By Billy Stockwell, Joseph Ataman and Daniel Olivares Gallego Authorities in France over the weekend warned tourists not to travel to the country’s wildfire-hit southwest but sought to reassure visitors that other regions remain unaffected by the flames.Sophie Brocas, prefect of the badly affected French region of Gironde, said on Sunday, “I urge tourists not
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Originally Published: 02 MAR 26 03:19 ET Updated: 02 MAR 26 06:26 ET By Haley Britzky, Helen Regan, Eyad Kourdi, Isaac Yee, Teele Rebane, Lucas Lilieholm, CNN (CNN) — Three US fighter jets crashed in Kuwait on Monday due to an “apparent friendly fire incident,” the US military said in a statement. Kuwaiti air defenses
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Originally Published: 23 JUN 25 00:00 ET Updated: 23 JUN 25 07:04 ET Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s onslaught of Iran’s nuclear plants was the most violent moment of his two terms and America’s 46-year showdown with the Islamic Republic. Flush with the spoils of battle, he already seems to be toying with the
Continue Reading Originally Published: 01 JUN 25 02:50 ET Updated: 02 JUN 25 05:01 ET By Abeer Salman, Mohammad al Sawalhi, Eyad Kourdi and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli military near an aid distribution site in Gaza on Sunday according to Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses, with Israel’s military denying
Continue Reading Originally Published: 22 MAY 25 08:08 ET Updated: 22 MAY 25 08:11 ET By Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A limited amount of food was delivered to desperate Gazans for the first time since early March on Wednesday, but senior United Nations officials warned the supply was “nowhere near enough” to
Continue Reading Originally Published: 20 MAY 25 18:01 ET By Jim Sciutto, Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehran, multiple US officials familiar with the latest intelligence told
Continue Reading Originally Published: 25 APR 25 06:37 ET Updated: 25 APR 25 07:13 ET By Nick Paton Walsh, Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A senior Russian general has died in a car blast in the Russian city of Balashikha on Friday morning, according to authorities. Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main
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Originally Published: 06 APR 25 20:18 ET Updated: 07 APR 25 05:02 ET By Juliana Liu and John Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Global markets plunged on Monday, deepening a global stocks rout triggered by US President Donald Trump’s trade war and China’s forceful response to unexpectedly high tariffs. Germany’s Dax opened down 9%, while London’s FTSE
Continue Reading Originally Published: 20 MAR 25 08:02 ET Updated: 20 MAR 25 08:46 ET By Dana Karni and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Hamas fired rockets at Israel from Gaza Thursday, the militant group’s first response to Israel’s renewed offensive in the Strip that shattered the two-month-old ceasefire. Three projectiles were fired at central Israel, the Israeli military said. One
Continue Reading Originally Published: 19 MAR 25 04:19 ET Updated: 19 MAR 25 08:17 ET By Jessie Yeung, Maria Kostenko and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged aerial assaults overnight, just hours after the Kremlin agreed to temporarily halt attacks on energy infrastructure targets, but stopped short of signing off on a broader ceasefire sought by
Continue Reading Originally Published: 17 MAR 25 20:41 ET Updated: 18 MAR 25 08:29 ET By Helen Regan, Abeer Salman, Lauren Izso and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Gaza’s fragile ceasefire was shattered early Tuesday as Israel carried out deadly strikes across the enclave and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to use “increasing military strength” against Hamas. The overnight
Continue Reading Originally Published: 12 MAR 25 00:01 ET Updated: 12 MAR 25 07:52 ET By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump imposed sweeping 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imported into the United States Wednesday, a policy aimed at leveling the playing field for US manufacturing but a move that threatens to drive up
Continue Reading Originally Published: 04 MAR 25 11:19 ET Updated: 04 MAR 25 20:18 ET By Nick Paton Walsh, Rob Picheta and Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his Oval Office meeting last week with US President Donald Trump “did not go the way it was supposed to,” describing the fiery meeting as “regrettable”
Continue Reading Originally Published: 19 FEB 25 17:05 ET Updated: 19 FEB 25 22:31 ET By Billy Stockwell and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Wednesday that it had received the “heart-shattering news” that Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, are among the four dead hostages expected to
Continue Reading Originally Published: 17 FEB 25 07:21 ET Updated: 18 FEB 25 07:43 ET By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis has a “polymicrobial infection” of his respiratory tract that will require his hospital treatment to be changed, the Vatican said Monday, with tests indicating a “complex clinical picture” for one of
Continue Reading Originally Published: 16 FEB 25 05:02 ET Updated: 17 FEB 25 00:58 ET By Eugenia Yosef, Ibrahim Dahman, Irene Nasser, Jennifer Hansler and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “finish the job” against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump. Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary
Continue Reading Originally Published: 17 FEB 25 09:52 ET Updated: 17 FEB 25 09:54 ET By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A senior Hamas official has said the group will not disarm and may even grow after the war in Gaza, warning other countries against cooperating with Israel in the enclave. “Whoever comes to fill Israel’s place (in
Continue Reading Originally Published: 11 FEB 25 11:36 ET Updated: 12 FEB 25 06:42 ET By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — It’s only three weeks into a fragile ceasefire, and Israel and Hamas are each ratcheting up allegations that the other party has violated the deal. So far, 16 out of 33 hostages scheduled for release in the current phase of
Continue Reading Originally Published: 10 FEB 25 11:22 ET Updated: 11 FEB 25 03:07 ET By Jeremy Diamond, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Hamas has postponed the next hostage release scheduled to take place in Gaza on Saturday “until further notice,” accusing Israel of breaking the ceasefire deal. Israel described the postponement as
Continue Reading Originally Published: 04 FEB 25 07:00 ET Updated: 04 FEB 25 23:15 ET By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically
Continue Reading Originally Published: 27 JAN 25 00:00 ET Updated: 27 JAN 25 09:13 ET By Sophie Tanno and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — “It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. “But it’s necessary,” she said. “It’s necessary for
Continue Reading Originally Published: 27 JAN 25 02:25 ET Updated: 27 JAN 25 08:32 ET By Helen Regan, Lucas Lilieholm, Abeer Salman, Tareq Alhelou and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians began returning home to northern Gaza on Monday, bracing for what awaits them in a region that has been reduced to rubble
Continue Reading From CNN’s Dana Karni and Mick Krever The Israeli security cabinet on Friday approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal announced in Qatar on Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. The 11 voting members of the security cabinet approved the deal with a simple majority vote. The full, 33-member Israeli cabinet still
Continue Reading Originally Published: 09 SEP 24 20:03 ET Updated: 10 SEP 24 09:08 ET By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kareem Khadder and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — At least 40 people were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza, according to local
Continue Reading Originally Published: 04 JUN 24 15:12 ET Updated: 04 JUN 24 23:14 ET By Katie Bo Lillis, MJ Lee and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top Biden administration officials are traveling to the Middle East this week to engage in ongoing talks on a possible ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, as well as the
Continue Reading Originally Published: 08 MAY 24 00:31 ET By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, according to a US official. The shipment, which was held back last week, includes 1,800 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds and 1,700 bombs weighing 500 pounds. “We are especially focused on
Continue Reading Originally Published: 05 MAY 24 06:34 ET Updated: 06 MAY 24 09:02 ET By Michael Schwartz, Tim Lister, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Israel shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in the country and seized some of its communication equipment Sunday, prompting condemnation from the United Nations and rights groups over Israeli Prime Minister
Continue Reading Originally Published: 01 MAY 24 11:48 ET By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has withdrawn troops from a French military base in Chad after the country demanded they leave last month, a Pentagon spokesperson and other sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday. More than half of the US troops stationed
Continue Reading Originally Published: 08 APR 24 13:51 ET Updated: 08 APR 24 17:48 ET By Alex Marquardt and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — CIA Director Bill Burns presented a new proposal to try to bridge the gaps in ongoing negotiations to broker a deal to bring about a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and
Continue Reading Originally Published: 31 MAR 24 11:23 ET Updated: 31 MAR 24 19:54 ET By Tamar Michaelis, Benjamin Brown and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in “excellent” health following surgery to treat a hernia, according to a statement released Sunday by Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. The procedure “ended successfully” and
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