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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — What do French soccer star Kylian Mbappé and the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty have in common? Before this week, very little. Now, they share the unenviable position of having angered Chinese fans and consumers – then having to quickly apologize and do damage control, with big earnings on

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Russia is seeking allies and expanding its influence abroad as its war in Ukraine drags on. African governments, meanwhile, are cozying up to the Kremlin for reasons of their own. As he hosted the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow this week, President Vladimir Putin portrayed Russia as a better

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A billboard stretching across one of Egypt’s biggest highways was hacked on Thursday to broadcast pornographic footage, according to the government and local media. The advertisement billboard, which sits on the bustling 26th of July Axis in Cairo, made waves on social media as many people stopped their cars

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Farmers dumped manure on the streets of Turin on Friday as mass demonstrations unfurled across more than 50 cities in Italy. Fired up by a wave of similar protests elsewhere in Europe, tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets to protest soaring living costs

By Christopher Lamb Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has submitted a mail-in ballot for the US midterms, becoming the first pope to vote in a US election and likely the first to vote in a secular democratic election. The first American pope “has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago,” the Vatican said in a

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scottish police are investigating the time convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spent with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Balmoral, a private royal estate in Scotland which is a favored retreat for the monarchy. “We have received information and active enquiries are ongoing but these are at a very early stage,” a

By Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people from an occupied town in southern Ukraine who survived months without basic supplies are being evacuated on Friday under a ceasefire agreement negotiated by first lady Melania Trump. The town of Oleshky in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson has been under

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A 13-year-old girl who was critically wounded in the deadly February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, has been released from hospital after 262 days, her father said Thursday. “There was never a day I stopped believing we would get here. The road ahead is still long, but this

By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond, CNN Taibeh, Israel (CNN) — For decades, many Palestinian citizens of Israel stayed away from the polls, refusing to legitimize a system they say has oppressed their people, sidelined their concerns, and failed to represent them. But this time felt different: after four years under the most right-wing

By Tal Shalev, Kara Fox, Andrew Carey, Henrik Pettersson, Soph Warnes, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel faces weeks, possibly months, of political limbo after final results show there’s no clear winner in its elections. Neither of the two main blocs – one led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, the other led by

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An attempt by murderer Erin Patterson, who killed three people with a meal of toxic mushrooms, to overturn her conviction has failed, with an appeals court finding that her original sentence was too light for her “cold and calculated” crimes. Patterson, now 52, was found guilty last

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she returned to the country from exile this past week to mobilize society as she pushes for new elections next year. “I have returned to finish a task and to fulfill a mandate,” she said Thursday in her first news conference since

By Lauren Kent, Vasco Cotovio, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — The deadly train crash in Spain’s Toledo province has sparked fresh criticism of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government and raised questions about the country’s investment in public infrastructure – just weeks before national elections in November. Wednesday’s crash marks the third deadly train disaster

By the Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Parts of a large volcanic rock formation crashed down in Turkey’s popular tourism destination of Cappadocia on Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring five others, officials said. A section of the rock formation — known as a fairy chimney — tumbled in Cappadocia’s Goreme region,

By Amarachi Orie, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl has been hospitalized after sustaining serious injuries in a wolf attack inside a German zoo’s enclosure. The girl was with two other children and a staff member when at least one wolf attacked her on Wednesday morning at Johannismühle Wildlife Park, south of Berlin,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A Russian drone struck the main railway station in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro as people waited to board a train on Thursday morning, killing 15 people. Another 10 people were wounded in the strike, the latest in a series of Russian attacks on transport and

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration and the Kremlin are discussing the possible lifting of US sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, Russian state media quoted a Kremlin aide as saying, in what would be another US concession to Moscow in negotiations to end its war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Three days after losing Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, joining other prominent allies of the Bolsonaro political movement who have sought refuge in the United States while facing legal troubles back home. The defeated candidate reportedly crossed into Argentina with his wife and

CNN By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — In a political career that has spanned more than three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has been written off too many times to count, only to prove the obituaries were penned prematurely. Israel’s election results this week appear to give the prime minister’s opponents a chance to end his

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — No clear winner has emerged from Israel’s election with all the votes counted, according to the Israeli Central Elections Committee. Both major political blocs have fallen short of the 61 seats needed to form a majority government in Israel’s 120-seat parliament, called the Knesset, setting up the country

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Individuals from as many as 27 different countries may have died in this week’s high-speed train collision in Spain, the country’s prime minister said Friday, as the process to identify victims continued. The deadly crash happened Wednesday after one train plowed into another near the town of Urda, in

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Can Cuba outlast Trump? The US president has vowed that Cuba could be the next US adversary to face his wrath. “What we’re going to do with Cuba is, we’re going to come back from Iran,” Trump said at campaign rally in Florida on Friday. “Those beautiful

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A zookeeper has died from her injuries days after she was attacked by a leopard at the Dutch safari park where she worked. The unnamed employee, who had worked at the Beekse Bergen safari park for almost four decades, was attacked by the animal on Saturday and died on

CNN By Sophie Tanno Pau Mosquera, Catherine Nicholls, Vasco Cotovio, Jack Guy, Benjamin Brown, Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) – At least 68 people have been killed in a collision between two trains in the Spanish province of Toledo on Wednesday morning, according to a local government official. The incident is the third rail disaster in

By Sophie Tanno Pau Mosquera, Catherine Nicholls, Vasco Cotovio, Jack Guy, Benjamin Brown, Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) – At least 68 people have been killed in a collision between two trains in the Spanish province of Toledo on Wednesday morning, according to a local government official. The incident is the third rail disaster in Spain

By Sophie Tanno and Pau Mosquera, CNN (CNN) — Two high-speed trains collided in Spain on Wednesday morning in what the country’s prime minister has described as a “serious” incident. A train operated by the state-owned company Renfe and another operated by the company Iryo collided in the central Spanish province of Toledo, between the

CNN By Rupert Neate, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III began his nine-day tour of the Caribbean region Tuesday, arriving in the Bahamas where he acknowledged “the great suffering and injustices of the past” as pressure mounts on Britain to apologize and pay reparations for its role in the slave trade.

By Max Saltman, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Julia Vargas Jones, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has said he will lead his country’s opposition from the United States, where he arrived on Wednesday after fleeing Brazil following his defeat in Sunday’s presidential election. In a statement in which he referred to himself

By Rupert Neate, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III began his nine-day tour of the Caribbean region Tuesday, arriving in the Bahamas where he acknowledged “the great suffering and injustices of the past” as pressure mounts on Britain to apologize and pay reparations for its role in the slave trade. Charles’

CNN By Lex Harvey, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine around the occupied city of Oleshky that first lady Melania Trump helped to broker has now gone into effect, officials on both sides said Tuesday. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights, said on X that the

By Lex Harvey, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine around the occupied city of Oleshky that first lady Melania Trump helped to broker has now gone into effect, officials on both sides said Tuesday. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights, said on X that the ceasefire

CNN By Alessandra Freitas, CNN When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba, Brazil, on November 8, 2019, hundreds of supporters were waiting for him. Many had been there, on and off, for much of the 580 days he spent behind bars, keeping vigil outside the building and

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure – including vital energy systems – in Ukraine, an independent UN investigations panel said on Monday. Russian forces have been targeting Ukrainian power infrastructure since the early months of the war in 2022, and massively

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia and its allies dispatched top security officials to Iran for talks on Monday amid fears of a fresh US-Israeli offensive that could plunge the Middle East into further instability. Pakistani military chief Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin joined Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Prince Khalid

Story by Hilary Whiteman, Photos by Dan Peled Dalby, Australia (CNN) — The first rainfall in months splashes off the windshield as the mayor of Western Downs Andrew Smith drives to the site of a proposed AI data center behind a cattle feedlot in rural Queensland. It’s feeding time and 16,000 cattle are standing under

By Lex Harvey, Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US Marine on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Okinawa earlier this month, multiple Japanese media outlets have reported, in a case that has prompted renewed outrage over the conduct of US troops in the country. Lance Corporal Devin

The Associated Press Sofia, Bulgaria (AP) — The presidential election in Bulgaria on Sunday ended inconclusively, with the next head of state to be picked in a runoff, according to election officials. A record low turnout, attributed by observers to a general mistrust in politicians resulting in voter apathy, will pit two contrasting political visions

The Associated Press Belgrade, Serbia (AP) — The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government. It was a seismic political shift in the Balkan country where Vucic, who

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — Polls opened Tuesday morning in Israel for one of the country’s most significant elections in its history. Voters now face a familiar question: Should Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, stay in power? Nearly every recent election has been a referendum on Netanyahu. This time, many

By Michael Rios, Jessie Yeung, Mary Triny Mena CNN Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) — After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States without her involvement. “In Venezuela! Together! For freedom!” she

By Lauren Kent, Kosta Gak, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Ukraine’s military of violating Starlink’s terms of service, after Kyiv said that access to the service had been restored. In a post on X Saturday, Musk said that Ukraine’s armed forces had “violated Starlink terms of service and used

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was reelected to a historic fourth term Sunday, but his defeated rival and Trump ally Senator Flávio Bolsonaro said he would not accept the results and would mount a legal challenge. The 80-year-old leftist leader won more than 51% of votes, securing

By Jonny Hallam, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 1,000 people were detained across France Saturday as a wave of largely-peaceful protests airing economic grievances returned to the streets of its major cities, mirroring similar demonstrations across Europe. A massive police presence was met with some violent clashes in Marseille and Bordeaux as well as

By CNN La Guaira, Venezuela (CNN) — The deafening roar of excavators echoes through the rubble, drowning out all other sounds. The midday heat is stifling, even more so for Eilyn Solano, who has been sheltering in a tent for over 100 days. But she endures the discomfort in the hopes of finding her youngest

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — It has been a bewildering period in US-Ukraine relations, after US President Donald Trump slammed his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky for failing to negotiate an end to the war and Kyiv accused Washington of withholding key military support. Trump then sent his envoy to Norway and Russia to try

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The kids are not alright. Across Europe, young people are protesting issues ranging from a lack of funding for education to the cost of housing, posing massive challenges to governments already under pressure and providing a visible sign of the intergenerational frustration felt by Gen Z. The precise configuration

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — One of Gadi Eisenkot’s strongest electoral assets is a simple, undeniable fact: He is not Benjamin Netanyahu. And for many voters in one of the most critical elections in Israel’s history, that appears to have been enough. But one of his other assets became the center of

By Hanako Montgomery, Junko Ogura, Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — In the 18 days Runa spent in a police cell in Japan, she wrote about how much she yearned to come home. The teenager missed her mother’s cooking, her hugs, and their small, ordinary rituals of life together – reading, shopping, and singing. “Please,

By Ivana Kottasová, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — France is bracing for yet another wave of protests this weekend with authorities racing to prevent a repeat of the kind of violence and riots that hit the nation last week. French authorities will be launching a massive security operation with some 70,000 police officers deployed across

CNN By Max Foster, Kathleen Magramo, CNN London (CNN) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, said Friday she was “deeply distressed” by a report that her father had a large collection of images depicting child sex abuse and revealed she had been told of “disturbing allegations” against him in 2018. Britain’s The Sun newspaper reported

By Jomana Karadsheh, Mostafa Salem, Farida Elsebai and Sarah Tamimi, CNN (CNN) — At least nine people were killed and another 40 injured after gunmen opened fire on a church in Jordan’s southern Karak province, in an unprecedented attack that has left the nation stunned. The “unidentified” gunmen have not yet been captured, the public

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Florida woman died after plunging more than 300 meters (around 1,000 feet) while hiking in the Italian Dolomite mountains, according to police in the northern city of Trentino. Her death on Saturday was announced late this week after her next of kin were notified, police say.

By Max Foster, Kathleen Magramo, CNN London (CNN) — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex said Friday she was “deeply distressed” by a report that her father had a large collection of images depicting child sex abuse and revealed she had been told of “disturbing allegations” against him several years ago. Britain’s The Sun newspaper reported late

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba, Brazil, on November 8, 2019, hundreds of supporters were waiting for him. Many had been there, on and off, for much of the 580 days he spent behind bars, keeping vigil outside the building and calling

By Lauren Kent, Kosta Gak, Lex Harvey, Adam Cancryn, Kevin Liptak, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s full access to Starshield has been restored, the country’s defense ministry said Saturday, two days after US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk had restored access to the military-grade version of his Starlink internet service. “The Ministry of

By Jeremy Diamond, Oren Liebermann, Dana Karni, Kara Fox and Farida Elsebai, CNN Israel began demolishing buildings and forcing residents to evacuate a neighborhood in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hours after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint, killing two soldiers. Three more soldiers were lightly wounded in the attack

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Heidi Levine, the Washington Post journalist brutally attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last week, said the terrifying ordeal has only strengthened her resolve to continue covering the plight of Palestinians. “What hurts me the most is I can now really understand what others have gone

CNN By Sophie Tanno, Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — At least 16 people have died and dozens were injured after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Tibet on Thursday, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The epicenter was 183 kilometers East-Northeast of the city of Nagqu in the Tibet region, according to the United States

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — El Salvador has deployed troops to Haiti to try to rescue four Salvadoran service members believed to have been captured by Haitian gangs, according to a spokesperson for the UN-authorized multinational security mission in Haiti known as the Gang Suppression Force (GSF). The missing service members,

By Sophie Tanno, Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — At least 16 people have died and dozens were injured after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Tibet on Thursday, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The epicenter was 183 kilometers East-Northeast of the city of Nagqu in the Tibet region, according to the United States Geological

CNN By Christiane Amanpour, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — After a bitter rift with Donald Trump left many in Ukraine fearing that the US president had swung behind Russia again, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the dispute head on: there’s nothing personal between me and Trump, he told CNN, but cozying up to Vladimir Putin would

By Christiane Amanpour, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — After a bitter rift with Donald Trump left many in Ukraine fearing that the US president had swung behind Russia again, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the dispute head on: there’s nothing personal between me and Trump, he told CNN, but cozying up to Vladimir Putin would only

Story by Reuters (CNN) — France on Thursday reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus usually found in livestock in a patient who later died, with authorities adding there was no risk to the general population at this stage. It is suspected that the victim was bitten by a midge carrying the virus

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Formula One is to return to Africa for the first time in more than three decades, with Rwanda granted a 10-year contract to host a Grand Prix from the early 2030s – a deal described by F1 chief Stefano Domenicali as a “landmark” moment. For Rwandan President Paul Kagame,

By Max Saltman, Barbie Nadeau, Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV’s lung cancer surgery last week was a success, and no further treatment is required, the Vatican press office said in a bulletin Wednesday. “The final histological reports and molecular biology analyses of the tissue removed during the Holy Father’s surgery have been

By Lucie Lepellec and Billy Stockwell, CNN Paris (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has slammed what he called “stupid comments” from some foreign leaders over protests sweeping the country, after his US counterpart Donald Trump claimed migrants were fueling the unrest. “We’ve had people claiming that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and

CNN, POOL, NASDAQ, X , @STARLINK, SPACEX, POLICE OF CHERNIHIV, STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE, @ZELENSKYYUA, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENCY VIA YOUTUBE, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENCY By Lauren Kent, Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in a massive missile attack overnight into Thursday, hours after President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin

By Lauren Kent, Arina Porkhovnik, Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in a massive missile attack overnight into Thursday, hours after President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin was ready to resume trilateral peace talks next month. At the request of US special envoy Steve Witkoff during their

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The Australian lawmaker hit by a car in an allegedly deliberate attack has now had both legs amputated, her husband announced Wednesday. Helen Haines, an independent federal MP, remains in a critical condition in hospital after being hit on a main road outside her electorate office in

By Nic Robertson, Billy Stockwell, Max Saltman, CNN London (CNN) — British counterterrorism police said Tuesday they have rearrested two men in their investigation into last month’s incident at RAF Fairford in England, where US B-1 bombers were based. A 24-year-old British national and a 25-year-old dual British-Iranian national were rearrested on suspicion of assisting

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Mostafa Salem, Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The United Kingdom said Tuesday it will deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia against attacks by the Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen. The UK will fly “defensive counter-air missions” using Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets to protect Saudi cities and critical infrastructure, the

By Melissa Bell, CNN (CNN) — Masha Moskalyova has spent a quarter of her life in jeopardy or on the run because of a picture she drew when she was just 12 years old. Four years on, she and her father are living in hiding in a small village in eastern France and still worry

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It’s dark outside. The news cycle is relentless. But Finland’s national broadcaster has a solution: Adorable puppies, available any time, night or day. Yle has been drawing millions of people to its website with “Pentulive” – Finnish for “Puppy Live” – a 24/7 live stream of Hilkka, a Lagotto

By Nimi Princewill, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — The leader of a Kenyan Christian cult has been found guilty of the murder of 190 children through an organised system of enforced fasting and abuse. Paul Mackenzie was on Monday convicted along with about 30 other suspects at Mombasa High Court over the deaths of 191

By Jack Guy (CNN) — A priest has been killed by a falling crucifix at a church in Ecuador as he performed a mass that was being live streamed online. Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari died on Saturday at the Perpetuo Socorro church in the city of Guayaquil, southern Ecuador, according to a statement from the

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A 43-year-old man has been charged with ramming an Australian lawmaker with a vehicle in what police said was a “targeted” attack that inflicted serious injuries requiring the amputation of her leg, according to media reports. Helen Haines, 65, who represents the federal seat of Indi, was

By Oren Liebermann, Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Amid US pressure on a surge of settler violence in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police arrested at least 10 suspects in the weekend attacks on a Washington Post journalist and an entourage of European diplomats. Police said the operation to locate and arrest the suspects

By Mostafa Salem, Aida Karimi, Leila Gharagozlou, CNN (CNN) — Iran has signaled that it is preparing for another round of war with the United States and has issued public threats against Washington and its allies in an apparent bid to deter President Donald Trump from restarting the current conflict. Over the past month, Iranian

By Tim Lister and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has excoriated Ukraine’s leader after the country launched one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of his demand it stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure. There have been growing tensions between Ukraine and

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has made his first major public appearance since his lung cancer surgery, saying the experience brought him closer to all those who suffer, from the same spot in the Vatican he announced a week ago he needed an operation. The 71-year-old pontiff lead the Sunday

By Tal Shalev, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — For years, Israelis driving the country’s highways in the final weeks of an election have seen the same image: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing beside President Donald Trump, under the slogan, “A different league.” Less than two weeks before the October 27 vote, the billboards of Netanyahu

By Daniel Dale, Jessie Yeung, Paula Newton, Max Saltman, CNN Toronto (CNN) — Four Canadian service members were killed and dozens injured in a major fire Saturday that occurred as troops were conducting combat training with live munitions at one of the country’s largest and busiest military bases, officials said Sunday. Thirty-nine people were being

By Mauricio Torres, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — Months after a deadly car wreck revealed the CIA’s participation in a raid on a Chihuahua drug lab, authorities arrested César Jáuregui, Chihuahua’s former attorney general, for allegedly allowing US spies to participate in the operation without permission from the Mexican government. Gilberto Loya Chávez, the acting

By Joseph Ataman, Catherine Nicholls, Sana Noor Haq, James Legge, CNN (CNN) — France’s President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation on Sunday evening as communities reeled from one of the most violent nights of unrest in recent years after largely peaceful anti-government protests descended into rioting, leaving government buildings torched, one police officer and one

By Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers attacked a group of European diplomats in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, one day after a Washington Post journalist was injured in another assault. Settlers attacked the group of European diplomats in the village of Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian village east of Ramallah,

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV left hospital Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery in a swift return to his duties following the first health scare of his papacy. Leo walked out of hospital unaided, greeting well-wishers, including a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl who gave him a stuffed toy as

CNN By James Legge, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has waived a further slate of sanctions related to Russian fossil fuel sales, sparking a bipartisan backlash days before they were to take effect under a bill he signed into law last month. The waiver announced in an executive order Friday comes

By Zahra Ullah, Anna Chernova, CNN Moscow (CNN) — “Something is constantly breaking, something is constantly not working,” 31-year-old Anton from St. Petersburg says. He came home one night to darkness. His smart bulbs were not turning on. The bulbs are powered by Yandex, a Russian technology company that provides internet- related services and digital

By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — Beijing has invited now-ousted White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to visit China more often after she claimed the country lacks “proper toilets” in a recent interview. Zacharia, who was sacked by President Donald Trump less than a week into her job following an onslaught of scrutiny, came under

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin from hospital on Friday, just days after his lung cancer surgery, and expressed his concern about the “grave humanitarian situation” in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city. During the call, the Vatican said Leo expressed “deep concern” about

CNN By Lauren Kent, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky praised “real leaders” in Europe at a summit in Belgium on Friday, taking a veiled swipe at US President Donald Trump amid testy relations between Kyiv and Washington. European leaders are rallying around Zelensky after the White House heaped pressure on Ukraine

By Lauren Kent, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky praised “real leaders” in Europe at a summit in Belgium on Friday, taking a veiled swipe at US President Donald Trump amid testy relations between Kyiv and Washington. European leaders are rallying around Zelensky after the White House heaped pressure on Ukraine to

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Nic Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Iran-aligned Houthi rebels carried out a deadly attack on the presidential Al-Maashiq Palace in Aden, the headquarters of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, on Thursday, killing five people, including two members of Prime Minister Shaya Al-Zindani’s security detail. The missile and drone attack also injured 16 people, according

By Victoria Butenko, Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense system, leaving it more vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks, a source familiar with the situation told CNN on Thursday. The stark development comes amid an increasingly bitter public feud between US President

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made their first joint public appearance in Britain since moving back to the country. Prince Harry and Meghan were greeted by well-wishers as they arrived at the Community Recording Studio (CRS) in Nottingham on Thursday morning. Crowds gave the couple balloons

By Sophia Saifi, Billy Stockwell, CNN Lahore, Pakistan (CNN) — Thirty-two children and a teacher were killed and dozens injured when the roof of a school in northern Pakistan collapsed on Thursday morning, authorities said. Heavy overnight rainfall caused the roof of a two-story building at Al Khair Public School in the city of Peshawar

By Gage Goulding, Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Ultra-isolated North Korea has a new bridge to the outside world. It’s a four-lane highway leading to close ally and main trade partner China, and its opening on Thursday marks the latest rapprochement with Beijing. Experts worry it may also make it easier for Pyongyang to

By Jessie Yeung, Isaac Yee, Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — Two cargo ships have sunk near the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours after being struck by unknown projectiles in separate incidents – highlighting the heightened danger to shipping as Iran steps up attacks in an attempt to regain control over the critical

By Sana Noor Haq, Jim Sciutto, Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine will resume strikes on Russia’s oil refineries, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, while criticizing what he called a “dangerous” withdrawal of US intelligence sharing and restrictions to the Starlink satellite internet service. The Ukrainian leader said he had halted attacks on Russian oil

By Max Saltman, Barbie Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV thanked fellow Catholics for their prayers on Wednesday in his first message since he underwent surgery for lung cancer in Rome. “As you know, I have been unable to be among you during these days,” Leo wrote in a statement to Catholics participating in