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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — More than $100,000 worth of escargots were stolen from a French snail farmer earlier this week, French media reported, leaving the supplier scrambling to replenish its stock in time for the holiday season. “This is really not the post that we thought we would write approaching the holidays,” L’Escargot

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — One of Ukraine’s most influential political operators and a close aide of President Volodymyr Zelensky has resigned, hours after anti-corruption agencies raided his home – a major crisis as Kyiv faces new pressure from the US to accept a peace deal to

By CNN staff (CNN) — Venezuela is entering one of its most repressive periods in years, rights monitors say, as President Nicolás Maduro faces mounting isolation and an expanding US military presence in the Caribbean. According to the Venezuela human rights group Provea, October saw the highest level of repression since the start of the

By Issy Ronald and Nadine Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — When three octogenarian nuns fled their nursing home and broke back into their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, they became overnight stars. Almost every major news outlet covered them. They gained 100,000 followers on Instagram, where they posted their daily routines – a combination of praying,

CNN By Chris Lau, Samra Zulfaqar, Fred He and Helen Regan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of people killed in the devastating Hong Kong apartment complex fire has risen to 128 with as many as 200 missing, officials said Friday, as authorities announced eight more arrests over the blaze. The inferno rapidly spread

By Christopher Lamb, Sana Noor Haq, CNN Iznik, Turkey (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV condemned the use of religion for justifying “war,” “violence” or “fanaticism” on Friday – instead urging Catholics to mobilize their faith and unify others “regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or personal perspectives.” The pontiff called on worshippers to enable “dialogue and

By Mostafa Salem, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli military operation on a Syrian village Friday morning turned into the deadliest attack by a foreign nation on Syria since the ouster of former dictator Bashar al-Assad last year. At least 13 people were killed and 24 were injured after Israeli forces infiltrated the Beit

By Ibrahim Dahman, Eugenia Yosef, Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Israeli authorities are reviewing an incident in which soldiers shot and killed two people who appeared to be surrendering in the occupied West Bank, an act described by the Palestinian Authority as a “fully-fledged war crime.” The incident took place in the Palestinian city of

By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a US plan to end the war in Ukraine could “form the basis for future agreements” but renewed threats to seize more territory by force unless Kyiv withdraws. Speaking to reporters in Bishtek, in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan on