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CNN By Zeena Saifi and Clarissa Ward, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Karen and Omri Mamon, dual American-Israeli citizens, traveled to Israel last month to attend the wedding of Omri’s sister. They didn’t know they would end up spending their holiday moving from one house to another, searching for shelter. A week after the

By Zeena Saifi and Clarissa Ward, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Karen and Omri Mamon, dual American-Israeli citizens, traveled to Israel last month to attend the wedding of Omri’s sister. They didn’t know they would end up spending their holiday moving from one house to another, searching for shelter. A week after the wedding,

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — People trying to call friends and loved ones inside Iran have instead been met with strange, pre-recorded voice messages, which some experts believe may be part of the regime’s wider internet blackout. In a recording of a telephone call heard by CNN, a person outside of Iran hoping to

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Pakistan has formally recommended US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his “decisive diplomatic intervention” following a spike in violence between India and Pakistan earlier this year. The government praised Trump for leveraging his “pivotal leadership” in May, when several days of cross-border strikes marked

By Duarte Mendonca and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — At least eight people are dead following an accident involving a hot air balloon in Brazil’s southern region of Santa Catarina on Saturday, according to the local governor. “We are all shocked by the accident involving a balloon in Praia Grande, this Saturday morning. Our rescue

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has said the Catholic Church must establish a culture that refuses to tolerate abuse in “any form,” as he thanked a Peruvian journalist for reporting on allegations of abuse inside a powerful Catholic group. Leo’s remarks, the first he has made publicly on the church’s abuse

CNN By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Joseph Ataman, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Diplomacy with Iran can “easily” be started again if US President Donald Trump orders Israel’s leadership to stop its strikes on Iran, Majid Farahani, an official with the Iranian presidency told CNN on Friday. “Iran believes in civilian dialogue,” he said.

By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Joseph Ataman, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Diplomacy with Iran can “easily” be started again if US President Donald Trump orders Israel’s leadership to stop its strikes on Iran, Majid Farahani, an official with the Iranian presidency told CNN on Friday. “Iran believes in civilian dialogue,” he said. “Directly

By Oren Liebermann and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s self-imposed two-week delay to decide whether to strike Iran has sparked confusion and conjecture in Israel. Some of Israel’s most senior officials had openly pushed for US involvement, arguing that American military involvement can shorten the conflict and allow Israel to achieve

By Becky Anderson and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Fearing the repercussions of a total regime collapse in Iran, Gulf Arab states have intensified their outreach to the Trump administration and Tehran over the past week. The United Arab Emirates, a US ally that has long been opposed to an unsupervised Iran nuclear program, has