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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua suffered bruises in a car crash that resulted in the deaths of two individuals on Monday, according to local police in Ogun State, Nigeria. The incident occurred around 11 a.m. (5 a.m ET) on a busy stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, which

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing demands for a British-Egyptian human rights activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media posts emerged in which he called for “Zionists” to be killed, prompting criticism of successive British governments that campaigned for his release

By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — ISIS militants opened fire on police during an overnight raid in Turkey’s western Yalova province on Monday, killing three people and injuring eight others, according to authorities. Turkish authorities said six ISIS members were killed and five other people were detained in the operation which lasted more than

By Simone McCarthy, Wayne Chang, Yong Xiong, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — China’s military announced Monday it was mobilizing army, navy, air and rocket units around Taiwan for “major military drills” aimed at sending a “serious warning” against any push for Taiwanese independence and “external” forces interfering with the island. The exercises – dubbed “Justice

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN At least 13 people have died and 98 were injured after a train derailed in Mexico on Sunday, according to the Mexican Navy. There were 250 people on board. The derailment occurred in Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca, on the train’s main line between Veracruz and Salina Cruz. In a statement, the navy

By Mohammed al-Sawalhi, Ibrahim Dahman, Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Fierce rain and bitter cold continued to batter Gaza this weekend, as the number of Palestinians killed by the harsh winter weather continues to rise. Sunday saw two people killed, including a seven-year-old child, when a wall collapsed due to the cold weather, according to

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN Young people in Britain will soon be offered the chance of a “gap year” through a new paid program in the armed forces, the government announced Saturday. Set to launch in March 2026, the Armed Forces Foundation Scheme aims to initially recruit around 150 people to experience military life, without long-term

By Ross Adkin, Ivan Watson, Dan Hodge, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, unleashing a brutal civil war it has yet to

Story by Reuters (Reuters) — Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Saturday to halt weeks of fierce border clashes, the worst fighting in years between the Southeast Asian countries that has included fighter-jet sorties, exchange of rocket fire and artillery barrages. “Both sides agree to maintain current troop deployments without further movement,” their defense ministers said

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and emerging at night to feed. This is the only place in the world you’ll

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion. Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly

By Eyad Kourdi, Kareem El Damanhoury, and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — At least eight people were killed and 18 others injured in an explosion targeting a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, the country’s health ministry said. The state news agency SANA reported that “explosive devices” had been planted in the

By Christian Edwards, Svitlana Vlasova, Laura Sharman, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s huge aerial assault on Kyiv and the surrounding region proved Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “man of war,” ahead of the Ukrainian leader’s scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump in Florida. Standing beside Canadian Prime Minister Mark

By Dana Karni and Tal Shalev (CNN) — Two people were killed when a Palestinian man launched a car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel, police said Friday. The suspect is a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank, according to police, who said he ran over a 68-year-old Israeli pedestrian in the city of Beit

By Reuters (Reuters) — Jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty of abuse of power on Friday in the biggest trial yet in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a ruling that could have significant political repercussions. The judge had yet to deliver the full verdict and sentencing. Malaysia and US investigators say at

By Nimi Princewill, Jessie Yeung, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — After months of warning that the US could take military action to stop violence against Christians in Nigeria, President Donald Trump announced on Christmas Day that he had done just that – delivering a strike on Islamic State terrorists in the country’s northwest. US Africa

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them pronouns in English, had no easy answer because Chinese pronouns are largely split into two when referring

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Two men are missing after a group of people who went on a Christmas Day swim at a beach in southwestern England faced rough waters, police said on Thursday. Authorities were called at 10:25 a.m. to the beach at Budleigh Salterton due to a group encountering difficult water conditions,