Kara Fox

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Kara Fox is an award-winning senior reporter for CNN International, reporting on climate, conflict, corruption, gender and geopolitics.
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Hsu Ching-kuang (L), head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on September 18, 2024.
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Who made Hezbollah’s exploding devices? Questions swirl around a mysterious supply chain stretching from Taiwan to Hungary
Sep 18, 2024
A Taiwanese electronics manufacturer has said that a tiny European company made the pagers linked to the deadly attack targeting Hezbollah members in Lebanon on Tuesday, as a fresh wave of walkie-talkie explosions rocked parts of the country on Wednesday and questions swirled over how the devices made it there.
Cressida Gethin outside Isleworth Crown Court in 2023.
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Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
Sep 14, 2024
The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for non-violent protest and were delivered under two new laws that supercharged policing powers.
Palestinians check the grounds of a school after an Israeli airstrike hits the site in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on September 11, 2024.
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Israeli airstrike on Gaza school sheltering displaced people kills at least 18, including UN staff, Palestinian officials say
Sep 13, 2024
At least 18 people, including United Nations staff, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense and hospital officials. At least 44 others were injured, they said.
A view of Blackrock College in Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday November 9, 2022.
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‘Ferocious violence’ accompanied ‘shocking’ levels of abuse at Ireland’s religious-run schools, report finds
Sep 4, 2024
Nearly 2,400 allegations of sexual abuse across hundreds of Ireland’s religious-run schools have been documented in a new report, marking the latest grim revelations to emerge from the country’s historic Church-State entanglement.
Israeli army armoured vehicles move along a road during a military operation in Tulkarm in the north of the occupied West Bank on August 29, 2024. Israel on August 28 launched a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank where the military said it killed Palestinian fighters, as the nearly 11-month-old Gaza war showed no signs of abating. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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As the world focuses on Gaza, the West Bank has reached boiling point. Here’s what to know
Aug 30, 2024
Israel’s assault on Gaza since the Hamas-led October 7 attack has killed more than 40,000 people, according to Palestinian authorities, drawing international condemnation. But just 60 miles away, another major escalation of violence has also been playing out in the West Bank, where more than 600 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops since the war began.
Top row, left to right: Yoram Metzger, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder. Bottom row, left to right: Chaim Peri, Nadav Popplewell, and Yagev Buchshtab.
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Bodies of six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza, Israel says
Aug 21, 2024
The bodies of six Israeli hostages have been retrieved from Gaza during an overnight military operation in Khan Younis, Israeli authorities said Tuesday, as the latest ceasefire negotiations continue.
Dr Shuaifeng Hu, Post Doctoral Fellow at Oxford University Physics, examining the new thin-film perovskite material. Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a revolutionary approach which could generate increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar panels. Instead, their innovation works by coating a new power-generating material onto the surfaces of everyday objects like rucksacks, cars and mobile phones.
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Razor-thin solar panels could be ‘ink-jetted’ onto your backpack or phone for cheap clean energy
Aug 9, 2024
A coating 100 times thinner than a human hair can harness the sun’s energy and be applied to everyday objects, in a development that could reduce the world’s need for solar farms.
Algeria's Imane Khelif punches Italy's Angela Carini during the Women's 66kg preliminary round match of the Paris Olympics on August 2.
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Why Italian boxer Angela Carini apologized to Olympic fight winner Imane Khelif
Aug 2, 2024
Italian boxer Angela Carini has apologized after quitting her bout at the Paris Olympics in 46 seconds, an emotional viral moment that led to online abuse of her Algerian opponent, Imane Khelif.
Far-right protesters scuffle with police at the "Enough is Enough" demonstration in London on Wednesday.
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UK rocked by far-right riots fueled by online disinformation about Southport stabbings
Aug 1, 2024
Far-right demonstrations turned violent for a second night across England Wednesday, in the wake of this week’s mass stabbing in Southport – the worst attack on children in the country in recent history.
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How US gun culture stacks up with the world
Feb 15, 2024
Ubiquitous gun violence in the US has left few places unscathed over the decades. As the tally of gun-related deaths continue to grow daily, here’s a look at how American gun culture compares to the rest of the world.
DUBLIN, IRELAND - OCTOBER 13: Ian Bailey pictured as he exits the Criminal Courts of Justice following the ruling that he will not be extradited regarding the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier on October 13, 2020 in Dublin, Ireland. Ian Bailey was convicted in France, in his absence, of the murder of French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork in 1996. Mr Bailey, 63, has always denied the murder. High Court judge Mr Justice Paul Burns today rejected the States application for the extradition of Bailey. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
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Ian Bailey, suspect in notorious Irish murder case, dead at 66
Jan 23, 2024
A British man long suspected of killing the wife of a famous French film producer in Ireland has died at age 66, according to his lawyer.
The rear of the Nobel medal awarded to the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010.
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Nobel Peace Prize won by Belarusian activist, Ukrainian and Russian human rights organizations
Oct 7, 2022
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, one of humanity’s most coveted accolades, will soon be made public. Follow here for the latest.
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‘It was a warzone.’ Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of elite Tehran university, witnesses say, as crackdown escalates
Oct 3, 2022
When Farid’s friend called crying for help on Sunday, he jumped on his bike and quickly rode to Tehran’s Sharif University.
Current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva.
Brazil’s heated presidential election will go to second round
Oct 3, 2022
Brazil’s polarizing presidential race will go to a second round run-off after no candidate achieved a majority of more than 50% of the ballot in an election that saw long lines at polling booths as millions turned out to vote.
Ukrainian soldiers near Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, September 22, 2022. Russian forces control the city, but Ukraine is fighting fiercely to recapture it.
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Russian officials criticize retreat from key Donetsk city after Putin annexed region
Oct 2, 2022
Russian officials have criticized their military leadership following the retreat of Russian forces from the strategic eastern city of Lyman, in the Donetsk region, underlining concerns that Moscow could be eyeing nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss walks out of Number 10 Downing Street on her way to the House of Commons for the government's anti-inflation budget plan in London on September 23, 2022.
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UK PM Liz Truss admits mistakes on controversial tax cuts plan, but doubles down on it anyway
Oct 2, 2022
British Prime Minister Liz Truss admitted mistakes had been made with her government’s controversial “mini-budget” announced last week – which sent the pound to historic lows and sparked market chaos – but stood by her policies.

About

Kara Fox has been with CNN International since 2016, breaking news and crafting features from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

As a 2023-2024 Ted Scripps Fellow of Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder, Fox expanded her knowledge of the climate crisis, researching the myriad ways in which climate change poses unique threats to women and girls.

Beginning her career, Fox worked as a photo editor at National Geographic Adventure Magazine and the World Picture Network in New York.

Fox studied at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she concentrated in South Asian Studies and Photography. She also holds an MA in Digital Journalism from Goldsmiths University of London.

She is a currently a guest contributor at the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.