Originally Published: 22 MAR 24 00:00 ET Updated: 22 MAR 24 06:53 ET By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Friday morning as part of an intensive diplomatic push to reach a “sustained and immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and deter an Israeli
Continue Reading Originally Published: 12 MAR 24 13:49 ET Updated: 12 MAR 24 16:45 ET By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced another package of military aid to Ukraine worth up to $300 million on Tuesday after months of warning there was no money left, with officials saying the new funding became available as a
Continue Reading Originally Published: 03 MAR 24 19:14 ET Updated: 03 MAR 24 19:27 ET By Priscilla Alvarez, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday forcefully called for more humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying that people in the region are “starving” in the face of “inhumane” conditions and urging Israel to do more
Continue Reading Originally Published: 19 FEB 24 16:45 ET Updated: 19 FEB 24 21:35 ET By Richard Roth and Tara John, CNN New York (CNN) — The United States has proposed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Gaza calling for a temporary ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas and warning against an Israeli ground incursion into
Continue Reading Originally Published: 18 FEB 24 02:41 ET Updated: 18 FEB 24 03:18 ET By Richard Roth, CNN (CNN) — The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that if the Algerian proposed resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza were to come up for a vote at the UN Security Council as
Continue Reading Originally Published: 16 FEB 24 06:39 ET Updated: 16 FEB 24 07:58 ET By Anna Chernova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Jailed Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who made global headlines when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, has died aged 47, the Russian prison service said.
Continue Reading Originally Published: 12 FEB 24 02:22 ET Updated: 12 FEB 24 03:26 ET By Helen Regan and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people, including children, have been killed as “extremely intense” Israeli airstrikes and shelling pounded multiple locations in Rafah overnight Monday, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, as international alarm mounts over Israel’s
Continue Reading Originally Published: 05 FEB 24 22:05 ET By Nikki Carvajal, MJ Lee and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden would veto a proposed standalone aid package for Israel, the White House said Monday, as House Republicans look to tank a long-awaited bipartisan Senate border deal that would include aid to US allies. “The Administration spent months working with
Continue Reading Originally Published: 31 JAN 24 14:14 ET Updated: 31 JAN 24 14:52 ET By Kevin Liptak and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US believes an umbrella group of militants called Islamic Resistance in Iraq was behind the drone attack in Jordan that killed three American service members, the White House said Wednesday, its first formal
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — The negotiations over the release of additional hostages from Gaza that broke down early Friday appear highly unlikely to resume any time soon, multiple senior administration officials told CNN, leaving the fate of multiple Americans believed to have been taken captive by Hamas up in the air. The White House has said there is one
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(CNN) — US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will “probably” meet before year’s end, the White House says, a step toward easing what had been a strained relationship but still short of the full-blown Oval Office invitation Netanyahu has long sought. “They have agreed that they will meet, probably before the
Continue Reading London (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Monday kicked off the first full day of his trip abroad with a London visit aimed at bolstering the US-UK “special relationship” – including his first meeting with King Charles III since the monarch’s coronation – on the eve of a high-stakes summit with NATO leaders. Biden arrived
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(CNN) — Three Russian fighter jets intercepted three US Air Force drones in northeastern Syria on Wednesday morning local time, according to the senior commander in charge of Air Force operations in the Middle East. Air Force Lt. Gen Alex Grynkewich described the Russian maneuver against the MQ-9 Reaper drones – which officials said were
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Originally Published: 21 MAR 23 13:23 ETUpdated: 21 MAR 23 23:50 ETBy Sahar Akbarzai, Hira Humayun, Sophia Saifi and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — At least 11 people have been killed after a strong earthquake struck northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday, with tremors felt in several major Pakistani cities and as far away as the Indian capital
Continue Reading Originally Published: 13 FEB 23 14:53 ETBy Kareem El Damanhoury, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — A Palestinian man was killed and 13 were injured in an Israeli raid in Nablus early Monday, Palestinian health officials said, in what Israeli authorities said was an operation to arrest suspects in the fatal shooting of an
Continue Reading Originally Published: 15 JAN 23 02:40 ET Updated: 15 JAN 23 09:02 ET By Asha Thapa, Kathleen Magramo and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country’s deadliest plane crash in more
Continue Reading Originally Published: 25 DEC 22 13:31 ETUpdated: 26 DEC 22 18:44 ETBy Sahar Akbarzai and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — All of the people feared missing after an avalanche Sunday near the mountainous villages of Lech and Zurs in Austria have been found alive, according to the Austrian Press Agency (APA).Four have been injured, including one
Continue Reading Originally Published: 26 DEC 22 12:02 ETBy Anna Chernova and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russia has put the investigative journalist Christo Grozev on its “wanted” list, according to the Russian Interior Ministry.Grozev, who is Bulgarian, is the lead Russia investigator at the journalism group Bellingcat.Information published on the ministry’s website said he was “wanted under
Continue Reading Originally Published: 25 DEC 22 13:31 ETUpdated: 25 DEC 22 13:35 ETBy Sahar Akbarzai and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — At least 10 people were buried in an avalanche on Sunday near the mountainous villages of Lech and Zurs in Austria, according to a statement from the state-run Austrian Press Agency.The avalanche happened Sunday afternoon in
Continue Reading Originally Published: 25 DEC 22 06:08 ETBy Sophie Tanno, Dennis Lapin and Robert Iddiols, CNN (CNN) — President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukrainians to have “patience and faith” in a defiant Christmas address after a deadly wave of Russian strikes pounded the southern city of Kherson.Ten months into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Zelensky spoke of endurance
Continue Reading By Karen Smith, CNN The sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah said Tuesday that she had received a letter saying the imprisoned British-Egyptian activist had ended his hunger strike after more than 200 days. “The important thing is I want to celebrate my birthday with you on Thursday, I haven’t celebrated for a long time, and
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, Xiaofei Xu, Hadas Gold, Michael Callahan and Evan Perez, CNN A top Israeli official has confirmed the existence of a US investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh but said Israel’s government would not cooperate with the American probe, calling it a “mistake.” Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed details
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Continue Reading By Katharina Krebs, Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner Group is heavily involved in the fighting in Ukraine, has applauded a video in which a former member of the group is brutally murdered. The video surfaced over the weekend on the Grey Zone Telegram channel, which frequently showcases the
Continue Reading By James Frater and Nimi Princewill, CNN A Zambian student, jailed in Russia was killed during a battle in Ukraine, Zambia’s foreign ministry said Monday. The student was a 23-year-old student the Zambian government had sponsored to study nuclear engineering at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. The man was identified as Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda by
Continue Reading CNN’s Nic Robertson witnessed the scenes in Kherson following the withdrawal of Russian forces. Some residents shared their experience living under occupation.
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN An Iranian court has issued the first death sentence linked to recent protests, convicting the unnamed person of “enmity against God” and “spreading corruption on Earth,” state media reports. It comes following weeks of nationwide demonstrations, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September. Iran’s Revolutionary Court issued the sentence
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, CNN Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a jailed British-Egyptian activist who has been on a hunger and water strike, is alive and has resumed drinking water, authorities said in a letter to his family. He has been on a hunger strike for more than 200 days and had stopped drinking water earlier this month.
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has slammed Western countries over what he calls a “reprehensible double standard” in their response to the energy crisis brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a Twitter post on Sunday, Museveni singled out Germany for demolishing wind turbines to allow for the expansion of
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenksy made a surprise visit to Kherson Monday to offer support to residents of the newly recaptured city, where investigators have begun to uncover possible proof of wartime atrocities committed during the months-long occupation by Russian forces. Zelensky said in his nightly address Sunday that
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