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Thousands of refrigerators were hacked across France. How worried should you be?

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Supermarket staffers were confronted by pools of water beneath freezers and spoiled produce earlier this week after hackers took control of refrigerators in hundreds of grocery stores across France. Around 700 food retailers were impacted by the nationwide cyberattack, in which hackers remotely connected to refrigeration equipment, switched

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Ukraine says Starlink restriction disrupting military as Musk claims US controls those systems

By Victoria Butenko, Jessie Yeung, Lauren Kent, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukrainian authorities say Starlink has restricted some military internet services, disrupting operations amid an escalating dispute with the Trump administration. Ukrainian authorities said they were caught off-guard by restrictions on the military-grade version of Elon Musk’s Starlink, called Starshield. Starshield systems

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A trial over one of the biggest acts of sabotage in decades is getting underway. Here’s a refresher

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — It started with a stream of bubbles rising to the surface of the Baltic Sea. Seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, explosions burst through two Nord Stream gas pipelines – Russia’s controversial gas highway into Europe – in the waters between Sweden and Poland. Investigators

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German airport briefly shuts after ‘emergency code’ transmitted in error by incoming plane

By Benjamin Brown, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s Nuremberg airport temporarily suspended flights on Tuesday after an emergency code was transmitted in error by an incoming plane due to a “brief malfunction.” Corendon Airlines said a flight from the Greek island of Corfu to Nuremberg, southern Germany, sent out the alert “while in Croatian

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Pope Leo XIV has been admitted to the hospital for surgery to remove a small growth on his lung

Pope Leo recovery ‘proceeding as expected’ following surgery to remove part of his lung with cancerous growth

By Christopher Lamb, Barbie Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV’s post-operation recovery is proceeding as expected after a “successful” surgery to remove part of his right lung which was found to have a cancerous growth, according to the Vatican. Leo’s doctors are confident the cancer has been removed but are awaiting additional

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11 sailors missing after drone strike sinks merchant vessel near Bulgarian waters

By Lauren Kent, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Eleven sailors are missing following a drone attack on a vessel off the coast of Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian officials, prompting the country’s government to summon the Russian ambassador. Overnight there were two attacks on merchant vessels in the Black Sea, Bulgarian officials said, with one Guinea-Bissau-flagged

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Saudi Arabia intercepts three missiles as capital’s international airport remains closed after deadly Houthi attacks

By Laura Sharman, Tim Lister, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said it intercepted and destroyed three Houthi ballistic missiles on Monday, as the main international airport in the kingdom’s capital remained closed following a series of attacks that have killed at least 20 people and wounded hundreds over the past week. The Saudi

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Leading pro-Kremlin war blogger detained in Montenegro and ordered to leave country

By Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russian pro-Kremlin military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Rybar Telegram channel, was detained in Montenegro on Friday along with several associates, Montenegrin authorities said, before being ordered to leave the country. Rybar, which British and US authorities have accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, has

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At the center of Russia’s plague scare, residents ‘don’t trust’ officials – but have little other choice

By Zahra Ullah, Arina Porkhovnik, CNN Moscow (CNN) — When the Siberian town of Shelekhov found itself at the center of global headlines over a plague scare, residents might have hoped to be the best informed. But Russians have long been accustomed to living with unanswered questions and opaque governance. So, while the sudden death

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US has lost or sustained damage to 81 military aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war, congressional report says

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The United States military has had 81 aircraft destroyed or damaged in the war with Iran, a Congressional Research Service report released this week says. The number includes both airplanes and helicopters as well as drones, with the MQ-9 Reaper drone – used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, close

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Germany arrests former foreign intelligence chief on treason and spying allegations

Story by AP BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said a former foreign intelligence chief was arrested Tuesday on espionage allegations. August Hanning, 80, served as president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from December 1998 to November 2005. He is “strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason, and

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes legal action against UK police over search warrants before arrest

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has launched legal action against police in England over the search warrants issued prior to his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office following revelations from the Epstein files in the United States. Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, has asked for a

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Dozens quarantined after researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection

By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova, Lex Harvey, and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness. The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research

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A drone operator is working at a training center of the Third Army Corps in the Kyiv region in May 2026.

Ukraine says it forced 250 Russian soldiers to surrender in daring operation

By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — A daredevil Ukrainian operation using robots dropped behind enemy lines and “Trojan” armored personnel carriers laden with explosives has led to the capture of more than 250 Russian troops, Kyiv says. Ukraine’s army has been chipping away at Russian-controlled territories in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas

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Flávio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s right-wing movement. Can he win Brazil’s presidency?

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Standing atop a truck equipped with loudspeakers on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro officially launched his campaign, addressing the inevitable comparison with the man whose footsteps he is trying to follow. “I know you are looking at me right now and thinking of someone,” he

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Harry and Meghan blame ‘extraordinarily reckless’ paparazzi for security scare at children’s school

By Max Foster, Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex have condemned what they described as “extraordinarily reckless” behavior by international photographers who they say sparked a security scare at their children’s school. Private security and school staff are understood to have spotted two young men carrying backpacks, later

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Britain’s prisons are full. The solution has sparked outrage

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — For weeks, British media has thrummed with warnings from almost every group connected with the country’s criminal justice system. Probation officers are threatening strike action. Victims’ rights groups worry that victims aren’t adequately protected. Prison governors warn of prisons acting as a “revolving door.” Beset by persistent prison

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Israeli Prime Minister

Netanyahu shared new intelligence on Iran’s nuclear ambitions with UAE leader, source says

By Tal Shalev, Tim Lister, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed new Israeli intelligence indicating Iran is resuming progress on its nuclear program during a visit to the country on Sunday, an Israeli source with knowledge of the meeting told CNN. Among the information shared

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