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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An accused rapist who had sought to clear his name by suing one of Australia’s largest television networks for defamation has lost his case, with a judge finding that, on the balance of probabilities, he committed the crime. The verdict brings an end to a complex legal

By Helen Regan and Sandi Sidhu, Teele Rebane, Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — Australian police said Monday that the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping mall in Sydney’s beach suburb of Bondi may have been targeting women, as heartbreaking details emerged of those who lost their lives, plunging a nation into

By Mohammad Al-Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Palestinians, including men, women, children and elderly, attempted to return to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday when they came under Israeli fire. Video filmed by a CNN stringer shows the once-perilous coastal road of Al Rasheed filled with

CNN By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Israel pledged that it will “exact a price” from Iran as the country weighs its response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes while facing international pressure to de-escalate. The overnight attack – which saw Tehran launch a series of strikes at Israel over a

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The wave of drones and missiles that flew towards Israel overnight on Sunday brought with it a new phase of tension, uncertainty and confrontation in the Middle East. Iran launched the unprecedented attack in response to a suspected Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, earlier this

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Israel pledged that it will “exact a price” from Iran as the country weighs its response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes while facing international pressure to de-escalate. The overnight attack – which saw Tehran launch a series of strikes at Israel over a five-hour

By Christian Edwards, Victoria Butenko, Olga Voitovych and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — For the past two winters, Ukraine has withstood a barrage of Russian airstrikes seeking to disable its energy infrastructure, plunge its citizens into darkness and use the freezing temperatures as a weapon of war. Ukraine survived the assault thanks to Western air

By Stephanie Busari, CNN Chibok and Yola, Nigeria (CNN) — They were abducted from school and held in the depths of the vast Sambisa forest for years. Punished for daring to seek an education, the girls endured forced marriages, religious coercion and physical violence at the hands of their captors. Over the last decade, more

CNN Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israeli and American officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners. Most of the more

By Jeremy Diamond, Hamdi Alkhshali, Nectar Gan, Adam Pourahmadi, Tamar Michaelis and Andrew Raine, CNN (CNN) — Iran launched an unprecedented large-scale drone and missile attack at Israel on Saturday night, in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Syria, bringing the long-running shadow war between the two sides into