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By Nectar Gan, Tamar Michaelis and Ally Barnard, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of six hostages held by Hamas have been recovered in an underground tunnel in Gaza, Israel’s military said Sunday. The captives, including an Israeli American, were among the more than 200 people taken by the militants into Gaza following their deadly cross-border

By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the most recognizable faces of the heart-wrenching hostage crisis that sparked the Israel-Hamas war, has died at the hands of his captors, according to the Israeli military, bringing a crushing end to a tireless and high-profile international campaign by his parents to secure his release. The

By Alex Stambaugh, Nectar Gan and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military said it has recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive – dealing fresh heartbreak to relatives who fear time is running out for loved ones seized by the militants more than 10

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Malaysian authorities have stopped a nine-day effort to find and rescue a woman who fell into a sinkhole in Kuala Lumpur, officials said Saturday. The operation will now shift into a search and recovery phase, local media reported, citing Zaliha Mustafa, a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in

CNN By Lauren Izso, Raja Razek and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A group representing the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza has called for the public to mobilize after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported finding “a number of bodies” in the war-torn territory. The demands by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum

By Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese and Philippine Coast Guards traded blame over the latest collisions involving their vessels in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday. The Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) said a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) ship had “deliberately collided” with one of its vessels near the disputed Sabina Shoal, according

By Lauren Izso, Raja Razek and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A group representing the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza has called for the public to mobilize after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported finding “a number of bodies” in the war-torn territory. The demands by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum came

By Radina Gigova and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — A day of mourning has been declared in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, following Russian bomb attacks that killed at least eight civilians, including a child in a playground. Six people were killed and at least 97 people were injured, including 24 children, when Moscow struck

By Niamh Kennedy, Ibrahim Dahman and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — The much-anticipated United Nations-led campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza against polio began Sunday. While a first group of babies received polio vaccinations in Gaza on Saturday, the program officially started a day later in Gaza’s “middle areas,” according to the UN’s agency for

By Tim Lister, Eugenia Yosef and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — A bitter dispute about the conditions for a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza erupted between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet on Thursday night, according to multiple reports in Israeli media. The

By Catherine Nicholls and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — The wreckage of a Russian helicopter carrying 22 people that went missing in the country’s Far East on Saturday was discovered Sunday, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry announced. None of those on board survived, emergency services told Russian state media TASS on Sunday. The Mi-8T helicopter had 19

By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman and Tim Lister, CNN Deir Al Balah, Gaza (CNN) — For the first time since the Israeli military began ground operations in Gaza in October, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has sent out messages to people’s phones and on social media saying that the residents of some areas can return to their

By Tara John, Stefano Pozzebon, Mariya Knight and Maija-Liisa Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities say they have detained two Colombian men suspected of fighting for the Ukrainian military – a shocking twist in the weeks-long case of their disappearance since mid-July. The last time Cielo Imbachí heard from her husband was more than 40

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Sarah Boxer and Jim Sciutto, CNN Rosh Pina and Kibbutz Magal, Israel (CNN) — With one year left until graduation, 17-year-old Ziv Zinger hopes to begin the academic year on September 1 like other students across Israel. But that hope remains uncertain for him and others from the country’s Northern District, who

Avery Schmitz, Nyah Peebles, Associated Press (CNN/AP) — Severe floods have killed at least 97 people in Yemen over the past month and deepened food shortages for millions of others already displaced by years of war, according to a United Nations body. Deluges have impacted at least 56,000 homes across the country, according to the

By Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Truck driver Munir Ahmed was motoring along a darkened highway after a long day unloading sacks of rice in Pakistan’s Sindh province late Sunday, when he crossed over into Balochistan. After entering the impoverished province, long seething with ethnic and economic resentments, he was “stopped by armed men wearing

By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli strike on a humanitarian vehicle in Gaza has left four people dead amid confusion over the convoy’s travel plans through the war-torn Palestinian enclave, according to aid organization American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera). The victims were all local Palestinians involved with a transportation company contracted by Anera,

By Mauricio Torres, CNNE (CNN) — Authorities in Argentina have arrested a man on decades-old allegations of involvement in a militant Marxist group responsible for the 1978 kidnapping and death of a former Italian prime minister, according to a government statement. Leonardo Bertulazzi, identified in the statement as an Italian citizen, had been living in

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at violence against UN peacekeeping forces. This is a selected list of incidents from 1990 to present. Facts Since 1948, the United Nations has authorized more than 71 peacekeeping missions around the globe. There are currently 11 peacekeeping operations. Since 1948, at least 4,380 peacekeepers have been

By Kostyantyn Gak, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk on Friday, a day after the Air Force announced one of Ukraine’s top pilots had died when a US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed. Zelensky said the command level of the Air Force needed to