By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Ramallah and Jerusalem (CNN) — The world is once again talking about a Palestinian state. The issue has caused a deep rift between Israel and its closest ally, the United States. US President Joe Biden keeps pressing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has for years told his country its children are under attack from deviant sexualities and pedophilia. Now, his government is embroiled in a scandal after it emerged that its president had pardoned a man convicted of covering up sexual abuse at a children’s home.
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Kansas City continued mourning after a mass shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally left a mother of two dead and injured more than 20 others – including children – as investigators worked to figure out exactly how the violence unfolded. Authorities on Friday said two teenagers
Continue Reading By Christal Hayes, Paradise Afshar and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A house exploded in Sterling, Virginia, on Friday night as fire crews were inside checking a gas leak, leaving one firefighter dead and at least 13 others injured, including 11 first responders, officials say. The injured first responders and two civilians were hospitalized after
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, Michael Williams, Camila DeChalus and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced plans to build an 80-acre base to house up to 1,800 Texas National Guard members near Eagle Pass – the border city at the center of a contentious feud between the state and Biden administration
Continue Reading By Chris Lau and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces have announced the withdrawal of its forces from Avdiivka, a key town which in recent months became one of the most fiercely contested battles on the eastern front. The move followed an intensification of Moscow’s attacks on the area, as Russia pummeled it with
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Water molecules have been detected on the surface of asteroids for the first time, proving that these remnants from the formation of our solar system aren’t just dried-up space rocks. Astronomers believe that the impact of asteroids crashing into our planet may have helped deliver water and other elements
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Deanna Hackney, CNN (CNN) — A policeman near Boston was fatally shot with his own service weapon Sunday morning by a man who used the same gun to kill a female bystander in her home, authorities said. Weymouth Officer Michael Chesna, 42, responded to an “erratic driver” call about 7:30 a.m.,
Continue Reading By Annette Choi, Jhasua Razo and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage, joining a list of nearly 40 countries and territories globally. Liechtenstein became the latest European country to follow suit after its same-sex marriage bill went into effect earlier this month. Last year,
Continue Reading By Sarah Dewberry, Raja Razek and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was arrested on murder charges Monday in the fatal dorm shooting of two people at the school, authorities said. The student suspect, Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was taken into custody after authorities found
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel released more details on Friday about the 12 employees of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) who it has accused of participating in the October 7 terrorist attacks and kidnappings, including their names, photos and alleged roles with Hamas. The additional details also included screengrabs of what Israel said
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, Nimi Princewill and Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Senegal’s outgoing president Macky Sall Friday said he would hold presidential elections “as soon as possible” one day after the West African country’s constitutional council ruled against his decision to postpone elections. “The President of the Republic has taken note of this decision which
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — The deadly mass shooting that unfolded Wednesday following a Super Bowl celebration rally in Kansas City – a city that recorded its deadliest-ever year in 2023 – occurred in a state known to have some of the weakest gun laws in the country. The gunfire
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — When Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, there were many who feared he would face an untimely end. That became a reality on Friday with his death at a brutal Arctic Circle penal colony, where he had been incarcerated. He was the most prominent voice
Continue Reading By Sabrina Souza, CNN New York (CNN) — The jury in the civil corruption trial against the National Rifle Association and its top executives will continue deliberations when court resumes on Tuesday. Court is now in recess for the weekend, including the Monday public holiday. The jury began deliberations Friday morning in a case that
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Vasco Cotovio, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Five patients have died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after an Israeli raid caused the facility to lose power, the Ministry of Health in Hamas-controlled Gaza said, as the World Health of Organization (WHO) decried the “deeply alarming”
Continue Reading By Laura Smith-Spark and Zamira Rahim, CNN (CNN) — Alexey Navalny, who has died aged 47, according to the Russian prison service, had long been a thorn in the side of President Vladimir Putin, exposing corruption in high places, campaigning against the ruling United Russia party, and orchestrating some of the biggest anti-government protests seen
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, Christian Edwards and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who made global headlines when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, has died aged 47, the Russian prison service said. The cause of his reported death remained unclear, but the news
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN London (CNN) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing difficult questions after his governing Conservative Party lost two seats in parliament on Thursday. The two by-elections – special elections that take place outside of regular election cycles – were won by the main opposition party Labour in dramatic swings that
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Olga Voitovych and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — A Ukrainian drone spots Russian soldiers hiding amid the remains of what was once someone’s home, in the middle of a lunar-like landscape of charred ground, craters and sapless trunks. Another drone carrying a small warhead moves in and detonates on impact. A second
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