Kara Fox

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Kara Fox is a digital news producer for CNN Digital, International, where she focuses on women's issues and in-depth features that combine geopolitics and culture.
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How US gun culture stacks up with the world
Oct 26, 2023
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.
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 07, 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 03, 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 03, 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 02, 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 02, 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 02, 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.
TOPSHOT - This photograph taken on May 7, 2022, shows a bridge partially collapsed due to flash floods cretaed after a glacial lake outburst, in Hassanabad village, in Pakistan's northern Hunza district. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Pakistan’s melting glaciers are ‘erupting’ and worsening floods
Sep 02, 2022
Pakistan is home to more glaciers than anywhere in the world outside the polar regions, but as the climate warms, it’s becoming more vulnerable to sudden outbursts of melting glacier water that have the power to bring widespread destruction to its people.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2022/01/31: Protesters hold a 'Don't Leave Us In The Cold' banner during the rally. Charity organisation, Age UK were joined by demonstrators outside Downing Street as they delivered a letter to Boris Johnson signed by over 97700 people, urging the government to help elderly people with their energy bills. One million older people live in fuel poverty and are unable to afford the cost of heating during winter. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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‘Starve or freeze to death’: Millions of elderly Brits fear a grim choice this winter as costs spiral
Aug 31, 2022
When she first started to shed some weight, Yvonne DeBurgo quipped that she could afford to lose it. But her weight loss, driven by the need to economize, is a sobering manifestation of a cost-of-living crisis which is impacting many older people.
CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 12: Salman Rushdie, 2019 Booker Prize, shortlisted author, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2019 on October 12, 2019 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
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Appalled, devastated and worried. How the world is reacting to the attack on Salman Rushdie
Aug 14, 2022
Messages of outrage and support are pouring in from all corners of the globe after writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed at an upstate New York venue where he was due to speak Friday.
Northern Ireland manager Kenny Shiels speaks during a post match interview after the Women's World Cup Qualifying match between Northern Ireland and England, at Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday April 12, 2022. The coach of Northern Ireland's women's team has provoked criticism by saying girls and women were more susceptible to conceding multiple goals in a short space of time because they are "more emotional than men." (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)
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‘Women are more emotional than men’: Kenny Shiels apologizes for his comments following Northern Ireland’s defeat to England
Apr 14, 2022
Kenny Shiels – manager of the Northern Ireland women’s football team – has apologized for comments he said in a post-match press conference suggesting women are prone to conceding goals in quick succession because they “are more emotional than men.”
ZHOUSHAN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 16: Workers install photovoltaic panels on the roof of a fish processing plant on November 16, 2021 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Yao Feng/VCG via Getty Images)
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Renewables are being installed at top speed – but still far too slow to fix the planet, energy watchdog says
Dec 01, 2021
The International Energy Agency reports renewable energy growth is set to hit an all-time record this year.

About

Kara Fox is a digital news producer for CNN Digital, International, where she focuses on women’s issues and in-depth features that combine geopolitics and culture.

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

Since 2008, Fox has worked as a photographer and multi-platform visual journalist, where she has documented daily life in the isolated kingdom of Bhutan; political movements in Myanmar, Cambodia, Haiti, Brunei and the UK and travel stories throughout India, Thailand and Indonesia.

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.