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CNN  —  Here’s a look at the life of Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France. Birth date: January 28, 1955 Birth place: Paris, France Birth name: Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa Father: Pal Sarkozy de Nagy Bocsa Mother: Andrée (Mallah) Sarkozy de Nagy Bocsa Marriages: Carla Bruni (2008-present); Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz (1996-2007, divorced); Marie-Dominique Culioli (1982-1996, divorced) Children: with Carla Bruni: Giulia; with Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz: Louis; with Marie-Dominique Culioli: Jean and Pierre Education: Attended the Paris Institute of Political Studies, 1979-1981; University of Paris, Law, 1978 Religion: Roman Catholic Son of a French mother and Hungarian immigrant father. Grew up…

The Biden administration is expected to re-classify the Yemeni militant group, the Houthis, as a global terrorist entity amid continued attacks in the Red Sea, a source familiar told CNN on Tuesday.The administration removed the Houthis’ Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDTG) designation and de-listed it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in February 2021, after it was designated by the Trump administration in its final weeks.At the time, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the decision to remove the group’s designations was driven by concerns that it could imperil the ability to deliver crucial assistance to the people of Yemen.He said it…

Children scream for food relief in Rafah, Gaza on December 31, 2023. Rizq Abdel Jawad/Xinhua/Getty ImagesIsrael’s war on Gaza has brought famine “with incredible speed,” a UN aid official told CNN on Monday, warning that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are starving in the blockaded enclave.UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that the “vast majority” of Gaza’s 400,000 residents described by UN agencies as being at risk of famine “are actually in famine.” “And not only are they at risk of starvation.” .”It was an exceptional and unwelcome aspect of the…

Displaced Palestinians gather outside temporary shelters in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Sunday. Magdy Fathi/Nour Photo/AFPDisplaced people from Gaza who spend their days in makeshift tents or huddled around outdoor fires told CNN about the additional hardships winter has brought.Temperatures have dropped to near zero in the eastern Mediterranean in recent days, and the region has witnessed several winter storms, bringing heavy rains to the region.Ayman Jamal, who moved his family to Deir al-Balah in central Gaza from Shujaiya in the north, showed CNN inside his tent. Its walls consist of thin sheets of nylon attached to a primitive wooden structure.…

A spokesman for the Houthi rebels said the Iran-backed armed group would provide a strong response to a second, albeit much smaller, series of US air strikes in Yemen overnight.Spokesman Nasr al-Din Amer told Al Jazeera Arabic that there were no casualties or “material damage” resulting from the latest US action, but that there would be a “firm, strong and effective response.”The United States targeted a radar facility used by the Houthis in the early hours of Saturday morning local time, according to a US official. A joint US-UK operation 24 hours earlier had hit nearly 30 separate sites, in…

The United States has carried out more strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen, according to a US official, a day after launching a coordinated multi-country attack on nearly 30 Houthi positions.Additional strikes carried out Friday night (Eastern time) were much smaller in scope than the previous night. The official said they targeted a radar facility used by the Houthis. The Houthis had fired at least one anti-ship ballistic missile towards a commercial ship earlier on Friday.On Thursday, the US and UK bombed 28 separate Houthi sites in an attempt to disrupt their ability to fire on international shipping lanes in…

An RAF Typhoon aircraft at Akrotiri base in Cyprus, after returning after striking military targets in Yemen on January 12. Sergeant Lee Goddard/MoD/Bulletin/ReutersA senior Houthi official said on Friday that the joint strikes carried out by the United States and Britain in Yemen on Thursday were “brutal.”Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, head of the group’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said in a statement to ChannelHe added that the attacks showed that the United States is the one “managing the aggression” in Gaza as well as in Yemen.Thursday’s strikes represent a significant response after the United States and its allies warned the Iran-backed militant…

Palestinians walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City after weeks of Israeli bombing, as a four-day ceasefire comes into effect, on November 24, 2023. Omar Al-Gatta/AFP/Getty Images/FileThe South African government, which succeeded the apartheid regime that became a pariah on the international scene three decades ago, filed the case against Israel, accusing it of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on Hamas in Gaza. South Africa asked the court to indicate “interim measures” to protect the rights of Palestinians in Gaza “from imminent and irreparable loss.” Interim measures act as a type of…

The World Health Organization stressed that it “cannot afford” to lose the remaining functioning hospitals in southern Gaza, warning that the Strip’s health care sector is collapsing “at a rapid pace.” As Israeli calls for evacuations continue to push people into the south of the Strip, the World Health Organization said they have strained already strained facilities in the area. Shaun Casey, coordinator of the World Health Organization’s emergency medical team, said at a press conference on Tuesday that the region’s hospitals were “now filling up with patients” and internally displaced people.Only 13 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are…

Some buildings were flattened or partially collapsed. Others are exposed to bullet holes or smoke marks. Civilians are nowhere to be found. This is the scene that CNN found on the outskirts of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip after three months of war.CNN accompanied the Israeli military on Monday, to get a glimpse of the devastation inside Gaza and a rare look at Hamas’s alleged underground infrastructure and weapons manufacturing uncovered by Israeli forces.Next to bulldozed farmland and inside an ordinary building, the Israeli army took journalists inside the opening of what it said was a tunnel system leading…