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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil. Personal Birth date: October 27, 1945 Birth place: Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil Father: Aristedes Inacio da Silva, agriculture worker Mother: Euridice Ferreira de Mello, seamstress Marriages: Rosangela Silva (May 18, 2022-present); Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva

By Jeremy Diamond, Dana Karni, Pauline Lockwood and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed by Israel to be chief architect of the militant group’s deadly October 7, 2023, terror attack that set off the war in Gaza, had been killed in battle. The Israel

CNN By Jeremy Diamond, Dana Karni, Pauline Lockwood and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed by Israel to be chief architect of the militant group’s deadly October 7, 2023, terror attack that set off the war in Gaza, had been killed in battle. The

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — For the past decade, China has consistently ranked last in the world for internet freedom due to its all-pervading online surveillance and content control system dubbed the “Great Firewall.” But a new report out Wednesday shows that internet freedoms in China’s neighbor Myanmar are now just as lacking. The

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of Iran. Personal Birth date: October 28, 1956 Birth place: Aradan, Iran Birth name: Mahmoud Saborjhian Father: Ahmad Saborjhian, a blacksmith. Ahmadinejad’s father changed the family name from Saborjhian to Ahmadinejad after the family moved to Tehran. Mother:

By Reuters Rome (Reuters) — Italy’s parliament made it illegal on Wednesday for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy — a pet project of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party which activists say is meant to target same-sex partners. Since taking office in 2022, Meloni has pursued a highly conservative social agenda,

By Kareem Khadder, Sana Noor Haq and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Bodies strewn across dusty streets, entire roads destroyed by Israeli strikes, people starving. This is the picture painted of Jabalya, northern Gaza, by the emergency services chief in the area. “You can see the signs of hunger on the people in northern Gaza,”

By Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — The United States has warned Israel it may stop supplying the country with weapons unless the humanitarian situation in Gaza improves. This is not the first time Israel’s major ally has threatened to turn off supplies. In May, US President Joe Biden said he would halt some shipments of

By Lauren Kent, Kostya Gak and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented his long-anticipated “Victory Plan” to Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday, after failing to drum up additional, tangible support last week during meetings with European allies. The plan, which consists of five points and three additional “secret” points shared only with

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — The first 16 migrants rescued at sea while trying to reach Europe by way of Italy arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday aboard an Italian navy vessel, marking an extraordinary change in the handling of Mediterranean migration. The men – 10 Bangladeshi nationals and

By Jomana Karadsheh, Muhammad Darwish and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — In one of Gaza’s last standing hospitals, Tamara Al-Maarouf’s eyes well up with tears as she stands helplessly by her baby boy’s hospital bed. A tumor, now removed, has been compressing the 4-month-old’s tiny heart and he desperately needs treatment abroad. Meanwhile, 84-year-old Oded

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153, with another 100 people injured, police told CNN Thursday. The blast, which happened late evening local time on Tuesday in Majiya, a village in Jigawa state, came after the vehicle

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese and Russian defense officials vowed to strengthen their cooperation during meetings in Beijing this week – in the latest sign of deepening alignment between the neighbors that’s been closely watched by the US and its allies. The two countries have “common views, a common assessment of

By Helen Regan, Lex Harvey, Manveena Suri and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — Twin bomb threats hit Indian airliners on opposite sides of the globe on Tuesday, forcing an emergency landing in the Arctic and fighter jets to scramble in Asia – the latest in a series of similar hoax scares for the country’s airlines.

By Lauren Kent and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A Russian man has been rescued after 67 days adrift on a small boat in the bitterly cold Sea of Okhotsk, Russian authorities said Tuesday. The man’s brother and his teenage son died in the ordeal, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti, who named the

CNN By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea blew up parts of two major roads connected to the southern part of the peninsula on Tuesday, South Korean authorities said, after Pyongyang warned it would take steps to completely cut off its territory from the South. Parts

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea blew up parts of two major roads connected to the southern part of the peninsula on Tuesday, South Korean authorities said, after Pyongyang warned it would take steps to completely cut off its territory from the South. Parts of

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — She appeared to be a beautiful woman and in the minds of men across Asia, the video calls they spoke on confirmed their newfound love was real. But Hong Kong police say the men had fallen prey to a romance scam that used deepfake artificial intelligence to lure

By Wayne Chang and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — China flew a record number of fighter jets and other warplanes around Taiwan during its large-scale military drills on Monday, the island’s Defense Ministry said. The one-day military exercises, which involved Chinese fighter jets, drones, warships and Coast Guard vessels simulating a blockade of the self-governing

CNN By Hanna Ziady and Anderson Cooper, CNN (CNN) — The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American murdered by Hamas militants in Gaza in August, have told CNN about the “crushing blow” of losing their son and say they fear that other families will receive the same “devastating news” unless world leaders take urgent action