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By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Tareq Al Hilou, CNN Khan Younis, Gaza (CNN) — Tamer Abu Assi was preparing breakfast for his two young boys Saturday morning when he realized he had run out of firewood. Fadi, 8, and Jumaa, 10, went out to fetch some, as their father is paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. They never

By Caitlin Danaher, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly a prince and the Duke of York, will be denied a six-figure compensation payout for his early eviction from a 30-room mansion on the Windsor estate due to its state of repair, the crown estate has said. In a briefing to the UK’s Public

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo has said he believes the United States needs to find “another way” in handling the situation in Venezuela, warning against any military incursion and saying it would be better to pursue dialogue or apply economic pressure. “It seems there is the possibility that there be some activity,

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Dressed head to toe in army fatigues, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday received the news he had been awaiting for more than a year: Russia had taken over the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. It doesn’t matter that Kyiv disputed the claim, saying on Tuesday that fighting was

By Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday backed her country’s security forces who are accused of killing hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, claiming the protesters intended to overthrow her government. The East African leader alleged without evidence that young people had been paid to take to the streets following October’s

By Kocha Olarn and Ross Adkin, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Wassana Suthi spent last week trying to keep a nursing home running as the floodwaters rose around her in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai, cutting the home off from outside help, bar one helicopter dropping supplies on the roof. Hat Yai city is

By Germán Padinger, Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appears even more isolated this week after losing two regional allies, Honduras and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, at the polls as he confronts Washington’s naval buildup in the Caribbean. In Honduras, preliminary results from Sunday’s elections have made one thing clear: Candidate

By Billy Stockwell, Darya Tarasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Russia claimed on Monday to have captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, in what would be an important victory for its forces if confirmed – though Ukraine dismissed what it said were “loud statements” by Moscow aimed at influencing negotiations on ending the

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian incursions into Lithuania’s airspace constitute a “hybrid attack” by the Lukashenko regime, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday, as the Belarusian representative in Brussels was summoned. “The situation at the border with Belarus is worsening, with the growing incursions of smuggling balloons into Lithuania’s airspace,”

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — What began as Israel’s leader cold-shouldering the mainstream media is becoming a more widespread assault on the country’s freedom of the press. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not granted an interview to Israel’s three main broadcasters in over four years. He’s accused them of “brainwashing,” claimed they assist Israel’s

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately designed to elicit anger in order to increase engagement. And it has become so ubiquitous online that the Oxford

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately designed to elicit anger in order to increase engagement. And it has become so ubiquitous online that the Oxford Dictionary

By Chris Lau, Karina Tsui, Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s leader said he will ensure “justice is served” over the inferno that killed more than 150 people last week, as city officials point the finger of blame at construction companies for allegedly using substandard mesh netting to wrap scaffolding on the

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Four men have been arrested over their alleged involvement in an “international satanic child sex abuse material ring,” according to Australian Police, who say they’re still working to identify the victims. Det. Supt. Jayne Doherty, commander of the New South Wales sex crimes squad, said the four men allegedly

By Alessandra Freitas, Kit Maher, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his first public appearance in days on Sunday, putting to an end speculation within the country that he had fled amid escalating tensions with the US. Maduro, who usually appears on Venezuelan television multiple times a week, had not been

By Christopher Lamb and Billy Stockwell, CNN Beirut (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV touched down in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Sunday with the hope of being a “messenger of peace” as he began a three-day visit to the nation at the heart of a Middle East battered by recent conflicts, just days after an Israeli

By Jennifer Hansler, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Alejandra Jaramillo, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump expressed optimism after a high-level meeting between US officials and a Ukrainian delegation in Miami on Sunday, suggesting there was a “good chance” of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Talks were “going along, and they’re going

By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally requested a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, arguing it was in the “public interest.” In a letter addressed to President Isaac Herzog, Netanyahu wrote that his trial has become “a focal point of fierce controversy” for which he bears “broad

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Heavy rainfall has unleashed widespread flooding and landslides across Asia, killing more than 1,100 people in a week of destruction for the region and creating treacherous search and rescue operations for hundreds more still missing. Millions of people are dealing with intense flooding after cyclone-fueled downpours battered parts of

By Ben Wedeman, CNN (CNN) — The black-clad priest yanked on the white rope. At once the bells began to clang. The evening mass was beginning at the Monastery of Mar Maroun, or Saint Maroun, in the town of Annaya, high in the Lebanese mountains. This monastery overlooking the Mediterranean will be one of the