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By Thom Poole, Sophie Tanno, Eyad Kourdi, Adam Pourahmadi, Andrew Carey, Lauren Izso, Hira Humayun and Andrew Raine, CNN (CNN) — At least six people were killed and scores more injured in Israeli airstrikes on a Yemeni port, Houthi rebels have said, a day after the Iran-backed group claimed a deadly attack on the Israeli

By Ibrahim Dahman, Alex Stambaugh and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — At least 13 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on homes in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Saturday, according to hospital officials and Gaza’s Civil Defense. The toll came from two separate strikes in the camp, the officials said. In response to CNN’s question

By Chloe Liu, Hassan Tayir and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — At least 15 people have died after a bridge partially collapsed in China’s Shaanxi province with rescue efforts remaining underway as of Sunday evening, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Authorities said a portion of the bridge in Zhashui County in the city of

By Chris Lau, Nodoka Katsura and Rinka Tonsho, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the center of a growing controversy after local officials dismissed calls to disinvite Israel from its annual ceremony promoting world peace as war rages in Gaza. Every year on

By Hira Humayun and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — At least 40 people have died after the boat they were traveling in caught fire off the coast of Haiti earlier this week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Friday, citing local authorities. The vessel left Haiti on Wednesday carrying over 80 migrants, and

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Summer Olympics, which are typically held every four years. The 2024 Olympic Games were held July 26-August 11 in Paris. The 2028 Olympic Games will be held in Los Angeles, marking the first time since 1996 the competition is taking place in the United

By Ibrahim Dahman, Caitlin Danaher and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. Gaza’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) both said they had carried out tests

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ top court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal, in an unprecedented opinion that called on Israel to end its decades-long occupation of territories claimed by Palestinians for a future state. The advisory opinion, while non-binding,

By Kathleen Toner, CNN Moscow, Idaho (CNN) — Sometimes, a book can have a life-changing impact. For Payton McGriff, that turned out to be true. McGriff was a sophomore at the University of Idaho when she read Half the Sky, which examines the oppression of women in developing countries. She was shocked to learn that

By Florence Davey-Attlee, Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Jeremy Diamond and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — The Aljamal family was widely respected in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp. They were known as pious and prominent members of the community. While people knew they had connections to Hamas, neighbors say no one could have guessed how deep those links

By Samra Zulfaqar, Helen Regan and Andee Capellan, CNN (CNN) — Huge protests across Bangladesh escalated into deadly violence this week with clashes between students, pro-government supporters and armed police fueling widespread anger over civil service job quotas opponents say are discriminatory. Dozens of people have reportedly been killed and hundreds injured in the violence, which has seen riot

By Eugenia Yosef, Jennifer Hansler, Eyad Kourdi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Israel authorities are investigating the circumstances and potential security lapses around a deadly drone blast in Tel Aviv that killed one man and injured at least 10 others on Friday. The attack was claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in what the Iranian

By Tim Lister, Sharon Braithwaite and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — United Nations agencies say that a new round of evacuation orders by the Israeli military in Gaza has prompted the largest displacements since October – making the delivery of emergency rations even more difficult than previously. The World Food Programme said in a

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — French lawmakers reelected Yaël Braun-Pivet as president of the National Assembly Thursday, overcoming a political deadlock after the hung parliament of July’s parliamentary elections. Braun-Pivet, a lawmaker from French President Emmanuel Macron’s own centrist party, also served as the last assembly president. But her reelection was far from

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the CN Tower, or Canada’s National Tower. Standing 1,815 feet (553.33m), it is the tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere. The CN Tower is located on Front Street in Toronto’s entertainment district. It attracts more than 2 million visitors each year. Other Facts Rogers

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — As Ukraine grows bolder in striking targets deep inside Russia, Moscow has quietly upped the security measures around President Vladmir Putin’s country residence north of Moscow. Satellite images have revealed that several Pantsir-S1 air defense systems have been installed in the vicinity of the presidential residence on Lake Valdai

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — A police officer was attacked and injured in central Paris on Thursday evening, as France ramps up security measures in the capital ahead of the 2024 Olympics. “A police officer was attacked in the eighth arrondissement of Paris while he was responding to a call from officers securing

By Sergey Gudkov, CNN (CNN) — American citizen Travis Leake has been sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony in Russia, state media RIA Novosti reported Thursday, after he was detained on drug charges last year. A Moscow court had accused the “former paratrooper and musician” of engaging in a narcotics business, according to RIA. Leake pleaded

By Andrew Carey, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Biden administration received another rebuff from Israel Wednesday night – this time from the country’s parliament – over the United States’ long-standing support for the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been US policy for decades, but absent negotiations