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By Helen Regan, Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Sudden and intense bursts of extreme rainfall are causing devastation across mountainous parts of South Asia, triggering flash floods, deadly mudflows and huge landslides that have washed out entire neighbourhoods and turned vibrant communities into heaps of mud and rubble. In northwest Pakistan, ferocious floods have crashed

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Mexican authorities are investigating the discovery of six severed human heads between the central states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, according to the Tlaxcala Prosecutor’s Office. It said on X that the heads belonged to men, without providing further details about the case. CNN has requested more information and is

By Clarissa Ward, Zeena Saifi, Tamar Michaelis, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Eliya Cohen is a survivor who can’t yet bring himself to live again. He hid under bodies as Hamas militants hurled grenades into a bomb shelter before they took him prisoner. He lived through 505 days of captivity in Gaza, chained and

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen throughout the country, assuring that “no empire will touch the sacred soil of Venezuela,” after the United States doubled the reward for information leading to his arrest and increased the number of troops sailing around Latin

By Associated Press Dakar, Senegal (AP) — On a recent evening in Senegal‘s capital of Dakar, an imam named Ibrahima Diane explained to a group of men why they should be more involved in household chores. “The Prophet himself says a man who does not help support his wife and children is not a good

By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Security guarantees have become a central focus in discussions about a peace deal for Ukraine, with the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky saying at the White House Monday that they are the “key issue, a starting point for ending the war.” Zelensky knows that in the long run, Russia’s superior

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The family of a fugitive father who’s been hiding his three children in the dense New Zealand wilderness for nearly four years has spoken publicly for the first time since they disappeared. Thomas Callam Phillips vanished with his children in December 2021, and despite several sightings, appeals

By Ibrahim Dahman, Dana Karni, Becky Anderson, Tal Shalev, Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, Nic Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Hamas says it has agreed to a new Gaza ceasefire proposal as mediators from Qatar and Egypt push to renew talks ahead of a major Israeli assault on Gaza City. In a statement, Hamas said it had

By Becky Anderson, Mostafa Salem, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Rafah, Egypt (CNN) — The displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is a “red line” and Cairo will not allow any party to risk Egypt’s national security or sovereignty, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Monday. In an exclusive interview with CNN in the northern

By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — As negotiations over a potential deal to end the war in Ukraine intensify, much of the discussion has centered around a part of the country’s east that has long been at the heart of Russia’s goals. The Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk – collectively known as the Donbas

CNN By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — As negotiations over a potential deal to end the war in Ukraine intensify, much of the discussion has centered around a part of the country’s east that has long been at the heart of Russia’s goals. The Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk – collectively known as the