US President Donald Trump’s push to end the war in Ukraine through direct talks with

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Chinese couple allegedly tied to Chinese Triad gangs and a turf war over the lucrative textile industry were assassinated in Rome Monday night, the Italian Carabinieri said in a statement. Zhang Dayong, 53, and his wife Gong Xiaoqing, 38, were fatally shot in the backs of

By Lauren Izso and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian militant group in Gaza released a video on Wednesday of Rom Braslavski, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier who was taken hostage from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. The 7-minute propaganda video, released by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is the first time Braslavski has

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it has formed its own government as it marks two years of a vicious power struggle with the Sudanese army that has left tens of thousands killed and millions homeless. RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said in a statement Tuesday that his

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he hopes Iran-backed Hezbollah can be disarmed this year, following an Israeli military campaign that left the group decapitated and significantly weakened. “We hope that Hezbollah’s weapons will be withdrawn or that their possession will be restricted to the state in 2025, and this

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — An American preacher who was taken hostage by armed men while preaching a sermon in a South African township last week has been rescued in a fierce gun battle with his kidnappers, police said Wednesday. Josh Sullivan, 45, was kidnapped last Thursday during an evening service in Motherwell, a

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied. Britain’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in equality legislation refers to “a biological woman and

By Mauricio Torres, Jimena De La Quintana, Ivonne Valdés and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia has fled to Brazil, where she has been granted diplomatic asylum after a court in her home country sentenced her and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, to 15 years in prison on money

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador has talked to the United States about receiving support in its battle against criminal gangs, President Daniel Noboa said in an exclusive interview with CNN, his first since winning Sunday’s presidential election. “There are plans … we had conversations, we had a plan, we had options that we

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador has talked to the United States about receiving support in its battle against criminal gangs, President Daniel Noboa said in an exclusive interview with CNN, his first since winning Sunday’s presidential election. “There are plans … we had conversations, we had a plan, we had options that

By Lauren Izso and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli fighter jet dropped a bomb near an Israeli community on the Gaza border on Tuesday night as a result of what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called a “technical malfunction.” The bomb fell near the Nir Yithzak kibbutz adjacent to southern Gaza, which sits

By Sana Noor Haq and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Four journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were sentenced to spend five years and six months in a penal colony on Tuesday, after they were accused of working for a banned organization run by the Kremlin critic, Russian state media TASS

By Lisa Klaassen, CNN (CNN) — Two US college students were arrested and detained for two weeks in Denmark after an alleged altercation with an Uber driver, local police said Tuesday. The young men are now prevented from leaving the country until a court hearing on charges of common assault in Copenhagen on April 24,