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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the social media network Meta, formerly known as Facebook. Facts Meta had on average 3.48 billion daily active people across its platforms in June 2025. There were 75,945 full-time employees at Meta, as of June 30, 2025. Facebook introduced words such as “friending” to the lexicon.

By Jack Guy, Billy Stockwell, Lex Harvey, Gerardo Lemos, Dana Karni and Abeer Salman (CNN) — The Israeli military has intercepted dozens of boats sailing as part of an aid flotilla towards Gaza, detaining hundreds of passengers including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, organizers said, and triggering global condemnation. The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was

By Svitlana Vlasova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s advance into Ukraine slowed by almost half in September, according to the monitoring group DeepState, with Moscow capturing its smallest amount of territory since May. “The Russians managed to capture 259 square kilometers (100 square miles)” in September, DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source mapping site that

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of world-renowned primatologist, activist and conservationist Jane Goodall. Personal Birth date: April 3, 1934 Death date: October 1, 2025 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall Father: Mortimer Morris-Goodall, businessman Mother: Margaret Myfanwe (Joseph) Morris-Goodall, a novelist Marriages: Derek Bryceson (1975-1980, his

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Personal Birth date: April 30, 1949 Birth place: Lisbon, Portugal Birth name: Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres Father: Virgílio Guterres Mother: Ilda Cândida de Oliveira Marriages: Catarina Vaz Pinto (2001-present); Luisa Melo (1972-1998, her death) Children: A

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — French prosecutors are piecing together clues over the death of South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa. Early findings, authorities said, suggest Mthethwa had apparently fallen from a high-rise Paris hotel on Monday, hours after sending a “disturbing message” to his wife that he planned to kill

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — After weeks of repeated incursions into European airspace, officials are meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen where they are expected to discuss several measures intended to protect the continent’s skies, including a flagship “drone wall” initiative. The commission, alongside the European Union, is working to build a “Defence Readiness

By Max Saltman, Inke Kappeler, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — German police arrested three suspected Hamas members who were allegedly procuring weapons “for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions,” German prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday. The three accused, who police only identified by first names and initials of their last names, were charged with

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan to skeptics in his hardline cabinet Tuesday evening, telling ministers that coordination with Washington “is closer than you think,” according to two Israeli officials who participated in the meeting and another official briefed on

CNN By Helen Regan, Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN (CNN) — Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers. In one pocket of the mangled concrete of the collapsed century-old Al Khoziny boarding

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Japanese warship is on the way to the United States to be fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the latest move by Washington and its Asian allies to beef up firepower as adversaries like China and North Korea expand theirs. The JS Chokai, an Aegis-equipped guided-missile