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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s promise to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors has given a glimmer of hope to millions of Ukrainians terrorized by Russia’s deadly ballistic missiles strikes. Speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump said a “little birdie told me … that we’ll

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — As funeral prayers took place before the coffin of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday, many top officials and three of the ayatollah’s sons were present. Among the noticeably missing, however, were some former presidents at odds with the current regime. Their absence cast doubt on Tehran’s

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — A political gamble looks like it has spectacularly backfired. When British right-wing populist leader Nigel Farage announced he was resigning as a lawmaker and triggering a special election in the face of a swirl of allegations over personal financing, he sought the high ground, declaring that the “judges

By Jessie Yeung, Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — In many ways it was already the ceasefire that never was. But with the United States and Iran claiming to have hit dozens of targets each with air, drone and missile strikes in the past 48 hours, it’s increasingly hard to see where this goes next. The

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself. Flight instructor Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, 42, was found dead following the incident, which took place in Toledo, central Argentina, on Saturday,

By Melissa Bell, CNN Paris (CNN) — Let the people decide. That was the defiant message of two of the world’s most famous populists on Tuesday, as Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen announced, within hours of each other, their intention to defy their country’s norms in order to put the same pitch to the

CNN By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — The devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela two weeks ago would have tested any government. But they have hit a country still navigating the aftermath of strongman Nicolás Maduro’s capture six months ago, turning a natural disaster into a political test for acting President Delcy Rodríguez and exposing anger

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — The devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela two weeks ago would have tested any government. But they have hit a country still navigating the aftermath of strongman Nicolás Maduro’s capture six months ago, turning a natural disaster into a political test for acting President Delcy Rodríguez and exposing anger over

By Osmary Hernández, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Avery Schmitz, CNN La Guaira state, Venezuela (CNN) — Lee este artículo en español In the mountains of Venezuela’s La Guaira state, workers have excavated new trenches at a cemetery to bury hundreds of people killed in the powerful twin earthquakes nearly two weeks ago, even as many of the

By Hanna Ziady, Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Nigel Farage, leader of the populist right-wing Reform UK party, has resigned from parliament and will stand for his seat again in a special election, amid mounting controversy over financial donations. Farage announced the decision on his YouTube channel Tuesday to resign as a member of

By Pierre P Bairin, Lauren Kent, Melissa Bell, Joseph Ataman, Rupert Neate, CNN Paris (CNN) — ‌French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday she ​would run for president in the 2027 election after an appeals ‌court ⁠upheld her conviction for misusing EU funds. Le Pen told broadcaster TF1 she intends to run in the

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The mystery surrounding last week’s bombing attack in Monaco deepened on Tuesday as Ukrainian authorities revealed that the main suspect was found shot dead, with a Ukrainian intelligence officer and former law enforcement official suspected of her murder. Interpol previously named the main bombing suspect

By Rachel Clarke, Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Orlando Gill walked alone to his goal — the fate of Paraguay’s World Cup hopes on his shoulders. The goalkeeper touched the crossbar and bounced along his line. He stretched out his arms and clapped gloved hands together, in front of thousands of German fans who wanted

By Sana Noor Haq, Eyad Kourdi, Mostafa Salem, Pierre Bairin, CNN (CNN) — An explosion went off near the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Tuesday, where French President Emmanuel Macron had spent the night ahead of a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, according to French and Syrian media. Macron was already at the Presidential

By Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A deadly tornado, so powerful that it sucked a man out of his 12th-floor apartment, swept through China’s central Hubei province leaving behind a trail of destruction, according to state media reports. At least 11 people were killed and more than 331 injured when the tornado that

By Pamela Brown and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Iran fired on three commercial vessels Tuesday in Oman’s territorial waters near the Strait of Hormuz, according to a US official. The official described the strikes as a “gross violation” of the memorandum of understanding with Iran. The third strike had not previously been reported. The

By Camille Knight, Elina Baudier Kim and Lisa Courbebaisse Paris (CNN) — As France enters another heatwave, it’s barely recovered from the last one. Scorching temperatures return this week, and likely with them, the same question that was asked repeatedly in June: why won’t France just turn on the air conditioning? Some people are already

By Michael Rios, Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba suffered a nationwide blackout on Monday as it faces an ongoing energy crisis, worsened by an effective US blockade on fuel shipments. Cuba’s energy ministry said the national electrical grid had suffered a total collapse on Monday. Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said officials

By Eyad Kourdi, Ibrahim Dahman, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Hamas announced on Monday that it will dissolve its government in Gaza, a move that experts say puts pressure on Israel as progress from the US-brokered ceasefire plan has stalled. Ismail al-Thwabta, the head of the Hamas’ Government Media Office (GMO), said the militant group

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry will not be able to stay at Buckingham Palace during his visit to London this week, despite his team appearing to confirm earlier Monday that he had accepted an invitation to stay there. The Duke of Sussex had not provided a formal response to

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologized after naming singer Kylie Minogue in response to a question about who he would, theoretically, “shag, marry, date.” Albanese appeared on the “Bush Deep” podcast on Thursday, hosted by comedian Nikki Osborne, who asked him whom he would choose out of Minogue,

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Cuba’s tourism sector seems to have everything from white sandy beaches to Spanish colonial forts. Everything except for tourists. The island’s economy has been caught in a death spiral following a barrage of sanctions levied by the Trump administration against the communist-run government. As services break down

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — China on Monday conducted a rare test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile in the Pacific Ocean, sparking criticism from New Zealand and Australia for actions that they said threatened peace and stability in the region. A People’s Liberation Army Navy submarine “launched a strategic missile carrying a dummy warhead

By Clare Sebastian, Zahra Ullah, Anna Chernova, Katharina Krebs, Lou Robinson, CNN Moscow (CNN) — Almost all of Russia’s 83 regions are seeing gasoline shortages or reported disruptions to supply, according to a CNN analysis, with many gas stations imposing rationing as the Russian government races to get ahead of a ferocious campaign of Ukrainian

By Brad Lendon, Briana Waxman, CNN (CNN) — One of the strongest super typhoons on the planet this year was striking the US Pacific Islands on Monday morning, the second massive storm to hit the territories since April. The center of Super Typhoon Bavi, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, was passing over Rota,

By Victoria Butenko, Helen Regan, Max Saltman, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under a deadly Russian attack early Monday morning, on the eve of a critical NATO summit in Turkey that US President Donald Trump plans to attend. Massive explosions lit up the night sky as ballistic missiles and drones hammered

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Much like his ally, US President Donald Trump, Nigel Farage has enjoyed a political career seemingly coated in Teflon, his straight-talking, combative communication style brushing off any potential scandal. Throughout his rise to become the voice of Britain’s populist hard-right, architect of Brexit and chief anti-immigrant activist, any accusations

By Anabella Gonzalez, Alessandra Freitas, CNN Sniffing and burrowing his way through the rubble of Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes, Tsunami the mixed-breed border collie was out on one last job before retirement. Recognizable by his heterochromia – with one eye brown and the other blue – he has helped locate several people trapped beneath the debris

By Sana Noor Haq, Ibrahim Dahman, Sarah Tamimi, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Fourteen-year-old Karam dribbles a blue, yellow and white football down a sandy path in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. “My dream was to become a footballer,” said Karam, who is displaced with his two brothers and sister. “I used to play with my

By Tim Lister and Daria Tarasova Markina, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump on a July 4 call lasting nearly 90 minutes in which the US leader again offered to help end the Ukraine war, according to Russia’s foreign ministry. The call came ahead of a critical NATO summit in

By Chris Lau, Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A pastor who founded one of China’s most prominent underground churches has been released from prison and reunited with his family in the United States, his daughter told CNN. Ezra Jin, the founder of Zion Church, was among dozens of members caught up in a

By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The Duchess of Sussex, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will not be accompanying Prince Harry when he visits London next week, as a disagreement over his family’s police protection continues. It is, however, still possible that the Sussex family could join him at engagements elsewhere in

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Lampedusa, Italy (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV marked July 4 with an appeal to Americans to receive immigrants with “compassion and generosity” as he made a visit to the frontlines of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. In a letter released soon after he arrived on the southern Italian island Lampedusa,

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori has been declared the winner of Peru’s presidential race following a weeks-long vote count that ended with a razor-thin margin of victory in the deeply polarized South American country. The country’s electoral office confirmed Friday that Fujimori, the eldest daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, had won

By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Kosta Gak, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — A ferocious Russian attack on Kyiv Thursday killed at least 30 people, making it the third deadliest assault against the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war. Ukraine has endured hundreds of large-scale aerial attacks, but the assault this week was exceptionally lethal,

By Eugenia Yosef, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A US man living in Israel has been charged with spying for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency funds, according to the State Attorney’s Office and an indictment filed on Friday, in what appears to be the first time an American faces prosecution amid a wave of

By Danny Freeman, CNN PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Reverend Paul Galetto says there has been a swell of enthusiasm for Pope Leo XIV across the greater Philadelphia region since his election. “The people love having somebody who better relates to them and understands them,” the leader of St. Paul Parish in the heart of South Philly

By Issy Ronald, Stephanie Halasz and Camille Knight, CNN (CNN) — The main suspect in a bomb attack that wounded a Ukrainian tycoon on Monday in Monaco is a Ukrainian woman who disguised herself as a man, local authorities say. Named as 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovska in an Interpol Red Notice, she last resided in Germany

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — An international police operation spanning seven countries has uncovered highly organized networks of offenders who drug and rape their partners and use online chat groups to aid and encourage their “horrifying” assaults, authorities said on Thursday. In most cases, the victims are women who are sedated before being raped

By Mostafa Salem, Aida Karimi (CNN) — Four months after he was killed at the outset of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is being memorialized in a weeklong funeral spectacle stretching across five cities in two countries, with millions of mourners expected to attend. Despite a costly war against two of

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking in the country’s ports, citing “moral standards” and “family values,” the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday. The “Athens to Venice” cruise, which departs from Greece on July 5,

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV will mark the 250th anniversary of US independence by highlighting the plight of migrants, an area of continuing tension between the papacy and the Trump administration, on a visit to the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. The treatment of migrants has been one of the main

By Helen Regan, Osmary Hernandez, Ivonne Valdes, Chandler Thornton, Diego Mendoza, CNN La Guaira, Venezuela (CNN) — Sigue nuestra cobertura en español Rescuers pulled a man from under the rubble of a nine-story building in Venezuela in a “miraculous” operation eight days after the devastating earthquakes that hit the country. Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, who

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now cost the country some 450,000 lives, according to a new study that estimates the war’s total casualty numbers to have surpassed 2 million. The research by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates Russia has suffered

By Steven Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A man who flew his plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper last week was a 66-year-old local resident who had expressed suicidal thoughts, Chinese authorities said Thursday, amid intense speculation about the pilot’s identity and motivation. The crash took place on Friday evening when a small plane appeared to

From CNN’s Rupert Neate (CNN) — Monaco’s reputation as “one of the safest countries on earth” was shattered just before 9 p.m. local time on Monday night when a bomb exploded in the entrance of one of the city state’s fanciest apartment buildings. The bomb went off as Ukrainian-born oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev, 58, a resident

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — The Vatican announced Thursday that priests and members of a breakaway Catholic group that ordained four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo XIV’s wishes are in schism and excommunicated. The Society of Saint Pius X, an ultra-traditionalist group, went ahead with the ordinations on Wednesday without papal

By Max Saltman, Isa Soares, Madalena Araujo, Avery Schmitz, Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Caracas (CNN) — A week after the deadly twin earthquakes in Venezuela, the official death count still strikes both Venezuelans and outside observers as remarkably low. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Thursday at least 2,595 people were killed in the earthquakes, an increase

CNN By Max Saltman, Isa Soares, Madalena Araujo, Avery Schmitz, Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Caracas (CNN) — A week after the deadly twin earthquakes in Venezuela, the official death count still strikes both Venezuelans and outside observers as remarkably low. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Thursday at least 2,595 people were killed in the earthquakes, an

By Victoria Butenko, Lex Harvey, Kosta Gak, Anna Chernova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Iryna Moskaeva and her children jumped out of their beds and started running after an explosion rocked their Kyiv apartment early on Thursday, one of many residential buildings hit during a massive Russian attack that killed at least 30 people

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The motive behind Monday’s bombing attack against a Ukrainian-born millionaire in Monaco remains shrouded in mystery as residents of the super wealthy city-state grapple with their suddenly shattered sense of security. The victims too were not immediately identified by authorities, but CNN’s French affiliate BFMTV reported that Vadym Yermolaiev