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By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO), one of Britain’s most prestigious arts institutions, has canceled its planned production of “Tosca” in Israel after a widespread staff backlash. In a recent open letter, 182 members of staff said they “reject” holding current or future performances in Israel because of

By Anna Chernova, Svitlana Vlasova, Catherine Nicholls, Ivana Kottasová, Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes, and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Wednesday there was a “very good prospect” of a summit meeting soon with Russia that could lead to an end to the war in Ukraine. “We had some very good talks

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — American journalist Alec Luhn, who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park, has been found alive, according to the Norwegian Red Cross. Luhn was found near Folgefonna National Park by helicopter crew and has been taken for medical treatment, the organization wrote on X Wednesday. “We are

By Pierre Bairin and Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 2,000 French firefighters are battling to contain a fast-moving blaze that has burnt through an area bigger than Paris and killed an elderly woman. The fire has now burned through 16,000 hectares in the southern Aude region, but authorities say its advance has slowed significantly.

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwanese authorities have detained three current and former employees of the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for allegedly stealing trade secrets, prosecutors said Tuesday. Law enforcement officers questioned several suspects and witnesses late last month. They searched their homes and detained three of

CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Stefano Pozzebon, Video by Lali Houghton, Ladan Anoushfar, and Beatriz Grimalt, CNN. (CNN) — The warnings were impossible to ignore. For over a year, armed groups in northern Colombia had posted flyers touting violent campaigns against members of the LGBTQ community. “All will be military targets. We will not respect

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Stefano Pozzebon, Video by Lali Houghton, Ladan Anoushfar, and Beatriz Grimalt, CNN. (CNN) — The warnings were impossible to ignore. For over a year, armed groups in northern Colombia had posted flyers touting violent campaigns against members of the LGBTQ community. “All will be military targets. We will not respect ages.

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades, experts and survivors are warning. At

By Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — When Paola Clouatre arrived home, her young son Noah glanced at her sideways. He covered his face, turned around, looked back again. “It was as if he couldn’t believe that the person there was me, his mom,” Clouatre says, as she recalls the moment she was reunited with her

By José Álvarez, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal prosecutor in Mexico has been killed in a drive-by shooting that has shocked the nation after video footage of the attack circulated online. The footage shows the prosecutor sitting on a road in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq. Personal Birth date: August 16, 1946 Birth place: Mahabad, Kurdistan, Iran Birth name: Massoud Barzani Father: General Mustafa Barzani, was chief of the military of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad Mother: Hamayil

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Search and rescue volunteers are battling bad weather and heavy rainfall in a search for an American journalist who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park. Alec Luhn, a climate journalist from Wisconsin, is an experienced hiker who has completed a number of solo trips in challenging

By Nimi Princewill, Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Rwanda has reached a deal with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, becoming the third African nation to do so, amid complaints that governments on the continent are being pressured by the White House to receive them. Foreign US deportees, originally

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The Aalborg Zoo wrote in a Facebook post that it is trying to

Story by Reuters Singapore (Reuters) — Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty to one charge of abetting the obstruction of justice on Monday in part of a landmark case that led to the jailing of former transport minister S. Iswaran for obtaining valuable items as a public servant last year. However, both the prosecution

By Julia Vargas Jones, Michael Rios, Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has condemned a Brazilian Supreme Court order for the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the order

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A White South African farm owner and two employees are facing trial over the alleged murder of two Black women who prosecutors say were shot dead for trespassing last August and their bodies fed to pigs – stoking fury in a nation already reeling from racial tensions. The women

By Dana Karni, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli government voted unanimously on Monday to dismiss the country’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in a controversial move that was immediately blocked by a Supreme Court injunction. “The government has just unanimously approved the proposal of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Yariv Levin to