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By Lucas Lilieholm, Chris Lau and Jerome Taylor, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s leader responded on Tuesday after three people were charged by British police for allegedly spying on behalf of the city’s intelligence services. On Monday, three men appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ court in London charged with national security offenses, including assisting the Hong

CNN By Abeer Salman, Richard Roth, Jeremy Diamond and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations on Monday clarified that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza remains unchanged, at more than 35,000, since the war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7. The

CNN By Abeer Salman, Richard Roth, Jeremy Diamond and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations on Monday clarified that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza remains unchanged, at more than 35,000, since the war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7. The

By Kylie Atwood, Jack Forrest and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russian forces make significant gains on the battlefield in Ukraine. Blinken’s visit was the first by a Biden administration official since the long-delayed passage

By Jessie Yeung, Priti Gupta and Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Photographs by Noemi Cassanelli, CNN Mumbai, India (CNN) — Chanu Gupta has lived in India’s financial capital Mumbai nearly his whole life, since arriving as a child from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. But when polls open in the city, the 59-year-old street vendor won’t

By Mindy Weisberger (CNN) — Scientists have accomplished a whale of a feat. They’ve identified previously unknown complexity in whale communication by analyzing thousands of recorded sequences of sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence. Variations in tempo, rhythm and length of the whales’ click sequences, called codas, weave a rich acoustic tapestry. These variables hint

By Abeer Salman, Richard Roth, Jeremy Diamond and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations on Monday clarified that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza remains unchanged, at more than 35,000, since the war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7. The clarification

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof says he has fled his home country to an undisclosed location in Europe after a court in Iran sentenced him to prison on national security charges. Rasoulof condemned the Iranian government in an Instagram post on Monday, calling it a tyrannical and oppressive regime,

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — On the rare days that the hills surrounding Port-au-Prince fall silent, people notice. “If you can’t hear shooting somewhere, the gangs are probably running low on ammunition,” a police source in the Haitian capital told CNN. “But when there’s a lot of shooting,

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military has renewed its fighting in northern Gaza where it previously claimed to have dismantled Hamas’ command structure. But it now says the Palestinian militant group is trying to “reassemble” in the area, raising doubts about whether Israel’s goal to eradicate the group in the enclave is

By Joshua Berlinger and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s parliament passed a highly controversial “foreign agents” bill that has triggered widespread protests across the former Soviet republic nestled in the Caucasus Mountains. Tens of thousands of people in capital city Tbilisi have been protesting the legislation. Critics warn that it mirrors a foreign agents

CNN By Joshua Berlinger and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s parliament is set to pass a highly controversial so-called “foreign agents” bill that has triggered widespread protests across the former Soviet republic nestled in the Caucasus Mountains. Tens of thousands of people in capital city Tbilisi have been protesting the legislation. Critics warn that