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By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Pablo Escobar’s notorious “cocaine hippos” are facing a cull, according to a statement from Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development Thursday. The herd, which the Colombian government said currently stands at 169 animals, has rapidly reproduced from the original population of one male and three females the drug

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Five hundred years ago, a teenage girl who was part of the Inca culture was sacrificed and buried near the summit of Ampato, a dormant volcano in the Andes Mountains. Since the discovery of her incredibly well-preserved frozen remains in 1995, she has become known by many names —

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigeria’s government has come under fire over a budget that included a 6 billion naira ($6.3 million) presidential yacht and luxury cars, as the country grapples with mounting debts and a cost-of-living crisis. Lawmakers rejected the plans for a presidential yacht before approving the N2.1 trillion ($2.7

CNN By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — Jean Jacques “JJ” Wallis spends a lot of his time searching for his next extreme adventure in his home country of South Africa. But as a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wing flyer, adventure usually finds him first. Wallis founded BASE Jump Africa in 2017, an online community

By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — Jean Jacques “JJ” Wallis spends a lot of his time searching for his next extreme adventure in his home country of South Africa. But as a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wing flyer, adventure usually finds him first. Wallis founded BASE Jump Africa in 2017, an online community where

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — At least six people have died in Tuscany, according to the region’s president, after torrential rain and strong winds from Storm Ciarán swept northern and central Italy overnight Thursday. Several more people are missing in Tuscany and elsewhere across the country, including a firefighter who fell into

By Issy Ronald and Barbara von Bulow, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a centuries-old skeleton complete with a metal prosthetic hand to replace four missing fingers. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation said in a statement published last week that archaeologists used carbon dating to estimate that the man died some

By Abeer Salman, Mariya Knight, Tamar Michaelis and Helen Regan, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Dozens of Palestinian workers in Israel returned to besieged Gaza on Friday following an Israeli government decision to expel Gazan laborers from the country. The workers were among the Gazans who were in Israel early last month, when Hamas launched a

By Sophia Saifi, Jessie Yeung and Asim Khan, CNN Torkham and Chaman, Pakistan (CNN) — Earlier this week Nasim was leaving the only home he’s ever known, trudging toward Pakistan’s border alongside tens of thousands of fellow Afghan refugees who like him have been given a deadline to depart the country. “I was born in

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — A Palestine TV correspondent and 11 members of his family were killed Thursday in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority-run television network, in what it described as an Israeli airstrike. Mohammad Abu Hattab had been reporting live on-air Thursday night outside of Nasser

By Brad Lendon, CNN Aboard HMCS Ottawa (CNN) — A Chinese warplane fired flares in front of a Canadian military helicopter over international waters of the South China Sea last Sunday, an operation that Canadian military officers said was reckless and could have resulted in the downing of the aircraft. “The risk to a helicopter

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An enormous sea snake from Norse legend that was fathered by the trickster god Loki and grew big enough to circle the globe is now the namesake for a different type of “monster” — a newly discovered species of a massive, meat-eating marine reptile known as a mosasaur, which

By Yong Xiong, Mihir Melwani, Katie Polglase, Benjamin Brown and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN (CNN) — A video cited by Israel and the United States as part of their assessments of the deadly Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital blast in Gaza on October 17 does not appear to be directly related to the explosion, according to a CNN

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — In Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, a dazed and drowsy woman sits on the floor with a bleeding leg. A younger man lies flat on blood-stained tiles, his neck and legs wrapped in bandages. The rest of the emergency room on Tuesday was crowded with

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The heads of most animals are easily identifiable, but scientists haven’t been able to say the same for sea stars until now. A starfish has five identical arms with a layer of “tube feet” beneath them that can help the marine creature move along the seafloor, causing naturalists to

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet is on track to heat up at a much faster rate than scientists have previously predicted, meaning a key global warming threshold could be breached this decade, according to a new study co-authored by James Hansen — the US scientist widely credited with being the first to

By Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — In the middle of October, Natalia Pitaichuk packed up her four children and left her family home in the town of Beryslav in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson. Two days later, her house was destroyed in a Russian strike. “If we hadn’t evacuated, we would have been dead,” she told CNN. “It was like heavenly powers told me, it

Words by Nell Lewis, video by John Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The ‘akikiki, a small, gray bird native to Hawaii, may not look remarkable, but its rarity is. Only five are thought to remain in the wild and, according to the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources, the species could go extinct within months.

CNN Words by Nell Lewis, video by John Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The ‘akikiki, a small, gray bird native to Hawaii, may not look remarkable, but its rarity is. Only five are thought to remain in the wild and, according to the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources, the species could go extinct within

By Helen Regan, Abeer Salman, Zeena Saifi, Amir Tal and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military has completely encircled Gaza City, according to a spokesperson, as the United Nations’ main relief agency in the isolated enclave accused Israeli warplanes of lethally bombing UN-run schools sheltering civilians. Nearly a week after