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By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — The main pro-union party in Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said Tuesday it had reached a deal with the UK government that would end its near two-year government boycott and mark a return to power-sharing in the province. Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the pro-UK DUP, made the announcement at a press conference in the early hours

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A decade-long survey of the night sky has revealed a mysterious new type of star astronomers are referring to as an “old smoker.” These previously hidden stellar objects are aging, giant stars located near the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The stars are inactive for decades and fade

By Sana Noor Haq and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza. She tries to feed

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Police in the British capital shot dead a man who was reportedly trying to enter a property armed with a crossbow in the early hours of Tuesday, according to a statement. Officers were called to an address in Bywater Place in southeast London at around 4.55 a.m. local

By Abeer Salman and Christian Edwards, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli special forces, dressed as civilians and medical staff, infiltrated the Ibn Sina hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday and killed three Palestinian men, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. CCTV footage shared on social media appeared to show around

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong on Tuesday formally began the process of enacting a controversial homegrown national security law in a move that could have deep ramifications for the city’s status as a global financial hub. The proposed legislation will cover offenses including treason, theft of state secrets, espionage and external interference,

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A shark attack in an exclusive area of Sydney Harbour not far from the city’s iconic Opera House has prompted calls for swimmers to avoid the water at dawn and dusk when aggressive bull sharks are most active. A woman, named by local media as Lauren O’Neill,

By Sophia Saifi, Jessie Yeung and Rhea Mogul, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s former leader Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets, his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said in a statement Tuesday. The hearing took place Tuesday in a closed court established under the Official Secrets Act in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail,

By Saki Toi and Jessie Yeung, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Three foreign-born residents in Japan are suing the country’s government over alleged racial profiling, highlighting an ongoing debate about Japanese identity and nationality. The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in the Tokyo National Court and held a news conference with their lawyers on Monday, according to

CNN By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — A large void fills the space where rows of graves once stood. The gaping hole is all that is left after the Israeli military excavated the western side of the Bani Suheila cemetery, near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, claiming a Hamas tunnel ran directly through the site and that Hamas militants attacked Israeli troops from here. A week

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — A large void fills the space where rows of graves once stood. The gaping hole is all that is left after the Israeli military excavated the western side of the Bani Suheila cemetery, near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, claiming a Hamas tunnel ran directly through the site and that Hamas militants attacked Israeli troops from here. A week after

By Alex Marquardt and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Israel alleges that 13 employees of the United Nations’ main relief agency in Gaza were associated with Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and took part in varying capacities, ranging from involvement in kidnapping hostages to being told to set up an operations room, according to the summary of the intelligence

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — The suspension of funding by a growing number of Western countries for a United Nations agency for Palestinians has raised questions about the fate of the 5.9 million refugees it serves. The United States and at least 13 of its allies have pulled funding for the United Nations Relief

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Drone footage shot off the coast of Southern California may have revealed the first ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark in the wild. The 1.5-meter-long (5-foot-long) white shark was spotted on July 9, 2023, 400 meters (1,300 feet) off the coast of Carpinteria, California, by wildlife filmmaker

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has addressed criticism over his consent to priests to bless same-sex couples, saying the pushback from African bishops was “a special case” influenced by culture. The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), an association of Catholic bishops on the continent had opposed the pope’s

By Scott McLean and Yusuf Gezer, CNN (CNN) — The lone victim of Sunday’s ISIS-claimed shooting at the Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istanbul was a Muslim, according to a local official. Sukru Genc, mayor of the Sariyer district where the church is located, told Turkish independent newspaper BirGün that the man was by the

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III has been discharged from a hospital in London after undergoing treatment for an enlarged prostate. Buckingham Palace said the 75-year-old monarch had left the hospital and that his upcoming public engagements have been rescheduled “to allow for a period of private

By Hanako Montgomery and Ashley Strickland, and Teele Rebane, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer is back in action after a power issue forced the spacecraft to shut down hours after landing on the moon 10 days ago, the country’s space agency said Monday. The explorer executed a precise landing just after

By Kocha Olarn and Heather Chen, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A British BASE jumper has died in Thailand after his parachute failed to open when he launched off an apartment building, local police told CNN. Authorities in the popular Thai beachside resort city of Pattaya were alerted to an accident reported at a residential

Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken to gloating about Russia’s resistance to international sanctions and its supposed economic resilience, despite the best efforts of the United States and its G7 partners to choke off Moscow’s oil revenues and starve it of military technology. Scoffing at Europe’s economies, Putin