Kara Fox

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Kara Fox is a senior writer for CNN Digital, International, where she focuses on women's issues and in-depth features that combine geopolitics and culture.
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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.
Members of an electoral commission wait for voters near a destroyed residential building on the third day of a referendum on the joining of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) to Russia, in Mariupol, Ukraine September 25, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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September 27, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
Sep 28, 2022
The so-called secession referendums in four occupied Ukrainian regions are almost over, with results of the Russian-organized voting expected to be announced as early as Tuesday evening. Follow here for live news updates.
Leader of Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni votes at a polling station during the snap election in Rome, Italy September 25, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
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Giorgia Meloni claims victory to become Italy’s most far-right prime minister since Mussolini
Sep 26, 2022
Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in a general election that seems set to install her as Italy’s first female prime minister, leading the most far-right government since the fascist era of Benito Mussolini.
A woman places her ballot paper in the ballot box as Italians vote to elect a new parliament on September 25, 2022 in Bologna, Italy. The snap election was triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi in July, following the collapse of his big-tent coalition of leftist, right-wing and centrist parties.
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Italy expected to look right as voters head to polls in national election
Sep 26, 2022
Italians were voting Sunday in national elections in which the far-right Brothers of Italy party – led by Giorgia Meloni – appears poised to make big gains after the collapse of two governments since the last election.
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Is the Covid-19 pandemic really ‘over’?
Sep 21, 2022
While US President Biden believes the pandemic is behind us, public health officials aren’t saying it’s over quite yet
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and fellow officials try to negotiate access to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, in this handout image released September 1, 2022.
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September 2, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
Sep 2, 2022
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said the UN nuclear watchdog will have a “continued presence” at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where constant shelling has sparked fears of a nuclear accident. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

About

Kara Fox is an award-winning senior writer for CNN Digital, International, with a reporting focus on women’s issues, geopolitics, climate and corruption.

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.