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By Max Foster and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles opened up about his cancer diagnosis on Wednesday, saying it can be a “daunting” and “at times frightening” experience for those living with the illness. In a message shared at a reception in Buckingham Palace for cancer support charities, Charles said despite the

By Hilary Whiteman and Angus Watson, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The man vying to become Australia’s next prime minister has spent weeks trying to distance himself from comparisons to US President Donald Trump. “I’m my own person,” opposition Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton insisted, when asked for his thoughts on “Temu Trump,” the label

By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — The world’s smallest elephants are still big. Measuring around nine feet (2.7 meters) tall, Bornean elephants are the smallest subspecies of the Asian elephant, and are two feet (60 centimeters) shorter than their African counterparts. Found only on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Since 2003, worldwide concern over Iran’s nuclear program has increased as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spar over investigation and details of Iran’s program. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has repeatedly denied Iran is building a bomb and says weapons

By Dana Karni and Lauren Izso, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Wildfires raging near Jerusalem forced evacuations in several areas and led to several major road closures on Wednesday, as firefighters struggle to contain the flames amid dry conditions and high winds. Israel is seeking international assistance to fight the fires, as the defense minister says

By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — The body of a young Ukrainian woman who died in Russian captivity after being held incommunicado for months was returned to Ukraine showing signs of torture, Ukrainian prosecutors have said. Kyiv said the remains of journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who went missing during a reporting

By Victoria Butenko, Kit Maher, Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The United States and Ukraine have signed an “economic partnership agreement” that will give Washington access to Kyiv’s mineral resources in exchange for establishing an investment fund in Ukraine. The US and Ukraine have been trying to hammer out the

By Jeremy Diamond and Abeer Salman, Tareq Al Hilou and Mohammad Al Sawalhi CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Sitting inside her fly-infested tent in Gaza City, Iman Rajab sifts clumps of flour through a sieve, over and over again. She found the half-bag of flour in a garbage dumpster. It is crawling with pests and shows

By Jessie Yeung and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Lawyers for an Australian woman accused of fatally poisoning three family members with deadly mushrooms have told the jury their deaths were a “terrible accident.” Erin Patterson is standing trial for the 2023 deaths of her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson and Gail’s

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The world is arming itself at the fastest rate since near the end of the Cold War, according to a new report, as major wars rage in Ukraine and Gaza and military tensions spike from Europe to Asia. The 9.4% year-on-year rise to $2.718 trillion in

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s military launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Tuesday with US forces, its defense ministry said – the first public acknowledgment of a joint operation since the Trump administration escalated the US campaign against the militant group. The strikes targeted “a cluster of buildings” south of the

By Rhea Mogul and Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday to have “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days. The claim came as both the United States and China

By Kareem Khadder and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian medic who was detained during a deadly Israeli military attack on an emergency convoy last month was released on Tuesday, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). Assad Al-Nsasrah went missing after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked a convoy of emergency vehicles

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at genocide, the attempted or intentional destruction of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group, whether in wartime or peace. Facts The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations after World War II. Article II of the

By Henrik Pettersson, Catherine Nicholls and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Swedish police have detained a 16-year-old suspected of shooting and killing three people in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday. The individual is one of several being interrogated over the fatal attack, Sweden’s prosecution said Wednesday, according to Reuters. The three victims were aged

By Dana Karni, Jeremy Diamond and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara has been overheard on a microphone saying that “fewer” than 24 hostages are still alive in Gaza, outraging hostages’ families who demanded to know what the government knows about the fate of their loved ones. “We have

By Robert Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Electricity is pulsing through Spain and Portugal again after a massive outage knocked out power in both countries on Monday. So too are questions. It remains unclear what caused the sudden and staggering blackout, which plunged tens of millions of people into darkness and paralyzed life on the Iberian

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Luis Ibáñez Jiménez was driving on a highway in east Madrid when Spain lost power. “Suddenly, there were no traffic lights,” the resident of the capital told CNN. Cars piled up, and nobody had right of way. “I was stopping so that people could pass… I saw a massive

By Kareem Khadder and Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli forces detained prominent Palestinian journalist Ali Samoudi in an early morning raid on his son’s home in the occupied West Bank. The raid occurred in the city of Jenin, where Samoudi’s son told CNN the Israeli military came in at 5 a.m. and took

By Christopher Lamb and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Rome (CNN) — A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican said Tuesday he will not take part in the secret conclave to elect the new pope. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican, was ordered by Pope Francis in