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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — As the Gaza ceasefire takes hold, aid workers caution that the toughest challenges are yet to come, describing the truce as only the first step on a long road to recovery. For humanitarian workers and aid agencies, the road is expected to be long and arduous

By Issy Ronald and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ailing. Almost as soon as the Kaikyokan

By Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN (CNN) — When Innocent James completed his chores after school, he would light a kerosene lamp and lay down to read his books. There was no electricity in James’ part of Arusha, a region in northern Tanzania, and so his family was forced to burn expensive oil for him to

By Nectar Gan and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has executed a man who killed 35 people by plowing his car into crowds at a sports center in November, in the country’s deadliest known attack against the public in a decade, state media reported Monday. Fan Weiqiu, 62, was executed just over

CNN By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is expected to attend Monday’s

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is expected to attend Monday’s inauguration

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.” The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders by the incoming president, who will

By Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said. Twenty others were injured in the violence that has forced thousands to flee as Colombia’s army scrambled

CNN By Sophie Tanno, Lauren Kent and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Three hostages were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel on Sunday, as a highly anticipated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect. The agreement delivers the first reprieve for the people of Gaza in

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Carrying her small daughter, an Israeli mother stood amid a crowd of people next to the helipad of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, which on Sunday received the three former hostages released in a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas. “How

By Sophie Tanno and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — World leaders have been rushing to get on Donald Trump’s good side since his reelection as US president, arguably none more so than Ukraine. In his annual New Year address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had “no doubt that the new American president is willing