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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Standing alongside my colleagues as we watched the total solar eclipse, I was struck by the way that wonder unites us all. We were a few of the more than 16,000 people gathered at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland to observe the celestial spectacle. People struck up friendships

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni says surrogacy is “inhuman” and is backing steeper penalties against the practice, including fines of up to $1 million and multiple-year prison sentences. The act of surrogacy — with or without payment — is already illegal in Italy but Meloni’s Brothers of Italy

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call to explore beyond Earth. The tragedy killed seven astronauts as the Columbia shuttle disintegrated upon its return to Earth

CNN By Sandi Sidhu, Teele Rebane and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping mall in Sydney, Australian police said. Police were called to Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple

By Sandi Sidhu, Teele Rebane and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping mall in Sydney, Australian police said. Police were called to Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple people

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Agnes Marciniak-Kostrzewa’s phone won’t stop ringing. She’s been in the property business for 25 years, helping Poles to buy homes on Spain’s southern shores, but the past few months have been “really crazy.” There are lots of reasons why people might trade the Baltic coast for the Mediterranean. More than

By Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — The world’s biggest election kicks into gear next week when the first ballots are cast in India’s mammoth national polls, considered the most consequential in decades with the potential to shape the country’s future. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to decide whether to grant Prime

By Michael Rios and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has been established after weeks of uncertainty, according to a decree published in Haiti’s official state journal. The move comes a month after Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced he would step down once the council is

By Kareem Khadder, Zeena Saifi and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of armed Israeli settlers stormed a village in the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to several homes and cars in one of the largest attacks by settlers this year, according to Palestinian officials. At least one Palestinian man was killed by gunfire in the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The total solar eclipse that delighted spectators across Mexico, the United States and Canada on Monday was a celestial experience not to be missed. Millions were in the path of totality to watch as the moon moved between Earth and the sun. Readers shared their images of the eerie

By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Several journalists, including a CNN stringer, were injured in an attack on a refugee camp in central Gaza, amid mounting concerns about media workers being killed and injured while covering Israel’s military campaign. Israeli tanks launched a “targeted attack” where several

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Vietnam War. Causes of Vietnam War 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north begin fighting France for control of the country. 1949

By Leif Coorlim, CNN (CNN) — Grace Forrest is the founding director of Walk Free, the Australian-based anti-slavery organization responsible for publishing the Global Slavery Index (GSI). The GSI provides national estimates of modern slavery for 167 countries, drawn from thousands of interviews with survivors collected through surveys and vulnerability assessments. On April 11, Forrest

CNN By Leif Coorlim, CNN (CNN) — Grace Forrest is the founding director of Walk Free, the Australian-based anti-slavery organization responsible for publishing the Global Slavery Index (GSI). The GSI provides national estimates of modern slavery for 167 countries, drawn from thousands of interviews with survivors collected through surveys and vulnerability assessments. On April 11,

By Nadine Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — Germany will provide a one-time payment of $236 (€220) to Holocaust survivors, to help them cope with the impacts of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel. Berlin will compensate 113,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel in the form of $27 million (€25 million), according to the German finance ministry.

By Eve Brennan and Luke McGee and Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — Belgium will investigate suspected Russian meddling in European Parliament elections after the country’s intelligence services found evidence of “pro-Russian interference networks,” Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Friday. Moscow’s objective “is to help elect more pro-Russian candidates to the European Parliament” in order

By Jeremy Diamond, Vasco Cotovio, Will Bonnett and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel this week has begun to take several major steps to ramp up humanitarian aid to Gaza amid intense pressure from the United States, but humanitarian officials said progress was slow-going and that much more needed to be done, as warnings

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Columbia shuttle launched on January 16, 2003, it carried a crew of seven astronauts who had spent nearly three years getting to know one another before venturing on a 16-day science mission into space. NASA selected astronauts Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B.

By Rob Picheta and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Polish lawmakers backed plans to end the country’s near-total abortion ban on Friday, setting the stage for an eventual showdown on women’s rights between the country’s government and its right-wing president. Lawmakers in Poland’s parliament voted four different proposals to ease restrictions on abortions through to

By Sergey Gudkov, Louis Mian and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A mass evacuation is underway in the Russian city of Orenburg, as severe flooding tears through parts of the country and northern Kazakhstan. “A mass evacuation is underway,” the city’s mayor Sergei Salmin said on Telegram, instructing residents in multiple areas of the city