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By Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s ruling party is in trouble, and it knows it. The country is rife with political instability, having cycled through four prime ministers in the last five years – all members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela on Thursday said it had detected five US fighter jets flying near its Caribbean coast. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino described the incident as a “provocation” by the United States that posed a threat to national security. “They are combat aircraft. Combat aircraft that US imperialism has dared to

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Manchester, England (CNN) — Chaim Leob lives on a busy corner in Manchester, England, so sirens are not something he would normally find particularly concerning. But Thursday morning was a different story. The police cars just kept coming, one after another. Ambulances and fire trucks were speeding past. A helicopter was

By Muhammad Darwish, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — At Windsor Castle, history and tradition are everywhere. But for Canadian actor Eugene Levy, the royal encounter that awaited him was anything but ceremonial. Levy, known for his role in “American Pie” and the Emmy Award-winning series “Schitt’s Creek,” was filming an episode of his Apple

By Frederik Pleitgen, and Claudia Otto, CNN Geilenkirchen, Germany (CNN) — After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts off on its way to Eastern Europe. After multiple recent incursions by drones

CNN By Peter Wilkinson and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — At least two people were killed in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, northern England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Three other people are in a serious condition after the incident in Crumpsall, north

By Peter Wilkinson, Sana Noor Haq, Billy Stockwell, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — At least two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others seriously injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have deleted the information, according to UK media reports. The perpetrators had stolen the data from

By Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s nearly two-year war pushed parts of Gaza into “man-made” famine, according to a report published in August by a United Nations-backed initiative, deepening the Palestinians’ struggle for survival under relentless bombing, mass displacement and the spread of disease. The

Story by the Associated Press (CNN) — Canada’s last captive whales will remain at the Marineland park near Niagara Falls for now after the federal government denied the zoo’s request to ship the 30 belugas to China. The Canadian government will not grant an export permit to send the whales to the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom

By Masrur Jamaluddin, Helen Regan, CNN Sidoarjo, Indonesia (CNN) — A rescue team crouched under huge slabs of concrete and corrugated iron as they carefully slid 13-year-old Syailendra Haikal to safety from the twisted wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian boarding school; a brief glimmer of hope in the middle of a disaster. Haikal was taken

By Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — A new visa category launched by the Chinese government to attract young science and technology professionals is causing fervent backlash in China, where well-educated young people are already struggling to find work. The new “K-visa,” launched October 1, has been touted by Chinese officials as a boon for the

CNN 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)

By Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Anti-government demonstrations gripped Morocco for a fourth straight night as youth filled the streets of cities throughout the country and destruction and violence broke out in several places. With billions in investment flowing toward preparations for the 2030 World Cup, promises to fix Morocco’s strained social services haven’t

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