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By Pierre Bairin and Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 2,000 French firefighters are battling to contain a fast-moving blaze that has burnt through an area bigger than Paris and killed an elderly woman. The fire has now burned through 16,000 hectares in the southern Aude region, but authorities say its advance has slowed significantly.

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwanese authorities have detained three current and former employees of the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for allegedly stealing trade secrets, prosecutors said Tuesday. Law enforcement officers questioned several suspects and witnesses late last month. They searched their homes and detained three of

By Reuters Sydney (Reuters) — New Zealand’s air force said on Wednesday it had evacuated three people from a United States research base in Antarctica, in what it said was a high-risk operation in freezing temperatures and perpetual darkness. One person requiring urgent medical care and two others needing medical attention were taken on the

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Stefano Pozzebon, Video by Lali Houghton, Ladan Anoushfar, and Beatriz Grimalt, CNN. (CNN) — The warnings were impossible to ignore. For over a year, armed groups in northern Colombia had posted flyers touting violent campaigns against members of the LGBTQ community. “All will be military targets. We will not respect ages.

CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Stefano Pozzebon, Video by Lali Houghton, Ladan Anoushfar, and Beatriz Grimalt, CNN. (CNN) — The warnings were impossible to ignore. For over a year, armed groups in northern Colombia had posted flyers touting violent campaigns against members of the LGBTQ community. “All will be military targets. We will not respect

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having

By Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — When Paola Clouatre arrived home, her young son Noah glanced at her sideways. He covered his face, turned around, looked back again. “It was as if he couldn’t believe that the person there was me, his mom,” Clouatre says, as she recalls the moment she was reunited with her

By José Álvarez, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal prosecutor in Mexico has been killed in a drive-by shooting that has shocked the nation after video footage of the attack circulated online. The footage shows the prosecutor sitting on a road in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Search and rescue volunteers are battling bad weather and heavy rainfall in a search for an American journalist who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park. Alec Luhn, a climate journalist from Wisconsin, is an experienced hiker who has completed a number of solo trips in challenging

By Nimi Princewill, Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Rwanda has reached a deal with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, becoming the third African nation to do so, amid complaints that governments on the continent are being pressured by the White House to receive them. Foreign US deportees, originally

By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A court in Moldova has sentenced a Kremlin-friendly regional politician to seven years in prison for funneling money from Russia to finance a political party. Evgenia Gutul, the leader of Gagauzia, a historically pro-Russian ethnic region in southern Moldova, was detained in March on suspicion of

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The Aalborg Zoo wrote in a Facebook post that it is trying to

Story by Reuters Singapore (Reuters) — Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty to one charge of abetting the obstruction of justice on Monday in part of a landmark case that led to the jailing of former transport minister S. Iswaran for obtaining valuable items as a public servant last year. However, both the prosecution

By Julia Vargas Jones, Michael Rios, Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has condemned a Brazilian Supreme Court order for the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the order

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A White South African farm owner and two employees are facing trial over the alleged murder of two Black women who prosecutors say were shot dead for trespassing last August and their bodies fed to pigs – stoking fury in a nation already reeling from racial tensions. The women

By Dana Karni, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli government voted unanimously on Monday to dismiss the country’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in a controversial move that was immediately blocked by a Supreme Court injunction. “The government has just unanimously approved the proposal of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Yariv Levin to

By Tim Lister, Dana Karni, Kareem Khadder, Catherine Nicholls, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Negotiations on a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza appear to be at an impasse, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaning towards expanded military operations and Hamas demanding the humanitarian situation be addressed before it returns to talks. Netanyahu will

Story by Isobel Yeung and Mick Krever | Video by Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou and Mark Baron, CNN Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — “I want” – the girl stops herself – “I wanted to be a doctor in the future. But when the Taliban came to Afghanistan, all the doors of schools were closed.” Inside the Taliban-approved

By Dana Karni, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kara Fox, and Mitchell McCluskey (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of not wanting a ceasefire deal and requested that the International Red Cross bring food and medical care to hostages held in Gaza, after public fury ignited over propaganda videos showing two emaciated Israeli captives.