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Story by the Associated Press Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Peru has temporarily suspended the operations of sightseeing airline Aerodiana after one of its planes crashed in the country’s Ica region on Saturday, killing 11 European tourists and two crew members. Aerodiana, which flies customers over the Nazca Lines archaeological site in southern Peru, must suspend all operations “until

Story by the Associated Press Ceuta, Spain (AP) — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Fernando García Velázquez took the admissions exam for Mexico’s most famous university four times before finally getting the result that should have guaranteed him admission. On his first three attempts, he had no option other than to travel the 400 km (250 miles) from his native Veracruz to

CNN Staff Dharamshala, India (CNN) — Cheogyal Dawa couldn’t contain his emotions when he finally came face-to-face with an image he hadn’t seen openly displayed since he was a small child: a portrait of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader. “I was so excited I burst into tears,” Cheogyal said of seeing the large

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — After three difficult years, armed groups loyal to Tehran appear to be bouncing back across the Middle East, reinforcing Iran’s leverage in its war with the United States and Israel. For decades, experts say, these groups played a key role: acting as a powerful deterrent against direct attacks on

By Anna Chernova, Alessandra Freitas, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s mayor says a bomb blast that killed at least five people including the woman carrying the device and injured 19 others at a restaurant was a “terrorist attack.” An unidentified woman attempted to enter a private event at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya

By Sophia Saifi, Sana Noor Haq, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers have located the body of famed Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja who died alongside nine others after an avalanche struck his expedition in Pakistan last week. Purja, who made history over the years by climbing some of the world’s highest peaks, was part of

By Sophie Tanno, Kosta Gak, Helen Regan, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed his plea for Western air defenses following a deadly overnight Russian attack, hours after US President Donald Trump backed away from a public pledge to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors. The attack is the second major Russian

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Around 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta this week, a mass influx that overwhelmed local authorities. At least 57 people died during the crossings, which prompted tighter border security measures across Europe. Spanish leaders said they were working to expel all those who had entered

By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — While scores of people were fleeing Spain’s raging wildfires, the staff at Safari Madrid had others to think about. From birds, to reptiles, to large cats – all were in the path of danger and in need of saving. As the flames swept closer to the safari park, teams

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The security camera pointed at the entrance of Channel 12’s Tel Aviv headquarters captured the attack in all its simple brutality. A masked man ran toward the glass door of Israel’s most-watched television channel and shattered it with a brick. “Next time, the brick will be aimed at

By Jack Guy, Vasco Cotovio, Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denounced the “selfish” response of several EU member states to an influx of migrants crossing into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco this week, as the number of people who died rose to 67. Most of those 50,000

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — On the face of it, US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Hamas, and all other armed groups in Gaza, have agreed to disarm seems historic. Hamas has never agreed to a specific disarmament plan before and, if it does come to pass, it

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Wright, Farida Elsebai, Luke Unger, CNN (CNN) — The gas station was already aflame when policeman Mykhailo Tsypliakov and his colleagues ran in to help. He heard the buzz of a second drone descending and hit the ground. “I saw a flash, then got up right away,” Tsypliakov said. “I

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A top Chinese medical university is investigating the death of a young girl in an experimental gene-editing trial conducted by a leading expert at its affiliated hospital that has raised serious concerns about ethics in China’s booming biomedical industry. Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine said it has

By Jessie Yeung, Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Japan is launching a new centralized intelligence body for the first time since World War II – a controversial move that some fear deviates from Tokyo’s pacifist ideals, but one others say is much needed in a country so riddled with security weaknesses it has been called

By Lex Harvey, Ross Adkin, Xiaoqian Lin, Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — A search to find the rest of group of missing climbers, including world-renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja, continues in Pakistan, following an avalanche that killed at least four of them. Emergency crews on the ground and in helicopters have been scouring the Karakoram mountain

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has delved into his family history, revealing his ancestry included both enslaved people and slave owners. “I come from a family that my grandparents were immigrants,” the first American pontiff told NBC news in the Vatican Gardens of Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday. “On my mother’s side,

By Charlotte Reck, Laura Paddison, CNN London (CNN) — England is notoriously rainy — yet an “exceptionally serious” drought has hit half the nation after successive heat waves have parched the land, shrivelled rivers and put huge pressure on water supplies. A large stretch of central, eastern and southern England are enduring a “flash drought”

By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Matviy Voronov’s message reeks of desperation. “Is anyone from the Voronov family alive? Maybe someone has seen them?” he asked in a local community group on Thursday, after learning that Russia hit his home village in southern Ukraine with a ballistic missile. “Matviy, I was there. Only

By Lex Harvey, Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Anna Chernova, Issy Ronald, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — NATO and Poland scrambled military aircraft when a missile apparently fired by Russia landed deep inside Polish territory, as Moscow launched deadly long-range attacks across Ukraine that killed at least nine people. The missile landed and exploded about 90

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan – an island nation that sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates, the constantly-shifting slabs of the Earth’s crust. It also lies on the “Ring of Fire,” a 25,000-mile arc that

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning a close election that set an unprecedented milestone in Latin America. She edged out Roberto Sánchez, a candidate who had more support within the country but ended up losing after votes from citizens living abroad were counted. It’s the first

By Koko Nakajima, Alex Leeds Matthews, Renée Rigdon, Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, causing damage to buildings, killing several and injuring dozens in one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. The earthquake was recorded on Kyushu, the southwesternmost of Japan’s four

By Yumi Asada, Chris Lau, Todd Symons and Issy Ronald (CNN) — Several people are trapped inside a shopping mall that partially collapsed in an explosion after a large 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Japanese city of Kumamoto on Tuesday, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. It is unclear how many people were trapped inside when

By Tal Shalev, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trips to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington followed a choreographed script: a red carpet, a warm handshake and shared messages about the closeness of the Israel-US alliance. But the relationship has markedly shifted since the two last met

By Tim Lister, Leila Gharagozlou, CNN (CNN) — The Caspian Sea has become the latest region to be sucked into the growing conflict between Iran and its adversaries – not least because it’s a vital artery in the growing relationship between Iran and Russia. Ukraine at the weekend said its drones had struck two Russian

By Max Saltman, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Two Jewish-owned bagel shops in Toronto were damaged Sunday in incidents now under investigation by the Toronto Police Service’s Hate Crime Unit. Two locations of Kiva’s, a bakery specializing in bagels, were attacked in the morning, with one shop’s window damaged by gunfire, police said in a

By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova and Kosta Gak (CNN) — Ukraine has seen the highest number of civilian casualties in the war with Russia this month for more than four years, according to government figures. Russian attacks this month have killed at least 377 civilians and injured 2,129, making it the deadliest month of the

By Laura Sharman, Chandler Thornton, Sophie Tanno, Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in what German authorities described as an “Islamist terror attack” at Berlin’s Pride celebrations was shot dead by police following a major manhunt Sunday. At least one person was killed and 29 others injured in Saturday’s vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack at

By Jessie Yeung, Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Eiko Toyama had waited 32 years to leave her husband. Throughout their marriage, she said, she did all the housework and childcare in their Japan home, as well as supporting the family financially. Her husband “wanted to control everything,” from her social life to professional ambitions, leaving

By Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — For decades, drug lords with names like “El Chapo” and “El Mencho” have been the poster boys of the US fight against Mexican drug trafficking. Now the Trump administration has adopted a new target: well-heeled politicians who allegedly accept dirty money to help the criminals. The

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s education minister said Saturday he had resigned in a major victory for young protesters, whose spiraling demonstrations have presented a rare and growing challenge to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Protesters have been calling for accountability after allegations entrance exams to esteemed medical schools had been

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones. These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs more than 4,000 meters above sea level, where researchers hope to create an

By Sophie Tanno, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — International Criminal Court member states voted Friday to dismiss the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, following allegations of sexual misconduct. The vote to remove Khan comes days after his accuser went public in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Khan has denied all wrongdoing. It also comes

By Abeer Salman, Kara Fox, Eugenia Yosef and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military began preparations for a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank on Friday after four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes there. The military said a group of settlers entered an area of the West Bank

By German Padinger, CNN (CNN) — It’s a fight for control over a stash of gold locked away in one of the world’s largest and most secure vaults, but this is no 18th century pirate novel or bank heist movie. It’s the situation facing the Venezuelan government as it attempts to navigate its way through

By Issy Ronald, Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — French authorities ordered the complete evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on Friday, launching boats to help rescue people from the popular tourist destination as wildfires tear across western Europe. Evacuation boats operated from three piers on the peninsula, which is situated about 70 kilometers (43

CNN By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Dan Hodge and Yasmin Coles, CNN (CNN) — Chinese ships fired water cannon at Philippine vessels, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday – the third tense confrontation this week in the contested waters. Besides rich fishing grounds in

By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Dan Hodge and Yasmin Coles, CNN (CNN) — Chinese ships fired water cannon at Philippine vessels, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday – the third tense confrontation this week in the contested waters. Besides rich fishing grounds in its

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — For the first time, two Chinese nationals have been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics achievement – a win hailed across China as a milestone in the country’s bid to cement its role as a science and technology powerhouse. Wang Hong and Deng Yu were named Thursday

Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome (CNN) — The city of Rome is launching “The Big Chill” initiative, named after the 1983 blockbuster movie, offering free movies in air-conditioned cinemas during the heat of the day in an exceptionally hot summer. Fewer than half of Italians have air conditioning in their homes, according to energy company Enel.

By Nathan Hodge, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A series of Ukrainian strikes on the warehouses of Russia’s largest online retailer has sent potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in inventory up in flames, sparking an online furor among the country’s embattled small-business owners. Over the weekend, Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries distribution centers in Elektrostal

By Mostafa Salem, Tal Shalev, Leila Gharagozlou, CNN (CNN) — For two decades, oil-rich Saudi Arabia has sought nuclear technology. Now an agreement with Washington to formalize Riyadh’s goal, however, has sparked concern that the deal, coupled with the messy aftermath of the war between Washington and Tehran, could plunge the region into a new

By Max Saltman, Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — As wildfires blazed in southern Italy this week, authorities probing for arson found a grisly clue: cats “with flammable-soaked rags tied to their tails.” “These animals were released into the fields, running around and spreading the fire,” said Domenico Costarella of Calabria’s Civil Protection Agency in a

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — For a war imposing such radical change on the battlefield, the retention of 60-year-old Oleksandr Syrskyi as Ukraine’s top commander had become an anomaly. That’s not ageism, but a reflection of the recently sacked Ukrainian military chief’s mindset. In this light, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision Tuesday to replace

By Kara Fox, Pierre Bairin, CNN (CNN) — A French professional model recruiter who for over a decade arranged for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to meet multiple models, was found dead at his home near Paris on Monday. Daniel Siad’s body was found in his house in Colombes, a suburb of the French

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump continues to claim that the US will attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain – turning attention to the suspected underground nuclear site where Israel believes Tehran has stored part of its enriched uranium stockpile and advanced enrichment centrifuges. “We’ll be hitting that area very probably pretty soon.

By Kunal Sehgal, Deepak Rao and Rhea Mogul, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — For days the streets and parks in the center of India’s capital have seethed with the biggest demonstrations it has seen in years as young protesters demand change to a national exam system they say cheats millions of them out of a

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump continues to claim that the US will attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain – turning attention to the suspected underground nuclear site where Israel believes Tehran has stored part of its enriched uranium stockpile and advanced enrichment centrifuges. “We’ll be hitting that area very probably pretty soon. And

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has successfully defended claims she defamed a young actress who played the lead role in her directorial debut. An Australian judge on Wednesday dismissed the case brought by “The Deb” actress Charlotte MacInnes, who had accused the “Pitch Perfect” star of spreading lies

By Victoria Butenko and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked the country’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, after days of widespread protests against the removal of the country’s popular defense minister. His replacement, Mykhailo Drapatyi, 43, is a younger general often described as representing a newer generation of military leaders who have

Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome (CNN) — The death of a Moroccan man in police custody has sparked protests – some violent – in the northern city of Bologna after video of the incident showing officers forcefully subduing the man circulated online. Prosecutors in Italy told CNN that two police officers and four first responders are

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — French lawmakers voted Tuesday to ban social media use for children under the age of 15, making it the first country in the European Union to introduce such an age limit. Australia made history late last year when it implemented the first ban on social media for under-16s.

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Ann Widdecombe, the former British lawmaker found dead at her home in southwest England in early July, was hit 21 times with a hammer, a London court heard on Tuesday. Joshua Kerry, 28, allegedly entered Widdecombe’s house in the village of Haytor Vale on July 8, Prosecutor Kashif

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A letter containing “absolutely fascinating” details of life on the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner is expected to fetch around £35,000 ($47,000) at auction. Written by a passenger named Henry Hodges, the letter is dated April 10, 1912 – the day RMS Titanic set sail – according to a listing

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A London bus driver discovered a caged monkey hidden in a laundry bag onboard his vehicle last week. The marmoset is thought to have been dumped by its owner, prompting animal welfare officers to warn of further abandonments as a result of a recent change in the law surrounding

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — With its forces on high alert, Israel is drawing up operational plans for a further escalation in the US-Iran conflict, three Israeli sources said, but for now remains on the sidelines and has no imminent plans to join. Israel has not been a direct participant in the renewed round

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A Russian naval vessel carried out a rare live-fire weapons exercise off the British coast on Monday, according to the UK’s Ministry of Defence, on the first day of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s tenure. The vessel, identified by British media as the “Neustrashimy,” conducted the exercise in international

By Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — From a remote hilltop just north of Nablus, the view stretches across the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlements, Palestinian villages and the winding roads and checkpoints that connect – and divide – them. Scattered among the olive groves below lie thousands of years of history:

By Simone McCarthy and Fred He, CNN Fuping county, China (CNN) — Soccer players in red jerseys jump up and down, spraying their cheering teammates with champagne, as confetti and streamers cascade around them and crowds capture the jubilation on their phones. This isn’t Spain’s World Cup victory, clinched Sunday in New Jersey, but a

By Sol Amaya, Mauricio Torres, Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced to life in prison in the United States on Monday, ending one of the most significant cartel prosecutions since the conviction of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel avoided a possible death

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham entered 10 Downing Street on Monday, making few detailed policy statements but offering plenty of clues about the nature of his premiership. Optics mean a great deal in politics, so on Burnham’s first day in the job, he delivered bold pledges, without

CNN By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — With elections looming in October, Israel’s right wing is turning the push to rebuild Jewish settlements in Gaza into a central issue of their campaign. It is part of a broader effort to push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse the 2005 disengagement from the coastal enclave that

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — With elections looming in October, Israel’s right wing is turning the push to rebuild Jewish settlements in Gaza into a central issue of their campaign. It is part of a broader effort to push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse the 2005 disengagement from the coastal enclave that saw

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Firefighters in Scotland have been working to extinguish a wildfire at Arthur’s Seat, a famous hill near the center of the capital city, Edinburgh. The blaze was reported on Sunday evening, according to a statement from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), published late on Monday morning. “Operations

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — “You cannot hide from a drone strike,” says Elsadig. For the 27-year-old, that is the terrifying reality of life in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Obeid, where even the simplest routines carry the threat of sudden death. For much of Sudan’s civil war, which began more than three years ago,

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Some Facebook and Instagram users reported international outages Sunday, leaving them unable to access their feeds, according to two internet watchdogs and a CNN check of the platforms. More than 23,000 users reported problems with Facebook in the United States alone between 3:44 and 5:02 a.m ET Sunday morning,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russia has launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks against Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion more than four years ago. Ukraine’s air force said Moscow had launched “a massive combined strike against Ukraine using attack UAVs and various types of air-

By Anabella Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catira Alejandra couldn’t contain her excitement when she was reunited with her family. Tail wagging, frenzied leaping, and loving licks to the face marked the moment the small dog finally saw the familiar faces she didn’t know if she would see again. But several days earlier, Catira was hunched

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — You wake up nervous. Try the comfort of a lucky shirt, maybe the same one you were wearing last time your team won. Grimace and nod through meetings; your eye is on the clock. Finally it’s kick off. Ugh. The dread only rises. Wait a second

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Around 300 protesters clashed with riot police in Venice on Friday evening over the arrival of US ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta’s $450 million mega yacht Boardwalk during the city’s annual Redentore (Redeemer) festival, police said. Fertitta, a close ally of and donor to US President Donald

By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian drone attacks have killed at least eight people at warehouses in Russia, according to regional officials. Seven of those killed were working at a distribution center at Kotovsk in the Tambov region. The eighth fatality was at a similar center in Elektrostal in the Moscow

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — As Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian walked alongside the coffin of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran last week, some of the black-clad mourners surrounding him chanted not in tribute to the late leader, but directly at him – “death to the compromiser.” Not far from that site, Abbas Araghchi,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Svitlana Vlasova, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Nikopol, in southern Ukraine, rarely makes the headlines – overshadowed by the threats to the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant directly across the river. But this city on the front line of Russia’s full-scale invasion has been attacked almost every day since the war began,

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke. From her home in Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, northwestern Ontario, the smoke appeared close. But the remote Indigenous community says that on that Monday, July 13, they were told by the Ministry of Natural Resources there was

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — Prominent Cuban dissident and performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrived in Miami on Saturday following his release from Cuban detention, according to his supporters and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A Facebook page created by his family and friends showed a photo of Otero Alcántara with

CNN By Uriel Blanco and Merlin Delcid, CNN (CNN) — A powerful earthquake in southern Mexico shook nearby countries Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, with the US Geological Survey (USGS) measuring its preliminary magnitude at 7.3. The earthquake’s epicenter was located 48 kilometers southwest of Aquiles Serdán, a town in the Mexican coastal state

By Uriel Blanco and Merlin Delcid, CNN (CNN) — A powerful earthquake in southern Mexico shook nearby countries Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, with the US Geological Survey (USGS) measuring its preliminary magnitude at 7.3. The earthquake’s epicenter was located 48 kilometers southwest of Aquiles Serdán, a town in the Mexican coastal state of

By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Ireland has approved landmark legislation to create the country’s first public register of domestic violence offenders, in a move campaigners say will empower people to check whether a potential partner has a history of violence. Known as Jennie’s Law, the Domestic Violence (Judgements) Register Bill passed Wednesday in the

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the new leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, and will become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade of extraordinary political instability when he succeeds Keir Starmer on Monday. In his acceptance speech, Burnham pledged to give people “hope back” and

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — A wave of jeers greeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s parliament prepared for a blitz of controversial legislation in the government’s closing days. “Shame, leave, go!” dozens of opposition lawmakers shouted on Tuesday. The commotion was so loud that Netanyahu left the chamber, sitting out the

By Susana Erazo, CNN (CNN) — Oswadeliz Núñez remembers arguing with her son Daniel when he decided to get a tattoo when he was 24. About four years later, that tattoo helped her identify Daniel’s body after he was killed in the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela last month. Daniel had arrived back in Venezuela

By Christiane Amanpour, Lauren Kent, Ben Kirby, Claire Calzonetti, CNN London (CNN) — The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under intense scrutiny as member countries prepare to vote this month on whether to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. For months, the United Nations watchdog has investigated claims

By Nick Paton Walsh, Victoria Butenko, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Luke Unger, CNN (CNN) — It is the fate of just one town, over a year, but provides a rare insight into Russia’s ill-fated war of choice. The slow and costly infiltration of Kostyantynivka, key to Moscow’s advance in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas and claimed as occupied

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — More than 500 people fleeing violence in Myanmar are feared dead after two boats disappeared in rough conditions off the country’s coast, according to two UN migration bodies. The vessels reportedly departed from Myanmar’s western Rakhine State in late June and were carrying mostly Rohingya passengers, according to a

By Tim Lister, Daria-Tarasova-Markina, Andrew Carey and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — The removal of Ukraine’s popular defense minister despite recent military successes has sparked rare protests in Kyiv and an unprecedented public split in the military over the conduct of the war against Russia. Mykhaylo Fedorov – who has proved a dynamic and innovative

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Two US nonprofits have sued the Trump administration over sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) — penalties that they say “violate Americans’ constitutional right to engage in Palestine-related” human rights advocacy. Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), an organization that promotes democracy and human rights in

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s grip on its gateway to the Black Sea is slipping after a series of Ukrainian attacks forced Moscow to suspend traffic through the key waterway this week, limiting the Kremlin’s ability to trade with the rest of the world. The development marks a major reversal of fortunes for

By Mike Valerio, Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker. Youlin Chen, a seismologist, has been “wrongfully detained” since November 2024, US Senator Edward Markey said

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Uriel Blanco, CNN (CNN) — Some had spent decades in the United States working, building their lives, starting families and forming communities. Others are known only by their names, ages, arrests and the place where they died. The stories and backgrounds of these 17 Mexican immigrants are different. But they all had

By Niamh Kennedy, Victoria Butenko, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — June was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022, the United Nations said Tuesday, underscoring the devastating impact of Russia’s intensified attacks on cities far from the front lines. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said at least 293 Ukrainian

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For the third time in a little over a decade, British lawmakers stood up one-by-one in Parliament on Monday, paid tribute to a slain politician, and echoed each other’s fears about the rising tide of violence in politics. “Politics is a calling for those of us here, but it

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — An airline pilot used a two-hour test flight to spell out a mischievous message in the sky, writing the words “I’m bored” as he flew over the United Kingdom. While some might show their boredom by doodling on paper or playing on their phone, this pilot took his message

By Hanako Montgomery, Junko Ogura, Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan may have its first ever female prime minister, but her government’s attempts to avoid a royal succession crisis are making the chances of a woman taking the imperial throne ever slimmer. With just three eligible heirs to the Chrysanthemum throne – and two

By Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — On the facade of a sushi restaurant in a chic Buenos Aires neighborhood, two goldfish in a glass display case would go largely unnoticed apart from the occasional child who would tap against the glass. One day, someone took a closer look at the tank, which was exposed to

By Jeremy Diamond, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli soldier who physically assaulted a CNN photojournalist in March was formally reprimanded by his commanders for his use of force but faces no criminal charges in the matter, the Israeli military said Monday. “The investigation found that during the encounter between the IDF (Israel Defense

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — The commemoration of Israel’s most famous military operation should have been a moment to celebrate for Matan Vilnai. Instead, the deputy commander of the Entebbe raid – in which commandos rescued 102 hostages – boycotted the ceremony, along with many of the soldiers who took part in the daring

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A black labrador had to be rescued from the UK’s highest mountain after falling seriously ill when she ate cannabis, her owner has said. Five-year-old Tokyo became unwell and even lost consciousness several hours into a hike up Scotland’s Ben Nevis last Sunday, according to her owner Christina Bluhme.