By Abbas Al Lawati, Eoin McSweeney and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel and Hamas are at war, after the Palestinian militant group launched surprise cross-border raids from Gaza on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people and taking hostages. In response, Israel has been pounding the territory, strikes which Palestinian authorities say have killed
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Climate change-fueled wildfires are costing the US economy between $394 billion to $893 billion annually, a new congressional report suggests – a shocking figure that is more than double what previous government reports have estimated. The new report from the Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich
Continue Reading CNN, WBBM By Holly Yan, Brad Parks, Lauren Mascarenhas and Virginia Langmaid, CNN Joliet, Illinois (CNN) — Loved ones and strangers united in grief Monday at the funeral of a 6-year-old Chicago-area boy who was killed because he was Muslim, officials say. Wadea Al Fayoume was stabbed 26 times Saturday by his family’s landlord in
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Wrapped in a blanket inside a makeshift tent, Ahmed Arafat tries to stay calm as the sounds of Israeli military drones echo through the night sky. The red and white blanket was one of the few items Arafat, a 26-year-old Palestinian-American living in Gaza, was able to take with
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Brad Parks, Lauren Mascarenhas and Virginia Langmaid, CNN Joliet, Illinois (CNN) — Loved ones and strangers united in grief Monday at the funeral of a 6-year-old Chicago-area boy who was killed because he was Muslim, officials say. Wadea Al Fayoume was stabbed 26 times Saturday by his family’s landlord in Plainfield Township,
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing on Tuesday for the start of a visit expected to underscore the two leaders’ shared vision for a new international order no longer dominated by the United States and its democratic allies. The meeting between the world’s
Continue Reading WBBM, WILL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CAIR, CNN By Chris Boyette, Keith Allen, Lauren Mascarenhas and Virginia Langmaid, CNN Joliet, Illinois (CNN) — A funeral and burial will be held Monday for the 6-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed when his Chicago-area landlord allegedly attacked him and his mother because the family is Muslim. Family members
Continue Reading CNN By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t love at first sight when Aditi Anand met Susan Dias at a book club in Mumbai. “We didn’t get along with each other at all,” Anand, a filmmaker, said with a smile as she recalled the encounter. “We were always antagonistic toward each other’s views on
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t love at first sight when Aditi Anand met Susan Dias at a book club in Mumbai. “We didn’t get along with each other at all,” Anand, a filmmaker, said with a smile as she recalled the encounter. “We were always antagonistic toward each other’s views on the
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Kareem El Damanhoury, Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman and Samantha Delouya, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Gaza is being “strangled” by Israel’s week-long siege and aerial bombardment, UN experts have warned, as concerns grow that further escalation and a lack of safety for fleeing civilians risks drawing regional foes into the long-running
Continue Reading By Ivana Kottasová, Abeer Salman, Wisam Jafari, Jeremy Diamond and Matthias Somm, CNN West Bank (CNN) — The men in the wedding hall at the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank spend most of their days and nights glued to their phones, smoking, constantly refreshing their news feeds. They look exhausted, the horrors of
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A portion of Colorado’s Interstate 25 has been shut down in both directions after a coal train derailed off a bridge and onto the roadway Sunday afternoon, killing a semi-truck driver, state authorities said. Crews are working to clear toppled train cars and spilled coal at
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Buffalo Bills running back Damien Harris was transported off the field in an ambulance after sustaining a neck injury during the team’s home game against the New York Giants on Sunday night. “Damien Harris (neck) is out for the game,” the Bills said in
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is gathering world leaders in Beijing this week for a high profile forum with a clear set of goals: laud China’s role backing economic development over the past decade and project its expanding ambitions as an alternative global leader to the United States. That
Continue Reading CNN By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from Egypt and launch attacks into Israel. But there exists a second underground network that the Israel Defense Forces colloquially refer to as the “Gaza metro.” It’s a vast labyrinth of tunnels, by some
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Keith Allen, CNN (CNN) — A Chicago-area landlord was arrested and charged with murder and hate crimes after authorities said he stabbed and killed a 6-year-old boy and seriously wounded his mother, allegedly because the tenants are Muslim. Joseph M. Czuba, 71, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two
Continue Reading By Tara John and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Center-right candidate Daniel Noboa, the 35-year-old son of a banana tycoon, will become Ecuador’s next president, following an election driven by concerns over rising violence and a worsening security situation in the Latin American nation. More than 10 million people have voted in the presidential election,
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Israel is gearing up for the next stage of its war on Hamas, following the Palestinian militant group’s brutal October 7 attacks that killed 1,400 people. Following a week of unprecedented airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which have killed more than 5,000 people according to Palestinian health authorities, Israel
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from Egypt and launch attacks into Israel. But there exists a second underground network that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) colloquially refer to as the “Gaza metro.” It’s a vast labyrinth of tunnels, by some
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s populist ruling party appeared to be on the brink of losing power, after an exit poll in a bitter and high-stakes national election predicted that the country’s opposition has the clearest path to forming its next government. The poll projected that the Law and Justice party, known by
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