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By Lex Harvey (CNN) — A remote mountain town in Canada has been shaken by the country’s deadliest school shooting in decades, when an armed assailant killed at least eight people. Police found six people dead and dozens injured when they arrived at the high school in Tumbler Ridge, a town of just 2,400 people

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — For years, Mahnoor Omer didn’t talk about it. Every time the topic arose, her school friends in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, flushed with embarrassment, Omer recalled. “This happened so many times. A class fellow of mine would get her period during class,” she told CNN late last year.

By Ivana Kottasová, Max Saltman, Kosta Gak, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly controlled alternatives to foreign tech platforms. On Tuesday, the government said it was restricting

By Sharon Braithwaite, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Two men are set to appear in court in Italy following a dramatic armed robbery on an armored security truck on a highway on Monday. A masked gang attacked the vehicle with Kalashnikov rifles and robbed a student of her car as they tried to escape in

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to discuss possible military options against Iran with US President Donald Trump during his visit to Washington this week as Israel prepares contingencies should US-Iran talks collapse, according to two Israeli sources. Israel remains skeptical that nascent negotiations between the US and Iran

By Pierre P Bairin, Billy Stockwell, CNN Paris (CNN) — It was the photo of a loved one nobody wants to receive. When the partner of a 35-year-old magistrate in France checked his phone last week, he saw a picture of his partner accompanied by a stark warning: pay a ransom in cryptocurrency or we

By Tim Lister, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — In the midst of a blizzard sweeping across central Ukraine last month, Iryna Vlasenko had a dilemma. She needed to get her 7-year-old daughter, who was seriously ill, to a children’s hospital in Kyiv. But she couldn’t get to the main railway station in Khmelnytskyi, more than

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The world is in an era of “wrecking-ball politics” led by US President Donald Trump, and it’s putting the decadeslong prosperous international order under unprecedented strain, according to the Munich Security Report 2026. The annual report, released ahead of the Munich Security Conference, described Trump point blank as the

By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — Bangladesh votes on Thursday in the first election since a Gen Z protest movement toppled an ageing autocrat – an uprising tens of millions of young people dreamed could chart a new course for their country. Images of longtime leader Sheikh Hasina fleeing by helicopter as

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Canada’s largest airline has said it is suspending flights to Cuba due to a shortage of aviation fuel on the island – a move that comes amid a US orchestrated squeeze on the country’s oil supply that has also forced Havana to ration health, transport and school services. Air

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Keir Starmer was fighting to salvage his premiership on Monday after the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour Party figures for the British prime minister to step down, following bitter fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Addressing a packed room of

By Billy Stockwell, Charlotte Reck, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles stands ready to support British police as they assess a report that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor allegedly shared confidential material with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during the former prince’s role as UK trade envoy. The latest tranche of Epstein files released by

CNN By Sophie Tanno, Ivana Scatola, CNN (CNN) — Toluwa was waiting for her flight in an airport lounge in Washington, DC, when she said she was approached by a stranger. The pair got chatting and, after a while, she agreed to exchange numbers with him. It wasn’t until she got home and searched his

By Sophie Tanno, Ivana Scatola, CNN (CNN) — Toluwa was waiting for her flight in an airport lounge in Washington, DC, when she said she was approached by a stranger. The pair got chatting and, after a while, she agreed to exchange numbers with him. It wasn’t until she got home and searched his social

By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The Prince and Princess of Wales have been “deeply concerned” by revelations from the trove of new documents related to Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, a Kensington Palace spokesperson has said. Speaking to journalists in Riyadh ahead of Prince William’s visit to Saudi

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub. The 78-year-old self-made billionaire was among the highest-profile government critics charged since Beijing imposed

By Diego Mendoza, Ruben Correa, Gonzalo Zegarra, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN (CNN) — Key Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa has been placed under house arrest, his son said, two days after he was re-arrested by heavily armed men following his release from a jail where he had been held as a political prisoner. “We are

By Tal Shalev, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC, this week, Israel has taken a series of sweeping steps to tighten its grip on the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet approved measures that expand the country’s enforcement powers and

By Tim Lister, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Ukraine face several days of extreme cold with very little heat and light, after sustained Russian drone and missile attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. In the capital, Kyiv, temperatures well below zero and bitterly cold winds are expected for the

By Caitlin Danaher, James Frater, CNN London (CNN) — The chief of staff to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Sunday over the scandal around Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to the US, despite his links to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong.