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By Esha Mitra, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — An avalanche that crashed through a camp on Nepal’s Mount Yalung Ri on Monday has killed at least seven people, including five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said. At least 15 people were climbing the 5,630-meter (18,471–foot) mountain when the avalanche struck base camp around

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Less than a week ago, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli military’s top lawyer, tasked with enforcing the rule of law within the nation’s armed forces. Now, she is under arrest as part of a criminal investigation into the leak of a video showing the alleged abuse,

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping is not known for his easy smiles. China’s most powerful Communist leader in decades has built a reputation reinforced by state media during his 12-year rule as a serious and steady hand. But images released by the White House show a different side of Xi

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Max Saltman, CNN San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico (CNN) — The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of flower petals, the scent of smoldering

By David Culver, Joe Merkel and Sean Walker, CNN Black River, Jamaica (CNN) — The air smells of damp earth and drying mud. Smoke from debris fires mixes with a faint tang of fuel from the few generators that still have gas. Every sound carries: the strike of hammers and the scrape of shovels as

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump caused alarm across Nigeria over the weekend when he said he was contemplating military action in Africa’s most populous nation in response to what he claimed was a “mass slaughter” of Christians by Islamist insurgents. The reality on the ground, experts and analysts say, is

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested. Eleven victims were hospitalized in the attack, including one railway worker who is in critical but stable condition,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Four suspects in custody in relation to their alleged involvement in the spectacular heist at the Louvre museum last month are local petty criminals with no association with organized crime, according to investigators. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the quartet, comprising three men and one woman, were living in

By Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she wants to hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – something no Japanese leader has done in more than 20 years. “We have already conveyed to North Korea our desire to hold a summit meeting,”

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The Maldives has become the first country to impose a generational smoking ban – making smoking, buying and selling tobacco illegal for anyone born after January 1, 2007. The ban took effect on Saturday in the South Asian archipelago, “marking a historic milestone in the nation’s efforts to protect

By Masoud Popalzai, Catherine Nicholls and Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Afghanistan, killing at least 27 people and injuring 956 more, according to Dr. Sharafat Zaman Amar, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health. The tremor also damaged one of the country’s most beautiful mosques. Families were jolted

By Billy Stockwell, Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions. “They come to spy, to see where the F-16s are,

Reuters Mexico City (Reuters) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised on Sunday there would be justice for the brazen murder of a local mayor, Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organized crime who had called on the government to do more to protect him and others. Manzo, 40, was shot on Saturday while attending a

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel on Sunday received the bodies of three more deceased hostages held in Gaza. The remains were transferred to Israel via the Red Cross and taken to the country’s national forensics laboratory for identification. US President Donald Trump said the body of an Israeli-American dual national, Omer Neutra,

By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who now hold sway in many parts of the huge Sahelian country. What’s happening now Fuel is running

By Sophie Tanno, Catherine Nicholls, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a British train on Saturday evening that targeted passengers as they traveled through central England on their way to London. The attack left eleven people hospitalized with injuries,

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Motaz Azaiza has witnessed the horrors of war. Now he’s trying to restore his faith in humanity. For 107 days, he was a photojournalist on the front lines of a warzone in his own familiar neighborhoods, documenting the carnage wrought by relentless Israeli airstrikes in such raw and unedited

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — A fire at a general store in northern Mexico has killed at least 23 people, the state governor said Saturday. The blaze happened at an outlet of the Waldo’s chain in the city of Hermosillo, capital of Sonora state, Governor Alfonso Durazo said in an online video address. “So

By Jonny Hallam, Todd Symons, James Legge, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Nine people suffered life-threatening injuries on Saturday night after a stabbing attack on a train in central England that Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as “deeply concerning.” Two people were arrested after the attack, which British Transport Police (BTP) declared “a major incident,”

Associated Press Nairobi, Kenya (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 30 others are missing after a landslide on Saturday in Kenya’s western Rift Valley region, where heavy rains have battered the area for days during the country’s ongoing short rains season. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed by the mudslides in the