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By Caroline Baum, CNN Paris (CNN) — French police rescued the father of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur from his kidnappers Saturday night, but found he’d had one of his fingers severed – the latest in a spate of abductions tied to cryptocurrency. The victim, who has not been publicly identified, was forced into a van by

By Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann and Tareq Al Hilou, CNN (CNN) — Hamas has executed six Palestinians in Gaza and shot 13 others in the legs for alleged looting, the militant group said in a statement, as desperation grows under a complete Israeli blockade that has now entered its third month.

By Max Saltman and Gustavo Valdes, CNN (CNN) — It’s Saturday night at a rooftop bar in downtown Atlanta, and the band Orden Activa is about to launch into a Mexican ballad. What seemed like a shy and reserved audience suddenly transforms as the opening chords of the trotting polka begin. The crowd rises to

By Sophie Tanno, Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman Catholic community just days before the conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor is due to begin. Trump, who days prior joked that he

By Kosta Gak and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has claimed it shot down a Russian Su-30 fighter jet in the Black Sea using a seaborne drone for the first time. “This is the first time in the world that a combat aircraft has been destroyed by a marine drone,” the Defense Intelligence of

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with centuries of Catholic history and dissected for its many layers of meaning. Changing his name is one of the first actions the new pope takes as head

By Tamar Michaelis and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A failed interception of a missile fired from Yemen forced Israel to briefly shut down its main international airport on Sunday, exposing the country’s vulnerabilities and the Houthi rebels’ continued ability to strike distant targets despite a sustained US military campaign. Flights were halted at

By Lex Harvey, Hilary Whiteman and Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Australians delivered a surprise election result on Saturday; not because of who won but by the scale of the victory. It marks a strong recovery for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his center-left Labor party, which had been slumping in the polls earlier this

By Christopher Ulloa and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — A sea of people filled Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach on Saturday as pop superstar Lady Gaga played a colossal free concert in the Brazilian city, with more than two million fans said to have attended. Guests started queuing from early Saturday morning to secure a

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A four-year-old girl and a man have been killed after a driver crashed an SUV into the entrance of Manila International Airport on Sunday, the Philippine Red Cross said. The driver crashed the car through the outer railing and onto a walkway where people were standing outside the departure

By Todd Symons and James Legge, CNN (CNN) — British counter-terrorism police have arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, on suspicion of planning a terrorist act, a statement from London’s Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. The investigation relates to a suspected plot to target a specific location, according to the statement, which added that