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By Betsy Klein and Simone McCarthy Busan, South Korea/Beijing (CNN) — A landmark meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of an international summit in South Korea Thursday appears to have made major strides to resolve frictions in the volatile relationship between the world’s two largest economies and

By Mitchell McCluskey and CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman (CNN) — Hurricane Melissa brought devastation and death to the Caribbean as it tore through the region as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in more than 150 years. The storm’s forceful winds unleashed widespread destruction, killing at least 30 people – though its true toll

CNN, JAMAICAN POLICE, TVJ, JAMAICA INFORMATION SERVICE, ROLANDO RAMIS, X, @WITHAC86, Jamaican Police/TVJ, x/@WithAC86 By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman and Karina Tsui (CNN) — Hurricane Melissa brought devastation and death to the Caribbean as it tore through the region as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in more than 150 years. Torrential

By Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction as it moved across Jamaica, seen for the first time from space in new satellite images obtained from Vantor. The storm made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 hurricane before moving onto to Cuba on Wednesday and later,

By Jessie Yeung, and CNN staff (CNN) — When Grace Jin Drexel couldn’t contact her father on October 10, she tried not to panic. She had just heard that one of the pastors of his underground Christian church in China had been detained by authorities; maybe he was busy sorting out the situation. Then her

By Saskya Vandoorne, Lauren Kent, CNN Paris (CNN) — Two suspects arrested in connection with the theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre museum have admitted involvement in the heist and have been remanded in custody, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The Paris prosecutor also said the stolen jewels are not in

By Melissa Bell, Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Iran appears to be stepping up the rebuilding of its ballistic missile program, despite the reintroduction last month of United Nations sanctions that ban arms sales to the country and ballistic missile activity. European intelligence sources say several shipments of sodium perchlorate, the main precursor in the

CNN, JAMAICA INFORMATION SERVICE, CSU, CIRA & NOAA, TVJ, JAMAICA CONSTABULARY FORCE, NOAA NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER, CSU/CIRA & NOAA By CNN Meteorologists Taylor Ward, Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert, Elise Hammond, Billy Stockwell and Eric Zerkel (CNN) – Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 3 storm with 125 mph sustained winds, according to the National

By Gonzalo Zegarra, Max Saltman, German Padinger, CNN (CNN) — At least 132 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, the regional public defender’s office said on Wednesday. Among the dead are four Brazilian police officers, the office added. Rio de Janeiro State Governor Cláudio Castro

CNN By Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 42 people, including children, after Israel accused Hamas of killing a soldier and staging the discovery of a deceased hostage. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to carry out “immediate, powerful strikes in the

CNN, TVJ, JAMAICAN NATIONAL WORKS AGENCY VIA X, MATEO AVALLE PIBER, HOVEN CAMPBELL By CNN Meteorologists Taylor Ward, Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert, Elise Hammond, Billy Stockwell and Eric Zerkel (CNN) – Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 3 storm with 125 mph sustained winds, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory. It is starting

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — “This is either gonna be wildly successful or a complete disaster,” Austin Tice wrote in May 2012, on the eve of a dangerous journey to bear witness to history. “Here goes nothing.” Tice, a physically towering former Marine and fledgling journalist, threw himself with grit and resolve into war

CNN, TVJ, COURTESY MATEO AVALLE PIBER, HURRICANE HUNTERS, WPLG By CNN meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Billy Stockwell, Christian Edwards, and Michael Rios (CNN) – Hurricane Melissa made landfall around 1 p.m. ET Tuesday near New Hope, Jamaica, as a 185 mph Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane’s winds of 185 mph

By Catherine Nicholls and Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN (CNN) — Lithuania has closed its border with Belarus following “constant violations” of its airspace, the country’s foreign ministry announced Monday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for intrusions into their skies. “Dozens of helium balloons” have entered Lithuania’s airspace from Belarus over recent

By CNN Meteorologists Taylor Ward and Briana Waxman and Mary Gilbert, Elise Hammond, Billy Stockwell and Eric Zerkel (CNN) – Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 3 storm with 125 mph sustained winds, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory. It is starting to slowly pull away from Jamaica and is heading toward eastern

CNN, TVJ, JAMAICA INFORMATION SERVICE By CNN meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce, Briana Waxman and CNN’s Sana Noor Haq, Billy Stockwell and Zoe Sottile (CNN) – Hurricane Melissa’s immense power has placed the hurricane in very exclusive company. With sustained winds of 175 mph, Melissa is now one of the strongest hurricanes, based on top

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A new report from the United Nations accuses Russia of committing crimes against humanity by attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure with drones, as well as committing war crimes through the forcible transfer of people. Drone attacks on civilians in areas along the front line of Russia’s war with Ukraine

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — British commentator Sami Hamdi was detained on Sunday by federal immigration officers during a speaking tour in the United States, in what a Muslim advocacy group said was retaliation for his criticism of Israel. The Trump administration said its decision to detain Hamdi and revoke his visa underscores that

By Cecilia Laurent Monpetit and Camille Knight Paris (CNN) — Ten people went on trial in Paris Monday accused of the online harassment of French first lady Brigitte Macron, after they spread what prosecutors called “malicious comments” about the gender and sexuality of President Emmanuel Macron’s wife. The trial comes three months after Macron and

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand was hospitalized after swallowing dozens of high-powered magnets, ultimately losing part of his bowel, according to a recent case report in the New Zealand Medical Journal. The boy, whose identity was not disclosed, ate between 80 and 100 neodymium magnets, each five millimeters

CNN By Camille Knight, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Police have arrested suspects in connection with the theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre museum, just as one attempted to leave the country, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Thieves last week targeted the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery in a brazen daylight raid, fleeing with jewelry

By Catherine Nicholls, Niamh Kennedy and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — A woman who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris three years ago was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old woman from Algeria, must spend at least 30 years in

By Mitchell McCluskey and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — European leaders vowed to work in coordination to ratchet up the pressure on Russia as the so-called “coalition of the willing” met in London to discuss strategies to end the war in Ukraine. The leaders called on more countries to implement sanctions against Russian oil companies

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — The ringleader of an arson attack on a Ukrainian-owned business in London last year was jailed for 17 years on Friday for what prosecutors called a “sustained campaign of terrorism and sabotage” on British soil. Dylan Earl, 21, pleaded guilty to aggravated arson over the February 2024 blaze

By Matthew Chance, CNN’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent (CNN) — Russia’s top economic envoy has arrived in the United States for “official” talks just days after President Donald Trump announced tough new sanctions on Russia, sources with knowledge of the visit have exclusively told CNN. Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund

By Lianne Kolirin and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — As French police, government officials and top executives at the Louvre Museum continue to scratch their heads over how thieves managed to brazenly steal priceless jewelry in broad daylight, a German company is seizing the moment and grabbing its 15 minutes of fame. Böcker, the firm

CNN By David Culver, Abel Alvarado, Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, CNN Santa Elena Province, Ecuador (CNN) — The last time Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila’s sister heard from him was about a year ago when he told her he was heading out to fish for work, she said. Last week, she was shocked to learn that

CNN By Christopher Lamb, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Rome (CNN) — King Charles III became the first British monarch to pray publicly with a pope in 500 years during his state visit to the Vatican on Thursday, after a bruising week back home with the continued fallout over the Prince Andrew scandal. Beneath the Sistine Chapel’s

By Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s strategic nuclear forces carried out a readiness test supervised by the country’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin said. “Today, we are conducting a planned – I want to emphasize, planned – nuclear forces command and control exercise,” Putin said in a

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations’ top court issued a legal opinion Wednesday stating that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to work with UN agencies to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, a rebuke of the blockade it imposed on the Palestinian enclave earlier this year. The International Court of Justice