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By Rob Picheta, Nimi Princewill and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A sweeping new travel ban on citizens from a dozen nations was announced by the White House on Wednesday, reviving a defining effort from the first Trump administration to crack down on entries from specific countries. Trump said in a video posted Wednesday that

By Ivana Kottasová and Kostya Gak, CNN (CNN) — When the chief of the local fire department was called to a scene of a Russian strike in the central Ukrainian city of Pryluky overnight, he and his brigade found five people were killed and nine injured after a drone hit a residential building. Among the

Story by the Associated Press Wellington (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days.

By Eugenia Yosef, Lucas Lilieholm and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of two Israeli-American hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 were recovered from southern Gaza during a military operation, according to a statement from Israeli military and the Shin Bet security agency. Judy Weinstein-Haggai, 70, and Gadi Haggai, 72, were killed near

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — More than one in three men in Australia reported using violence with an intimate partner in a first of its kind study which shows gender-based abuse is rising, despite years of national attention on the issue. The research was part of a longitudinal study called Ten to Men by

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — First, these parrots learned to open trash cans to forage for food. Now, they’ve taken it a step further – and have figured out how to turn on water fountains for a sip along with their meal. These are Australia’s iconic sulphur-crested cockatoos – white birds with a yellow

By Sebastian Shukla, Nadine Schmidt, CNN Berlin (CNN) — Friedrich Merz, the newly inaugurated German chancellor, will take a seat in the Oval Office on Thursday for his first in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump. The meeting comes as a series of high-stakes international issues once again come to the fore. Trump has issued

By Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Jeremy Diamond, Abeer Salman, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mohammad Al-Sawalhi and Madalena Araújo, CNN (CNN) — A CNN investigation into a deadly incident near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced

By Iván Pérez Sarmenti, CNN (CNN) — The office of Argentinian President Javier Milei denied a bombshell series of reports that alleged the country’s intelligence agency had approved a new plan that could enable the surveillance of journalists, politicians and economists. The reporting, by journalist Hugo Alconada Mon in the newspaper La Nación, looked into

By Mounira Elsamra, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire between Israel and the militant group Hamas in Gaza. The US was the only nation to oppose the resolution. Fourteen others, including the United Kingdom,

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation after the discovery of dozens of bodies and evidence of human rights violations at militia-run detention facilities in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Wednesday he was “shocked” by revelations of gross

By Joseph Ataman and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — One of the suspected masterminds behind a string of violent kidnappings in France of people linked to the cryptocurrency trade was detained Tuesday in Morocco, France’s justice minister said. Badiss Mohamed Amide Bajjou, a 24-year-old French-Moroccan citizen from just outside Paris, was wanted by France for

By Mostafa Salem and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s supreme leader has denounced a proposal by the United States aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear efforts and demanded that his country retains independence amid reports of Washington offering to become involved in Tehran’s nuclear program. Despite several rounds of talks between the two sides to

By Lucas Lilieholm and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The distribution of aid from a controversial new US- and Israel-backed organization into Gaza was paused for 24 hours on Wednesday after Palestinians en route to a distribution site came under fire for three straight days, with fatal consequences. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said that

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 1 million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study, a grisly measure of the human cost of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked three-year assault on his neighbor. Russia will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs. The American bombs – two 20-ton weapons and another that weighs 10 tons – were found in a shipyard on Monday, the city said,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has shared a video of her dancing while she was heavily pregnant with her daughter Lilibet four years ago. She uploaded the video to Instagram on Wednesday in one of several posts to mark Lilibet’s fourth birthday. In the short clip, Meghan can be seen

CNN By Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — An elephant never forgets – where the snacks are stored. A large wild elephant caught shopkeepers off guard at a convenience store in Thailand on Monday, when it lumbered into the shop in search of food. The hungry mammal can be seen on CCTV footage

By Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — An elephant never forgets – where the snacks are stored. A large wild elephant caught shopkeepers off guard at a convenience store in Thailand on Monday, when it lumbered into the shop in search of food. The hungry mammal can be seen on CCTV footage entering

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — At age 14 he was an impoverished factory worker. On Wednesday, he became the leader of one of Asia’s most powerful economies, a US ally and cultural juggernaut. But after sweeping to a decisive victory over conservative rival Kim Moon-soo on

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Erin Patterson, the woman accused of murdering three guests with a meal laced with death cap mushrooms, told her trial on Wednesday she may have inadvertently added foraged mushrooms to the lunch because her duxelles tasted “a little bland.” On the third day of evidence on Wednesday,

By Rafael Romo, CNN (CNN) — It’s a dark chapter in Chile’s history. During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold into adoption, mainly to foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they’re known as “The Children of

By Michael Rios and Sol Amaya, CNN (CNN) — Mexico’s ruling party Morena will gain control of the Supreme Court following the country’s first-ever judicial elections, which were marred by low voter turnout and allegations of a power grab. Preliminary results from Sunday’s race showed candidates linked with Morena winning most seats on the judiciary.

By Mostafa Salem, Nadeen Ebrahim and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A new program for getting desperately needed food into the hands of starving Palestinians in Gaza is only days old, but it’s already mired in chaos and tragedy. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed over the past few days while on their way to

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A dog who went missing for more than a month and covered about 100 miles – including a mile-long swim – has finally been returned to her foster home after being rescued at sea. Five-year-old Amber bolted in late April, a day after arriving in London from Qatar, where

By Tim Lister, CNN, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards (CNN) — Russian forces are advancing in the northern Ukrainian region of Sumy, bringing the regional capital within range of their drones and artillery, according to Ukrainian officials and analysts. The advance comes even as Russia had appeared to be put on the back foot by

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, Mike Valerio and Lauren Kent, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea’s next president on Wednesday following a dramatic snap election six months after the country’s previous leader declared martial law and plunged the nation into chaos. Official results

By Christian Edwards, Svitlana Vlasova and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had hit the bridge connecting Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula with explosives planted underwater, in its third attack on the vital supply line for Moscow’s forces since the full-scale war began in 2022. Ukraine’s security service, the

CNN, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, UKRAINIAN MFA, UKRAINIAN MOD, OBTAINED BY CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Vasco Cotovio, Frankie Vetch, Eve Brennan, Benjamin Brown, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mitchell McCluskey, Helen Regan, Tim Lister, Henry Zeris, Lou Robinson and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian airfields was audacious

By Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leaving the Netherlands’ government over its policy for asylum-seekers, its leader Geert Wilders said on Tuesday, toppling the governing coalition. “I signed up for the strictest asylum policy, not for the downfall of the Netherlands,” Wilders told reporters Tuesday morning. “And our

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Lucas Lilieholm, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Palestinians on their way to receive aid from a distribution site in southern Gaza have come under fire for a third consecutive day, with nearly 30 people killed and dozens wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Nasser hospital. The ministry