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By Gonzalo Zegarra, Mitchell McCluskey, Dakota Smith, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Simon weakened to a Category 2 storm on Monday with sustained winds of 105 mph as it moves off Mexico’s west coast, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The storm will likely pack near 100 mph winds as it makes landfall

By Tim Lister and Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Iran is stepping up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf in an effort to restore its leverage over the critical waterway. More than a dozen strikes on shipping have occurred since the end of September, reducing the volume of oil transiting

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — As Saudi Arabia reckons with the deadliest attack on its soil in more than a decade, questions swirl over how Riyadh will respond as Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis continue to wreak havoc on the kingdom. The kingdom launched a major offensive last week to support Yemeni government forces fighting the

By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has announced he will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule that was discovered during recent health checks. The 71-year-old pope made the announcement to those gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer on Sunday. The Vatican said he will be admitted

By Laura Sharman, Tim Lister, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said it intercepted and destroyed three Houthi ballistic missiles on Monday, as the main international airport in the kingdom’s capital remained closed following a series of attacks that have killed at least 20 people and wounded hundreds over the past week. The Saudi

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A man has died after suffering serious injuries when he entered a tiger enclosure at a UK wildlife park. A police statement said: “At 1.35pm today (Saturday 10 October) we received reports of a man entering a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.” “Emergency services attended and sadly, despite

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wanted to make his kingdom a magnet for investment, tourism and the world’s biggest sporting events. Now drones and missiles launched from Yemen are slamming into Saudi cities, drawing the kingdom deeper into the regional turmoil he hoped to leave behind. The civil

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Kenya had spent months preparing for Ebola, one of the world’s deadliest viral diseases, screening hundreds of thousands of travelers and training nearly 5,000 health workers in case it crossed the borders. Then Ebola arrived. A man who had been ill for weeks and was later confirmed to have

By Ayushi Shah and Deepak Rao New Delhi (CNN) — A New Delhi court Sunday released the founder and leaders of a surging youth-led political movement who were detained in a crackdown that stifled a major protest a day earlier in the Indian capital. Abhijeet Dipke was detained along with other leaders of the Cockroach

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches have

By Eyad Kourdi, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The alleged Flydubai hijacker had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and was inspired by the 9/11 attacks, a preliminary investigation has found. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on board last week’s flight from Dubai to

By Issy Ronald, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law. As her colleagues in

By Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — In a damning interview, a former senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the Israeli leader was warned internally of the potential for war ahead of the October 7 attacks and that there remain “enormous gaps” between what the public knows and what really happened.

By Kathleen Magramo, Barbie Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Masked thieves broke into a warehouse in Cortona, Italy and made off with around 30,000 bottles of wine from the prestigious Marchesi Antinori vineyard worth more than $5 million, in what the company says could rank among the largest wine thefts ever reported. The thieves disarmed the

By Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russian pro-Kremlin military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Rybar Telegram channel, was detained in Montenegro on Friday along with several associates, Montenegrin authorities said, before being ordered to leave the country. Rybar, which British and US authorities have accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, has

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Singapore, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, has become the most polluted on the planet as it chokes under a blanket of thick, toxic smog caused by fires in neighboring Indonesia. Pollution has cast a pall on the city-state as it gets ready to host a packed

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a new survey on one of the African nation’s most remote islands. The survey, led by the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter in the UK,