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By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Christian Edwards and Henry Zeris, CNN (CNN) — Israel launched a wave of unprecedented strikes on Iran shortly before sunrise Friday morning, hitting key sites in the nation’s nuclear program as well as residential areas in upscale neighborhoods of Tehran and killing some of the country’s highest-ranking military leaders. A

By Leila Gharagrozlou, Tamar Michaelis, Oren Liebermann and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Before Israel launched an unprecedented wave of strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and top military leaders this week, its spies were already on the ground in enemy territory. Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had smuggled weapons into Iran ahead of the strikes, according

By Olivia Kemp, CNN London (CNN) — Former England football captain David Beckham, Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman and The Who front man Roger Daltrey are among the prominent figures awarded knighthoods in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours list. Beckham, 50, was recognized for his services to sport and charity. A global soccer icon and former

CNN By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Christian Edwards, Henry Zeris, Thomas Bordeaux, Avery Schmit, Teele Rebane and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — Israel launched a wave of unprecedented strikes on Iran shortly before sunrise Friday morning, hitting key sites in the nation’s nuclear program as well as residential areas in upscale neighborhoods of Tehran and

By Michael Rios, Nechirvan Mando, Catherine Nicholls, Eugenia Yosef and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Tehran launched retaliatory strikes against locations across Israel on Friday, following Israel’s attacks on Iranian military and nuclear targets. Iran said Friday evening local time that it had fired “hundreds of various ballistic missiles” towards Israel, in what it called

CNN By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Christian Edwards, Henry Zeris, Thomas Bordeaux, Avery Schmit, Teele Rebane and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — Israel launched a wave of unprecedented strikes on Iran shortly before sunrise Friday morning, hitting key sites in the nation’s nuclear program as well as residential areas in upscale neighborhoods of Tehran and

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Shortly before sunrise in Iran on Friday, Israel launched the first strikes of its operation against the regime’s nuclear program. That operation, called “Rising Lion,” had two prongs: Heavy airstrikes against at least one of Iran’s enrichment sites, and more targeted strikes in Tehran to decapitate the regime’s military

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — The canonization of Carlo Acutis, the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, will take place on September 7, Pope Leo XIV has announced. Acutis, an Italian teenager who died from leukemia in 2006, will be declared a saint by Leo at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square expected to be

By Ross Adkin, Tamar Michaelis and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, the head of its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and its air force and a former national security chief have all been killed in Israel’s unprecedented Operation Rising Lion. Their deaths will send shockwaves through the nation’s military establishment and could

By Helen Regan, Lauren Izso and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — Israel struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear, missile and military complex early Friday, in an unprecedented attack that reportedly killed Iran’s top military commander and plunges the wider Middle East into dangerous new territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military operation

CNN By Christian Edwards, Antoinette Radford and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — In the blue skies above western India, flight AI171 was struggling to gain altitude. The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport before it was careening back to earth. In a video, the aircraft is seen slowly sinking behind residential

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Outrage over the death of a Kenyan blogger in police custody sparked protests in the capital Nairobi this week after doctors refuted a police claim that the activist died in his cell from a self-inflicted head injury. The protests first erupted on Monday, a day after Kenya’s National Police

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A huge collection of historic gold coins, recovered from the wall of a house in France after their owner passed away, has been sold for millions of euros at auction. Auction house Beaussant Lefèvre and Associates told CNN on Thursday that all of the coins had sold in Paris

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Annoa Abekah-Mensah, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of activists from around the world are expected to descend on Egypt on Thursday for a “Global March to Gaza,” a movement aiming to break the Israeli blockade that has pushed the territory to the brink of famine. Some 4,000 volunteers from over 80 countries

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — Western countries have slashed foreign aid budgets this year and reductions will steepen in 2026, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada cutting the most, according to a new analysis from the Center for Global Development (CGD). The aid cuts will mean “significant losses” for many

By Christian Edwards, Antoinette Radford and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — In the blue skies above western India, flight AI171 was struggling to gain altitude. The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport before it was careening back to earth. In a video, the aircraft is seen slowly sinking behind residential buildings,

CNN By Sophie Tanno, Aishwarya S. Iyer, Rhea Mogul and Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — At least 290 people are feared to have died after a plane bound for London crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad. Images from the scene showed thick black

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Chinese fighter jet came within about 150 feet of a Japanese naval reconnaissance plane over the weekend, the Japanese Defense Ministry said Thursday, an action the US ambassador to Tokyo called “dangerous” and “reckless.” Saturday morning’s close encounter between the Japanese P-3C Orion, a four-engined,

By Sophie Tanno, Aishwarya S. Iyer, Rhea Mogul and Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — More than 290 people are feared to have died after a plane bound for London crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad. Images from the scene showed thick black smoke