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By Christiane Amanpour and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli woman taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza has described the “hell” of being held captive, after her husband and daughter were murdered, telling CNN her captors would not allow her surviving young children to cry and tried to convince them they “had been forgotten.” Chen Almog

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration Wednesday for the state’s critical crawfish industry, as extreme weather disrupted this year’s harvest and triggered a shortage of the tiny crustaceans. Louisiana is the country’s top producer of crawfish – a staple in Gulf Coast cuisine such as crawfish étouffée,

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A chance discovery made in southern France has revealed a rare specimen — an almost complete dinosaur skeleton found connected from its hind skull to its tail. The massive fossil came to light in May 2022, after now 25-year-old amateur paleontologist Damien Boschetto and his dog stumbled across something

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break the record held by a forest in New York state by 4 million years, reads a press release from the University of

By Caitlin Hu, Tara John, Paul P Murphy and Abel Alvarado, CNN Caitlin Hu, Tara John and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — Intruders broke into a major port terminal in Haiti Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency. The Haitian government decreed the state of emergency would be extended to

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Facts The organization’s charter states that the signing parties will “seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area,” and will “unite their efforts for collective defense and for the preservation of peace and

By Christian Edwards, Radina Gigova, Jennifer Hansler and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Sweden officially joined NATO on Thursday after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spurred it to rethink its defense policy and abandon its long held position of neutrality. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson formally handed over accession documents to the US State Department in

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last month was the planet’s hottest February on record, marking the ninth month in a row that global records tumbled, according to new data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service. February was 1.77 degrees Celsius warmer than the average February in pre-industrial times, Copernicus found, and

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Are K-pop stars allowed to love? The answer is still a resounding “no” in some quarters – with K-pop singer Karina from the group Aespa posting a handwritten apology online after her reported relationship drew outcry from many of her more fervent followers.

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China’s top diplomat hit out at Washington’s “bewildering” trade policy during a news conference Thursday on the sidelines of a political gathering in Beijing, where Chinese leaders have been championing high-tech development in the face of mounting curbs from Washington. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi accused the US of “devising various

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last month was the planet’s hottest February on record, marking the ninth month in a row that global records tumbled, according to new data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service. February was 1.77 degrees Celsius warmer than the average February in pre-industrial times, Copernicus found, and it

By Mitchell McCluskey and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country’s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. “The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,”

By Richard Roth, Eve Brennan and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned. Nine in 10 people across the country face “emergency levels of hunger” and are