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What are cloudbursts and why might a warming world make them even more dangerous?

By Helen Regan, Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Sudden and intense bursts of extreme rainfall are causing devastation across mountainous parts of South Asia, triggering flash floods, deadly mudflows and huge landslides that have washed out entire neighbourhoods and turned vibrant communities into heaps of mud and rubble. In northwest Pakistan, ferocious floods have crashed

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters in Caracas on May 25.

Venezuela mobilizes its militia after US says it’s deploying military forces to waters around Latin America

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen throughout the country, assuring that “no empire will touch the sacred soil of Venezuela,” after the United States doubled the reward for information leading to his arrest and increased the number of troops sailing around Latin

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Family of father on run for years with three children in dense wilderness urges him to come home

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The family of a fugitive father who’s been hiding his three children in the dense New Zealand wilderness for nearly four years has spoken publicly for the first time since they disappeared. Thomas Callam Phillips vanished with his children in December 2021, and despite several sightings, appeals

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Israeli army soldiers look at destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip as they stand on the border with the Palestinian territory on Wednesday.

Leaked recording reveals ex-Israeli military intelligence chief calling 50,000 deaths in Gaza ‘necessary’

By Oren Liebermann, Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — In leaked audio, the former head of Israeli military intelligence can be heard saying the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are “necessary and required for future generations.” “For everything that happened on October 7, for every one person on October 7, 50

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This military junta is rebranding itself to hold elections. But a UN probe has found evidence of intensifying atrocities

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — As evidence mounts of intensifying atrocities, including the torture of children, being committed in Myanmar, the country’s military generals are rebranding their junta regime and planning stage-managed elections in a nation they only control parts of. They’ve rescinded a four-year state of emergency order, imposed during their 2021 military

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Russian President Vladimir Putin waves as he and US President Donald Trump (not pictured) conclude statements to the press after their Friday meeting in Alaska.

Putin gave his final words at Alaska summit in English, a language he speaks more of than he usually lets on

By Lauren Kent, Anna Chernova, Katharina Krebs, Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s final words at the Alaska summit were delivered with a smile, spoken in an unusual burst of English. “And next time in Moscow,” Putin said – no translation needed – in response to US President Donald Trump suggesting they

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