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By Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — A large fire has broken out at the site of one of Britain’s biggest defense companies. Emergency officials said early Wednesday that fire crews and police were responding to the blaze in the vicinity of BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, northwest England. BAE Systems is one of the largest defense

By Kathleen Magramo and Eric Cheung, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Taiwan are warning residents along its eastern coast to brace for the impacts Super Typhoon Kong-rey, which has rapidly intensified as it barrels towards the island after bashing the Philippines. Kong-rey, moving northwest over the Philippine Sea, reached super-typhoon strength on Wednesday, according to

By Betiana Fernández Martino, CNN en Español (CNN) — Montecarlo is a small city in the province of Misiones, Argentina, with just under 20,000 inhabitants. Those who walk through its neighborhoods can find cobblestone streets, but most of the roads are made of dirt. Anyone who wants to travel from this town to Posadas, the

By Taylor Ward, CNN and Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español (CNN) — Several bodies have been found after parts of southern and eastern Spain were hit by severe flash flooding on Tuesday, with some locations receiving up to 12 inches of rain in just a few hours. Footage from the city of Valencia showed mud-colored

By Abeer Salman and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The photo shows a large crowd of more than 200 people, crouching low amid the rubble of Jabalya in northern Gaza. Mostly men, many are almost naked, some are elderly, some visibly wounded. There’s at least one child among them. They were detained and most ordered to strip

By Lauren Kent and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The teenager charged with the murder of three young girls in a July stabbing attack at a dance class in northwest England will face a terrorism charge, British prosecutors announced Tuesday. The suspect Axel Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack but

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The group’s Senior Council elected Qassem as secretary-general, Hezbollah’s media office said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that Qassem is committed to prophet “Mohammed’s authentic

By Joaquin Caballero, CNN en Español (CNN) — A man has died and up to nine other people are missing after a 10-story hotel collapsed in Argentina. The 10-story Dubrovnik hotel in the city of Villa Gessell, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) from the capital Buenos Aires on the Atlantic coast, collapsed early on Tuesday

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Kosta Gak and Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday it had taken the Ukrainian town of Selydove, southeast of the key city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Russian forces have been advancing on Selydove in the last several weeks, according to frontline reports. It’s

By Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ commission for child protection said Tuesday, raising concerns about a “lack of transparency” in the Vatican’s handling of cases. In its first annual report, the Pontifical Commission

By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korean soldiers may be being readied for a move to the front lines of Russia’s war against Ukraine after being taught basic Russian commands, South Korean lawmakers told reporters on Tuesday, citing the country’s intelligence officials. About 10,000 North Korean soldiers are receiving military training

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A year after Shanghai’s boisterous Halloween celebrations made global headlines, revelers dressed as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and comic book superheroes were escorted away by police as authorities appeared to crack down on the festivities. Videos on social media showed a heavy police presence in three

By Benjamin Brown and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — A German-Iranian national and longtime US resident has been executed in Iran after being convicted of terrorism offences, according to Iranian state media citing the country’s judiciary-affiliated Mizan news agency. Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, was executed Monday morning for “planning and orchestrating a series of terrorist acts,” state-run IRNA

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Salma Arafa, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a United Nations agency that has provided essential services for Palestinian refugees for nearly eight decades, a move that could have devastating consequences for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. On Monday, the Knesset passed two bills; one barring

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has called on citizens to protest the results of a disputed election in an attempt to save the country’s “European future.” In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Zourabichvili – a pro-Western figure whose powers are largely ceremonial – said the election had been marred

CNN By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has called on citizens to protest the results of a disputed election in an attempt to save the country’s “European future.” In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Zourabichvili – a pro-Western figure whose powers are largely ceremonial – said the election had been

CNN By Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people – a synod – which formally concluded Sunday.

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — British far-right political activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after he admitted to being in contempt of court by repeating false accusations about a Syrian refugee, according to court documents. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted on Monday to breaching UK court rules

By Claudia Otto and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A manhunt is underway in northern Austria after a hunter allegedly fatally shot two people and fled the scene, local police said Monday. Franz Hofer, mayor of Kirchberg ob der Donau, was killed in the village of Altenfelden in Austria’s rural Muhlviertel region, near the border

By Shawn Deng and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Five people, including three children, have been injured in a stabbing attack in Beijing, Chinese police reported Monday. The incident occurred at around 3.20 p.m. local time (3.20 a.m. ET) in the upmarket Haidian district of China’s capital, local police said in a statement. “The suspect,