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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The Australian woman convicted of killing three lunch guests with the world’s most toxic mushrooms was sentenced to three life sentences with a non-parole period of 33 years on Monday, bookending a real-life crime drama that’s gripped Australia and spawned multiple podcasts and documentaries. Erin Patterson, 50,

By Todd Symons, CNN (CNN) — A fugitive father who had been hiding with his three children in the dense New Zealand wilderness was shot dead in an armed confrontation with police on Monday, leading to his three children being placed in the state care, ending a near four-year search for the family. Thomas Phillips

By Lauren Izso, Nadeen Ebrahim, Oren Liebermann, Jeremy Diamond, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A drone launched from Yemen by Houthi rebels hit the arrivals hall at Ramon Airport in southern Israel on Sunday, the Israeli military and the Israel Airports Authority said. No sirens were sounded, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, adding

By Billy Stockwell and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — A preliminary investigation indicates that a connecting cable broke before Wednesday’s deadly funicular crash in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon that killed at least 16 people and injured several others. A probe conducted by the Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Accidents in Civil Aviation

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — An Italian teenager who liked playing video games and making funny films of his pets became the Catholic Church’s first “millennial” saint on Sunday. Carlo Acutis, who was just 15 when he died from leukaemia in 2006, used his computing skills to spread awareness of the Catholic faith,

By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Todd Symons, Nadeen Ebrahim and Laura Sharman, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time. The attack hit the Cabinet of Ministers building, which

By Reuters (Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis at a shaky moment for the world’s fourth-largest economy. Ishiba, 68, instructed his Liberal Democratic Party – which has governed Japan for almost all of the post-war era –

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A shark hunt is underway off Australia’s east coast after a father was killed in a “freak” attack at a Sydney beach. Mercury Psillakis was mauled by what police said was a large shark at Long Reef Beach on Saturday. The 57-year-old was attacked while surfing about 100 meters

By Associated Press (AP) — Japan’s Prince Hisahito is the first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years. Many people in Japan worry he could be the last. The elaborate palace rituals to formally recognize Hisahito as an adult on Saturday are a reminder of the bleak outlook for the world’s oldest monarchy. Much

By Isa Cardona, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — A Mexican man deported from the US and sent to South Sudan returned to Mexico on Saturday, according to South Sudanese officials. Ambassador Apuk Ayuel Mayen, spokesperson for South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed J. Jesus Muñoz Gutierrez’s “smooth and orderly” departure during a press conference

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — As the Israeli military expands its assault on Gaza City, Israeli demonstrators took to the streets Saturday evening, driven by a new sense of urgency to demand the government halt the operation and prioritize a ceasefire deal. Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) escalated its offensive, striking

By Jennifer Hauser, Betul Tuncer, CNN Unusual footage of a 200-pound bear with an upset stomach being wheeled on a stretcher and scanned through an MRI went viral in Turkey this week. Okan the bear was feeling sick after he ate too much fruit, so he was taken to Istanbul University’s Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Veterinary