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By Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — Doaa Musallem’s high school grades were so good that she got a congratulatory call from the Palestinian Minister of Education. But for the 18-year-old, the celebration was bittersweet. Like some 56,000 other students from Gaza’s class of 2025, the last two years of her education have been nearly

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega, much like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro today, had become public enemy number one in Washington, amid

By Simone McCarthy, Joyce Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — As US duties on Chinese imports spun higher and higher earlier this year, Derek Wang braced for major disruption. With US orders ground to a halt, Wang, 36, who sells intelligent cookware out of southern China’s Guangdong province, looked elsewhere to fill the gap. After finding

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for stealing a signed print of Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon” artwork in a smash-and-grab theft from a London gallery. Larry Fraser, 49, was sentenced to 13 months in prison on Friday for stealing the 2004 print

By Sana Noor Haq, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested in Wales on suspicion of imitating a highly distinguished navy officer at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony has been charged. Jonathan Carley, from the Harlech area of Gwynedd in northern Wales, has been charged with wearing uniform or dress bearing the mark of the

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace has marked King Charles III’s 77th birthday Friday with the release of a new photo of the monarch. The image, taken in May by photographer Millie Pilkington, shows Charles in the gardens of Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, with the sprawling stately home behind him. Other photos, seemingly