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CNN By Tim Lister and Nic Robertson CNN (CNN) — British police on Sunday arrested five men on suspicion of terror and explosives offenses close to an airbase in England that is used by US long-range bombers in the war against Iran. Army bomb disposal units are at the scene while dozens of houses nearby

By Tim Lister, Nic Robertson and Chandler Thornton, CNN (CNN) — British police on Sunday arrested five men on suspicion of terror and explosives offenses close to an airbase in England that is used by US long-range bombers in the war against Iran. Army bomb disposal units are at the scene while dozens of houses

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — At least four people have been killed and others are are missing in Nepal after an avalanche hit base camp at a remote mountain where climbers and support staff were preparing for an expedition, according to organizers. Sherpas and kitchen staff were fixing ropes and setting up tents at

By Ross Adkin, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Police are hunting for suspects after three separate shootings overnight in South Africa left more than 30 people dead, as the country grapples with a spate of violent crime. South African police launched a manhunt Sunday after 17 people were killed and 15 wounded in a shooting

By Sophie Tanno, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — The rise of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) is causing widespread alarm, including in unexpected quarters – other far-right European parties. While the German party is winning record levels of support at home, some of its closest ideological allies elsewhere in Europe are keeping it at arm’s

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Theopista Masenge was at the hospital in Mbeya, Tanzania, rolling out new treatments for children with high HIV viral loads when she got the call: Stop work, now. It was January 2025, and the health care program the pediatrician was implementing, which provided services for HIV-exposed infants, children

By Steven Jiang, Issy Ronald, Mike Valerio, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two giant pandas on loan from the Chinese government as part of Beijing’s long tradition of “panda diplomacy” have arrived at Zoo Atlanta. The pandas — a male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang — arrived on a FedEx flight

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Billy Stockwell and Tim Lister (CNN) — Iran says it is waiting on the “definitive” response to its latest proposal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump publicly rejecting the offer. Under the plan, Iran would open the critical waterway within a week and resume nuclear talks

By Sebastian Shukla, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — There has been outrage after a small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution. ‘Stolpersteine,’ meaning ‘stumbling blocks’, are found across Germany, as well as in

Story by Reuters (CNN) — The organisers of the prestigious Goncourt literary prize said on Friday they had removed a smash-hit novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien from their longlist after accusations he used AI to write it. Orelien denied using AI to write “C’etait Ca ou Mourir” (“It Was Either That or Die”) as

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Newly uncovered archival documents have raised questions over whether Adolf Hitler could have murdered his half-niece, whose death in his Munich apartment in 1931 was officially ruled a suicide. Angela ‘Geli’ Raubal, 23, was found dead with a gunshot wound to her chest in Hitler’s Munich apartment in September

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Seven months after escaping with his life from a US-coordinated Israeli airstrike that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top diplomat walked the streets of Manhattan this week under the protection of the US Secret Service. As leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, Abbas

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that US President Donald Trump will allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles, a key demand as Kyiv tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks. “There are concrete agreements in place,” Zelensky told reporters. “During our last meeting, President Trump emphasized that, yes,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Nearly four years ago, a peace deal ended the brutal war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. Now, the violence has returned — but the battle lines have changed. Tigrayan rebels are again fighting the federal government, while forces that were

By Erin Burnett, Billy Stockwell, CNN New York (CNN) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s media appearances in Iran are tightly controlled affairs. But on Thursday he sat down to face questions from a group of journalists in New York, where despite being the leader of a country at war with the United States, he is

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A baby has been born on the remote Scottish island of North Ronaldsay for the first time in more than three decades. Duncan Wilder Thorstein Traill Suarez Ford was born on September 15, marking the first birth on the island in 34 years, his mother Alice Traill Ford told

By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The son of Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter was critically injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday afternoon, according to regional authorities, one day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech at the United Nations. Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier

CNN By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry has joined calls for an urgent slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, calling it the “ultimate sycophant” and warning that technology is moving too fast for researchers to keep pace. The Duke of Sussex made the comments at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry has joined calls for an urgent slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, calling it the “ultimate sycophant” and warning that technology is moving too fast for researchers to keep pace. The Duke of Sussex made the comments at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Eleven people, including a woman believed to be pregnant, were killed when gunmen opened fire at a house south of the South African city of Durban, police said Wednesday. Three gunmen entered the house in the Ziko area of KwaMakhutha on Tuesday night and shot the group as they

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Rome’s world-famous Colosseum was closed to the public on Wednesday for the first time since the Covid pandemic after a specialist rope worker fell to his death, Italy’s Culture Ministry said. Andrea Moretti, 22, was suspended above the highest point of the amphitheater when he fell around

By Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — The Spanish cabinet has allowed a US extradition request for James “Fergie” Chambers, an American millionaire and Gaza donor, to proceed to Spanish courts in a decision that his lawyers warn will set a “dangerous precedent” for the defense of the Palestinian cause in Europe. The Council of Ministers’

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian authorities found €3.2 million ($3.6 million) hidden in the walls, floors and furniture at an apartment in Naples on Monday, in a dawn raid that led to the arrests of 34 people. Anti-mafia law enforcement officials found the cash in bundles of 50-euro notes at an

By Alex Stambaugh, Hilary Whiteman, Ivan Watson, Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Australia’s defense minister said Tuesday that F-35 fighter jet parts had been mistakenly diverted to Hong Kong, following reports US lawmakers were investigating the mishap amid concerns about the possibility of China getting access to sensitive US military technology. “We’ve been made aware

By Abbas Al Lawati and Becky Anderson (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s Arab allies in the Persian Gulf met him in New York on Tuesday as he weighs whether to “annihilate” Iran’s regime. They talked him out of a major escalation once before. This time, they fear being drawn deeper into the war just

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The recent murder of a female foreign exchange student in central Mexico has cast international attention on the country’s high levels of violence against women, prompting the Mexican government to act with an urgency that some say it often lacks in cases involving its own nationals. Claudia Tacoronte Aguilera,

By Billy Stockwell, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A slimmed-down Iranian delegation arrived in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, as President Donald Trump touted the possibility of “very big things” ahead amid the war in the Middle East. A founding member of the UN, Iran has maintained a presence at

By Tim Lister (CNN) — In the last month, Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have joined the Middle East conflict in dramatic fashion — capturing a swath of the Red Sea coastline, launching missiles and drones at Saudi energy infrastructure and even targeting the Saudi capital, Riyadh, over the weekend. Now their campaign appears to

By Max Saltman, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Fear not, world leaders — the UN’s notorious escalator has been fixed in time for diplomacy’s biggest event of the year. That’s what outgoing United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters at his last press conference ahead of this week’s General Assembly, which will bring hundreds of

By Laura Sharman, Hanna Park, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — A police officer was shot and wounded near a synagogue in Ontario, Canada, on Sunday evening during an exchange of gunfire with a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun as congregants gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, officials said. The

By Sebastian Shukla, CNN Berlin (CNN) — “It is a disaster.” Those were the words of a forlorn-looking German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as he addressed his party in the seconds after regional elections handed his center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) their second and third electoral drubbings in a month. The results of Sunday’s elections in the

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Days after Hong Kong socialite and influencer Abby Choi was reported missing in 2023, some of her remains turned up in a rural village house far from the glitzy skyscrapers and magnificent wealth that were her world. The death of Choi, who rubbed shoulders with Hong Kong’s

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United Russia party is easily on track to win Sunday’s tightly controlled Russian parliamentary elections, with President Vladimir Putin once again set to cement his dominance over domestic politics. Final election results will not be tallied before September 25, but according to initial data from the Central Election

By Sebastian Shukla, Sophie Tanno, Thom Poole, CNN Berlin (CNN) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is facing a dire set of results in state elections, exit polls show, and is set to be squeezed both by the surging far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and parties on the left. The AfD

By Oren Liebermann, Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardoned a soldier who shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the occupied West Bank in 2016, despite opposition from the military’s chief of staff. Announcing the move on Saturday, Herzog said the decision would allow Elor Azaria, who was in his

CNN By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine carried out its largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital and the surrounding area as voting in parliamentary elections entered the final day. The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday that more than 1,900 drones, eight

By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine carried out its largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital and the surrounding area as voting in parliamentary elections entered the final day. The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday that more than 1,900 drones, eight guided

By Mostafa Salem, Leila Gharagozlou, Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — When 35-year-old Sima walked into a Tehran pharmacy, her eyes raced across the shelves behind the counter, searching for the box that would keep her kidneys from failing. Without it, she was running out of time. She finally found the medication in the seventh pharmacy

By Mustafa Qadri, CNN (CNN) — Deep inside the labyrinthine alleys of Acre’s Old City – home to a 700-year-old Crusader fortress – Muhammad Hani could not order a takeaway pizza. Delivery drivers struggled to navigate the maze of tightly packed ancient buildings, narrow alleyways and winding streets – leaving many of the Arab citizens

By James Frater, CNN London (CNN) — Soldiers in bright red uniforms and tall, black fur hats outside Buckingham Palace are a familiar sight for anyone who’s visited London. But the distinctive caps – among the most recognizable symbols of the British monarchy – have become increasingly contentious for their use of real bear fur.

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Little Gus Lamont was wearing a gray sun hat over his long blond curls and a blue Minions T-shirt as he played in the sand outside his grandparents’ house in the Australian outback last September. When his grandmother went to check on him, he was gone. The disappearance of

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russian NHL hockey star Alexander Ovechkin is facing a wave of criticism after appearing in an election ad for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. A video released ahead of Russia’s parliamentary elections this weekend shows the hockey star endorsing Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is one of the

By Juan Carlos López, CNN Juraguá, Cuba (CNN) — In Cuba, blackouts like the one that happened this Friday are nothing new. In fact, they have been a feature of life here for decades — even if US President Donald Trump’s ban on oil sales to Havana has deepened the crisis. With its limited domestic

By Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, and Mirai Katagiri, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — The fruit hanging on the branch looks tantalizingly good – round and plump, with a fragrant, deep orange skin. But this isn’t just any fruit. The Beni Princess is a prized citrus with a signature jelly-like texture and sweet juice that took 20

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Only a few extracts from a new book by Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Charles Spencer, have published so far. But they have sparked a firestorm for Britain’s royal family, dredging up painful memories of Diana’s unhappy marriage to King Charles III, and provoking a rare, forceful rebuke from Buckingham

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — The body of a ninth woman has been found in the space of just two months in an area east of South Africa’s largest city, stoking fears in a country already facing dire levels of violence against women. The latest body was found Thursday morning in Dawn Park, Ekurhuleni,

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Two deadly US strikes on Iran during the opening salvo of the war, including one that hit an elementary school, may have been war crimes, a United Nations fact-finding mission concluded in a new report. The report by the independent investigators also found that Iran may have committed crimes

By Helen Regan, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US officials made a rare visit to Myanmar this week to secure the release of an American businessman who had been detained in the war-torn country since June. The delegation met with officials of Myanmar’s military-backed government in the capital Naypyidaw on Tuesday, according to a US

By Zahra Ullah, CNN Moscow (CNN) — “The candidates have not shown up at our studio, so I’ll say goodbye for now,” Elizaveta Dorokhina, a Russia-1 state TV anchor, told viewers, with three empty podiums visible either side of her in the studio. The broadcast switched to a commercial break. All six registered candidates in

By Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A woman from a low-income family in China crossed over into Hong Kong to get to a concert she had spent months saving up for. It was a trip that Beijing’s vast surveillance apparatus didn’t miss. Now her family face the prospect of losing their government benefits

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — King Charles wanted all eyes on AI, as he prepared to host a major summit to discuss the controversial technology. But those hopes were shattered after a fresh royal scandal hit the front pages hours before Thursday’s meeting started, threatening to overshadow the tech gathering and throwing the

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Protesters in South Africa have given migrants living illegally in the country until the end of the month to leave. If that sounds familiar, it comes months after another deadline came and went. And while the threat carries no legal force, it is causing major ructions between

By Brad Lendon, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Wednesday released video they said showed the wreckage of was a Saudi F-15 fighter jet shot down over Yemen, as their lightning advance adds further pressure on global energy supplies. According to a Houthi statement, the sophisticated US-built jet “was downed using a

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A prestigious London university will re-enrol an Egyptian student who was suspended following his participation in pro-Palestinian protests, after senior leadership initially enforced disciplinary action that could have triggered his deportation from the UK. Usama Ghanem, 22, will return to King’s College London (KCL) this fall, nearly 18

CNN By Lex Harvey, Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday that Canada become the bloc’s first “associate member,” provoking a fresh tariff threat from US President Donald Trump. The move is aimed at shoring up their economies in the face of increasing trade tensions with the United

By Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — When teenagers went back to school in China earlier this month, one book on their new mandatory reading list stood out: the 19th century English novel “Jane Eyre.” The literary classic, originally considered a trailblazing tale of female empowerment, might seem a surprising choice in a country

CNN By Issy Ronald, Jomana Karadsheh, Florence Davey-Attlee, Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — During her incarceration at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi would smuggle out fragments of writing with the help of her friends and fellow inmates. The risks were enormous; Mohammadi, 54, has suffered violent beatings, fallen gravely ill and

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — The brother of the late Princess Diana, Charles Spencer, has claimed in his forthcoming memoir that King Charles told him days after her death that “we’ll forget her soon enough,” according to an extract published on Wednesday by the Daily Mail. Spencer claimed that Charles – then Prince

By Issy Ronald, Jomana Karadsheh, Florence Davey-Attlee, Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — During her incarceration at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi would smuggle out fragments of writing with the help of her friends and fellow inmates. The risks were enormous; Mohammadi, 54, has suffered violent beatings, fallen gravely ill and spent

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A tiny rural village in central England has voted to secede from the United Kingdom in protest over plans to house more than 1,000 migrants at a former military site nearby. The referendum took place on Tuesday in Piddington, Oxfordshire, with an overwhelming majority of voters backing the

By Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — More than 20 people, including several children, have died after a war-damaged residential building in Gaza City collapsed early Wednesday, local authorities said, with dozens more feared trapped under layers of rubble. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of al-Shifa hospital, told CNN at

By Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — The European Union is moving to ban social media for under 13s across the bloc and impose restrictions on the digital technology for older children, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Wednesday. The move to develop EU-wide rules comes after several individual EU member states have introduced

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — The small Pacific nation of Fiji has declared a national HIV emergency as it grapples with surging case numbers, partly driven by a growing methamphetamine problem. One in every 60 adults in the archipelago of less than a million people are now estimated to have Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

By Eyad Kourdi, Jessie Yeung, and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia said it shot down a Houthi drone near Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, on Tuesday, drawing swift regional condemnation of the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group. Turki al-Maliki, spokesperson for the Saudi-led Coalition Forces, accused the group of targeting the city, saying it was

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN (CNN) — Authorities investigating the murder of a Spanish exchange student in Mexico have arrested a man they intend to charge with femicide, in a case that has shocked the academic community in both countries. Claudia Tacoronte Aguilera died after being stabbed with a “bladed weapon” on Saturday, during an attempted

By Lauren Kent, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Protesters are taking to the streets around the world to voice anger about skyrocketing fuel prices and rolling blackouts, as the now monthslong US war with Iran drives up the cost of energy globally. Oil prices climbed back above the $100 per barrel mark last week in

By Arina Porkhovnik, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced Tuesday that the country is reinforcing security at its border with Ukraine after Russian drone strikes near crossings heightened concerns among NATO allies. “Recent days show that ‌Russia’s actions ⁠threaten the security of all of Europe. In accordance with our government’s

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A public inquiry into how the crimes of a British nurse convicted of murdering multiple babies went undetected for so long has uncovered a litany of failings at the UK hospital where she worked and concluded that some babies would have been saved had managers acted sooner. The

By Lex Harvey, Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday that Canada become the bloc’s first “associate member,” provoking a fresh tariff threat from US President Donald Trump. The move is aimed at shoring up their economies in the face of increasing trade tensions with the United States.

By Chris Lau, Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — Japan has been gripped by a declining population for decades, but one age group is adding new members and there are more of them than ever. For the first time in Japan, the number of people aged 100 or older has surpassed more than 100,000

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Whether it’s while waiting for the train or chilling solo at a cafe, a tiny nation in Southeast Asia is nudging its people toward an increasingly elusive habit: reading. Singapore this month launched a novel five-year national campaign to nurture reading habits, with incentives including small payments to citizens

CNN By Lauren Kent, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, have decided to move schools for their children just days into the start of the new academic year, citing security practicalities. “The decision for the children to move school was taken following a discussion with

By Lauren Kent, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, have decided to move schools for their children just days into the start of the new academic year, citing security practicalities. “The decision for the children to move school was taken following a discussion with the

By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — A British man has admitted to drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge for a period of more than two decades. The man pleaded guilty to dozens of offenses in a court in Manchester, northern England, on Monday – including rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and administering

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — It doesn’t really matter if they meant to do it. The Russian drone strike that hit a train near Ukraine’s border with Poland as a group of former Western officials travelled out of the country is a clear escalation by Moscow. Ukraine’s railway network said it believes former

By Sophie Tanno, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Former US CIA director David Petraeus was at a Ukrainian train station at the very moment a Russian drone struck a passenger train on Sunday, shortly after a diplomatic train carrying former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other foreign dignitaries had passed through. Kyiv

By Sophie Tanno, Daria Tarasova-Markina, and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has said that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to stop hitting each other’s energy targets amid concerns over the global spike in fuel prices – but both his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and the Kremlin later described it as a

By Laura Sharman, Ibrahim Dahman, Rupert Neate, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Iranian state media has claimed an Iranian commercial vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz late Saturday, killing one person, amid an ongoing battle between the US and Iran for control over the crucial energy chokepoint. It comes at the same time

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — Gideon Saar smiled as he cut the blue ribbon outside the newly inaugurated embassy of Nauru in Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign minister described the tiny Pacific island nation of some 12,000 people as “one of Israel’s greatest friends in the international community.” Two days later, it was Slovenia’s turn, as

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Years before he was killed in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, the influencer José Luis Esparza Güicho came to be known as “El Piturris.” The nickname originated from one time during his childhood when Esparza’s father came home drunk, Luis Antonio Escalante, the producer of Esparza’s podcast, told

By Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — For more than two decades, the music of Colombian rock star Juanes has carried far beyond Latin America, winning him several Grammys and sold-out tours. Born Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, “Juanes” was an affectionate childhood nickname used by his family long before the awards and songs that would go

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Iran was “probably” behind the attack launched from Iraq that shut a vital oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia. The East-West Pipeline was attacked by several drones coming from Iraq on Thursday, the Saudi foreign ministry said Friday, resulting in injuries and some damage. The

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The conditions are grueling. Temperatures regularly soar above 110 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, then drop sharply overnight. Water is scarce and the dust and sand get everywhere. But at least they are working above ground. This elite group of Ukrainian drone operators has spent years hunting Russians from

By Nic Robertson, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The desperate pleas for air cover from Yemeni generals started coming mid-morning on Thursday. An advance by the Iran-backed Houthis toward Yemen’s strategic port city of Mocha was in full swing, and backup support from chief ally Saudi Arabia was nowhere in sight. “The Houthis committed everything

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — A man from North London pleaded guilty to charges related to encouraging other members of an online forum to sexually assault drugged victims, London’s Metropolitan Police announced on Friday. Police discovered the forum in October 2025 and established a national coordination group, led by the UK’s National Crime Agency

By Darío Klein, CNN (CNN) — Uruguay is ranked as one of the safest countries in Latin America but rising public concern about crime have forced its policymakers to develop a new “democratic” strategy for the problem. Their aim is to bring down homicide rates while deliberately deviating from the draconian security measures popularized by

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A CEO has failed in his bid to sue his ex-girlfriend in Singapore’s high court for almost $370,000 (SGD $468,090) after breaking up with her, claiming she owed him for luxury gifts he lavished on her during their relationship. Chander Agarwal showered Felicia Lee with Hermes, Dior and Prada

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Three key organizers behind what used to be the only large-scale public commemoration for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil will spend years in prison for inciting subversion in Hong Kong after judges handed down their sentence on Friday. Their imprisonment is the latest chapter

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Iran-backed rebels in Yemen captured the strategic Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on Friday, two Yemeni government sources told CNN, potentially expanding Tehran’s influence over another key global shipping route. A day earlier, the Houthi group captured the port town of Mocha as it sought to take

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — Early September can be a challenging period for Britain’s coastguards as beachgoers try to stretch out the last days of the summer season. But this year an unlikely new obstacle stands in the way of lifeboat volunteers working along England’s southern coastline: the far-right. Volunteers from the UK’s

By Stephanie Yang, CNN (CNN) — High-school students across Asia are pulling ahead of their Western peers, an annual global assessment indicates, as artificial intelligence spurs a worldwide race for talent and reshapes how young people learn. In a troubling trend, reading, science and math performance among 15-year-olds has continued a decline globally across the

By Saskya Vandoorne, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — An Austrian woman died after her husband injured and sexually abused her while she was “extremely intoxicated,” prosecutors say, in a case that local media are comparing to that of Frenchwoman Gisèle Pelicot. Prosecutors in the Austrian city of Wels told CNN the woman was “defenseless” in

By Caitlin Danaher and Todd Symons, CNN A Russian drone entering Moldova’s airspace delayed the departure of a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Norway on Tuesday, a Moldovan official said. The eastern European country, which borders Ukraine, closed its airspace after detecting an incursion of a jet-propelled drone, officials said. Zelensky’s aircraft was

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Police have launched a criminal investigation into the hard-right Reform UK party days after an explosive undercover report alleged they breached campaign finance laws by using foreign donors to pay for political polling. The announcement follows an undercover sting broadcast by British news outlet Channel 4, which showed a

By Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — As some 2,500 heavily armed police officers, soldiers and snipers entered through a maze of narrow streets, intense gunfire could be heard all around. The scene reached its climax when a bomb targeting the security forces was seen falling from the sky, according to footage from the raid last

By Ivana Kottasová, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Iryna Rybakova is horribly aware that the front line is inching toward Kramatorsk. Having served in eastern Ukraine for several years, she has watched her units being pushed from one strategic hub after another. But she said the past few weeks have been “insane.” The city remains

By Rhea Mogul, Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — UK airports are scrambling to resume services after an hours-long air traffic control outage forced the cancellation of about 2,000 flights across several transport hubs this week, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. A number of key regional carriers scrapped hundreds of flights to and from London

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a fierce political backlash Tuesday over a report that the president of the UAE had warned him of a major Hamas operation days before the October 7, 2023 attack. The Prime Minister’s Office dismissed the report as an “absolute lie.” But with Israel’s

By Kara Fox, Oren Liebermann, Tal Shalev, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom, France and Canada announced plans for sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, in a coordinated move that underlined Israel’s growing isolation on the international stage. Announcing the sanctions in UK Parliament, British Foreign Secretary Ed

By Kathleen Magramo, Eyad Kourdi, Becky Anderson, Tim Lister, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a major attack on southwestern Saudi Arabia early Tuesday, targeting oil and other infrastructure in an escalation that risks widening the region’s conflicts and adding further pressure to crude prices. Saudi-led forces vowed a resolute