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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Summer Olympics, which are typically held every four years. The 2024 Olympic Games were held July 26-August 11 in Paris. The 2028 Olympic Games will be held in Los Angeles, marking the first time since 1996 the competition is taking place in the United

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A new photo of Prince George has been released by Kensington Palace to mark the young royal’s 12th birthday. In his final birthday before hitting his teens, George – who is second in line to the British throne – can be seen looking happy and relaxed in the new

By Helen Regan and Salman Saeed, CNN Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) — Hundreds of students gathered outside the smoldering remains of a school in the Bangladeshi capital on Tuesday to demand answers after a military jet slammed into the campus, killing dozens of children. An ordinary school day turned into terror on Monday when a Bangladesh

By Eyad Kourdi, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Nadeen Ebrahim, Jennifer Hansler, Sarah Dewberry and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed in an execution-style attack during the sectarian violence that flared in Syria last week. Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian-American, was identified by

By Michael Rios, Ivonne Valdés and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela says it is opening a formal investigation into several Salvadoran officials, including President Nayib Bukele, over the alleged abuse of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US. Some 252 Venezuelans, who had been imprisoned at the notorious Cecot prison in March following their deportation,

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Two Italian nationals living in the United States are among the inmates currently being held at the ICE detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, according to Italy’s foreign ministry. Fernando Eduardo Artese, 63, and Gaetano Cateno Mirabella Costa, 45, were both sent to the facility,

By Eugenia Yosef, Mohammad al Sawalhi, Tim Lister and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Israeli tanks on Monday rolled into a part of central Gaza that has not previously seen ground operations in the 21-month war, according to Israeli media, aid agencies and witnesses. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declined to comment on its operations.

By Kunal Sehgal and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a college in the capital Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 27 people, mostly children, according to officials, in the country’s deadliest air incident in recent memory. The crash at Milestone School and College campus, in the Diabari

By Sophia Saifi, Asim Khan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Pakistani police have made multiple arrests after a couple were allegedly murdered in broad daylight on the orders of a tribal elder for having an “illicit” relationship, in the latest so-called “honor killing” in the country. The killings last month in the southwestern Balochistan

By Laura Sharman, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — New waves of deadly Russian missiles pounded Ukraine overnight Sunday while long range drone attacks by Kyiv sparked travel chaos at Moscow’s airports. Residents of Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities faced another sleepless night on Sunday as Russia launched 450 missiles

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.” Now Japan’s burgeoning right-wing populist party Sanseito has emerged an unlikely winner in parliamentary elections this weekend. Inspired by other

CNN By Ibrahim Dahman, Tim Lister, Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday. She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was

By Ana María Cañizares and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin has been extradited to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a prison escape that sparked a wave of violence across the country. Jose Adolfo Macias, better known as “Fito,” was transferred Sunday from a maximum-security prison

By Fred He and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN (CNN) — “I want to eat” popped up in Chinese characters on a computer at a public hospital in central Beijing. The words were formed from the thoughts of a 67-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, who is unable to

CNN By Fred He and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN (CNN) — “I want to eat” popped up in Chinese characters on a computer at a public hospital in central Beijing. The words were formed from the thoughts of a 67-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, who is unable

By Ibrahim Dahman, Tim Lister, Abeer Salman, Eyad Kourdi and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday. She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid

By Lauren Kent and Elinda Labropoulou, CNN (CNN) — On the morning of July 4, an American marketing professor was walking towards his ex-wife’s house in Athens to pick up their two young children. It should have been an unremarkable, if strained visit – the couple had apparently been disputing the terms of custody arrangements.

By Ibrahim Dahman and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least 73 people were killed and around 150 people injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza while seeking aid on Sunday, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Some 67 people were killed in northern Gaza, the ministry said, while six others were killed in Khan Younis

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A boy survived the sinking of a tourist boat in Vietnam which killed dozens of people by sheltering in an air pocket of the overturned vessel, it has emerged. The 10-year-old had been traveling with his family in Vietnam’s famed Ha Long Bay when the vessel they were sailing