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CNN By Nectar Gan, Hassan Tayir, Fred He, Joyce Jiang and Esha Mitra, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of northern India. The 7.1-magnitude

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — Lake Naivasha, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya is becoming increasingly unnavigable. Water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread invasive species, is blanketing the lake, choking its fish and leaving people stranded. “Sometimes it becomes very serious,” says Simon Macharia, a local fisherman, about the weed problem. “There was this incident where

By Mounira Elsamra, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday marks 100 days since 68-year-old Laila Soueif started a hunger strike in a plea to the UK government to free her son from imprisonment in Egypt, according to her family. Alaa Abd El-Fattah was a leading activist in the country’s 2011 uprising. He has been imprisoned for much

By Jay Ganglani and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Azerbaijan’s leader has accused Moscow of carrying out a “cover up” over a passenger jet crash last month that claimed 38 lives, as relations sour between the two neighbors. While meeting on Monday with the two surviving flight attendants and families of other crew

By Kocha Olarn and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — A Spanish woman was gored to death by an elephant while bathing the animal at a sanctuary in southern Thailand on Friday, according to local police. Blanca Ojanguren Garcia, 22, and her boyfriend were giving a bath to an elephant at Koh Yao Elephant Care center

By Nectar Gan, Hassan Tayir, Fred He, Joyce Jiang and Esha Mitra, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of northern India. The 7.1-magnitude quake

CTV-NETWORK, CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The US housing market is showing signs of a slight cooling, but prospective homebuyers in the Northeast and Midwest may be disappointed by the ongoing competition for affordable homes this year. A new report predicts Buffalo, New York, will be the hottest housing market in 2025 as

By CNN’s Michael Rios and Marlon Sorto, Jose Alvarez and Gerardo Lemos, CNN en Español (CNN) — Venezuela’s exiled opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia has urged the Venezuelan military to recognize him as their commander-in-chief and “put an end to the leadership” of President Nicolás Maduro, whose government is resisting calls to give up power.

By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland on Tuesday, just weeks after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, ruffled feathers by reiterating his desire to obtain control over the autonomous Danish territory. “Greenland coming in hot… well, actually, really really cold!!!!” the president-elect’s eldest son posted on X on Tuesday,

By Max Saltman, Mike Schwartz and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Multiple Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians have been reported in parts of the occupied West Bank after gunmen killed three Israelis and injured eight others earlier on Monday in the latest explosion of violence there. While tensions have been rising in the West Bank

By Duarte Mendonca, João Scavacin, and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — An arrest has been made in the case of a family in Brazil who were poisoned on Christmas Eve after eating a cake containing arsenic. Three people died and three others were hospitalized after the incident, which occurred in the city of Torres, in

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The closure of a marine zoo in the south of France has sparked intense debate over the future of its inhabitants, including two beloved orcas. Marineland Antibes, near Cannes, closed for good on Sunday, with management citing legislation banning shows featuring cetaceans such as dolphins and whales, which the

CNN By Paula Newton, Hanna Park, Christian Edwards and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, saying he intends to step down from the top job and as the leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party once a new party leader is chosen. “I intend to resign as party