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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Large swaths of Ghana are facing power blackouts due to gas shortages at a major power facility, the nation’s power operator said, compounding the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. “Limited gas supply” at a power installation in Tema, located east of the Ghanian capital, Accra, has led to

By CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico near the popular resort town of Acapulco on October 25, devastating the coastal community. The category 5 hurricane, the strongest storm on record to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast, devastated the tourist destination and home to 800,000 residents. At least 46 people are dead

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A partial lunar eclipse will take over the night sky on Saturday for a dazzling show that will allow sky-gazers to see part of Earth’s shadow reflected on the moon. For those in the eclipse path — which spans all of Europe, Africa, most of Asia and western Australia, according

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — A day after Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its brutal attack on Israel, a curious video emerged out of Tehran’s Azadi stadium. Hundreds of soccer fans, gathered to watch a match between Perspolis FC and Gol Gohar Sirjan FC, chanted in unison: “Shove the Palestinian flag

By Becky Anderson and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — There has been “significant progress” on negotiations to release hostages held by Hamas but there are issues still remaining, diplomatic sources familiar with the negotiations told CNN. “Negotiations are going very well. We have a breakthrough,” the source said. “There are issues still remaining, but talks

By Eyad Kourdi, Hamdi Alkhshal, Jomana Karadsheh and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza has published a report listing the names of more than 6,000 “documented deaths” in Gaza since the October 7 terror attacks on Israel, after US President Joe Biden questioned the reliability of Palestinian casualty figures. The

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A mother’s love does have limits, it seems. At least for a 75-year-old woman in the northern Italian city of Pavia who won a court order after suing to have her sons, aged 40 and 42, removed from her house, a court clerk in Pavia told CNN Friday. The

By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN (CNN) — Earlier this week, Ethiopian Gebisa Ejeta joined an elite group of scientists when he was honored by US President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House. Ejeta, along with eight others, was awarded the National Medal of Science on Tuesday, the highest scientific honor in the nation.

By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — When King Charles III visits Kenya next week, he’ll do something no other member of his family has done in the country. That’s because, in addition to the usual fare of state banquets and such, he’s planning on acknowledging the “more painful aspects” of

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is

By Vedika Sud, Akanksha Sharma, Aishwarya S Iyer, and Kathleen Magramo, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Qatar has sentenced eight Indian nationals to death, India’s government said, following their reported detention in Doha last year on espionage charges. In a statement Thursday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said it was “deeply shocked” by the verdict

By Chris Lau, Gawon Bae and Nam-kyung Yang, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court has upheld a law banning same-sex relations in the military, citing a threat to combat-readiness, in a judgment decried by the local LGBTQ community as a disappointing setback. In a 5-4 ruling on Thursday, the court refused

CNN By Helen Regan, Christian Edwards, Eyad Kourdi and James Frater, CNN (CNN) — A large series of explosions rocked Gaza City Friday night (local time) as multiple residents in the enclave told CNN that airstrikes were the most intense they had experienced in weeks. Jawwal, the Palestinian telecom company that provides mobile service to