By Alessandra Freitas, CNN Young people in Britain will soon be offered the chance of a “gap year” through a new paid program in the armed forces, the government announced Saturday. Set to launch in March 2026, the Armed Forces Foundation Scheme aims to initially recruit around 150 people to experience military life, without long-term
Continue Reading By Ross Adkin, Ivan Watson, Dan Hodge, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, unleashing a brutal civil war it has yet to win. The country’s most popular
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CNN By Christian Edwards, Svitlana Vlasova, Laura Sharman, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s huge aerial assault on Kyiv and the surrounding region proved Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “man of war,” ahead of the Ukrainian leader’s scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump in Florida. Standing beside Canadian Prime Minister
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By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — A reform-minded mayor is taking charge of New York City at a time when the largest police department in the country is finding its stride in its stability, touting a drop in gun violence and homicides while its current leadership stays intact. New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch
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By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Ogechi Irondi’s future teetered between two wildly different scenarios: one that would lead to dual degrees after nine years of college, and one that would leave the single mother and her young children homeless. Strangers helped seal her fate. The 31-year-old had suffered unfathomable challenges during her studies at
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By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice with a recently purchased handgun in his backyard on Christmas Day is accused of shooting and killing a woman seated on a front porch blocks away as she held a child in her arms, authorities said. The woman, identified as Sandra
Continue Reading Story by Reuters (Reuters) — Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Saturday to halt weeks of fierce border clashes, the worst fighting in years between the Southeast Asian countries that has included fighter-jet sorties, exchange of rocket fire and artillery barrages. “Both sides agree to maintain current troop deployments without further movement,” their defense ministers said
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — A shooter armed with several guns opened fire in the lobby of an Idaho sheriff’s office and the street outside Friday, injuring three people before being killed in a standoff with law enforcement, the local sheriff said. The suspected gunman has been identified as John Drake, Shoshone
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and emerging at night to feed. This is the only place in the world you’ll
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion. Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly
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KSBY, CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — As the December sun set over central Utah’s sandstone peaks, a couple ventured down a nondescript dirt road to snap photos against the backdrop of a red rock vista. Instead, they stumbled across a grisly discovery among smattered shrubs and parched soil: the decomposed remains of a
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By Eyad Kourdi, Kareem El Damanhoury, and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — At least eight people were killed and 18 others injured in an explosion targeting a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, the country’s health ministry said. The state news agency SANA reported that “explosive devices” had been planted in the
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Svitlana Vlasova, Laura Sharman, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s huge aerial assault on Kyiv and the surrounding region proved Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “man of war,” ahead of the Ukrainian leader’s scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump in Florida. Standing beside Canadian Prime Minister Mark
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By Dana Karni and Tal Shalev (CNN) — Two people were killed when a Palestinian man launched a car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel, police said Friday. The suspect is a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank, according to police, who said he ran over a 68-year-old Israeli pedestrian in the city of Beit
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CNN By Nimi Princewill, Jessie Yeung, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — After months of warning that the US could take military action to stop violence against Christians in Nigeria, President Donald Trump announced on Christmas Day that he had done just that – delivering a strike on Islamic State terrorists in the country’s northwest. US
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — As the December sun set over central Utah’s sandstone peaks, a couple ventured down a nondescript dirt road to snap photos against the backdrop of a red rock vista. Instead, they stumbled across a grisly discovery among smattered shrubs and parched soil: the decomposed remains of a little girl.
Continue Reading By Reuters (Reuters) — Jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty of abuse of power on Friday in the biggest trial yet in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a ruling that could have significant political repercussions. The judge had yet to deliver the full verdict and sentencing. Malaysia and US investigators say at
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By Nimi Princewill, Jessie Yeung, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — After months of warning that the US could take military action to stop violence against Christians in Nigeria, President Donald Trump announced on Christmas Day that he had done just that – delivering a strike on Islamic State terrorists in the country’s northwest. US Africa
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them pronouns in English, had no easy answer because Chinese pronouns are largely split into two when referring
Continue Reading By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Two men are missing after a group of people who went on a Christmas Day swim at a beach in southwestern England faced rough waters, police said on Thursday. Authorities were called at 10:25 a.m. to the beach at Budleigh Salterton due to a group encountering difficult water conditions,
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