The Australian state of Victoria has been hit by flash flooding after a severe storm on Thursday. Cars and caravans were seen floating, and authorities have issued an emergency warning for towns along the Great Ocean Road, a popular tourist spot.
The Australian state of Victoria has been hit by flash flooding after a severe storm on Thursday. Cars and caravans were seen floating, and authorities have issued an emergency warning for towns along the Great Ocean Road, a popular tourist spot.
At least six people are dead and another 15 injured after a man opened fire on civilians in a Kyiv street on Saturday before taking hostages in a nearby supermarket, Ukrainian authorities said. CNN's Sebastian Shukla explains why this is a rare event for the country.
More than two dozen people were held hostage in a bank in Naples, Italy, according to Italian news agency LaPresse. The hostages were held for about an hour and a half in an incident that happened around 12:30pm on Thursday. A nationwide search is underway for three or four robbers who escaped through a tunnel and into the sewers, the Naples prosecutor general told CNN.
On a flight from Cameroon to Angola, Pope Leo XIV spoke to reporters about the recent criticism from President Trump.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards gunboats fired on two tankers traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, according to an advisory from the UK Maritime Traffic Organization. CNN's Nic Robertson says the reported incident comes as Iran’s military says restrictions on the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz are being reimposed, alleging “repeated breaches of trust” by the United States.
Thousands of women and young girls attended the “Devoted Girls of Iran” rally in central Tehran Friday. Pro-regime protests across Iran by the general population have been an almost daily occurrence since Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist as its supreme leader for nearly four decades, was killed on February 28 after US and Israeli joint strikes targeting his regime.
Pope Leo XIV traveled to Douala, Cameroon, where more than 100,000 people attended a liturgy, the largest Mass so far during his 10-day trip to Africa. CNN's Christopher Lamb explains why Africa is crucial to the future of the Catholic Church.
Tehran, along with its proxies, has been using psychological warfare in the war with the US and Israel. Experts say the number of fake text messages, cyberattacks and phishing emails sent to people in the Gulf states and beyond have ramped up since the start of the war, in a bid to sow panic among Iran’s enemies. CNN's Mostafa Salem reports.
