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By Jessie Yeung, Kristie Lu Stout, Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire Lai,

CNN By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — At least 11 people were killed in a terror attack on Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach. Around 1,000 people had gathered on a grassy area at Archer Park when at least two gunman

By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Sydney residents have laid flowers and lit candles in a massive outpouring of support as the community mourns people who were massacred by two gunmen in a terror attack Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed

By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — In another major expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli cabinet approved on Thursday the legalization and establishment of numerous settler outposts, according to an Israeli source familiar with the matter. The decision authorizes 19 outposts across the West Bank, including two

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Buckingham Palace said Saturday that King Charles III “will be greatly encouraged and deeply touched” by the reaction to his video message detailing his experience with cancer, Britain’s PA Media news agency reported. The British sovereign shared his “good news” that his cancer treatment is set to be

By Kosta Gak, Tim Lister, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Several regions of Ukraine have endured a night of Russian drone and missile attacks targeting energy infrastructure that left more than a million households without power, according to the interior ministry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had used more than 450 drones and 30

By Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Severe weather conditions over the past 72 hours in Gaza have left 14 people dead, including three children, the director general of the Gaza-based Health Ministry Munir Al-Boursh told CNN. Over the past two years, many Palestinians were left with no option but to

By Jim Sciutto, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The US special forces veteran whose rescue team spirited Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela has begged her not to return to the country, after a perilous extraction mission that lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out largely in the middle of the night

CNN By Jim Sciutto, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The US special forces veteran whose rescue team spirited Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela has begged her not to return to the country, after a perilous extraction mission that lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out largely in the middle of the

By Lauren Kent, Pau Mosquera, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Friday that she is focused on an orderly transition of power in her country should President Nicolás Maduro leave power and that she is confident Venezuela’s police and armed forces would not oppose such a transition. Speaking as the US