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By Dana Karni, Jeremy Diamond and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara has been overheard on a microphone saying that “fewer” than 24 hostages are still alive in Gaza, outraging hostages’ families who demanded to know what the government knows about the fate of their loved ones. “We have

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday it has “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days. The claim came as both the United States and China urged restraint. “Pakistan

By Henrik Pettersson, Catherine Nicholls and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Swedish police have detained a 16-year-old suspected of shooting and killing three people in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday. The individual is one of several being interrogated over the fatal attack, Sweden’s prosecution said Wednesday, according to Reuters. Officers have conducted door-to-door inquiries

By Kareem Khadder and Abeer Salman, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli forces detained prominent Palestinian journalist Ali Samoudi in an early morning raid on his son’s home in the occupied West Bank. The raid occurred in the city of Jenin, where Samoudi’s son told CNN the Israeli military came in at 5 a.m. and took

CBC-NEWS, CNN By Max Saltman, Paula Newton, Hira Humayun and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country would “never” yield to the United States as he declared victory in federal elections early Tuesday, following a campaign overshadowed by relentless provocations and steep trade tariffs imposed by US President Donald

By Dana Karni and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Embattled Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar says he will step down on June 15, nearly three months after Israel’s government voted for the first time ever to dismiss the head of the security agency. “My love for the homeland and my loyalty to the state are

CNN By Max Saltman, Paula Newton and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Canadians hit the polls on Monday in an election overshadowed by tariffs, economic uncertainty and annexation threats from the United States. Voters will decide whether to grant Prime Minister Mark Carney a full four-year mandate or give the Conservative Party a turn at

By Saskya Vandoorne and Sérène Nourrisson, CNN Paris (CNN) — Nearly nine years after billionaire reality TV star Kim Kardashian was bound, gagged and robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week, the trial of nine men and one woman accused of carrying out the dramatic heist opened Monday at a packed courthouse in the French

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Power has been restored to tens of millions of people across almost all of Spain and Portugal, but disruptions to transport services were expected to stretch into a second day as questions mount over what caused a massive blackout. Both countries remain under states of emergency after electrical supply

By Darya Tarasova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Edward Upright and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire in Ukraine next month, a move met with skepticism by Ukrainian officials who demanded the Kremlin leader immediately accept a longer truce proposal from the United States that he has

By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Rome (CNN) — Cardinals have chosen May 7 as the date to start conclave and elect a new leader for 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, the Vatican announced. The date for the papal election was decided on Monday after cardinals held the first daily congregation

By Helen Regan, Michael Rios, Darya Tarasova and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has for the first time acknowledged that North Korean soldiers took part in the fighting to recover Russian territory after Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region last year. Two days after Moscow claimed to have recaptured all of

By Max Saltman, Paula Newton and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Canadians hit the polls on Monday in an election overshadowed by tariffs, economic uncertainty and annexation threats from the United States. Voters will decide whether to grant interim Prime Minister Mark Carney a full four-year mandate or give the Conservative Party a turn at

By Oren Liebermann, Charbel Mallo, Michael Rios, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital. Footage from Reuters showed a huge plume of smoke rising from the area shortly after 6:00 p.m. (11 a.m. ET).

By Daria Tarasova Markina and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The Russian military is planning to increase the use of small squads on motorcycles and quadbikes on the frontlines in Ukraine as it plans fresh offensives, according to the Ukrainian military and analysts of the conflict. The Russian Defense Ministry published video on Saturday showing

By Leila Gharagozlou, Tim Lister, Eve Brennan and Frankie Vetch, CNN (CNN) — Iranian authorities have not said what caused the massive explosion at the port of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, killing at least 46 people, amid unconfirmed reports of the possible presence of a chemical used to make missile propellant. Eyewitness accounts and video

By Lucas Lilieholm, Kathleen Magramo, Ross Adkin and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A suspect has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder after a car plowed into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night killing at least 11 people in what police are calling “the darkest