Tens of thousands of New Zealanders rallied in front of parliament on Tuesday in one of the country's largest ever protests to oppose a bill,
November 18, 2024
A group of supporters of Argentine President Javier Milei announced the creation of what they termed an armed wing of his libertarian party, touting the
November 18, 2024
Russia on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that called on Sudan's warring parties to cease hostilities immediately
November 18, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the eastern frontline towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Monday, areas where Russia has been making steady advances to close in on the
November 18, 2024
Poland's largest opposition party, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS), is set to lose millions in state funding after the country's electoral commission rejected its 2023
November 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Brendan Carr to be Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. CNN correspondent Tom Foreman breaks down Carr's contribution to Project 2025.
November 18, 2024
Trump’s influence already generating drama among world leaders as G20 gets underway
November 18, 2024
At least one person died in the past 24 hours during a third straight day of ethnic unrest in the troubled eastern Indian border state of Manipur, a
November 18, 2024
Hundreds of people defied a curfew to stage demonstrations in India's northeastern state of Manipur over the weekend and 23 were arrested for violence as tensions between two ethnic
November 18, 2024
Demonstrators in Georgia’s capital have set up tents on a central thoroughfare and vowed to stay around the clock to demand new parliamentary elections in the country
November 18, 2024
The Brazilian government's package of spending cuts is practically done and will be released soon, pending only a response from the defense ministry, Finance Minister Fernando
November 18, 2024
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has said he might install his picks for top administration posts without first winning approval in the U.S. Senate.
November 18, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a
November 18, 2024
Currency depreciation is set to reverse years of declining inflation in economically beleaguered Venezuela, public and private sector sources say, as foreign
November 18, 2024
The Kremlin warns that Washington's decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles would stoke the war and escalate international tensions
November 18, 2024
An Israeli airstrike killed five people in central Beirut on Monday, Lebanon's health ministry said, the second day in a row Israel
November 18, 2024
Six high-ranking Armenian officials resigned on Monday, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he had asked a number of them to step down from
November 18, 2024
Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president has sworn in a 22-member Cabinet after his party secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in last week's election
November 18, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called on Monday for the signing of an economic partnership agreement with the European Union, saying it would boost cooperation in semiconductors and
November 18, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met China's President Xi Jinping in Brazil on Monday, as Beijing seeks to promote Australia as a model for trading with
November 18, 2024
A U.S. stock rally fueled by Donald Trump’s election victory is stumbling, as investors contend with everything from renewed inflation worries to uncertainty
November 18, 2024
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Monday as the
November 18, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to establish "consistent, durable" relations between their two nations, pressing on with
November 18, 2024
Australia's Senate on Monday censured an Indigenous woman parliamentarian over her protest against King Charles during his visit to the parliament last month when she
November 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has named the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband
November 18, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the country's military to improve capabilities for fighting a war in a speech last week, state media KCNA said on Monday, after
November 17, 2024
What the next Trump presidency could mean for US education
November 17, 2024
The new leader of Germany's Greens pitched his party on Sunday as the only one that could save Germany from years of stagnation under a renewed grand coalition and
November 17, 2024
About 1,500 people died in protests that brought down Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina this year, and as many as 3,500 may have been forcibly abducted during her 15-year rule
November 17, 2024
Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election
November 17, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his conversation with Vladimir Putin on Friday had given no indication of a shift in the Russian President's thinking on the war
November 17, 2024
The Israeli military issued call-up notices to more members of the ultra-Orthodox community on Sunday to bolster its forces as it fights on its southern and
November 17, 2024
Some have called it the “super year” for elections
November 17, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are "red lines" for China and not to
November 17, 2024
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his relationship with U.S.
November 16, 2024
Two flash bombs were fired towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday and fell into the garden, police said.
November 16, 2024
The House has passed legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people
November 16, 2024
New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologize for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make The View co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs
November 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump celebrated his election victory on Saturday night by attending an Ultimate Fighting Championship event with
November 16, 2024
Protesters in Georgia's Russia-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia declined on Saturday to leave the parliament building which they stormed the previous day, a departure proposed by
November 16, 2024
Inside the conservative hunt for partisans in the federal government before Trump takes over
November 16, 2024
Trump looms over Biden’s final meeting with Xi in Peru
November 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s war in Ukraine will end “faster” when Donald Trump takes over as US president. National security analyst Beth Sanner says Zelensky is signaling to the incoming president that he is willing to go to the negotiating table.
November 16, 2024
7 ways a Trump administration could affect your finances
November 16, 2024
California couple Joanna McIsaac-Kierklo and Ed Kierklo wanted to spend their later years in southern France, so they moved. They quickly realized how hard it was and wanted to return, until the US election.
November 16, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine must do all it can to ensure the war with Russia ends next year through diplomacy, commenting at a decisive moment after Donald
November 16, 2024
China is willing to be partners and friends with the United States, China's ambassador to Washington said, seeking to strengthen dialogue between the world's two largest economies.
November 16, 2024
Taiwan's representative at an Asia-Pacific summit met U.S.
November 16, 2024
Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks
November 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has named his campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt to serve as his White House press secretary
November 15, 2024
A government crisis in the Netherlands was avoided in a tense emergency meeting on Friday, as a cabinet member resigned over the government's handling of violence involving fans
November 15, 2024
Trump Media & Technology Group's key shareholder, ARC Global Investments, has unloaded nearly all its stake in the media company, it said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
November 15, 2024
Oklahoma's education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism
November 15, 2024
The Spanish regional leader under fire for his handling of the catastrophic Valencia floods last month has defied calls to step down but conceded that mistakes were made
November 15, 2024
Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has held multiple calls with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, should be investigated by the Pentagon
November 15, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he does not think the House Ethics Committee report on allegations related to Matt Gaetz should be released and is “going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report.” CNN's Brianna Keilar reports.
November 15, 2024
Trump allies lobby him to fire FBI director early and install loyalist Kash Patel
November 15, 2024
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof saved his governing coalition on Friday despite threats of an exodus by cabinet members over the right-wing government's response
November 15, 2024
President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday that Russia was ready to look at energy deals if Berlin was interested, the Kremlin said, in their first phone
November 15, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the German chancellor's phone call with Russia's leader on Friday opened a "Pandora's box" that undermined efforts
November 15, 2024
Mexico has room to boost tax revenues next year without turning to a deep fiscal reform, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday, as her government is expected to present
November 15, 2024
Iranian anti-regime activist who died by suicide buried in Tehran
November 15, 2024
With a history of presidential polls getting it wrong − sometimes very wrong − how did this year’s polling fare? Some US pollsters did better, but a Brazilian pollster did the best.
November 15, 2024
Editor-in-chief of America’s oldest magazine resigns after calling Trump voters fascists
November 15, 2024
Mexico's outlook was moved to negative from stable by Moody's Ratings on Thursday, as the major credit rating agency pointed to institutional and policy weakening that risks
November 15, 2024
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses RFK Jr.'s vaccine beliefs after President-elect Donald Trump picked him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
November 15, 2024
Iran will support any decision taken by the Lebanese government and Lebanon's "resistance" in current talks on a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Ali Larijani, senior
November 15, 2024
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said on Friday the Lebanese government prioritises the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 in its
November 15, 2024
Protesters stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia on Friday and demanded the resignation
November 15, 2024
The United States' swing toward President-elect Donald Trump in last week's election was pronounced along its border with Mexico, particularly in southern
November 15, 2024
Changes are needed to Germany's spending cap to respond to the "financial emergency" of war in Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday, after the centre-
November 15, 2024
Ukraine is fighting to liberate all territory captured by Russia in the last decade, and any claim that the country is shifting its focus in the war to prioritise security over land
November 15, 2024
Germany's embattled minority government has named Greens politician Tobias Lindner as its transatlantic coordinator tasked with preparing for the second U.S. presidency of Donald
November 15, 2024
Olaf Scholz, Germany's least popular chancellor on record, is facing growing calls within his Social Democrats (SPD) to step aside and let his
November 15, 2024
A failed bomb attack on Brazil's Supreme Court looks set to re-unite Brasilia against far-right radicalism and scuttle a possible comeback by
November 15, 2024
Russians focus on Musk as they assess incoming Trump administration
November 15, 2024
Croatian Health Minister Vili Beros was fired on Friday after being arrested on suspicion of corruption, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said.
November 15, 2024
In a recent podcast, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, said he doesn’t think women should have combat roles in the military. CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein shares his reaction.
November 15, 2024
Germany's conservative opposition leader and possible next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said further discussions on policy must wait until after a confidence vote is held on Dec. 16,
November 15, 2024
A South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law
November 15, 2024
A South Korean court convicted on Friday main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung for violating the election law, handing him a one-year prison term suspended for two
November 15, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is planning to stop in Hawaii and maybe Guam on a visit to Taipei's
November 15, 2024
RFK Jr.'s sister, Kerry Kennedy, explains why she doesn't trust her brother to run a health agency in the US and issues a warning about President-elect Donald Trump.
November 15, 2024
Trump picks Doug Burgum for Interior secretary
November 15, 2024
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist coalition won a thumping victory in a snap general election, gaining power to push
November 15, 2024
Donald Trump has met at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election
November 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. intelligence chief has sent shockwaves through the national
November 14, 2024
Elon Musk met with Iran’s UN envoy, NYT reports
November 14, 2024
Republican President-elect Donald Trump nominated former U.S.
November 14, 2024
Israel's Attorney General on Thursday told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reevaluate the tenure of his far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, citing his
November 14, 2024
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is an adviser to U.S.
November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F
November 14, 2024
Republican Dave McCormick won the U.S.
November 14, 2024
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will not be invited to be a part of Donald Trump's administration, the U.S. president-elect said on social media on Thursday.
November 14, 2024
Austrian prosecutors have asked parliament to lift far-right leader Herbert Kickl's immunity over an allegation that he committed perjury testifying to a
November 14, 2024
United Nations special rapporteur for torture Alice Edwards said on Thursday she is alarmed over allegations that Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was suffering torture
November 14, 2024
More than 5,000 people protested next to the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday against election winners the Social Democrats entering into a parliamentary
November 14, 2024
Germany needs to step up its role in defence if the U.S. is to focus less on Europe, defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday, adding it will take a modification of the
November 14, 2024
Nearly 90 congressional Democrats call on Biden to sanction far-right Israeli ministers
November 14, 2024
Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District
November 14, 2024
Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination for attorney general is being met with a variety of reactions from Republicans, including cautious reservation, praise and pointed criticism
November 14, 2024
Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue
November 14, 2024
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said on Thursday that the suicide bomber who tried to get into the top court on Wednesday
November 14, 2024
A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown
November 14, 2024
Turkey and Qatar signed a series of agreements on Thursday ranging from trade facilitation to military and technical cooperation during Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al
November 14, 2024
Trump’s Pentagon pick aims for clash with top military leadership
November 14, 2024
U.S., Japanese and South Korean naval forces exercised together in East Asian waters on Thursday in their most complex and final joint drills
November 14, 2024
More than 61,000 people are estimated to have died in Khartoum state during the first 14 months of Sudan's war, with evidence
November 14, 2024
Senegal will vote in legislative elections on Sunday that will determine whether the new president and government can gain control over the
November 14, 2024
Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is planning to visit Canada next week, two diplomatic sources told Reuters, in a highly watched visit for a senior
November 14, 2024
With his nomination of China hardliner Marco Rubio for secretary of state, U.S.
November 14, 2024
Ukrainian soldiers on the front know that the reelection of Donald Trump will change their lives, but most say that they can't afford to lose focus on their more urgent mission: holding back Russian forces
November 14, 2024
House GOP leadership announces new rules package raising motion to vacate threshold
November 14, 2024
Democratic lawmakers who wield control of the Virginia Legislature are hoping to make good on promises made on the campaign trail, including becoming the first Southern state to expand constitutional protections for abortion access
November 14, 2024
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said he would "always safeguard our sovereignty" when asked about the issue of the South China Sea, adding partnerships are better than
November 14, 2024
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained by police at an airport near Washington, D
November 14, 2024
Sri Lanka began counting votes cast on Thursday in a snap general election that will decide if the Indian Ocean island nation will give its new leftist
November 14, 2024
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand from Florida who was himself investigated by the Justice Department, is Trump's choice to lead it.
November 13, 2024
In picking Rep. Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to install a fierce loyalist — who has been seen as divisive even within his own party — over some of the more established attorneys whose names had been mentioned for the nation’s top federal prosecutor post
November 13, 2024
The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities
November 13, 2024
China announces policy measures to boost trade amid worries over Trump tariffs
Russia's Putin, Iraqi PM discuss OPEC+ coordination on oil price stability
Wall Street awaits Amgen weight-loss drug data expected to move shares
WHO chief hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro, report says
Sterling sags as 'Trump bump' lifts dollar
US natural gas drillers to lift 2025 output, reversing year of cuts
Papuan women's mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution
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