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By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Jeremy Dupin. Video by David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — From above, Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince still looks serene, its white-washed homes climbing steep green hills that encircle a glittering bay. But to step onto its cracked streets requires a careful calculation of risk and reward. Ruthless

CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — There’s cutting cable and then there’s literally cutting cable: Telecom cables running along the bottom of the Red Sea have been damaged, disrupting an estimated quarter of internet and communications between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea and the United States began their annual Freedom Shield joint military drills on Monday to bolster readiness against North Korea. The 11-day drills will integrate elements of “live exercises” with constructive simulations, according to United States Forces Korea (USFK) and South

By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN (CNN) — A series of swift Russian advances have challenged Ukraine’s new line of defense set up after their withdrawal from the key town of Avdiivka and are raising fears about Kyiv’s tactics and momentum on the front lines. Ukraine announced a withdrawal

By Vedika Sud, Sugam Pokharel, Michelle Velez and Jessie Yeung, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Police in eastern India have arrested three men for the alleged gang rape of a foreign tourist and assault of her husband, as they hunt for four more suspects in a case that highlights the country’s decades-long struggle to curb

By Helen Regan, Ibrahim Dahman and Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — A growing number of children in Gaza are dying of starvation and dehydration, according to the World Health Organization and Palestinian officials, amid desperate conditions due to Israel’s throttling of aid and destruction of the besieged enclave — reinforcing the urgency of this week’s

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Thousands of delegates from across China are gathering in Beijing this week for the start of the country’s most prominent annual political event, where leaders will signal how they plan to steer the world’s second largest economy in the year ahead — and try to dispel deepening concern

By Amir Tal and Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) — Israel is not sending a delegation to Cairo for talks on a deal for a ceasefire and release of hostages from Gaza, an Israeli official told CNN Sunday. The official said the reason was that Hamas had not responded to two Israeli demands: a list of hostages specifying

By Darya Tarasova and Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people have been flocking to the grave of late Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Images from OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights group that monitors Russian repression, show a long line of people queuing at Navalny’s grave and laying flowers at the Borisovsky Cemetery in Moscow.

By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A seven-year-old girl has drowned after a boat capsized on the Aa canal in Watten, northern France, local authorities said. The small boat was carrying 16 migrants including the seven-year-old girl’s parents, whose nationality is unknown. The couple had three other children on board and the mother is pregnant, according to a

By Manveena Suri, Lucas Lillieholm and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions and what they see as a broader lack of support for the country’s medical system. The doctors say the government needs

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Texas is no stranger to winter wildfires, but the ferocity of the Smokehouse Creek fire — the state’s largest on record after burning through more than 1 million acres — caught even the experts off guard. Its severity was due to a perfect storm of environmental factors: highly flammable

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across North America are in for a treat on April 8 when a total solar eclipse will pass over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The event will be visible to millions — including 32 million people in the US alone — who live along the route the moon’s shadow will

By Azaz Syed, CNN Islamabad (CNN) — Shehbaz Sharif has become Pakistan’s prime minister for a second time nearly a month after an inconclusive general election marred by delays and widespread allegations of vote-rigging. No party secured a majority in the February 8 poll. Candidates affiliated with the PTI party of jailed former Prime Minister

CNN By Caitlin Hu and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of prisoners have escaped from Haiti’s National Penitentiary in the capital, Port-au-Prince, after fighting broke out on Saturday, according to a law enforcement source. In a post on X, one of Haiti’s Police Unions pleaded for all officers in the capital with access to cars and

By Michelle Velez, Stefano Pozzebon, Caitlin Hu and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday after thousands of inmates apparently escaped from its largest prison during a surge of gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation for months. The government cited the “deterioration of security,” notably in

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — For more than two decades, no one listened to Sally Leydon as she begged for help to find her mother who mysteriously vanished during a trip abroad in 1997. At the time, Australian police dismissed her concerns, insisting that her mother, Marion Barter, had disappeared by choice,

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Norway’s King Harald has had a temporary pacemaker fitted at a hospital in Malaysia after falling ill on holiday there. The procedure, which took place Saturday at Hospital Sultanah Maliha on the island of Langkawi, was undertaken due to the 87-year-old monarch’s low heart rate, the royal household said

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Fungi are fascinating and integral parts of the web of life. They also have a bit of a mixed reputation. On one hand, mushrooms and networks of fungal roots are sought-after sources of nutritionally rich food, mind-altering drugs and eco-friendly materials — and they help trees share nutrients and store

By Xiaofei Xu and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany says it will investigate after a recording leaked of a conversation between several top-ranking German officers on the country’s Ukraine war strategy. During the conversation, posted online by the head of Russia’s state-backed RT channel, Margarita Simonyan, air force officers discuss the possible delivery of Taurus