Month: January 1970

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Gilad Shalit and learn more about the Israeli soldier abducted and imprisoned by the military wing of Hamas from 2006 to 2011.

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Ebrahim Raisi and learn more about the president of Iran.

Israel has urged over 60s to get their booster shots immediately and the government has tightened up coronavirus restrictions amid a fresh wave of infections.

Ebrahim Raisi was set to be inaugurated as Iran’s next president on Thursday, signaling the start of a new harder-line era that could herald major shifts in the Islamic Republic’s … Read More

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan.

There are still many unanswered questions about what led to the tragedy in Beirut a year ago, and there has been no sense of closure in the 12 months since … Read More

One year ago, at 6.08pm on an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, they detonated in a mushroom cloud of death and destruction — one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.

A British marine tracking agency has reported a “potential hijacking” incident off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, without providing any further information on the vessels involved.

A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister in Kabul on Tuesday evening, just hours after the Afghan army urged residents in another city to evacuate … Read More

More than 200 people were killed and thousands were injured after a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 4, 2020.