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By Rob Picheta and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship seemed a distant prospect two weeks ago. But…

By Edward Szekeres and Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — An arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last week is being investigated as terrorist…

By Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean authorities have imposed an overseas travel ban on…

CNN By Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Knight, whose nonprofit saves lives by providing foster care for dogs while their…

CNN By Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Knight, whose nonprofit saves lives by providing foster care for dogs while their…

By Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Knight, whose nonprofit saves lives by providing foster care for dogs while their…

By Sophie Tanno, Nic Robertson, Madalena Araujo, Catherine Nicholls, Mostafa Salem, and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — As many in Syria celebrated…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat a day after a tense presidential election,…

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — For more than 60 years Cuba has buckled under US economic sanctions and its own government’s…

CNN By Associated Press (AP) — South Korean prosecutors on Sunday detained a former defense minister who allegedly recommended last week’s…

By Associated Press (AP) — South Korean prosecutors on Sunday detained a former defense minister who allegedly recommended last week’s brief…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held…

By Eyad Kourdi, Christian Edwards, Nic Robertson and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus…

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace has revealed the official 2024 Christmas card for King Charles and his wife, Queen…

By Tamar Michaelis and Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — The mother of a hostage who appears in the latest “proof of life” video released by…

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least five people have died after an explosion in an apartment building in The Hague, the Netherlands on…

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Global stakeholders now have to reckon with the geopolitical impact of a rebel offensive led by an Islamist group…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Property tycoon Truong My Lan was one of Vietnam’s richest businesswomen. She amassed an eye-wateringly…

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — A military police officer has been arrested in Brazil after a video emerged of him throwing a civilian over a…

By Yoonjung Seo and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote Saturday over his brief…

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican authorities are investigating the deaths of 13 children suspected to be linked to contaminated bags of…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A man is recovering from serious injuries after leaping onto a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled…

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Ahmed Al Sharaa, an Islamist militant in his late 20s, moved back to Syria from Iraq in 2011 with six men and a…

By Lauren Izso, Pauline Lockwood and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Elon Musk “in the last few days” to…

By Monica Sarbu and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country’s 2024…

CNN By Yoonjung Seo, Ivan Watson, Ava Ko, Alex Stambaugh and Nectar Gan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The leader of South Korea’s ruling…

By Eyad Kourdi, Christian Edwards and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Syrian opposition forces claim to have taken control of Daraa city in…

By Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s royals are getting into the Christmas spirit after attending the Princess of…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Ghanaians will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their next president, as the West African country grapples…

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — One protester said his jaw was broken as masked men threw him to the ground, stood on his face and jumped.…

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese fishing vessel off the coast of Somalia has come under the control of alleged pirates, a…

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — An American man abducted in the Philippines is presumed dead after a witness claimed he was shot during a struggle…

CNN By Jomana Karadsheh, Gul Tuysuz, Brice Laine, Lauren Kent and Eyad Kourdi, CNN Syria (CNN) — The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it…

By Chris Lau, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — The Japanese capital is set to introduce a four-day workweek for…

By Jomana Karadsheh, Gul Tuysuz, Brice Laine, Lauren Kent and Eyad Kourdi, CNN Syria (CNN) — The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it…

CNN By Eyad Kourdi and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people appear to have fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight into…

By Helen Regan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Declaring martial law in a stable and boisterous democracy was an audacious gamble – and one…

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed…

By Yoonjung Seo, Ivan Watson, Ava Ko, Alex Stambaugh and Nectar Gan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The leader of South Korea’s ruling party…

By Angus Watson and Jennifer Hauser, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Police are searching for two masked suspects after a synagogue was set on…

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexico hopes to strike a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to limit the number of third-country deportees it…

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped to appoint a new prime minister in the coming days, in a…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Catholic nun with the Sisters of Charity Institute in Milan was among 25 people arrested early…

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — The world is at the brink of a third nuclear age, the head of the United Kingdom’s armed forces…

By Helen Regan, Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — A South Korean politician who grappled with an armed soldier in…

CNN By Helen Regan, Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — A South Korean politician who grappled with an armed…

By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Mick Krever and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces dressed in civilian clothes raided a hospital in the…

By Mostafa Salem and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Syrian rebels have driven government forces from Hama, a major city that the country’s regime…

By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The leader of South Korea’s main opposition…

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama…

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of his Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun amid…

By Nada Bashir, CNN (CNN) — Amnesty International on Wednesday said that it had gathered “sufficient evidence to believe” that Israel’s…

By Mick Krever, Jeremy Diamond, Eugenia Yosef and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military on Wednesday said that a February strike on…

CNN By Rob Picheta and Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has been forced to resign just three months into…

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican authorities have announced what they say is the largest fentanyl bust in the country’s history, with…

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea is reeling after a whiplash six hours during which the country’s embattled…

By Helen Regan and Eunseo Jeong, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged…

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A leader of one of Georgia’s opposition parties has been detained by police after he was beaten unconscious…

By CNN staff (CNN) — Iran’s parliament has enacted a harsh new modesty law, significantly tightening existing dress restrictions that have…

By Sana Noor Haq and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Mahmoud Almadhoun, 33, walked towards Kamal Adwan Hospital early Saturday to drop off produce to…

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Cuba’s energy grid has collapsed, leaving millions without power, the latest in a series of…

CNN By Frederik Pleitgen and Edward Szekeres, CNN Moscow (CNN) — Russia will resort to “even stronger military means” in its war with…

By Rob Picheta, Joseph Ataman, Sophie Tanno and Pierre Bairin, CNN Paris (CNN) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier submitted his resignation…

By Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Iranian authorities have allowed Narges Mohammadi, the country’s most prominent human rights activist and…

By Frederik Pleitgen and Edward Szekeres, CNN Moscow (CNN) — Russia will resort to “even stronger military means” in its war with Ukraine…

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea is reeling after a whiplash six hours during which the country’s embattled…

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea is reeling after a whiplash six hours during which the country’s embattled…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea is reeling after a whiplash six hours during which the country’s embattled…

By Kocha Olarn and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Russian tourist has died in Thailand after a huge wave swept her off a rock…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Christmas, a popular Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Facts…

By Yoonjung Seo, Peter Wilkinson, Rob Picheta, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s…

CNN By Yoonjung Seo, Peter Wilkinson, Rob Picheta, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A judge in Italy has sentenced a 23-year-old man to life in prison for the stabbing murder of his…

By Mick Krever and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — As tit-for-tat strikes strain a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah less than a week since it…

By Catherine Nicholls and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales has helped the British royal family roll out the red…

By Saskya Vandoorne, Mark Morales, John Miller, Pete Muntean and Taylor Romine, CNN Paris (CNN) — A Russian woman who stowed away on a flight…

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh and Kosta Gak, CNN Sumy, Ukraine (CNN) — The dawn assault inside Russia’s Kursk region never even got to a gunfight,…

By Nick Paton Walsh and Kosta Gak, CNN Sumy, Ukraine (CNN) — The dawn assault inside Russia’s Kursk region never even got to a gunfight, yet…

CNN By Christian Edwards and Alex Hardie, CNN (CNN) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recalled her impression of Donald Trump during…

By Christian Edwards and Alex Hardie, CNN (CNN) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recalled her impression of Donald Trump during his…

By Mick Krever, Charbel Mallo, Ruba Alhenawi, Tamara Qiblawi and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian dissident rapper and activist, has been released from prison, according to a…

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on…

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — French lawmakers said they had introduced a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Michel…

By Ivana Kottasová and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military said Monday that Omer Maxim Neutra, an American-Israeli citizen who was…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University…

By Junko Ogura and Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A bear that ran amok in a supermarket in northern Japan has been caught two days after it…

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Days of protests have rocked Georgia following the government’s controversial decision to delay the former Soviet…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Australian police seized the country’s largest haul of cocaine aboard a fishing boat that had broken down…

By Kathleen Magramo, Kareem El Damanhoury and Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — A crowd crush at a soccer match in the west African country of Guinea has…

By Jessie Yeung and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a…

By Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (Associated Press) — Romanians cast ballots Sunday in a parliamentary election sandwiched between a…

By Reuters BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) — Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution have failed to reach agreement, with…

By Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — Police in Australia said a woman was forced to fend off a deadly tiger snake in her vehicle while driving 50 miles…

By Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Caitlin Danaher and Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — At least 200 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on northern…

By Eyad Kourdi, Tim Lister, Sophie Tanno, Haley Britzky and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Syrian and Russian jets are stepping up strikes on…

By Ivana Kottasová and Abeer Salman, CNN Shuafat refugee camp, East Jerusalem (CNN) — The six days after Rami Al-Halhouli was shot dead by the…

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — In his speech marking his election win, President-elect Donald Trump hailed a new “golden age of America” and…