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Story by the Associated Press Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Peru has temporarily suspended the operations of sightseeing airline Aerodiana after one of its planes crashed in the country’s Ica region on Saturday, killing 11 European tourists and two crew members. Aerodiana, which flies customers over the Nazca Lines archaeological site in southern Peru, must suspend all operations “until

Story by the Associated Press Ceuta, Spain (AP) — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Fernando García Velázquez took the admissions exam for Mexico’s most famous university four times before finally getting the result that should have guaranteed him admission. On his first three attempts, he had no option other than to travel the 400 km (250 miles) from his native Veracruz to

CNN Staff Dharamshala, India (CNN) — Cheogyal Dawa couldn’t contain his emotions when he finally came face-to-face with an image he hadn’t seen openly displayed since he was a small child: a portrait of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader. “I was so excited I burst into tears,” Cheogyal said of seeing the large

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — After three difficult years, armed groups loyal to Tehran appear to be bouncing back across the Middle East, reinforcing Iran’s leverage in its war with the United States and Israel. For decades, experts say, these groups played a key role: acting as a powerful deterrent against direct attacks on

By Anna Chernova, Alessandra Freitas, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s mayor says a bomb blast that killed at least five people including the woman carrying the device and injured 19 others at a restaurant was a “terrorist attack.” An unidentified woman attempted to enter a private event at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya

By Sophia Saifi, Sana Noor Haq, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers have located the body of famed Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja who died alongside nine others after an avalanche struck his expedition in Pakistan last week. Purja, who made history over the years by climbing some of the world’s highest peaks, was part of

By Sophie Tanno, Kosta Gak, Helen Regan, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed his plea for Western air defenses following a deadly overnight Russian attack, hours after US President Donald Trump backed away from a public pledge to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors. The attack is the second major Russian

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Around 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta this week, a mass influx that overwhelmed local authorities. At least 57 people died during the crossings, which prompted tighter border security measures across Europe. Spanish leaders said they were working to expel all those who had entered

By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — While scores of people were fleeing Spain’s raging wildfires, the staff at Safari Madrid had others to think about. From birds, to reptiles, to large cats – all were in the path of danger and in need of saving. As the flames swept closer to the safari park, teams

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The security camera pointed at the entrance of Channel 12’s Tel Aviv headquarters captured the attack in all its simple brutality. A masked man ran toward the glass door of Israel’s most-watched television channel and shattered it with a brick. “Next time, the brick will be aimed at

By Jack Guy, Vasco Cotovio, Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denounced the “selfish” response of several EU member states to an influx of migrants crossing into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco this week, as the number of people who died rose to 67. Most of those 50,000

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — On the face of it, US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Hamas, and all other armed groups in Gaza, have agreed to disarm seems historic. Hamas has never agreed to a specific disarmament plan before and, if it does come to pass, it

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Wright, Farida Elsebai, Luke Unger, CNN (CNN) — The gas station was already aflame when policeman Mykhailo Tsypliakov and his colleagues ran in to help. He heard the buzz of a second drone descending and hit the ground. “I saw a flash, then got up right away,” Tsypliakov said. “I

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A top Chinese medical university is investigating the death of a young girl in an experimental gene-editing trial conducted by a leading expert at its affiliated hospital that has raised serious concerns about ethics in China’s booming biomedical industry. Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine said it has

By Jessie Yeung, Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Japan is launching a new centralized intelligence body for the first time since World War II – a controversial move that some fear deviates from Tokyo’s pacifist ideals, but one others say is much needed in a country so riddled with security weaknesses it has been called

By Lex Harvey, Ross Adkin, Xiaoqian Lin, Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — A search to find the rest of group of missing climbers, including world-renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja, continues in Pakistan, following an avalanche that killed at least four of them. Emergency crews on the ground and in helicopters have been scouring the Karakoram mountain

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has delved into his family history, revealing his ancestry included both enslaved people and slave owners. “I come from a family that my grandparents were immigrants,” the first American pontiff told NBC news in the Vatican Gardens of Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday. “On my mother’s side,

By Charlotte Reck, Laura Paddison, CNN London (CNN) — England is notoriously rainy — yet an “exceptionally serious” drought has hit half the nation after successive heat waves have parched the land, shrivelled rivers and put huge pressure on water supplies. A large stretch of central, eastern and southern England are enduring a “flash drought”