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As cardinals travel from across the globe to elect Pope Francis's successor, benwedeman goes through the candidates in line to be the next Pope.

CNN’s Alex Marquardt and I discuss President Trump’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and here in the UAE set for May 13-16. A US official tells Alex it’s all about the dollars as the Gulf players have pledged significant investments in AI, tech, defense and more.

"He saw that refugees were also humans." CNN's Clarissa Ward speaks with a Syrian refugee family who fled their country's brutal civil war to settle in Italy with the help of Pope Francis in 2016.

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"Today was about honouring, about gratitude, and about love." Clarissa Ward, Christopher Lamb and Anderson Cooper reflect on the service as the funeral of Pope Francis concludes.

Vladimir Putin rejects demands for an immediate ceasefire by Ukraine and the Europeans and calls for peace talks starting next week in Turkey, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells me: “This is a maximum peaceful approach. This is a very serious approach. And it proving the

US President Trump has arrived in the UAE for the final leg of his Gulf trip. "This is a beneficial relationship to both nations, and this is a relationship that will create deep rooted ties," the UAE's Education Minister Sarah Al Amiri tells Becky Anderson on set in Abu Dhabi.

From Reuters via Washington Post: Yousef Al-Bayouk weeps over his brothers, Moath and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli strikes, as mourners attend their funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday. (Hatem Khaled/Reuters)

Pope Leo XIV: the situation in #Gaza is “increasingly worrying”. He renewed a “heartfelt appeal” to allow the entry of “decent humanitarian aid” & an end to hostilities, for which he said children, elderly and sick are paying a “heartbreaking price”. #PopeLeoXIV

Another heartbreaking message from a close Palestinian friend: “Idf targeted my wife’s sister place, killed her sister, husband, her nephew and 2 nieces” Collective punishment of Gaza’s civilians must stop! UN coordinated humanitarian aid at scale must be let in immediately!

"There is a trickle of aid now getting in. 300,000 meals delivered today, 87 trucks in, most of them carrying food. That's a drop in the ocean of what's needed. I've got 10,000 trucks on the border... there are lots of people starving right now. Two million people inside Gaza at

فقط بالأمس، نشرنا القائمة المُحدثة والموثقة من وزارة الصحة للأطفال الذين استشهدوا في غزة منذ بداية الإبادة الجماعية. من بين أكثر من 16,503 شهيدًا، كان هناك 916 رضيعًا، بينهم 343 وُلدوا واستُشهدوا في قلب المجزرة… تمامًا مثل هذا الرضيع الذي انتُشل اليوم شهيدًا من تحت أنقاض منزله

Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home when she went to work at the Nasser Medical Complex. Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the hospital. They were her own children. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/24/mid…

Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed in a recent airstrike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says cnn.it/3Z0AIq0

On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner revolutionized the world with his bold and courageous invention of a 24/7 Cable News Network. For 45 years, that same pioneering spirit of innovation and commitment to truth, integrity, and fearless reporting has been the hallmark of CNN. #CNN45

BREAKING An Air India passenger plane has crashed on departure at an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. Richard Quest weighs in on what could have happened. Rolling updates on CNN International and on CNN.com at edition.cnn.com/world/live-new…

Israel has launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and military leaders. In retaliation, Iran has launched over 100 drones toward Israeli territory. Live updates 👇 edition.cnn.com/world/live-new…

"What we're seeing in the region is a combination of condemnation and concern." Paula Hancocks weighs in from Abu Dhabi on how the wider Middle East region is reacting to Israel's strikes on Iran.

On scene as rescue underway following Iranian missile strike central Israel

“You and I will come to an end somewhere. The most beautiful poem in the world falls quiet,” 23-year-old Parnia Abbasi wrote, who was among 224 Iranians killed by Israeli strikes so far. Nick Paton Walsh takes a closer look at the toll on civilians across Iran.