Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Russia's richest woman, was arrested and charged with murder on Thursday, his lawyers said, after a deadly shootout at the Moscow
September 19, 2024
U.S.
September 19, 2024
Swedish authorities have charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria
September 19, 2024
Spain has denied involvement in talks between Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez and President Nicolas Maduro's government for his flight to Spain, before which he signed
September 19, 2024
Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday for their next president, who will be key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation slowly emerging from worst financial crisis in decades.
September 19, 2024
A U.N. committee on Thursday accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children's rights, saying its military actions in Gaza had a catastrophic
September 19, 2024
China said on Thursday its Liaoning aircraft carrier had been on a routine training mission in the western Pacific and dismissed charges by Tokyo that the vessel and its escorts
September 19, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has spoken to Jewish donors and an organization gathered to focus on efforts to fight antisemitism
September 19, 2024
The leader of Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for this week’s deadly attacks on the group’s communications devices
September 19, 2024
‘Why Springfield?’ How a small Ohio city became home for thousands of Haitians
September 19, 2024
Firefighters tackling deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal had doused the flames in the Aveiro district, one of the
September 19, 2024
The Taliban administration is in control of 39 Afghan embassies and consulates globally three years after it took over Afghanistan and the previous Western-
September 19, 2024
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has pledged billions of euros in aid for Central European countries that suffered enormous damage to infrastructure and housing during the massive flooding that has claimed 24 lives so far in the region
September 19, 2024
From Oprah livestream to house parties, Black women marshal unprecedented outreach for Kamala Harris
September 19, 2024
One of more than 50 men accused of raping Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot in a mass rape case that has shocked the world told her in court on Thursday that he was
September 19, 2024
Germany is set to approve close to 400 million euros ($450 million) in additional military aid to Ukraine, according to a finance ministry letter seen by Reuters on
September 19, 2024
Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin
September 19, 2024
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation
September 19, 2024
Sri Lankans will vote for a new president in a tightly contested election on Saturday, with the outcome expected to determine the fate of
September 19, 2024
The Japanese maker of the brand of walkie-talkies linked to explosions targeting the Hezbollah armed group that killed 25 people in Lebanon and injured hundreds of
September 19, 2024
Ukraine's electricity supply shortfall could reach 6 gigawatts this winter, about a third of expected peak demand, amid Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and
September 19, 2024
The US led on nuclear fusion for decades. Now China is in position to win the race
September 19, 2024
The European Union will make billions of euros available to help central Europe recover from severe floods, European Commission President Ursula von der
September 19, 2024
The sale of a stake in the Middle East, North Africa and central Asia Starbucks franchise operated by Kuwait's AlShaya Group is on hold,
September 19, 2024
A storm system that has wreaked havoc across central Europe brought devastating floods to the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on Thursday for the second year in a row,
September 19, 2024
A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Thursday to jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara for his "fearless opposition to authoritarianism
September 19, 2024
When floods swept through Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move residents to safety.
September 19, 2024
International guarantors of South Sudan's peace process said the transitional government's postponement of elections due in December was disappointing and showed its failure to
September 19, 2024
When a wildfire tore down a hillside towards Athens last month, its southernmost flank halted in a treeless area burned by fire two years before.
September 19, 2024
European stocks jumped on Thursday after the U.S.
September 19, 2024
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is promising to retaliate for deadly attacks on its communication devices
September 19, 2024
Vietnam's president and ruling Communist Party chief To Lam will pay a working visit to the United States next week and participate in the 79th Session of the United Nations General
September 19, 2024
Israeli security services said on Thursday they had arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of involvement in an Iranian-backed assassination plot targeting
September 19, 2024
Russia's campaign of air strikes on Ukraine's energy grid probably violates international humanitarian law, a U.N. monitoring body said on Thursday, as Ukrainians
September 19, 2024
Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war, heightening the
September 19, 2024
Russian forces hit a geriatric centre in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and targeted its energy sector in a new wave of airstrikes on Thursday, killing at least one
September 19, 2024
Russia has taken two villages in the western Kursk region, a senior commander said, as Russian forces advance against thousands of Ukrainian forces who smashed through the Russian
September 19, 2024
Russia's vast Krasnoyarsk region declared a state of emergency on Thursday due to heavy rains killing winter crops during sprouting time, bringing the total number of Siberian grain-
September 19, 2024
The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary
September 19, 2024
Sri Lankan housewife Lankika Dilrukshi says she is tired of the daily struggle needed to provide for her children.
September 19, 2024
Iranian and European officials will meet at the U.N.
September 19, 2024
An artificial-intelligence advisory body at the United Nations on Thursday released its final report proposing seven recommendations to address AI-related
September 19, 2024
More than 130 world leaders will meet at the United Nations next week, faced with wars in the Middle East and Europe threatening to spread, frustration
September 19, 2024
Japan’s leader demands answers from China over schoolboy’s fatal stabbing
September 19, 2024
Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite
September 19, 2024
Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher
September 19, 2024
Thailand wants to work with warring sides in Myanmar to repair a key highway cutting through the conflict-ridden country as it seeks to stabilise borders areas and keep trade
September 19, 2024
Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20
September 19, 2024
The world's top coffee body is set to request that the European Union postpone a requirement that imported beans come from areas not linked with
September 19, 2024
Officials in Tokyo say a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures
September 19, 2024
Taiwan's combat effectiveness has improved thanks to its deepening security partnership with the United States and other friends and "allies" but this is kept
September 19, 2024
Taiwan's national security team is "paying great attention" to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the island's defence minister said, after a
September 19, 2024
Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they are open for peaceful solutions to a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months, in response to U.S.
September 18, 2024
The United Nations chief is urging the world’s divided nations to compromise and approve a blueprint to address global challenges from conflicts and climate change to artificial intelligence and reforming the U.N. and global financial institutions
September 18, 2024
Colombia's government has called off peace talks with leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), its peace delegation said on Wednesday, following an attack which killed
September 18, 2024
Harris expected to meet with Zelensky next week, sources say
September 18, 2024
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats
September 18, 2024
The families of four Americans detained in China say their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, and they are urging the U.S. government to take action to bring then home
September 18, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would "probably" meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who will be in the U.S. next week to address a
September 18, 2024
North Korea tested new tactical ballistic missiles using super-large warheads and modified cruise missiles on Wednesday as leader Kim Jong Un called for stronger
September 18, 2024
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison
September 18, 2024
UN members vote to demand Israel end occupation of Palestinian territories within 12 months
September 18, 2024
In Brazil, a man from the Guarani community was shot dead on Wednesday morning, a governmental protection agency for Indigenous communities said, as a land dispute in the farm
September 18, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that his "Victory Plan", intended to bring peace to Ukraine while keeping the country strong and avoiding all "frozen conflicts", was now
September 18, 2024
The specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before
September 18, 2024
Haiti’s government has created a provisional electoral council
September 18, 2024
The U.S.
September 18, 2024
FBI says it has disrupted major Chinese hacking operation that threatened US critical infrastructure
September 18, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks set to survive a confidence vote next week after a rival party said on Wednesday it would not back an attempt to
September 18, 2024
Cat travels over 1,000 miles back home after going missing in Yellowstone
September 18, 2024
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the president has links to drug trafficking
September 18, 2024
WWII soldier killed as prisoner of war identified 82 years later
September 18, 2024
US imposes sanctions on 12 Iranian officials for human rights abuses
September 18, 2024
Outer Banks homes on brink of collapse as erosion, king tides worsen
September 18, 2024
Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who stood against President Nicolas Maduro in July's election, on Wednesday said he was forced to sign a letter accepting a ruling from
September 18, 2024
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of
September 18, 2024
U.S. officials say the Biden administration still isn't convinced that it should give Ukraine the authority to launch long-range missiles deeper into Russia
September 18, 2024
Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant galaxy - the largest such jets ever
September 18, 2024
In Venezuela, AI news anchors aren’t replacing journalists. They’re protecting them
September 18, 2024
The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries
September 18, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes, amid
September 18, 2024
Canada is further reducing the number of study permits it will grant to foreign students and tightening eligibility for work permits in a bid to cut down on
September 18, 2024
US Army deploys ‘Arctic Angels’ soldiers to remote part of Alaska amid Russian exercises
September 18, 2024
Israel notified US ahead of Tuesday’s Lebanon operation but gave no details of what was planned, sources say
September 18, 2024
Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close
September 18, 2024
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Friday over the pager blasts in Lebanon targeting militant group Hezbollah, said Slovenia's U.N.
September 18, 2024
The pager devices used in mass detonations in Lebanon were never in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government said in a statement on Wednesday.
September 18, 2024
As residents of the Polish town of Glucholazy struggled to salvage what they could from their flood-ravaged homes on Wednesday, they praised friends, family and rescue
September 18, 2024
FBI Director Chris Wray says the FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations
September 18, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will on Tuesday address a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Russia's war in his country, said
September 18, 2024
Nigeria has warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon
September 18, 2024
The mass pager attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon has turned the spotlight on Israel's secretive Unit 8200, the Israel
September 18, 2024
‘New era’ of war beginning, Israel says, as more Hezbollah devices explode across Lebanon
September 18, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's lieutenant in Quebec will soon quit his post, La Presse newspaper said on Wednesday, two days after the ruling Liberals lost a safe
September 18, 2024
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday said the kingdom would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state and strongly condemned the "crimes of the Israeli
September 18, 2024
When streams of bloodied people converged on Lebanon's hospitals on Tuesday, it was a test of whether the crisis-hit health sector could cope with a
September 18, 2024
Sri Lanka's presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigning on Wednesday, 48 hours before the election, pledging to fix the island country's ailing
September 18, 2024
Several shots were fired outside a school in Oslo on Wednesday and three suspects have since been apprehended, Norwegian police said.
September 18, 2024
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said on Thursday that Moscow would support Pakistan's inclusion in BRICS.
September 18, 2024
The United States issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran's "ongoing, violent repression of the Iranian people
September 18, 2024
The British government said on Wednesday it had summoned the Russian ambassador following what it described as an "unprecedented and unfounded public campaign of aggression" by
September 18, 2024
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing a series of Senate resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel
September 18, 2024
The Navy is taking lessons from its combat in the Red Sea and from what Ukraine has done to hold off the Russians in the Black Sea, and using them to help U.S. military leaders for a potential future conflict with China
September 18, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah was bracing for the risk of Israeli military escalation when its old foe struck a blow it hadn't seen coming, plunging the Iran-
September 18, 2024
China is willing to restart economic and financial dialogue with the United Kingdom, Chinese state media cited Vice Premier He Lifeng as saying on Wednesday.
September 18, 2024
Central Europe is experiencing the worst floods in at least two decades, with a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland and and the deaths of at least 23 people so far.
September 18, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed frustration at surprise escalations that threaten to derail efforts to broker a cease-fire deal in Gaza
September 18, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey would not stop deepening ties with the East, including the BRICS group of nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (
September 18, 2024
Egypt will not accept any changes to the security arrangements that were in place on its border with Gaza before war broke out between Israel and Hamas last October, the Egyptian
September 18, 2024
Although Israel has not commented on the intelligence operation that caused thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon to explode almost simultaneously, the
September 18, 2024
Soldiers and residents in southwestern Poland are laying sandbags near swollen rivers around the city of Wroclaw to protect homes and businesses after days of flooding across Central Europe
September 18, 2024
Pakistani police say they have arrested the key suspect in the gang rape of a woman polio worker who was assaulted by three men during last week’s vaccination campaign
September 18, 2024
The permanent members of the UN Security Council have repeatedly used their power of veto to block resolutions relating to mass atrocities. Is it time to revoke that power?
September 18, 2024
Finland's President Alexander Stubb defended his country's decision to buy arms from Israel despite the war in Gaza, saying it had no link to Finland's
September 18, 2024
The death toll from exploding pagers in Lebanon rose to 12 including two children, Lebanese health Minister Firass Abiad said on Wednesday.
September 18, 2024
Mali's security situation remained unclear on Wednesday after insurgents attacked an elite police training academy and other strategic
September 18, 2024
Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams
September 18, 2024
NATO must enact a "robust coordinated" response to incidents in which Russian missiles or drones fired at Ukraine enter the alliance's airspace, Romanian Defence Minister Angel
September 18, 2024
A Ukrainian drone attack launched overnight destroyed an ammunition depot in the western Russian region of Tver, a source from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) told CNN on Wednesday, causing a massive blast.
September 18, 2024
Ukraine claims to have destroyed large Russian ammunition depot in overnight drone attack
September 18, 2024
A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan's shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive military actions around Japan, officials said
September 18, 2024
Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk released after ‘misunderstanding’ which led to detention in Poland
September 18, 2024
Cuba's booming private businesses braced for impact on Wednesday as the island's communist-run government implemented a raft of new laws aimed at
September 18, 2024
An airplane carrying Sweden's foreign minister and justice minister has returned to Stockholm after suffering a technical problem while on the way to Turkey, and a key security
September 18, 2024
Israel is pushing the whole Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts, Jordan's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
September 18, 2024
More than 100 wildfires are stretching thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal
September 18, 2024
The Kremlin on Wednesday described as "dangerous" comments by Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing head of NATO, that a decision by the West to allow Ukraine to use Western long-range
September 18, 2024
Who made Hezbollah’s exploding devices? Questions swirl around a mysterious supply chain stretching from Taiwan to Hungary
September 18, 2024
India's cabinet has accepted a recommendation to hold simultaneous elections to state assemblies and the national parliament, the information minister said on Wednesday, a move
September 18, 2024
The Kremlin warned on Wednesday that an attack on Lebanese group Hezbollah and others using exploding pagers could become a trigger for a wider regional conflict and called for its
September 18, 2024
Ukrainian drones have struck a large military depot in a town deep inside Russia overnight, causing a huge blaze and prompting the evacuation of residents
September 18, 2024
The European Union's head office is warning that devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken
September 18, 2024
Just over two years since Sri Lanka's 'Aragalaya' uprising that deposed the nation's president, the movement that sparked the mass struggle
September 18, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah swore in a reformist government on Wednesday tasked with accelerating IMF-backed reforms and pushing through political and economic
September 18, 2024
A wave of deadly wildfires in Portugal has pushed emergency services to the limit and much-needed reinforcements arrived
September 18, 2024
A Ukrainian drone attack destroyed a warehouse storing missiles, guided bombs and artillery ammunition in Russia's Tver region, a source in Ukraine's SBU state security service told
September 18, 2024
Heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk has been released after being briefly detained at Krakow airport in Poland
September 18, 2024
Thailand will prosecute eight former security personnel over their roles in a crackdown two decades ago in which 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to death when crammed into
September 18, 2024
Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country
September 18, 2024
Israel has killed numerous leaders of Hamas and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah during more than a year of conflict ignited by the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7, 2023
September 18, 2024
Finland's President Alexander Stubb has called for expansion of the U.N.
September 18, 2024
Volunteers and emergency personnel raced to secure river banks and buildings in Poland and Hungary on Tuesday as flood waters that have
September 18, 2024
Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices
September 18, 2024
Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan
September 18, 2024
Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of plantation workers, but the long-marginalized group has heard promises like these before
September 18, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a Palestinian-drafted resolution that demands Israel end "its unlawful presence in the Occupied
September 18, 2024
The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year
September 18, 2024
Malaysia's king Sultan Ibrahim will visit China from Thursday, the first by a Malaysian monarch in a decade, where he will meet President Xi Jinping and likely seek
September 18, 2024
Jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have escalated attacks on civilians, often in retaliation against communities for refusing to join their ranks or allegedly collaborating with
September 18, 2024
"Made in Italy: shame in Italy," a handful of migrant labourers who had travelled from Italy's famed
September 18, 2024
As New Zealand celebrates its annual Māori language week, the government is ramping up initiatives to remove recognition of Indigenous people and language from public policy and law
September 18, 2024
An attack with explosives by Colombian leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), which left more than two dozen troops injured and two dead, has "practically" ended
September 18, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have shot down two American MQ-9 Reaper drones in under a week, further highlighting the regional spread of the Israel-Hamas war
September 18, 2024
The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up
September 18, 2024
At least nine people were killed and 2,800 wounded in an attack that targeted pagers held by members of Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah across Lebanon. CNN chief intelligence analyst John Miller discusses.
September 18, 2024
Japan's ruling party leadership race, which will determine who becomes next prime minister, could complicate the central bank's plan to normalise ultra-loose monetary
September 18, 2024
The first leg of a phased election for choosing a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir has concluded in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago
September 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico
September 18, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Sudan's warring parties to re-engage in negotiations to end a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months.
September 18, 2024
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small
September 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he’s meeting next week with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
September 17, 2024
A large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered an earthquake-sized blast at a major arsenal in the Tver region on Wednesday, forcing
September 17, 2024
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marching in support of Bolivia’s former socialist President Evo Morales were clashing with counterprotesters blocking their way, a stark sign of an escalating power struggle in the volatile Andean nation
September 17, 2024
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before
September 17, 2024
U.S.
September 17, 2024
Japan's export growth slowed sharply in August as shipments to the U.S. dropped for the first time in three years, while machinery orders
September 17, 2024
A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him
September 17, 2024
An attack on a military base in eastern Colombia killed two soldiers and injured at least 21, Colombia’s military says, as tensions escalate between Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s largest remaining rebel groups
September 17, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that it has postponed planned economic consultations with Russia that were due to start this week to gather
September 17, 2024
At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash
September 17, 2024
South Korea and Japan’s militaries say North Korea had test-fired multiple ballistic missiles
September 17, 2024
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday toward its east coast, South Korea and Japan said, days after
September 17, 2024
A photograph by a naturalist captured a seemingly bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the giant marine mammal unintentionally gulped it
September 17, 2024
Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza shook his head in disbelief as he addressed lawmakers and diplomats in a U.S.
September 17, 2024
Thousands of pagers used members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people and wounding several thousand, officials said
September 17, 2024
Ghana's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party on Tuesday held nationwide protests against alleged voter roll irregularities, demanding
September 17, 2024
'Parole in Place' aims to help with temporary immigration status
September 17, 2024
Tensions flared last fall in western Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley with news that several dozen refugees would be resettled in and around the city of Eau Claire, one of several midsize cities across the U.S. that has grappled with refugee resettlement
September 17, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov outlined to the visiting head of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday what he described as numerous Ukrainian rights violations
September 17, 2024
Three Americans sentenced to death in Congo for a coup attempt have filed an appeal
September 17, 2024
One of the world’s most active volcanoes is erupting again in a remote part of a Hawaii national park
September 17, 2024
Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people
September 17, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was briefed last week during his trip to Kyiv on elements of a Ukrainian plan to push Russia to end the war, U.S.
September 17, 2024
A new Microsoft threat intelligence report details how Russia-linked actors are now going full throttle in their covert influence efforts against Vice President Kamala Harris
September 17, 2024
What to know about the false rumor targeting Haitian immigrants in Ohio town
September 17, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it has held productive discussions with the Kenyan government on its plans to address the country's economic and fiscal challenges,
September 17, 2024
The United States said on Tuesday it is gathering information after at least eight people were killed and some 2,750 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members - including
September 17, 2024
At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members - including fighters and medics - detonated simultaneously across Lebanon.
September 17, 2024
Ancient remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists
September 17, 2024
Iran's president committed his country to deeper ties with Russia to counter Western sanctions on Tuesday, state media reported, amid U.S. worries that Tehran is supplying Moscow
September 17, 2024
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been sworn in for a second term after being elected in a landslide vote marred by apathy and questions around the vote count
September 17, 2024
Three people were slightly injured on Tuesday in a fire inside Greece's second-biggest oil refinery west of Athens, the company said in a statement.
September 17, 2024
Authorities in Mexico say six people have been killed in a landslide near Mexico City
September 17, 2024
Zimbabwe and Namibia plan to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries
September 17, 2024
Entire city evacuated after floods, 7 die in wildfires as extreme weather sweeps Europe
September 17, 2024
Israel behind deadly pager explosions that targeted Hezbollah and injured thousands in Lebanon
September 17, 2024
The head of Russia's nuclear testing site said on Tuesday his secretive facility was ready to resume nuclear tests "at any moment" if Moscow gave the order, in rare
September 17, 2024
Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously in parts of Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people — including members of the militant group Hezbollah and a young girl
September 17, 2024
Thousands of activists and opposition leaders from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have rallied in the capital
September 17, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday it had repelled five new attempts by Ukrainian forces to smash through its border into the Kursk region, bringing the total number of reported attacks on the
September 17, 2024
Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding
September 17, 2024
Myanmar's military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating
September 17, 2024
Israel expands war objectives as questions swirl over defense minister’s future
September 17, 2024
Georgia’s parliament has approved draft legislation curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, echoing laws adopted in neighboring Russia
September 17, 2024
Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday approved the third and final reading of a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBT
September 17, 2024
Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern regions,
September 17, 2024
Officials say protected green and loggerhead turtles are making a big comeback on the beaches of two British military bases in Cyprus, with the number of nests surpassing last year’s record count by nearly 25%
September 17, 2024
Five thousand firefighters are struggling to contain multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal that are blamed for causing at least six deaths and forcing an unknown number of residents to flee their homes
September 17, 2024
Chinese warplanes tailed a U.S. military aircraft through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, China’s military said
September 17, 2024
Meta is banning Russia state media organization from its social media company platforms, alleging that the outlets used deceptive tactics to amplify Moscow’s propaganda
September 17, 2024
Support for Ukraine guarantees the survival of neighbouring Moldova, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday at a conference
September 17, 2024
The U.S. government is probing whether China is supporting Russia's nuclear industry by importing enriched uranium from its neighbor and exporting its own
September 17, 2024
Temporary checks on Germany's western and northern borders to combat irregular migration will not hit Europe's largest economy beyond creating delays and
September 17, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that an order by President Vladimir Putin to transform Russia's army into the second largest in the world was needed to address growing threats on
September 17, 2024
Hundreds of handheld pagers have exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria, killing at least nine people, government and Hezbollah officials say
September 17, 2024
Soldiers have dropped sandbags from military helicopters to reinforce river embankments and evacuated residents as the worst flooding in years spreads across Central Europe
September 17, 2024
NATO's newest member Sweden plans to raise its defence spending by 13 billion crowns ($1.3 billion) in the state budget for 2025 to a total of 138 billion, Defence Minister Pal
September 17, 2024
Vietnam is preparing for more flooding with a tropical depression forecast to strengthen into a storm as it heads to its central coast, days after typhoon Yagi set off floods and
September 17, 2024
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has put women in many of the top roles on her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc
September 17, 2024
Israel says that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country's north to allow its residents to return to their homes there is now an official war goal as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon
September 17, 2024
Army troops have subdued Islamic militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali's capital, but some soldiers were killed
September 17, 2024
Mali said on Tuesday that its capital Bamako was under control after insurgents attacked a gendarmerie training school and
September 17, 2024
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday named a new team to lead the European Union's most powerful
September 17, 2024
President Nicolas Maduro's government escalated repressive tactics to crush peaceful protests and keep power after Venezuela's disputed
September 17, 2024
Germany will provide an additional 100 million euros ($111 million) in aid for Ukraine this winter, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced during a visit to Moldova on
September 17, 2024
US military aid packages to Ukraine shrink amid concerns over Pentagon stockpiles
September 17, 2024
South Sudan and Sudan have made progress towards restarting the pumping of South Sudan's crude oil through a pipeline running to a port in its neighbour, South Sudan's finance
September 17, 2024
Russia fired missiles at energy infrastructure in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday hours after an overnight drone strike on the region, reducing power in some areas and
September 17, 2024
The Indian government is in talks seeking to resolve a long-running conflict between two ethnic communities in the northeastern state of Manipur, Interior Minister Amit Shah said
September 17, 2024
Less than two months ahead of the COP29 United Nations Climate Summit, the Azerbaijani leadership laid out its plans on Tuesday for what it hoped to achieve, as
September 17, 2024
The world's ozone layer is on "the road to long-term recovery" despite a destructive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday
September 17, 2024
The United States is amassing an arsenal of abundant and easily made anti-ship weapons as part of American efforts to deter China in the Indo-
September 17, 2024
Biden’s national security team has no imminent plans to present an updated ceasefire proposal
September 17, 2024
Chinese state media say two people have died in eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful winds before easing into a tropical storm
September 17, 2024
For decades, boycotting elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir was a sign of protest against Indian rule
September 17, 2024
Malnutrition is the world's worst child health crisis and climate change will only make things more severe, according to Microsoft-co-founder turned philanthropist
September 17, 2024
A Russian national residing in Sarasota, Florida, was arrested on Monday on charges of smuggling, money laundering and illegally exporting to Russia technology that could be used in drone
September 17, 2024
India has condemned comments made by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the treatment of Muslims in the South Asian nation, calling his remarks "misinformed and unacceptable".
September 17, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has accused Israel’s military of striking schools, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza
September 17, 2024
‘All of a sudden we heard shots’: Trump recounts apparent assassination attempt
September 17, 2024
An organization promoting democracy says last year had the worst decline in credible elections and parliamentary oversight in almost a half-century
September 16, 2024
Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister
September 16, 2024
Lower voter turnout and increasingly contested results globally are threatening the credibility of elections, an intergovernmental watchdog warned on Tuesday, as its sub-index
September 16, 2024
Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used
September 16, 2024
Superbug crisis could get worse, killing nearly 40 million people by 2050, study estimates
September 16, 2024
U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles on Monday filed an appeal in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland to overturn a decision that stripped her of her Olympic bronze medal in the
September 16, 2024
A Pakistani man accused of plotting to attack a New York City Jewish center in support of Islamic State will contest his extradition hearing to the United
September 16, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Egypt this week on his 10th trip to the Middle East since the war in Gaza began nearly a year ago
September 16, 2024
From Ukraine to Hawaii, odd behavior of suspect in apparent Trump assassination attempt suggested ‘delusion of grandeur’
September 16, 2024
The United Auto Workers’ rift with Stellantis widened Monday as the union filed federal labor charges over possibly moving production of an SUV out of the country
September 16, 2024
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president, has called on supporters to protest against current President Luis Arce
September 16, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday stressed the importance of a fighter jet programme with Italy and Japan after speculation that his new government could axe its
September 16, 2024
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks the richest governments should increase their support for African countries
September 16, 2024
'Concerns' growing for Haitians in Tulsa as false rumors spread
September 16, 2024
The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters has presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year after his V-22 Osprey crashed in Australia
September 16, 2024
Residents still suffering from impacts of Hurricane Francine days later
September 16, 2024
Israel's initial findings on the killing of U.S. citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi do not exonerate Israeli security forces, State Department
September 16, 2024
Cuba's communist-run government on Monday slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme
September 16, 2024
Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen on Monday called on farming communities to stop burning grasslands in Andean and Amazonian areas that have sparked deadly wildfires, killing
September 16, 2024
A former Canadian vice admiral has been found not guilty of sexual assault and an indecent act over his behavior on a ship during a 1991 deployment
September 16, 2024
The U.S. military said on Monday it had completed its withdrawal from Niger.
September 16, 2024
The United States worked for some time to secure the freedom of American Pastor David Lin ahead of his release from China and is still seeking the release of
September 16, 2024
The United States is still working with mediators Egypt and Qatar to present a revised proposal for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, State
September 16, 2024
A U.S. Defense Department official says the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger is complete
September 16, 2024
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa will seek changes to the constitution to allow foreign military bases to be established in the Andean country, he said on Monday via a post on X.
September 16, 2024
American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize
September 16, 2024
US military completes withdrawal from Niger
September 16, 2024
The outgoing head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday he welcomed talks on Ukraine's use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, but any decision on the issue
September 16, 2024
Local food truck owner fighting misinformation about Haitian immigrants through cuisine
September 16, 2024
A team of technology experts issued a global call on Monday seeking the toughest questions to pose to artificial intelligence systems, which increasingly
September 16, 2024
The United States is placing new sanctions on a spyware firm and its executives after its tools were used to spy on journalists, dissidents and public officials around the world
September 16, 2024
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday to give up on the idea that Russia can be defeated on the battlefield and to support
September 16, 2024
Putin orders Russia to boost size of army by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million
September 16, 2024
Officials say a massive pipeline fire that has burned for hours near Houston began after vehicle struck an above-ground valve after driving through a fence
September 16, 2024
U.N. human rights experts criticised mostly Western states on Monday for continuing to support Israel despite what they described as a genocide in Gaza which might
September 16, 2024
Reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering firing Defence Minister Yoav Gallant shook the political landscape and sent Israeli
September 16, 2024
Iran’s new reformist president is insisting that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons grade levels but had been forced by the U.S. withdrawal from its nuclear deal with world powers
September 16, 2024
Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar congratulated Yemen's Houthi group for its missile attack on Israel over the weekend and said this sent a message to their foe, the Houthi Al-Massirah TV
September 16, 2024
A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges stemming from an alleged plot to assassinate an American politician in retaliation
September 16, 2024
The United States imposed new sanctions and visa bans on Georgians on Monday, including financial sanctions on two government officials and two members of the
September 16, 2024
A once-in-1,000-year rainfall event from an unnamed storm floods homes and forces rescues in North Carolina
September 16, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that his government had not transferred any weapons to Russia since it took office in August, after Western powers accused Tehran of
September 16, 2024
In August 2023, Hanan al-Bayouk travelled from Gaza to Israeli-occupied Arab East Jerusalem for a high-risk birth.
September 16, 2024
Iran could hold direct talks with the United States if Washington demonstrates "in practice" that it is not hostile to the Islamic Republic, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on
September 16, 2024
Germany is interested in expanding trade with Kazakhstan while also ensuring such trade is not used to circumvent EU sanctions on Russia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on a visit to
September 16, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran would never give up on its missile programme as it needs such deterrence for its security in a region where Iran's arch
September 16, 2024
Saudi Arabia plans to scrap light-touch oversight of its nuclear facilities by the U.N. atomic watchdog and switch to regular safeguards by the end of this year,
September 16, 2024
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Monday signed a decree pardoning 37 people convicted of crimes related to "extremism", state news agency Belta reported.
September 16, 2024
At least 17 killed in floods as a month’s worth of rain pounds central Europe
September 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine drags on for more than 2 ½ years
September 16, 2024
Tehran has not sent hypersonic missiles to Yemen's Houthis, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a televised news conference on Monday, a day after the Iran-backed group said
September 16, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make
September 16, 2024
Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher accused of breaking Russia's "foreign agent" laws, pleaded guilty at a trial on Monday and is now in line to receive a lighter sentence,
September 16, 2024
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) said on Monday that it was closing its programmes in Russia after an instruction to deregister from the Justice Ministry.
September 16, 2024
Britain should outlaw imports of products made by forced labour in China's Xinjiang region, a senior lawmaker from the ruling Labour party said, while reiterating his call for more
September 16, 2024
At least two people died as wildfires raged in central and northern Portugal on Monday, forcing authorities to evacuate villages, close motorways
September 16, 2024
Polio vaccination coverage in Gaza has reached 90%, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said on Monday, adding that the next step was to ensure hundreds of
September 16, 2024
An American pastor held in a Chinese jail for nearly two decades is finally home
September 16, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S.
September 16, 2024
Two former Olympic champions are in the race to be the next IOC president
September 16, 2024
The Finnish government is happy for Sweden to lead the establishment of NATO land forces in Finland to boost defences against neighbouring Russia, the two Nordic
September 16, 2024
Warships of Russia's Pacific Fleet and the Chinese Navy practiced missile and artillery firing in the Sea of Japan as part of the Ocean-2024 drills, Russia's RIA state news agency
September 16, 2024
Authorities say Moroccan security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta
September 16, 2024
A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been “successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill.”
September 16, 2024
The U.N. says the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan
September 16, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that the Ukrainian links of the alleged shooter in the assassination attempt on former U.S.
September 16, 2024
Exceptionally heavy rainfall has been pounding Central Europe and has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four new deaths reported in Poland, three in Czech Republic and one in Romania
September 16, 2024
Ukraine said on Monday it had asked the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to join humanitarian efforts in Russia's Kursk region following a cross-
September 16, 2024
Germany reintroduced temporary border checks including at its frontiers with France and the Netherlands on Monday as part of efforts to combat irregular migration
September 16, 2024
Ryan Routh, the reported suspect in an apparent assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Kyiv in the
September 16, 2024
Germany has begun random checks at its borders with five Western European nations, expanding a system of controls already in place at its four other borders
September 16, 2024
Residents of several areas of Poland and the Czech Republic rushed to evacuate on Monday as others in
September 16, 2024
Britain's interior minister said on Monday it was appalling to see political violence taking place and she was glad to see Donald Trump was safe following what the FBI called an
September 16, 2024
Trade unions and thousands of disgruntled workers are demonstrating in the Belgian capital to protest the threat of massive layoffs in a state-of-the-art Brussels car factory and other key industries
September 16, 2024
Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children
September 16, 2024
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has flown to Russia to attend the fourth Eurasian Women's Forum and the BRICS Women's Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia's embassy in North Korea
September 16, 2024
Germany angers European neighbors as it tightens migration along all land borders
September 16, 2024
A 24-year-old student has died from the Nipah virus in the southern Indian state of Kerala, a local medical official said on Monday, and 151 people who came
September 16, 2024
Libertarian President Javier Milei of Argentina has presented the 2025 budget to Congress, outlining policy priorities that reflected his key pledge to kill the country’s chronic fiscal deficit and signaled a new phase of confrontation with lawmakers
September 16, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has met with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome
September 16, 2024
Shanghai slammed by what China says is the city’s strongest storm in seven decades
September 16, 2024
Mexico's judicial reform overhauling the country's courts, which will allow voters to elect judges, officially took effect on Sunday after the text of the constitutional
September 16, 2024
The Philippines will continuously deploy vessels in the contested Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea, its coast guard said on Monday after a Philippine ship returned to port after a
September 16, 2024
The normally-bustling financial hub of Shanghai was brought to a standstill on Monday as residents sheltered at home to wait out the worst of Typhoon
September 15, 2024
Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper stretches of the
September 15, 2024
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will introduce new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from a West African bloc in favour of a new Sahel alliance after military leaders
September 15, 2024
Colorado hiker's body deemed "too dangerous" to recover
September 15, 2024
Trump safe after being targeted in second apparent assassination attempt
September 15, 2024
Russian military aircraft detected off Alaskan coast for fourth time in past week, NORAD says
September 15, 2024
Russian strike hits apartment block in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, killing one person and injuring at least 40
September 15, 2024
Israeli military says 3 hostages were ‘most likely’ killed in November strike
September 15, 2024
For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole
September 15, 2024
Italy’s army is set to begin guarding medical staff in Calabria starting Monday
September 15, 2024
Ukrainian troops are suffering high losses because Western arms are arriving too slowly to equip the armed forces properly, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told CNN in an interview aired on
September 15, 2024
Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Britain’s INEOS Britannia are on the verge of advancing in the America’s Cup after extending their leads in the semifinals
September 15, 2024
Ecuador will implement a nationwide blackout for maintenance in the country's electricity system overnight on Wednesday, from 10 p.m. local time to Thursday at 6 a.m., the government
September 15, 2024
Georgia's most powerful man, Bidzina Ivanishvili, suggested that the South Caucasus country could apologise to Ossetians for the 2008 war with Russia that led to Moscow recognising
September 15, 2024
A Russian-guided bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building on Sunday in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, triggering a fire and killing one person and injuring 42, officials
September 15, 2024
Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday he will resign as chief minister of the Delhi regional government, two days after he was released from prison on bail in a graft
September 15, 2024
Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who dedicated much of his writings to the Palestinian cause and taught at universities around the world, making him one of Lebanon’s most prominent intellectuals has died
September 15, 2024
‘We no longer study.’ Gaza’s children lose out on school, as Israel’s war disrupts a year of education
September 15, 2024
Shanghai’s airports are canceling hundreds of flights as they brace for impact from Typhoon Bebinca
September 15, 2024
Eight people have died trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said on Sunday, confirming earlier media reports.
September 15, 2024
Heavy rains have caused severe flooding in Central Europe and the death toll has risen
September 15, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Russia, state media cited Tehran's ambassador in Moscow as saying on Sunday, amid tensions with the West
September 15, 2024
Ukrainian officials say two people have died in a missile attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa
September 15, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah has designated key palace aide Jafar Hassan as prime minister after the government resigned on Sunday, the royal court said, days after a
September 15, 2024
Netanyahu warns Yemen’s Houthis face a ‘heavy price’ as missile lands in central Israel
September 15, 2024
The death toll from flooding in central Europe rose to eight on Sunday as thousands of people were
September 15, 2024
A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels has landed in an open area in central Israel and triggered air raid sirens at its international airport
September 15, 2024
Typhoon Yagi leaves at least 74 dead in Myanmar after flooding and landslides
September 15, 2024
Pope Francis' longest and farthest trip has proven that despite his age, ailments and eight hours of jet lag, Pope Francis can still pull off an ambitious trip to Asia
September 15, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a "heavy price" on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a
September 15, 2024
Photos of North Korea's uranium enrichment facility may show an undeclared site for building nuclear bombs just outside of its capital, analysts said.
September 15, 2024
US says claims of CIA plot to kill Maduro are ‘categorically false’ after Venezuela arrests six foreigners
September 14, 2024
British Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been urged by former defence secretaries and an ex-premier to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russian territory even
September 14, 2024
Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been buried after three days of national mourning
September 14, 2024
Mexican authorities logged seven homicides in the western state of Sinaloa on Friday, the latest violence to plague an area where increasingly frequent shootouts are fueling fears of the
September 14, 2024
The presidential campaign season in Tunisia is officially underway a day after protesters took their anger to the streets of their capital
September 14, 2024
Anne Marie Hagerty is a world traveler with a romantic motive. She has now traveled to over 25 countries in search of love. From England to Argentina to Greece, these are her favorite places to find romance.
September 14, 2024
Ukraine's spy chief said on Saturday that Russia's increased production of guided bombs as well as artillery ammunition deliveries from North Korea present major problems for
September 14, 2024
At least three killed as trains collide in Egypt
September 14, 2024
U.S.
September 14, 2024
The operation has started to tow a Greek-registered oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants last month, a shipping source told Reuters on Saturday.
September 14, 2024
Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday.
September 14, 2024
The head of NATO’s military committee says that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage, reflecting the beliefs of a number of U.S. allies
September 14, 2024
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised powers condemned on Saturday "in the strongest terms" Iran's export and Russia's procurement of Iranian ballistic
September 14, 2024
State-television in Myanmar says the death toll in the military-run country from flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi has reached at least 74
September 14, 2024
An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked a judge to sentence right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini to six years in prison over his 2019 decision to prevent more than 100 migrants
September 14, 2024
At least 8 dead as heaviest rain in decades hits parts of central and eastern Europe
September 14, 2024
A retired Catholic bishop who apologized for reinstating a priest who later admitted to sexually abusing an Oklahoma boy has died
September 14, 2024
Russia begins efforts to expel Ukraine from Kursk but counter-attack is yet to gain momentum
September 14, 2024
Ballet dancer Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who came to the United States from an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone and performed on some of the world’s biggest stages, has died
September 14, 2024
Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani is in stable condition after receiving emergency heart surgery during an official visit to the United States, an oil ministry official who is
September 14, 2024
Iran's foreign minister said that Tehran was open to diplomacy to solve disputes but not "threats and pressure", state media reported on Saturday, after the U.S. and three European
September 14, 2024
Algeria's constitutional court confirmed on Saturday that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won a second term with 84.30% of the vote in an election on Sept. 7, state media reported
September 14, 2024
Sierra Leone ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in Beyoncé video, dies aged 29
September 14, 2024
Funeral takes place for American-Turkish activist Israeli military shot in West Bank
September 14, 2024
Mexico’s Catholic Church has a new addition to its ranks of “blessed,” with the beatification of the Rev. Moisés Lira
September 14, 2024
Russia and Ukraine conducted a major exchange of 206 prisoners on Saturday, 103 apiece, in their second such swap in two days, following negotiations mediated by the
September 14, 2024
Comoros president Azali Assoumani is "out of danger" after he was injured on Friday in a knife attack by a 24-year-old policeman who was found dead in his cell a day later,
September 14, 2024
Ukraine has made a new call on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between U.S. and British leaders produced no visible shift in their policy
September 14, 2024
New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say
September 14, 2024
Turkish authorities have arrested an Islamic State militant believed to be involved in planning an attack on the Santa Maria Italian Church in Istanbul earlier this year, the
September 14, 2024
Beijing firmly opposes U.S. tariff hikes on Chinese imports, China's commerce ministry said in a statement on Saturday, urging the U.S. to immediately correct its "wrongdoings" and
September 14, 2024
Germany opens its doors to Kenyan workers in controlled migration deal
September 14, 2024
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war, with each side releasing 103 people, the Interfax news agency cited Russia's defence ministry as saying on Saturday.
September 14, 2024
Russian officials threatened the West on Saturday with an uncontrolled escalation of war and Ukraine with the destruction of Kyiv as Western leaders discussed whether to allow
September 14, 2024
Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon
September 14, 2024
At least four people died and thousands of homes were damaged by flooding in eastern Romania on Saturday, officials said, as
September 14, 2024
A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
September 14, 2024
Emergency authorities say four people in eastern Romania have been found dead after torrential storms dumped unprecedented rain, leaving hundreds stranded in flooded areas
September 14, 2024
NATO could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia's invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the Western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday.
September 14, 2024
Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei
September 14, 2024
The head of a Malaysian conglomerate accused of running homes where hundreds of children and youths were allegedly sexually abused said there were 'one or two' cases of sodomy
September 14, 2024
Iran on Saturday launched a research satellite into orbit with a rocket built by the Revolutionary Guards, state media reported.
September 14, 2024
A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank has been laid to rest in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising
September 14, 2024
Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard
September 14, 2024
The ancient monastery hanging from the side of a cliff
September 14, 2024
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya
September 14, 2024
China's military on Saturday condemned the transit of two German navy ships through the Taiwan Strait saying it increased security risks and sent the "wrong" signal, adding that
September 14, 2024
Belarusians are experiencing a new wave of Russification as Moscow expands its economic, political and cultural dominance to overtake the identity of its neighbor
September 14, 2024
A new report shows that more than 60% of the 102 people who died in last year's Lahaina wildfire had tried to flee the flames
September 14, 2024
Four ISIS leaders were killed in western Iraq raid last month, US military says
September 14, 2024
A confrontation at pro-Israeli rally leads to gunfire after a man tackles one of the demonstrators
September 14, 2024
UN staff member among 10 killed during Israel military operation in West Bank
September 13, 2024
Same-sex marriage was on a roll in Asia. Not anymore
September 13, 2024
As the U.S. and Britain discuss allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep within Russia, some U.S. officials
September 13, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu and discussed deepening strategic dialogue between the two countries, state media KCNA said on
September 13, 2024
Flying back to Rome from a lengthy trip to Asia, Pope Francis criticized both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration
September 13, 2024
An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
September 13, 2024
Hurricane Francine suddenly dropped an incredible amount of rain on New Orleans
September 13, 2024
A military court in Congo has convicted dozens of people, including three Americans, for a coup attempt
September 13, 2024
New US men’s soccer coach Mauricio Pochettino outlines his vision ahead of the next World Cup: ‘We need to think big’
September 13, 2024
Long Island Haitians blast Donald Trump's "despicable" comments on immigrants eating pets
September 13, 2024
President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Angola in coming weeks, fulfilling an earlier promise that would make him the first U.S. head of state to visit sub-
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis criticizes Trump and Harris and says voters must choose between ‘lesser of two evils’
September 13, 2024
During a press conference on the papal plane on Friday, Pope Francis shared his views on the US presidential election.
September 13, 2024
Turkey's spy chief has met a delegation from the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Ankara and discussed the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, state broadcaster TRT said on
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis has offered extensive praise for China at the end of a trip through Asia
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis on Friday decried the deaths of Palestinian children in Israeli military strikes in Gaza, calling bombings of schools, on the "
September 13, 2024
Ukraine's government has approved the 2025 draft budget, which has a strong focus on defence spending, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday.
September 13, 2024
Vladimir Putin's options to retaliate if the West lets Ukraine use its long-range missiles to strike Russia could include striking British military assets near Russia or, in
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis on Friday criticized both former U.S.
September 13, 2024
Hurricane Francine leaves neighborhood flooded trapping woman inside home
September 13, 2024
Countries should treat the activities of Russian state broadcaster RT as they do covert intelligence operations, U.S.
September 13, 2024
The U.S. State Department has announced new sanctions on Russian state media, accusing a Kremlin news outlet of working hand-in-hand with the Russian military and running fundraising campaigns to pay for sniper rifles, body armor and other equipment for soldiers fighting in Ukraine
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis has strongly criticized both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and migration
September 13, 2024
Authorities in Mexico’s Los Cabos area have been warning people to stay inside
September 13, 2024
560,000 children in Gaza vaccinated against polio as first round of campaign ends
September 13, 2024
Splits in Russia's opposition in exile have widened sharply, shifting their focus from political activism to infighting after allies of late
September 13, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged on Friday to conduct mass deportations of Haitian
September 13, 2024
The United States is not planning to announce any new policy on Ukraine and the use of long-range missiles on Friday, the White House said.
September 13, 2024
Three U.S. citizens are among 37 defendants sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for their role in a May failed coup in Democratic Republic of
September 13, 2024
Biden administration unveils new evidence of RT’s key role in Russian intelligence operations globally
September 13, 2024
The Canadian government will not intervene to end a dispute between Air Canada and its pilots and intends instead to pressure both sides to avert a strike, Prime
September 13, 2024
German and Kenyan officials have signed an agreement to promote the recruitment of skilled Kenyan workers who can fill gaps in Germany’s labor market, and to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who don’t have the right to stay in Germany
September 13, 2024
Russian officials and managers are perplexed by President Vladimir Putin's surprise threat to limit exports of strategic
September 13, 2024
Hamas leader sends letters from hiding after almost a year of silence
September 13, 2024
Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana
September 13, 2024
Cambodia has decried newly imposed U.S. sanctions on one of its tycoons who has been implicated in forced labor, human trafficking and lucrative online scams
September 13, 2024
Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on Friday Vietnam and Indonesia had agreed to elevate their ties to a "comprehensive strategic partnership".
September 13, 2024
From the window of her tin-sided shop outside El Salvador's capital San Salvador, Esmeralda Quintanilla watches artists get to work in her
September 13, 2024
Botswana's ex-president Ian Khama appeared in court on Friday to face charges of illegally owning a gun and receiving stolen property, after returning from three years in exile
September 13, 2024
The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 254 on Friday, authorities said, as flood waters receded and search
September 13, 2024
Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, called for a clear schedule for the
September 13, 2024
Ukraine has secured the release of 49 people from Russian captivity in the latest exchange of prisoners with Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
September 13, 2024
Prague was putting up flood defences in the city's historic centre on Friday after Czech forecasters expanded a warning for extreme rainfall to areas of the country
September 13, 2024
Israeli air strikes destroyed the building housing Adli al-Assar's gym in Khan Younis in February. So he decided he doesn't need a building.
September 13, 2024
Canada is in discussions about joining an expanded AUKUS deal between the U.S., Britain, and Australia formed to counter China's growing military influence in the Asia
September 13, 2024
Water shortages in Cuba are increasingly flaring tempers, including in capital Havana, as problems mount for hundreds of thousands of residents already ragged from shortfalls in
September 13, 2024
Biden signals openness to using Western long-range missiles inside Russia as he meets Britain’s leader to discuss
September 13, 2024
A police swoop on 20 child welfare homes in Malaysia where hundreds of children were allegedly sexually abused has exposed weaknesses in child protection in the country and cast a spotlight on the Islamic business group that ran the homes
September 13, 2024
The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults, calling it an important step toward fighting against the disease in Africa
September 13, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has delivered a clear message to the West about the consequences it will face if it allows Ukraine to hit Russian territory with Western long-range missiles
September 13, 2024
The Maldives' hopes of staving off a debt crisis were given a lift on Friday after China agreed to strengthen trade and investment in its latest
September 13, 2024
Since Russia's full-scale invasion more than 30 months ago, Ukraine has relied heavily on supplies of weapons from its Western allies to beat back its much larger enemy.
September 13, 2024
A Turkish court on Friday jailed pending trial the mother and brother of a murdered eight-year-old girl whose body was found in a sack hidden under rocks in a case that
September 13, 2024
Russia started producing a new long-range attack drone called the Garpiya-A1 last year using Chinese engines and parts, which it has deployed in the war in Ukraine, according to two
September 13, 2024
A leading media group reports that dozens of Hong Kong journalists have faced harassment in recent months
September 13, 2024
The World Health Organization and partners on Friday set up a scheme to help bring mpox vaccines, tests and treatments to the most vulnerable people in
September 13, 2024
Russia completely disagrees with comments from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that Crimea should return to Ukrainian control, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
September 13, 2024
In a significant show of defiance against the United States, North Korea on Friday provided a rare view into a secretive facility built to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs as leader Kim Jong Un called for a rapid expansion of his nuclear weapons program
September 13, 2024
A landslide triggered a 650-foot mega-tsunami in Greenland. Then came something inexplicable
September 13, 2024
The body of a Turkish-American activist was received with a solemn ceremony at the airport in Istanbul on Friday, arriving a week after she was shot in the head by Israeli troops
September 13, 2024
Two German navy ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday in the first such transit in two decades, demonstrating Berlin's
September 13, 2024
Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar thanked the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his group's support in the conflict with Israel, Hezbollah said on Friday, in the
September 13, 2024
Top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu held talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a visit to Pyongyang on Friday, Russian news agencies said.
September 13, 2024
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has thanked Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for his support in the ongoing war with Israel
September 13, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet U.S.
September 13, 2024
China is raising its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world’s major economies
September 13, 2024
Typhoon Yagi: Asia’s most powerful storm submerges parts of Vietnam and Thailand
September 13, 2024
Russia has accused six British diplomats of spying and decided to expel them
September 13, 2024
The chairman of Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Friday accused NATO of being a party to military action in Ukraine, suggesting it was already heavily involved
September 13, 2024
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he was confident that the European Commission would reimburse Hungary's costs for protecting the European Union's external border from
September 13, 2024
China's National Health Commission will focus more efforts on advocating marriage and childbirth at "appropriate ages", an official said, as authorities struggle
September 13, 2024
The approval rating of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol fell to the lowest since he took office in May 2022 in the latest Gallup Korea poll published on Friday.
September 13, 2024
North Korea has disclosed the first photos of a uranium enrichment site designed to produce weapons-grade fuel for its nuclear bombs.
September 13, 2024
Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing apartheid, has died
September 13, 2024
Ukraine’s Kursk offensive was seen as a major success, but it came at a huge cost
September 13, 2024
Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow after accusing them of spying and sabotage work, signalling
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis left Singapore for Rome on Friday, after a demanding trip across Southeast Asia and Oceania in which he urged action on climate
September 13, 2024
The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election next week
September 13, 2024
North Korea releases images of Kim Jong Un visiting a uranium enrichment site, giving rare glimpse inside its nuclear program
September 13, 2024
New pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un touring what state media said is a uranium enrichment facility have given an extremely rare glimpse inside the isolated nation’s closely guarded nuclear weapons program. CNN's Brian Todd reports
September 13, 2024
Residents of the Carrollton neighborhood in New Orleans are among the thousands of utility customers in the city who remain without power after Hurricane Francine passed through
September 13, 2024
Longtime drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking charges
September 13, 2024
President Joe Biden has brushed off a threat from Russian leader Vladimir Putin about war against the West if Ukraine’s allies allow it to use weapons deeper inside Russia
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis is concluding his visit to Singapore by praising its tradition of interfaith harmony
September 13, 2024
South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children
September 13, 2024
China’s secretive space plane has returned to Earth. Its mission? Unknown
September 13, 2024
Years after being ousted during his third term in office, the former Peruvian strongman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes he committed as president. He was later pardoned – twice.
September 13, 2024
Chinese and Russian defence officials took swipes at the West at a military diplomacy forum in Beijing on Friday, with China courting the Global South and Russia
September 13, 2024
The Venezuelan government has recalled its ambassador to Spain for consultations and summoned the Spanish ambassador to appear at the foreign ministry, escalating diplomatic
September 13, 2024
Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns
September 13, 2024
North Korea has offered a rare glimpse into a secretive facility to produce weapons-grade uranium as it says leader Kim Jong Un visited the area and called for stronger efforts to increase its number of nuclear weapons
September 13, 2024
U.S. officials say nearly $6 billion in funding for aid to Ukraine will expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to extend the Pentagon’s authority to send weapons from its stockpile to Kyiv
September 12, 2024
New Zealand house prices rose in the last month, with the data indicating more confidence in the market, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) said on Thursday.
September 12, 2024
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa on Thursday canceled national day celebrations and shut schools on the back of escalating violence
September 12, 2024
Israeli intelligence commander to resign after being accused of failing to prevent October 7
September 12, 2024
Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas are resounding in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil’s Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 years
September 12, 2024
The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for African nations
September 12, 2024
US expected to charge Iranian hackers who targeted Trump campaign
September 12, 2024
U.S. authorities are preparing to file criminal charges after the Trump campaign said in August that some of its internal communications were hacked and blamed the Iranian government, the
September 12, 2024
The White House rebuked former President Donald Trump on Thursday for his association with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who
September 12, 2024
Brazil formally received on Thursday the return from Denmark of an Indigenous cloak made with 4,000 red feathers of the scarlet ibis bird, a sacred mantle that was taken by
September 12, 2024
North Korea for the first time showed images on Friday of the centrifuges that produce fuel for its nuclear bombs, as leader Kim Jong Un visited a uranium
September 12, 2024
Former CIA officer who spied for China sentenced to a decade in prison
September 12, 2024
New York City lawmakers have approved legislation to study the city’s significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people
September 12, 2024
Rep. Shelia Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), the first Haitian-American in Congress, reacts to former President Donald Trump's false claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, calling them "extremely detrimental" and saying they are rooted in racial stereotypes.
September 12, 2024
Fear and frustration in Ohio city as political debate seizes on growing Haitian population
September 12, 2024
When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas travels to New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this month, he will for the
September 12, 2024
Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday dissolved the opposition-led national assembly, clearing the way for early legislative elections on Nov. 17.
September 12, 2024
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia,
September 12, 2024
Canadian police say a renowned portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa hotel has been tracked down in Italy
September 12, 2024
One of two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups deployed to the Middle East in part to deter Iran from carrying out a threatened attack against Israel has departed the region,
September 12, 2024
The U.S. House this week approved a sweeping package of bills to counter China’s influence
September 12, 2024
An investigator gave the World Anti-Doping Agency a pass on its handling of the case involving Chinese swimmers, but not without hammering away at the nature of WADA’s “silence” after examining a case that did not follow rules designed to safeguard global sports
September 12, 2024
British defense group BAE Systems said on Thursday the U.S.
September 12, 2024
Peru’s government has declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori
September 12, 2024
Woman survives lightning strike in downtown Greenville
September 12, 2024
Pakistan’s leader says the country has met all the conditions set by the International Monetary Fund to qualify for a new $7 billion loan to help prop up its economy
September 12, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he and International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan had discussed how to ensure that arrest warrants for Russian officials
September 12, 2024
The Israeli military on Thursday named nine men it said were Hamas militants killed in Gaza airstrikes that the U.N.
September 12, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with
September 12, 2024
The Biden administration is sending Egypt its full $1.3 billion allocation of military aid
September 12, 2024
American Lael Wilcox becomes fastest woman to cycle around the world
September 12, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will take over from German diplomat Christoph Heusgen as chair of the Munich Security Conference, a person familiar with the matter told
September 12, 2024
Atlanta’s subway cars are now home to endangered sea turtles and coral reefs
September 12, 2024
Mexico is poised to amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected as part of a judicial overhaul championed by the outgoing president but slammed by critics as a blow to the country’s rule of law
September 12, 2024
People in Canada and northern U.S. cities including Seattle and Minneapolis may see faint auroras due to moderate solar storms
September 12, 2024
Morocco on Thursday confirmed its first Mpox case in a man in Marrakech, the health ministry said.
September 12, 2024
President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Australia, India and Japan next weekend in his Wilmington, Delaware, hometown, the White House announced, as he looks to burnish his legacy before leaving office in January
September 12, 2024
The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more than 100 mpox-related deaths in a week, a toll the agency's director-general described as “not acceptable.”
September 12, 2024
Russia counterattacks against Ukraine in Kursk border region
September 12, 2024
The Biden administration said on Thursday it was imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to
September 12, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that more pressure should be put on Hamas to accept a new Gaza deal proposal, after the Palestinian militant group said
September 12, 2024
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will visit Buenos Aires in late September and meet his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, an Argentine government source told Reuters on
September 12, 2024
US imposes sanctions on Venezuelan officials who Biden admin says obstructed fair election in country
September 12, 2024
A man whose pickup truck got trapped in rushing floodwaters unleashed by rains from Hurricane Francine was saved by a Good Samaritan who also happened to be an emergency room nurse
September 12, 2024
Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say
September 12, 2024
First on CNN: Biden to host ‘Quad’ leaders in Delaware hometown as he bolsters foreign policy legacy
September 12, 2024
Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer has returned to the tiny village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupation exactly 80 years ago
September 12, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will host a Quad leaders summit with leaders from Australia, India and Japan on September 21 in Delaware, the White House said on Thursday.
September 12, 2024
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake has rattled the Los Angeles area
September 12, 2024
Over 250,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana were without power on Thursday after Hurricane Francine barreled onto the state's Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
September 12, 2024
The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering military response to the Oct. 7 attacks in the territory, the United Nations says
September 12, 2024
The foreign ministers of several Muslim and European countries will meet in Madrid on Friday to discuss how to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
September 12, 2024
A majority of Mexican state legislatures have approved a controversial judicial overhaul, the country's president said on Thursday, marking a final legislative step in its
September 12, 2024
The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers more than 30 years ago
September 12, 2024
The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago
September 12, 2024
Experts will this week resume a risky operation to salvage the Sounion tanker that was repeatedly attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea last month and still holds about one
September 12, 2024
A culture of commemoration is still thriving in this Dutch town 80 years after its liberation
September 12, 2024
Three Red Cross staff members have been killed by artillery strikes in eastern Ukraine
September 12, 2024
Gaza's economy has shrunk to less than a sixth of its size when the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, while unemployment in the occupied
September 12, 2024
"Friendly" countries have helped Pakistan to meet requirements necessary to secure a bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday.
September 12, 2024
Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of using strategic bombers to strike a civilian grain vessel in a missile attack in Black Sea waters
September 12, 2024
Storm Francine barreled across the U.S.
September 12, 2024
More than 100 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar including women and children have been on hunger strike since Monday to protest at their
September 12, 2024
NATO member Turkey’s intention to join the 9-member body that functions as an alternative to the Western-led order shows Ankara’s global ambitions.
September 12, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country's much-loved but overstretched health system is in critical condition and must “reform or die.”
September 12, 2024
Russian shelling on Thursday killed three Ukrainians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and wounded two others in a village in the frontline Donetsk region,
September 12, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged authorities to strive to achieve the country's annual economic and social development goals, state media reported, amid expectations
September 12, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met Venezuela's self-exiled opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez in Madrid on Thursday, a day after the lower house of Spain's parliament voted to
September 12, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has dismissed a Chinese-Brazilian peace initiative for the war in Ukraine as "destructive", and complained that Kyiv had not been involved in the process
September 12, 2024
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has launched “counteroffensive actions” in its Kursk region to dislodge Ukrainian forces who stormed across the border five weeks ago and put Russian territory under foreign occupation for the first time since World War II
September 12, 2024
With Israel blocking the entry of almost all fuel into Gaza to prevent its use by Hamas militants, some Palestinians in the north of the shattered
September 12, 2024
Turkey has opened an investigation into the death of a Turkish-American activist believed to have been shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank and will request
September 12, 2024
Rich countries have several hundred million doses of vaccines that could help fight an mpox outbreak in Africa, where donated shots fall far short of
September 12, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will continue to press Israel to do more to spare humanitarian sites in the Gaza Strip, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school complex sheltering displaced Palestinians killed 14 people there, including six U.N. staffers
September 12, 2024
Austrian security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamic extremists this week ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States
September 12, 2024
Evacuated to Qatar from the chaos of Gaza, nine-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Youssef Ajjour still dreams of becoming a pilot one day despite losing
September 12, 2024
India's economic relationship with neighbour China has been very "unfair" and "imbalanced", Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Thursday.
September 12, 2024
Police say a pair of gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire and killed a policeman guarding a group of polio workers going door-to-door in a vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan
September 12, 2024
Guinea Bissau's President Umaro Cissoko Embalo said on Thursday he would not run for a second term in elections in November.
September 12, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a three-nation, Ukraine-focused European tour in Poland after hearing repeated appeals from Ukrainian officials to use Western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia
September 12, 2024
Thailand deployed military special forces in the northern province of Chiang Rai on Thursday after flooding marooned thousands that
September 12, 2024
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will from Thursday spend the final weeks of his term in the country's planned new capital, Nusantara, amid doubts about the
September 12, 2024
Three lawyers who once represented the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have gone on trial in Russia
September 12, 2024
A runaway penguin spent two weeks missing at sea. A typhoon may have saved her
September 12, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had anticipated Moscow's counteroffensive in the Russian region of Kursk,
September 12, 2024
A good Samaritan was seen live on CNN affiliate WDSU saving a driver inside a submerged pickup truck during Hurricane Francine in New Orleans.
September 12, 2024
Hundreds of people turned out at a beach in Washington for a vigil remembering Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old human rights activist from Seattle killed by the Israeli military during a protest in the occupied West Bank
September 12, 2024
A pair of rare Amur tiger cubs are making their public debut at the Minnesota Zoo, raising hopes for preserving an endangered species that’s native to far eastern Russia and northern China
September 12, 2024
Russia should clearly state its willingness to use nuclear weapons against countries that "support NATO aggression in Ukraine", according to an influential foreign
September 12, 2024
CNN gained exclusive access to a medical evacuation train used by the Ukrainian army to transport the injured from near the frontlines to hospitals around the country. It comes equipped with ventilators, life support machines, ultrasound scanners and even portable air conditioners that help maintain stable temperatures. This hospital on wheels is operating in complete secrecy, which is why CNN is not revealing its route or identifying its staff by their full names. Christiane Amanpour speaks to the people who help keep the train, and its unique lifesaving services, running and the soldiers traveling from the frontlines.
September 12, 2024
On board a lifesaving hospital train bringing Ukraine’s wounded soldiers to safety
September 12, 2024
The Associated Press interviewed and photographed dozens of South Koreans for a detailed look at the nation’s stark division over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s headlong pursuit of nuclear-tipped missiles targeting the South and its major ally and protector, the United States
September 12, 2024
There are two Koreas, North and South
September 12, 2024
Poland added its voice on Thursday to calls to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied missiles deep into Russia as it hosted U.S.
September 12, 2024
The United States supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat to be rotated among small island
September 12, 2024
Nearly 200 people have died in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi and 128 are missing as flash floods and landslides take their toll
September 12, 2024
Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles says several serving and former military commanders have been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan war
September 12, 2024
People ‘adopting’ fallen soldiers buried at an American war cemetery in the Netherlands are helping to keep alive memories of their sacrifice as the country marks the 80th anniversary of the start of its liberation from World War II Nazi occupation
September 12, 2024
Japan will have a new leader after outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party holds a vote on Sept. 27 to choose his replacement
September 12, 2024
Pope Francis has praised Singapore’s economic development as a testament to human ingenuity
September 12, 2024
Pope Francis on Thursday urged political leaders in Singapore, a leading global financial hub, to seek fair wages for the country's million-plus lower-paid
September 12, 2024
Australia will strip military awards from a group of war veterans over allegations those under their command committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Defence Minister
September 12, 2024
The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 226 on Thursday, the government's
September 12, 2024
South Korea on Thursday declared a special emergency medical response period for two weeks in September and said it would use all available resources to ensure services,
September 12, 2024
The Philippines will stick to its position on Sabina Shoal, it said on Thursday, even while exploring ways to ease tension in the area during "frank and candid" talks with
September 12, 2024
Peru’s ex-leader Alberto Fujimori dies at 86
September 12, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping could meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy next month, a former Ukrainian official said in Beijing on Thursday at the
September 11, 2024
Israeli airstrike on Gaza school sheltering displaced people kills at least 18, including UN staff, Palestinian officials say
September 11, 2024
Alberto Fujimori, whose decadelong presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that sent him to prison, has died
September 11, 2024
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist rebels,
September 11, 2024
Former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba is corporate Japan's top choice to replace Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, edging out Sanae Takaichi, who strives to become
September 11, 2024
Canada is donating "up to 200,000" doses of mpox vaccine, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.
September 11, 2024
Brazil on Wednesday asked the European Union not to implement regulations in its deforestation law at the end of the year as scheduled and asked for it to
September 11, 2024
North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's military said, the first such launch in more than two months.
September 11, 2024
Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday
September 11, 2024
North Korea has fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea
September 11, 2024
Hurricane Francine has intensified into a category 2 hurricane, with the eye nearing the Louisiana coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.
September 11, 2024
In the lowland Bolivian region of Santa Cruz, being gripped by some of its worst wildfires on record, nurse Raúl Gutiérrez
September 11, 2024
The Palestinian Hamas group said on Wednesday that its negotiators reiterated its readiness to implement an "immediate" ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous U.S.
September 11, 2024
Every September world leaders travel to New York to address the start of the annual United Nations General Assembly session.
September 11, 2024
A lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip is "totally unacceptable," U.N.
September 11, 2024
Many cities have been reshaped by immigrants in the last few years without attracting much notice
September 11, 2024
US will not restrict any military funding to Egypt
September 11, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo will start its mpox vaccination campaign on Oct. 2, nearly a week earlier than previously planned, the head of its outbreak response said on
September 11, 2024
Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria
September 11, 2024
The Biden administration is overriding human rights conditions on military aid to Egypt, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday, granting the U.S. ally
September 11, 2024
Russian ship suspected of delivering Iranian ballistic missiles seen at Caspian Sea port
September 11, 2024
All three candidates running to become the next secretary-general of the Commonwealth, a 56-nation club headed by Britain's King Charles, said on Wednesday they
September 11, 2024
A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late on Wednesday evening and docked with the
September 11, 2024
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American has docked at the International Space Station
September 11, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to finish paving a roadway in the heart of the Amazon that experts and some in his own government say could worsen deforestation
September 11, 2024
Rose Joseph and Banal Oreus followed different paths from Haiti to this struggling Midwestern industrial city that suddenly finds itself at the center
September 11, 2024
An air raid alarm sounded for more than 30 minutes in Kyiv on Wednesday afternoon as U.S.
September 11, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has praised Hungary's autocratic leader, further fanning concerns that Trump embraces anti-democratic forces around the world
September 11, 2024
The flood that crashed through the Libyan town of Derna a year ago killed Hassan Kassar's four children and left him homeless in a wrecked city, where reconstruction has been
September 11, 2024
Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 34 people, including 19 women and children
September 11, 2024
China's vice foreign minister and his Philippine counterpart have had a "frank and in-depth" exchange on sea-related issues, in particular the issue of the disputed Sabina Shoal,
September 11, 2024
Japan's former Environment Minister and leading prime ministerial candidate Shinjiro Koizumi said he would respect the central bank's independence in setting monetary policy if he is
September 11, 2024
Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods
September 11, 2024
British foreign minister David Lammy said on Wednesday Britain would provide a further 600 million pounds ($781 million) of support for Ukraine as he visited Kyiv with U.S.
September 11, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday issued sanctions on a Lebanese network it accused of smuggling oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to help fund the Lebanese armed group
September 11, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday a "victory plan" he wants to present to U.S.
September 11, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that its partnership with China was not aimed against third countries but the two powers could "combine potential" if faced with a threat
September 11, 2024
Malaysian authorities rescued more than 400 children on Wednesday suspected of being sexually abused at charity homes run by a prominent Islamic business organisation with
September 11, 2024
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of hedging on the issue, has committed his government to finishing a road
September 11, 2024
Britain's foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires over the transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia.
September 11, 2024
Three women were killed and five other people were injured on Wednesday during Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, prosecutors said.
September 11, 2024
The international aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders - MSF) on Wednesday obtained the release of its migrant rescue ship, which had been
September 11, 2024
Philippine pastor Apollo Quiboloy, self-proclaimed "Appointed Son of God", has been apprehended after a weeks-long search by more than 2,000 police officers of his huge church
September 11, 2024
Twelve-year-old Heba Dawas lost her footwear in the chaos while fleeing Israel's military offensive in Gaza.
September 11, 2024
Germany's foreign ministry mocked U.S.
September 11, 2024
Kosovo announced the indictment of 45 suspects on terrorism charges on Wednesday, almost a year after ethnic Serb gunmen stormed a north Kosovo village and battled police in a
September 11, 2024
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' warning that failing to support Ukraine could leave Poland and other countries open to attack by Russia is resonating in Poland
September 11, 2024
Several lawmakers and leaders of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's party arrested after a rally they held to demand his release have been charged
September 11, 2024
The history of Black religious life in the US includes people of all faiths using their beliefs to fight for social justice.
September 11, 2024
Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber planes flew over the Barents and Norwegian seas as part of a major naval exercise, the state-run RIA news agency quoted the defence ministry as
September 11, 2024
Billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild Gaza when the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas ends, according to assessments from the United
September 11, 2024
Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Tehran had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and three European powers
September 11, 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday called the Israeli military's killing of an American activist in the Israeli-
September 11, 2024
23 years later, September 11 families continue quest for accountability from Saudi Arabia in landmark civil case
September 11, 2024
Cuban lab chemist Deisy Herrera was crushed when her two sons left the island in search of a better life.
September 11, 2024
Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the northwest, killing an officer and a polio worker
September 11, 2024
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in talks with Myanmar's ruling junta, its armed opponents and its neighbours to
September 11, 2024
The Kremlin told the West on Wednesday that any decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range Western missiles would deepen what it
September 11, 2024
Mexico’s Senate has voted to overhaul the country’s judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election
September 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a judicial reform that has fueled a court workers' strike, strained relations with the United States and triggered market
September 11, 2024
Hurricane Francine came ashore in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, pounding New Orleans with heavy rains and gusty winds while threatening the wider Gulf Coast
September 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a sweeping reform that will reshape the country's judiciary system by electing judges by popular vote, cementing a victory
September 11, 2024
Relatives of 12 Polish inmates of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps have received precious belongings seized from their kin during captivity
September 11, 2024
The economic damage from Ukraine's attack on Russia's mainly agricultural Kursk region is estimated at almost $1 billion, with more than 150,000 people evacuated since the start of
September 11, 2024
Jordan's moderate Islamist opposition made significant gains in Tuesday's parliamentary election, initial official results showed on Wednesday, boosted by anger
September 11, 2024
Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as troops continued an extended operation
September 11, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government will not take into account a parliamentary vote to recognise Venezuelan opposition
September 11, 2024
The United States and Britain have pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats
September 11, 2024
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September 11, 2024
Russia will consider the United States and its allies to be parties to the Ukraine war and Moscow will use more powerful weapons if the West allows Ukraine to use long-range weapons
September 11, 2024
Bangladesh has ramped up vigilance at its border with Myanmar, with at least 18,000 Rohingya Muslims crossing over in recent months to escape escalating violence in
September 11, 2024
Pope Francis arrived in Singapore on Wednesday afternoon from East Timor, where he is expected to focus on inter-faith dialogue and reinforce the Catholic
September 11, 2024
China is concerned about the United States' manipulation of Hong Kong issues and suppression of its development, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
September 11, 2024
Officials are investigating why part of a bridge in eastern Germany has collapsed
September 11, 2024
Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries presumed dead after a lethal battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali
September 11, 2024
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed more than three dozen Palestinians
September 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate early Wednesday approved a sweeping judicial reform that will overhaul the country's judiciary by electing judges by
September 11, 2024
Protesters clash with police at Australia defense show
September 11, 2024
At least two people were killed and hundreds stranded in Thailand after heavy rains swept through two northern provinces, swelling rivers, inundating settlements and triggering
September 11, 2024
Hong Kong's government says the U.S. House of Representatives twisted facts in an attack on the city as it passed a bill that could close its representative offices in America
September 11, 2024
Not one of the 38 contenders in Sri Lanka's presidential election this month is a woman, a stark contrast in the Indian Ocean island where women make up more
September 11, 2024
Iran’s new president has slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and is using European and American weapons to do so
September 11, 2024
From convict to combatant, Ukraine enlists prisoners to fight Russian forces
September 11, 2024
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Ukrainian convicts recruited to fight in the war against Russia.
September 11, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Iraq on Wednesday on his first foreign trip, signalling the clerical establishment's intention
September 11, 2024
Typhoon Yagi caused severe damage to many factories and flooded warehouses in northern Vietnam's export-oriented industrial hubs,
September 11, 2024
Former President Donald Trump said in the presidential debate that he wanted Russia’s war with Ukraine to be over
September 11, 2024
China's government said on Wednesday it would carefully review email tipoffs it has received about Taiwan "separatist" activity, adding that "good people" have nothing to
September 11, 2024
The U.S. and British foreign ministers met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday on a visit interrupted by air raid warnings, unveiling new
September 11, 2024
A flash flood swept away a hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 22 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 155
September 11, 2024
At least 5 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on Tubas in the West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported on Wednesday.
September 11, 2024
Planning a trip to China can be confusing. Here are the issues tripping up many foreign tourists
September 11, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it had reached a preliminary agreement with Ukraine that would give the war-torn country access to about $1.1 billion in financial
September 11, 2024
Pope Francis is heading to Singapore for the final leg of his Asian trip
September 11, 2024
Vietnam's capital of Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living near the swollen Red River as its waters rose to a 20-year high, flooding streets
September 11, 2024
Shootouts in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa have kindled fears that an intra-cartel war is about to break out in the wake of the
September 11, 2024
China's top legislative body this week assessed an official plan to delay the country's retirement age, among the world's lowest, taking a key step towards
September 11, 2024
Cameroon’s former prime minister has taken over the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly and called for nations to unite and to address global challenges from climate change and poverty to conflicts and armed violence
September 11, 2024
New Zealand said on Wednesday it will draft a bill aimed at reinterpreting country's founding agreement, even as two of three governing parties say they will not
September 10, 2024
European firms in China doubt the government has a credible plan to boost demand in the ailing economy or will carry out long-promised reforms, diminishing their
September 10, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating pets
September 10, 2024
Anti-war protesters have clashed with police outside a military arms convention in the Australian city of Melbourne
September 10, 2024
Jurors in Florida will deliberate in the trial of four activists accused of illegally acting as Russian agents to help the Kremlin sow political discord and interfere in U.S. elections
September 10, 2024
Iraqi security officials have said an explosion targeted a site used by the U.S. military next to the Baghdad airport, one day before an expected visit by the Iranian president
September 10, 2024
Biden condemns ‘totally unacceptable’ death of American activist killed by IDF in the West Bank
September 10, 2024
FedEx said on Tuesday pickup and delivery services in some markets of Louisiana could be disrupted by the expected upheaval from Storm Francine, which is set to become the fourth hurricane
September 10, 2024
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla will meet cancer researchers, representatives of Indigenous groups and conduct a navy fleet review in Sydney harbour during their visit to
September 10, 2024
Ukrainian diplomats and activists in Canada on Tuesday urged the Toronto International Film Festival to cancel further screenings of a documentary portraying Russian
September 10, 2024
Israeli official floats safe passage for Oct. 7 architect Yahya Sinwar in return for hostages
September 10, 2024
Senior Republicans urge Biden to lift restrictions on Ukraine hitting targets deep inside Russia
September 10, 2024
A summit of at least 20 nations is planned on the sidelines of the U.N.
September 10, 2024
BMW is lowering sales and earnings targets for the 2024 fiscal year, in a move the luxury German car maker said was partially triggered by hefty expenses of addressing a braking system recall that impacts more than 1.5 million vehicles worldwide
September 10, 2024
A major river in the Brazilian metropolis Sao Paulo is suddenly emerald green and clear skies have turned from blue to grey
September 10, 2024
A Pakistani man accused of plotting to attack a New York City Jewish center in support of Islamic State was in Canada on a student visa, Canada's immigration
September 10, 2024
Israel launches multiple airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing Hezbollah special forces commander
September 10, 2024
The two opposition candidates who ran in Algeria’s election are challenging the result and calling into question President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's landslide victory
September 10, 2024
The first U.S. troops to deploy after the 9/11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later
September 10, 2024
European travelers will have to pay to enter the UK in 2025
September 10, 2024
Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will remain a "very clear voice" pushing for change in his country despite fleeing to seek
September 10, 2024
Ukraine’s prime minister has warned that the country could be facing its toughest winter since the full-scale Russian invasion began, as airstrikes against the country’s beleaguered energy infrastructure intensify
September 10, 2024
The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War Two have emerged near Serbia's
September 10, 2024
The Israeli military has released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas
September 10, 2024
Georgia's ruling party on Tuesday selected Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire ex-prime minister who is widely believed to be the country's most influential figure, as its lead
September 10, 2024
Israeli security forces killed two people in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said, as the military returned to the city only days after
September 10, 2024
Ukraine loses more than $11 billion annually in gross domestic product due to landmines laid since Russia's invasion, which create no-go areas and so reduce exports
September 10, 2024
French rescuers say they have found the bodies of two Italian and two South Korean climbers close to the peak of Mont Blanc on the French side
September 10, 2024
U.S. congressional leaders on Tuesday posthumously awarded the congressional gold medal to 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing
September 10, 2024
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Tuesday that his government will send an initial deployment of 24 military and police personnel to Haiti to support an
September 10, 2024
A top U_S_ government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did not engage in the work herself."
September 10, 2024
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his country will send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week to boost a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight violent gangs
September 10, 2024
Israeli forces are near to fulfilling their mission in Gaza and their focus will turn to the country's northern border with Lebanon as daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah take
September 10, 2024
The U.N. mission in Libya will resume facilitating talks between factions in Tripoli on Wednesday to try to resolve the central bank crisis that has slashed oil output and threatened
September 10, 2024
Poland will extend the implementation of a buffer zone on its border with Belarus for 90 days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, adding that the measure had been effective in
September 10, 2024
The transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia represents a further military escalation and will be met with a "strong response" from the European Union, EU foreign affairs
September 10, 2024
The U.S. on Tuesday will impose sanctions on individuals and entities in Iran and Russia involved in Tehran's delivery of ballistic missiles to Moscow, the White House said on
September 10, 2024
Russia has nearly completed the required procedures to sign a new bilateral treaty with Iran soon, state news agency TASS quoted top security official Sergei Shoigu as saying on
September 10, 2024
King Charles III is preparing to visit Australia and Samoa next month
September 10, 2024
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticised a decision by Germany to tighten controls on its land borders, calling on Tuesday for urgent consultations with
September 10, 2024
The governments of France, Germany and Britain condemned the transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia, said they would cancel bilateral air services agreements with
September 10, 2024
The United States is urging its European partners to be more forceful in expressing their disquiet about China's growing defence collaboration with Russia, U.S.
September 10, 2024
The head of aerospace and defense giant RTX sounded the alarm on global supply chains in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and warned that
September 10, 2024
Talks with the International Monetary Fund regarding Ukraine's financing needs are proving difficult, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Tuesday, despite Ukraine's
September 10, 2024
US imposes new sanctions on Iran’s main airline over Tehran supplying missiles to Russia
September 10, 2024
Man who formerly portrayed Santa at Santa's Land arrested on child abuse charges
September 10, 2024
Blinken slams Israel after IDF says its forces likely shot slain American activist
September 10, 2024
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have repeatedly hit Al-Mawasi, a vast camp on sandy soil designated as a humanitarian area where the military has told hundreds of
September 10, 2024
Internet and mobile data services were suspended for five days and an indefinite curfew imposed in some parts of India's northeastern state of Manipur on
September 10, 2024
Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Parliament to update the country’s equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination
September 10, 2024
Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay
September 10, 2024
Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country
September 10, 2024
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are looking into the reported death of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif and will withdraw their case against him if they
September 10, 2024
Just three months ago, Claudia Sheinbaum was riding high, winning the largest vote tally ever secured in Mexico's history to become the country's first
September 10, 2024
Russia has received ballistic missiles from Iran for its war in Ukraine, the United States said on Tuesday as it imposed fresh
September 10, 2024
Sweden appointed Maria Malmer Stenergard as foreign minister on Tuesday, choosing the former migration chief to lead policy on Ukraine just
September 10, 2024
At least 40 people were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza, which is supposed to be a humanitarian zone for displaced civilians. Israel says the strike was aimed at Hamas leaders in the area. CNN's Paula Hancock reports.
September 10, 2024
Kyiv said on Tuesday it could cut ties with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack Ukraine, and it denounced any such
September 10, 2024
The estimated crowd of 600,000 people Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor is nearly half of the small Southeast Asian country's population
September 10, 2024
The United States and Britain have formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine and will take measures to punish those involved
September 10, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and U.S.
September 10, 2024
U.S.
September 10, 2024
The Israeli military says an American activist killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by its soldiers, drawing a strong rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the activist’s family
September 10, 2024
A campaign to vaccinate a final 200,000 children in north Gaza against polio began on Tuesday although health and aid officials said the operation
September 10, 2024
The flight of former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has largely extinguished hope for
September 10, 2024
Ukraine's prosecutor general said on Tuesday that Kyiv suspected a senior Russian air force commander of ordering a missile strike on a children's hospital in central
September 10, 2024
Israel’s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group
September 10, 2024
Francine strengthened into a hurricane on Tuesday night, the U.S.
September 10, 2024
The head of Norway's foreign intelligence service believes Russia has become more likely to try to sabotage its infrastructure, such as oil and gas,
September 10, 2024
Gil Dickmann's worst nightmare came true when he was told his cousin Carmel Gat, who had survived 11 months in Hamas captivity, had been killed in a tunnel in Gaza
September 10, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned the United States against trying to outgun Moscow in Asia as Russian and Chinese warships held
September 10, 2024
Thousands of Iraqi football fans were expected in Kuwait on Tuesday for a World Cup qualifier, the first time they have been allowed to attend
September 10, 2024
An estimated 600,000 people in East Timor, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat on Tuesday for a Mass with Pope Francis at a coastal park
September 10, 2024
Iraq faces a budget crunch in 2025 due to the slump in the price of oil, the overwhelming source of government revenue, a top economic adviser to Prime Minister
September 10, 2024
The United State's passage of a bill that aims to restrict business with Wuxi AppTec, BGI and other biotech firms was a "discriminatory" measure against Chinese companies, China's
September 10, 2024
US and Chinese commanders hold rare talks to dial down risk of ‘miscalculation’
September 10, 2024
Overnight Russian drone and missile attacks injured at least three people, damaged buildings and caused fires across Ukraine, authorities said on Tuesday.
September 10, 2024
About 60 countries including the United States endorsed a "blueprint for action" to govern responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military on Tuesday,
September 10, 2024
Officials say over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war
September 10, 2024
Hurricane Francine will continue to strengthen on its collision course with Louisiana
September 10, 2024
Pakistani police arrested several lawmakers and leaders of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's party in midnight raids a day after it held a
September 10, 2024
Francine has become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as it bears down on the Louisiana coast
September 10, 2024
Shigeru Ishiba, the former Japanese defence minister running in the ruling party's leadership race, said on Tuesday that a complete exit from
September 10, 2024
China’s exports grew for a fifth consecutive month
September 10, 2024
U.S. officials will hold talks with Bangladesh's interim government to see how the United States can support the country's economy and development, the U.S.
September 10, 2024
When Pope Francis arrives Wednesday in Asia’s financial powerhouse Singapore for the last leg of a four-nation tour, he is expected to bring his message of unity and hope to one of the world’s richest nations
September 10, 2024
A small robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom
September 10, 2024
More than a half-million Belarusians have fled their country since 2020 as the authoritarian government cracked down its critics
September 10, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson has presented Congress’ highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
September 10, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says an Israeli strike on Tuesday on a tent camp in a designated humanitarian zone killed at least 19 people
September 10, 2024
The United States and China held theatre-level commander talks for the first time on Tuesday, Chinese authorities said, amid efforts to stabilise military ties and avoid
September 10, 2024
The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population
September 10, 2024
China aims for historic Mars mission ‘around 2028’ as it vies for space power
September 10, 2024
The death toll in Vietnam from Asia's worst storm this year reached 127 on Tuesday, with torrents of rain triggering floods and landslides, burying homes
September 10, 2024
Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a crowded tent camp in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60
September 10, 2024
At least 19 killed and more feared buried in Israeli airstrike on Gaza humanitarian zone targeting Hamas militants
September 10, 2024
Trump campaign and JD Vance promote false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets
September 09, 2024
Katsunobu Kato, Japan's former health minister and a candidate running in the ruling party leadership race, on Tuesday called for compiling a stimulus package to fund spending to
September 09, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to redouble efforts to make his nuclear force fully ready for combat with the United States and its allies
September 09, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly is likely to vote next week on a Palestinian draft resolution demanding Israel end "its unlawful presence in the
September 09, 2024
Russia recorded its lowest birth rate since 1999 in the first six months of this year, according to official data published on Monday, with births in June below 100,000, marking their
September 09, 2024
Ukraine on Monday expressed disappointment at allegations by Slovakia's pro-Russian prime minister that Kyiv should act to remove from its military ranks what he described as fascist
September 09, 2024
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says country to increase number of nuclear weapons ‘exponentially,’ state media reports
September 09, 2024
Ukraine targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far, killing at least one and wrecking dozens of homes in the Moscow region and forcing around 50
September 09, 2024
Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in
September 09, 2024
Israeli strikes blasted a huge crater in a designated safe zone in southern Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, setting tents
September 09, 2024
A powerful drought in Brazil’s Pantanal region has led to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world
September 09, 2024
Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country under stress — an area roughly half the size of the U.S. Major Amazon basin rivers are registering historic lows, and uncontrolled manmade wildfires have ravaged protected areas and spread smoke over a vast expanse, plummeting air quality
September 09, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country is now implementing a nuclear force construction policy to increase the number of nuclear weapons "exponentially", state media KCNA
September 09, 2024
Mexico’s Catholic leaders have raised their concerns over a controversial judicial reform pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
September 09, 2024
Israeli soldiers rammed UN vehicles with bulldozer and fired shots before letting them go, says UN spokesperson
September 09, 2024
3 women who rescued sexual assault survivor receive award for their bravery
September 09, 2024
At least two parliamentarians were detained in late night swoops in Islamabad on members of the party of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, party leaders and the
September 09, 2024
At least 21 killed in airstrike on Sudanese market as civil war rages
September 09, 2024
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has named state lawmaker Macae Evaristo as the country's new human rights minister, he said on Monday in a post on social platform
September 09, 2024
Brazil’s attempt to strike a balance between free speech and regulation of online platforms has become politicized – complicating future legislation.
September 09, 2024
Election officials in Tunisia have doubled down on their decision to deny accreditation to certain election observer groups
September 09, 2024
North Texas Purple Heart recipient receives the gift of a lifetime
September 09, 2024
The United States called on Israel on Monday to complete a full inquiry into the killing of an American Turkish woman last week in the Israeli-
September 09, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to convene an emergency summit to discuss the war in Gaza and what he called Israel's attacks on
September 09, 2024
The U.N. chief says the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and is demanding an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure
September 09, 2024
A Dutch court said it convicted two Pakistani political leaders on Monday of making calls for the murder of anti-Muslim lawmaker Geert Wilders, though both are thought to be
September 09, 2024
The leader of a U.S. think tank who was indicted last year on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of China has been arrested and will be extradited in the
September 09, 2024
On Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, white corn harvests are an important cultural practice
September 09, 2024
Retired military leaders defend Harris while placing blame on Trump for Afghanistan withdrawal in letter
September 09, 2024
Bridge, Line, Airport and Davis fires grow in California and Nevada, displacing thousands
September 09, 2024
The Palestinians have circulated a draft U.N. resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within six months
September 09, 2024
Tropical Storm Francine has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane at mid-week in Louisiana
September 09, 2024
Germany’s interior minister has ordered temporary controls at all German land borders as a response to irregular migration and to protect the country from extremist threats
September 09, 2024
Tearful reunion: 8-year-old girl meets her bone marrow donor at Children's of Alabama Hospital
September 09, 2024
CNN's Alex Marquardt talks with INARA founder Arwa Damon about the conditions in Gaza and the challenges faced in attempts to administer polio vaccinations to the children.
September 09, 2024
Infected wounds, maggots and no escape. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis hits new lows as sanitary conditions plummet
September 09, 2024
Import tariffs tend to disproportionately hit low-income households, the World Trade Organization said in a report on Monday, countering what it sees as backlash against open
September 09, 2024
Norwegian police say there's no evidence to suggest that gunshots caused the death of a tame beluga whale that lived off Norway's coast and whose harness ignited speculation it was a Russian spy
September 09, 2024
The Palestinian Authority holds a funeral procession for an American activist who a witness says was shot and killed by Israeli forces
September 09, 2024
A beluga whale discovered with a harness strapped around its neck in Norwegian waters five years ago - and found dead on Aug. 31 - had a stick stuck in its mouth and its death was not
September 09, 2024
Israeli lawmakers gave their initial approval on Monday to raising the 2024 budget framework to help fund reservists and assist people displaced as a result of
September 09, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi hopes to hold talks with new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian by November on improving Iran's cooperation with his
September 09, 2024
Torrential downpours hit North Africa’s normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend
September 09, 2024
Britain's foreign office on Monday launched three strategic reviews of its foreign policy, saying it wanted to strengthen the country's global impact and would deliver the outcomes
September 09, 2024
Britain’s local governments are at ‘serious’ risk of ‘widespread collapse’
September 09, 2024
A senior Ukrainian official says Western partner countries must allow Ukraine to use weapons they have supplied to strike military warehouses inside Russia because of strong suspicions Iran has provided ballistic missiles for the Kremlin’s war effort
September 09, 2024
A new study found that pliant local media in Ukraine and Georgia was manipulated by Moscow to present anti-Western narratives.
September 09, 2024
Sweden will send its 17th aid package to Ukraine with further military support totalling 4.6 billion Swedish crowns ($443 million), Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Monday.
September 09, 2024
The top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is celebrating a milestone birthday, his 100th
September 09, 2024
A young golden eagle attacked a toddler in Norway in what an ornithologist says is likely the same bird’s fourth such attack on humans in the past week
September 09, 2024
Leaders of worldwide religions commonly stay at the helm well past retirement age, but it’s not often you find centenarians overseeing major faiths
September 09, 2024
Many Palestinian Americans, in recent months, have been reeling from the double blow of the rising Palestinian death toll in Gaza and their own government’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas
September 09, 2024
For months, many Palestinian Americans have been contending with the double whammy of the rising Palestinian death toll and suffering in Gaza and their own government’s support for Israel in the war
September 09, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his official visit to Saudi Arabia met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Russian Foreign ministry said on Monday.
September 09, 2024
China is willing to work with Norway to promote "friendly" cooperation including on green energy, President Xi Jinping told visiting Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere in
September 09, 2024
North Korea's provision of weapons has strengthened Russia's hand in Ukraine by allowing it to keep its arsenals stocked at home, Germany's top military official said
September 09, 2024
Jordan's main opposition, buoyed by anger over the Gaza war, says it expects its Islamists to win enough seats in Tuesday's election to loudly challenge the
September 09, 2024
Officials say a roadside bomb has hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six officers and three civilians
September 09, 2024
Polish security services have neutralised a sabotage operation orchestrated by Russia and Belarus that aimed to destabilise Poland, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on
September 09, 2024
The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began on Monday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of war and no sign of a ceasefire.
September 09, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon
September 09, 2024
Turkey will discuss the Gaza war and ties with the Arab League when its foreign minister attends a ministerial meeting of the group in Cairo on Tuesday for the first time in 13
September 09, 2024
Morgan Stanley on Monday cut its Brent crude oil forecasts for coming quarters and said the global oil market is facing a period of demand weakness similar to those seen during recessions.
September 09, 2024
Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned a senior Iranian diplomat to warn of "devastating and irreparable consequences" for bilateral relations if reports that Tehran
September 09, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is not currently interested in granting an interview to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was freed from Russian prison last month, nor
September 09, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was right to want a thorough investigation into a 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines despite what it said
September 09, 2024
The Kremlin, asked on Monday about a Wall Street Journal report that Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, said that Iran is Russia's partner, and that the two
September 09, 2024
At least 31 people have been killed and 100 wounded since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed an assault on the city of Sennar in southeastern Sudan on Sunday, a
September 09, 2024
India's Supreme Court ordered all doctors protesting over the rape and murder of a female medic last month to resume work by Tuesday, warning they may face "
September 09, 2024
The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
September 09, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief is urging voters to be wary of “strongman” politicians and personalities “that throw glitter in our eyes” as more elections loom in a busy electoral calendar this year
September 09, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief said on Monday that ending the nearly year-long war in Gaza is a priority and he asked countries to act on what he called Israel's "blatant
September 09, 2024
Ukraine's air force said on Monday it shot down six out of eight Russian-launched drones and two out of three missiles during an overnight attack over four Ukrainian regions.
September 09, 2024
A South Korean truth commission says it found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities where thousands of so-called “vagrants” were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s
September 09, 2024
On a sweltering summer morning in Serbia's
September 09, 2024
Russia's military will send naval and air forces to join an exercise held by China in the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk in September, the official Xinhua news agency reported on
September 09, 2024
A judge ordered Lebanon's former central bank chief Riad Salameh to remain in detention amid a probe into alleged financial crimes committed during
September 09, 2024
Pope Francis’ Mass in one of world’s most Catholic nations gathers almost half its population
September 09, 2024
Syria’s health minister says the number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes has risen to 18, with dozens more wounded
September 09, 2024
Singapore will enhance security at its land, air and sea checkpoints this week due to an unspecified "heightened security situation in the region", its immigration authority said
September 09, 2024
A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam, raising the death toll there to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains
September 09, 2024
Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that will include an open-air celebration of
September 09, 2024
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned against a cyber group belonging to Russian military intelligence (GRU) Unit 29155, saying it has carried out cyberattacks against
September 09, 2024
China's exports likely grew at the slowest pace in four months in August, as cooling global demand and mounting trade barriers threaten to dim a bright
September 09, 2024
Over the past two years, an unprecedented number of Venezuelans have traveled to the U.S. border, seeking a better life
September 09, 2024
Pope Francis has indirectly acknowledged the abuse scandal in East Timor involving its bishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winning independence hero
September 09, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged visiting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to play a "constructive role" in improving strained ties between Bejing and
September 09, 2024
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation have long grappled with contaminants in the soil and water
September 09, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Monday that evangelist preacher Apollo Quiboloy will not be given special treatment following his
September 09, 2024
East Timor pulled out all stops for Pope Francis’ historic visit to one of the world’s youngest and poorest countries to the tune of $12 million, drawing rebuke from activists and human rights organizations
September 09, 2024
South Korea convened an international summit
September 09, 2024
Typhoon Yagi, Asia's most powerful storm this year, left dozens dead in northern Vietnam and widespread damage to infrastructure and
September 09, 2024
A highly contested proposal on judicial reform that critics say will hurt Mexico's business climate edged closer to approval when senators late on Sunday backed it at the
September 08, 2024
Airstrikes hit Syrian facility that West alleged produced chemical weapons, eyewitness says
September 08, 2024
House Republicans and Democrats issue dueling documents casting blame for mistakes made in US withdrawal from Afghanistan
September 08, 2024
Supporters of President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine were set to win gubernatorial races across Russia, according to early vote counts on Sunday, including in Kursk where
September 08, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the occasion of North Korea's founding anniversary, state media
September 08, 2024
Potential Tropical Cyclone Six forms in Gulf with tropical storm watch issued for Mexico
September 08, 2024
House Republicans have released a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
September 08, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in western Syria and wounded dozens more overnight, Syrian state media reported on Monday, the deadliest Israeli attack reported by Syrian
September 08, 2024
Water levels in the rivers that run through the vast Amazon rainforest have been falling, after a record drought followed by less rain, presenting
September 08, 2024
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah issued a decree on Sunday accepting the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Emad al-Atiqi.
September 08, 2024
Inside Kamala Harris’ yearslong crash course in foreign diplomacy
September 08, 2024
The National Weather Service says a tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane
September 08, 2024
Thousands of diaspora Indians protested in more than 130 cities across 25 countries on Sunday, organisers said, to demand justice after last month's
September 08, 2024
Fugitive preacher wanted by FBI arrested in Philippines after fraught standoff between police and supporters
September 08, 2024
Paris pays tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei who died after allegedly being set on fire by her boyfriend
September 08, 2024
The controversial plan to turn a desert green
September 08, 2024
The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Sunday called for a fast-tracked third-country resettlement of Rohingya
September 08, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a renewed effort to bring peace to Ukraine, adding that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had both agreed in recent talks on
September 08, 2024
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after quitting
September 08, 2024
Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues
September 08, 2024
King Charles III has attended church near the royal Balmoral estate in Scotland for prayers and reflection in remembrance of his mother Queen Elizabeth II on the second anniversary of her death
September 08, 2024
In the 1940s, Mexican artist Diego Rivera had a dream: to build a sacred place to preserve and display his lifelong collection of pre-Hispanic art
September 08, 2024
India had recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus, the health ministry said on Sunday.
September 08, 2024
Two NATO members say that Russian drones have violated their airspace
September 08, 2024
Three Israeli civilians shot dead at Allenby Crossing between West Bank and Jordan
September 08, 2024
Thailand's new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will deliver a policy statement to parliament on Thursday to mark the start of her administration, which will prioritise
September 08, 2024
The Paralympic Games have ended with two world records and a spectacular light show during a closing ceremony dominated by French electronic music
September 08, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appointed on Sunday former arms production minister Oleksandr Kamyshin as an external adviser for strategic issues, a decree published on the
September 08, 2024
Jordan has closed the King Hussein bridge crossing with the occupied West Bank as it investigates a shooting incident in which three Israelis were killed, a Jordanian official
September 08, 2024
Vietnamese state media say at least 14 people have died and 176 others injured after Typhoon Yagi slammed the country's north, as officials warned of heavy downpours despite its waning power
September 08, 2024
Indian and Emirati officials are expected to review their trade agreement this week amid concerns raised by Indian industry over
September 08, 2024
Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow's forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the
September 08, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia on Sunday killed Mohammad Morsi, deputy director of the Gaza Civil Emergency Service in the northern areas of the Gaza
September 08, 2024
Israeli officials say three Israelis were fatally shot at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan
September 08, 2024
A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him
September 08, 2024
Pope Francis flew deep into the jungle of the Southwestern Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to visit Catholics living in one
September 08, 2024
Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion
September 08, 2024
In his first-ever television interview, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, speaks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about Ukraine's incursion into Russia, morale within the Ukrainian Army and what it's like fighting Russia on the frontline.
September 08, 2024
Christiane Amanpour’s exclusive interview with General Oleksandr Syrskyi: full transcript
September 08, 2024
Grief over the deaths of John and Matthew Gaudreau filled the hockey community around the world from their hometown in New Jersey to Columbus and Calgary
September 08, 2024
The governor of Russia's southern Belgorod region said on Sunday Ukrainian forces attacked a fuel depot, triggering a series of fires after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of launching
September 08, 2024
A year after a deadly earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains, reconstruction efforts are slowly moving forward
September 08, 2024
An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence
September 08, 2024
Typhoon Yagi, Asia's most powerful storm this year, was downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday, after wreaking havoc in
September 08, 2024
Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of single-party rule
September 08, 2024
Australia will include questions on sexual orientation and gender in its census for the first time, after more than a week of controversy over the centre-left Labor
September 08, 2024
Edmundo Gonzalez, the opposition presidential candidate who ran against President Nicolas Maduro in elections in July, has left the country, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on
September 08, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed they shot down another American-made MQ-9 drone flying over the country, marking potentially the latest downing of the multimillion-dollar surveillance aircraft
September 08, 2024
When Pope Francis touches down in the East Timorese capital of Dili this week he will be landing in a totally different nation to the one visited by his predecessor.
September 08, 2024
Missing Washington hiker rescued a month after going missing ‘may have only had another day left’ alive, rescuer says
September 07, 2024
Pope Francis has arrived in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea
September 07, 2024
Three killed in Israeli airstrike were emergency workers, Lebanon says. Israel says it targeted terrorists
September 07, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un underscored the importance of strengthening naval power as he toured a naval base construction site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
September 07, 2024
Evacuations have been ordered as a wildfire burns in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles
September 07, 2024
How some of the biggest right-wing social media stars became unwitting mouthpieces of Russian propaganda
September 07, 2024
Authorities say a vaccination campaign against mpox in Congo will begin Oct. 2, with workers focusing on the three most affected provinces first
September 07, 2024
A few thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have begun flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally
September 07, 2024
The United States has informed allies that it believes Iran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine
September 07, 2024
A Pride march in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade has pressed for the demand that the government improve rights for the LGBTQ+ community who often face harassment and discrimination in the highly conservative Balkan country
September 07, 2024
Venezuela’s government has revoked permission for Brazil to serve as custodian of Argentina’s diplomatic missions in the country
September 07, 2024
A political adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has rejected recent allegations that employees at the premier's office have been spying on and wire-tapping
September 07, 2024
Pope Francis flies to remote corner of Papua New Guinea as Asia trip pivots to marginalized communities
September 07, 2024
Venezuela's former presidential opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has left for Spain in the wake of the South American
September 07, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel, drawing a
September 07, 2024
Drone debris found outside Ukrainian parliament as Russia launches nationwide attack with 67 drones
September 07, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with his Irish counterpart, Saturday in what was billed as an attempt to reset relations between the two countries after years of tensions following the U.K.’s departure from the European Union
September 07, 2024
A modern China with a huge population is an opportunity, not a threat, for the United States, China's Ministry of Commerce reported commerce vice minister Wang Shouwen as saying
September 07, 2024
Morocco has stopped 45,015 people from illegally migrating to Europe since January and busted 177 migrant trafficking gangs, Morocco's state news agency MAP reported on Friday,
September 07, 2024
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across France, responding to a call from a far-left party leader who criticized as a power grab the president’s appointment of a new prime minister, Michel Barnier
September 07, 2024
CIA and MI6 chiefs made an unprecedented joint appearance in London to address key world security issues, including reports that Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence.
September 07, 2024
CIA and MI6 heads discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts, Russian threat in unprecedented joint public appearance in London
September 07, 2024
Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled
September 07, 2024
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday her government has not been weakened by a controversy over a consultancy role offered to the former lover of a
September 07, 2024
Venezuelan security forces surround Argentine embassy after opposition members take refuge inside
September 07, 2024
Officials say the number of children who were burned to death in a school dormitory in central Kenya has risen to 21
September 07, 2024
Funeral services have been held in the eastern Ukrainian city of Poltava for the victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the invasion began, which killed over 50 people at a military training facility
September 07, 2024
Six people, including one civilian, were killed as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur
September 07, 2024
Family of American killed in West Bank blames Israel for her death, demands independent investigation
September 07, 2024
A young Turkish-American woman, Aysenur Eygi, was shot and killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, according to US and Palestinian officials, while she was taking part in a protest near Nablus. CNN's Nick Robertson joins The Lead.
September 07, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged unwavering support for Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday, in which they discussed Kyiv's
September 07, 2024
World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka wins US Open over American Jessica Pegula for third grand slam singles title
September 07, 2024
Debris from a downed drone was found next to Ukraine's parliament building after an overnight Russian air attack, the country's parliament said in a statement on the Telegram
September 07, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Saturday her new government will seek to stimulate the economy "right away" and will continue with the policies of former
September 07, 2024
China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries this week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion)
September 07, 2024
Kosovo said on Saturday it had closed two border crossings with Serbia after protesters on Serbian soil partially blocked roads and turned back passengers with Kosovo
September 07, 2024
Ukraine's air force said on Saturday Russia launched a total of 67 long-range Shahed drones in a mass overnight attack, 58 of which it was able to shoot down.
September 07, 2024
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports that Ukraine is testing the use of so-called "Dragon Drones" that would drop thermite on Russian units.
September 07, 2024
Ukraine’s ‘dragon drones’ rain molten metal on Russian positions in latest terrifying battlefield innovation
September 07, 2024
Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall in the north of the country
September 07, 2024
The head of the CIA, who is also the chief U.S. negotiator for an end to the Gaza war and release of hostages held by Hamas, said a more detailed ceasefire proposal
September 07, 2024
The stakes have gone up for students protesting the war in Gaza as U.S. colleges roll out new security measures and protest guidelines this fall in hopes of avoiding disruptions like last spring’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which led to some 3,200 arrests
September 07, 2024
The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies say Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding war
September 07, 2024
Asia's most powerful storm this year made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, killing at least four
September 07, 2024
Pope Francis has called for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized
September 07, 2024
Pope Francis on Saturday called for better treatment of workers in Papua New Guinea, a nation of some 600 islands in the Southwestern Pacific that has become
September 06, 2024
Death Valley National Park has its hottest summer on record
September 06, 2024
The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza
September 06, 2024
Mexico's opposition senators are uniting around the possibility of blocking controversial judicial reforms pushed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which will go to a
September 06, 2024
Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term, but early turnout
September 06, 2024
Britain and Ireland said on Saturday they were moving "from friction back to friendship" as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Dublin, part of his efforts to improve ties
September 06, 2024
Pope Francis will arrive in one of the world's most remote Catholic communities in Papua New Guinea on Sunday to something approaching home – a group of Argentine missionaries
September 06, 2024
Pakistani man charged with plotting terrorist attack against Jews in New York on October 7 anniversary
September 06, 2024
Responding to a question from CNN's Jeremy Diamond about civilian deaths in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends the IDF's conduct in Gaza and says he won't change his "humanitarian policies, vaccination policies and combat policies to minimize civilian casualties."
September 06, 2024
Major roadblocks in Gaza ceasefire talks raise doubts over whether war can be ended before Biden leaves office
September 06, 2024
A Pakistani man has been arrested in Canada and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East
September 06, 2024
A preliminary report into the August crash of an airliner in Brazil found signs of ice buildup on the plane
September 06, 2024
Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas are among U.S. states benefiting most from funding and investment to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia, a breakdown of
September 06, 2024
A Pakistani citizen living in Canada was arrested on Wednesday and charged with planning an attack in New York City in support of the
September 06, 2024
The United Nations Security Council began considering on Friday a draft resolution to extend the mandate for an international security mission helping
September 06, 2024
Any Iranian transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia would mark a sharp escalation in the Ukraine war, the United States said on Friday,
September 06, 2024
President Joe Biden will host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for talks next week in Washington that are expected to touch on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza
September 06, 2024
Brazil's has guaranteed 32 immigrants of various nationalities who are at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport the right not to be forcibly repatriated, according to
September 06, 2024
Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Friday announced her picks to serve as the country's top military leaders once she takes office next month, naming General Ricardo
September 06, 2024
Iran transfers ballistic missiles to Russia, sources say
September 06, 2024
Justice Alito reports receiving concert tickets from German noblewoman
September 06, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sept. 13, the White House said on Friday.
September 06, 2024
Oregon authorities have identified the three people who died in a small plane crash near Portland
September 06, 2024
Man charged with young boy's murder after child was scalded in bathtub dies
September 06, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the importance of maintaining support for Ukraine and the need for a ceasefire in Gaza during talks on Friday with German Chancellor Olaf
September 06, 2024
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said Thursday that those protesting American support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are doing so for “all the right reasons,” as the Democratic ticket looks to balance its support for Israel with the humanitarian plight of civilians in the war-torn enclave
September 06, 2024
A sharper rise in capital investment is one of many improvements to Russia's 2024 economic outlook, new economy ministry forecasts showed, though stubbornly
September 06, 2024
Team USA star Oksana Masters tells CNN she was made to cover up Ukrainian heart sticker on helmet at the Paralympics
September 06, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday fired Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida following accusations that he sexually harassed several
September 06, 2024
The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have launched a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox
September 06, 2024
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it had terminated proceedings against late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh following his death in July.
September 06, 2024
Hundreds of residents of Lviv packed into a church on Friday to mourn three sisters and their mother, killed in a Russian strike that hit their home in the western Ukrainian
September 06, 2024
The French capital will pay tribute to Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her boyfriend, by naming a sports facility in her honour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
September 06, 2024
The United States and Iraq have reached an understanding on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq, according to multiple
September 06, 2024
Ukrainian prosecutors said on Friday they had launched an investigation into the alleged Russian shooting of three surrendering Ukrainian servicemen on the eastern front near Pokrovsk, the
September 06, 2024
Jordanians vote on Tuesday for a 138-seat parliament, with tribal, centrist and pro-government deputies expected to remain dominant in a system
September 06, 2024
More than two months after Hurricane Beryl, the strongest July Atlantic hurricane on record, some farmers in Jamaica are still unable to restore their crops and repair their homes
September 06, 2024
American activist shot dead by Israeli forces at West Bank protest, eyewitnesses say
September 06, 2024
Do LGBTQ+ tourists have a green book-like system for staying safe while traveling in these politically precarious times
September 06, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted an opening night screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, chanting “Stop the genocide!”
September 06, 2024
Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn swore in Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and 35 cabinet ministers in Bangkok on Friday, ushering in a new government in Southeast Asia's
September 06, 2024
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday visited the town where a gunman shot him in May and accused progressive opponents of fuelling political tension that he
September 06, 2024
Sweden’s strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country, 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion
September 06, 2024
The status of a narrow stretch of land known as the Philadelphi corridor on Gaza's border with Egypt has emerged as a stumbling block in efforts to secure a deal for a ceasefire between
September 06, 2024
A witness tells The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman participating in a protest against settlements in the West Bank
September 06, 2024
Exclusive: US sees increasing risk of Russian ‘sabotage’ of key undersea cables by secretive military unit
September 06, 2024
Israeli military strikes killed at least 27 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as health officials resumed vaccination of tens of
September 06, 2024
In a big milestone for Japan’s royal family, Prince Hisahito has turned 18, becoming the first male royal family member to reach adulthood in almost four decades
September 06, 2024
A rare cruise by two German warships in the Indo-Pacific region will demonstrate a commitment to open navigation, the admiral in charge of the naval task
September 06, 2024
PwC tells employees it will use location data to police ‘back-to-office’ rule
September 06, 2024
Thousands of mourners have gathered for funeral services in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed seven people, including a mother and her three daughters
September 06, 2024
Israeli troops shot and killed a Turkish-American woman who had been taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West
September 06, 2024
The small passenger plane involved in a crash that killed 18 people in Nepal in July was carrying a load and travelling at a speed that did not match guidelines at the time of the
September 06, 2024
Iqbal al-Zeidi has been going out to retrieve her family's belongings from the rubble of their home ever since it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City
September 06, 2024
A British man was jailed for nine years on Friday for arson at a hotel housing asylum seekers last month, by far the longest sentence imposed over a wave of anti-Muslim riots.
September 06, 2024
Britain appointed former Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief of staff on Friday to negotiate ownership of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, which are home to a major U.S.
September 06, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hailed his close relationship with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on Friday, describing her as his "Christian sister", and said
September 06, 2024
The Kremlin on Friday accused the United States of applying unacceptable pressure on Russian media after the U.S.
September 06, 2024
Canada plans to send 80,840 surplus small unarmed air-to-surface rockets to Ukraine as well as 1,300 warheads in the coming months, Defense Minister Bill Blair said in a statement
September 06, 2024
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday he was optimistic of a breakthrough in talks between Moscow and Kyiv to keep Russian gas flowing through Ukraine to
September 06, 2024
Former Philippines mayor Alice Guo, accused of ties to Chinese criminal syndicates and money laundering, arrived in Manila on Friday on a
September 06, 2024
A growing perception in Canada that immigration is to blame for some of the country's economic woes is fuelling a xenophobic backlash evidenced by a surge in
September 06, 2024
Zelensky sounds alarm on air defense shortfall as US announces more military aid
September 06, 2024
‘All the streets were destroyed:’ Palestinians count the cost as Israel pulls back from Jenin
September 06, 2024
Israeli soldiers have killed an American woman during an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank, a witness told The Associated Press, in a shooting that raised calls from Washington for an investigation
September 06, 2024
China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-
September 06, 2024
A Russian missile attack on Friday killed one civilian and wounded at least 30 other people, including three children, in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, regional governor Serhiy
September 06, 2024
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September 06, 2024
China said on Friday it had requested talks with Canada at the World Trade Organization on tariffs Ottawa has imposed on its electric vehicles as well as steel and aluminum goods,
September 06, 2024
China is ending foreign adoptions of its children. That leaves hundreds of American families in limbo
September 06, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and said he would push for "strong" decisions by Western allies to allow Kyiv to
September 06, 2024
Polish prosecutors have enough evidence to charge three Belarusian citizens over the forced landing in Minsk in 2021 of a civilian airliner carrying an opposition journalist, who
September 06, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday called on China to stop supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and said Beijing's assistance has been a significant factor
September 06, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged military allies to ignore Moscow's "red lines" and allow Kyiv to use long-range weapons for strikes on Russian
September 06, 2024
The use of donated U.S. weapons for long-range strikes into Russia would not turn the tide of the war for Ukraine, U.S.
September 06, 2024
Ukraine's president has told U.S. and allied military leaders meeting in Germany that his country needs the ability to strike deep within Russia now
September 06, 2024
17 students killed in Kenya elementary school fire as officials say 70 remain unaccounted for
September 06, 2024
Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, already at odds with coalition partners over demands to draft young religious men into the army, are again testing the unity of
September 06, 2024
The United Nations' world food price index eased slightly in August, data released on Friday showed, as lower prices for sugar, meat and cereals more than offset
September 06, 2024
Myanmar's military long viewed the insurgency among persecuted Rohingya Muslims as an existential threat to the majority Buddhist nation, but as the Arakan Army
September 06, 2024
U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war
September 06, 2024
Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect
September 06, 2024
Israeli forces appear to have withdrawn from three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, after a more than weeklong military operation that has left dozens dead and a trail of destruction
September 06, 2024
Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight caused fires and injured at least five people across the country, local authorities said on Friday.
September 06, 2024
Video footage appears to show Russians killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers
September 06, 2024
CNN has obtained exclusive video that appears to show Ukrainian troops trying to surrender to Russian forces, only to be gunned down in cold blood. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
September 06, 2024
A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday, police said.
September 06, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told sailors aboard a combat-ready warship at a major base in the Taiwan Strait on Friday that he had their backs, thanking
September 06, 2024
Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millenia that remain deeply ingrained
September 06, 2024
Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future course of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its economic collapse in 2022, which provoked mass protests and forced the former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign
September 06, 2024
Israeli forces pulled out of the Palestinian city of Jenin on Friday, leaving a mass of damaged buildings and infrastructure, following one of the biggest security
September 06, 2024
Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday evening from Indonesia, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will continue an
September 06, 2024
A powerful typhoon has made two landfalls in southern China after it swept south of Hong Kong, bringing many aspects of life in the region to a halt
September 06, 2024
The planet endures its hottest summer on record — for the second straight year
September 06, 2024
Pope Francis has arrived in Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his four-nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania
September 06, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called on Friday at a summit in Seoul to keep up the momentum behind an
September 06, 2024
Asia's strongest storm this year, Super Typhoon Yagi, landed in China's Hainan on Friday, bringing violent gales and heavy rain that triggered
September 05, 2024
Telegram CEO says he was ‘surprised’ by his arrest and interrogation
September 05, 2024
Pope Francis is wrapping up his visit to Indonesia after celebrating Mass before an overflow crowd of 100,000
September 05, 2024
Pope Francis will touch down in Papua New Guinea later on Friday as the pontiff undertakes his longest ever overseas journey with an aim to reach Catholics in the most
September 05, 2024
Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was still in detention on Friday despite being released for
September 05, 2024
The British government said on Friday it would provide Ukraine with 650 lightweight multi-role missiles worth 162 million pounds ($213.13 million) to help protect the country from
September 05, 2024
Russian trolling 2.0: How the Kremlin shifted tactics from its 2016 election strategy
September 05, 2024
Soldier from Korean War accounted for
September 05, 2024
The Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are sharply at odds over prospects of reaching a deal for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release
September 05, 2024
The commander of the U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific will speak to a southern theater commander of China's armed forces in the next few
September 05, 2024
OPEC+ extends oil output cuts again through November
September 05, 2024
Pope repeats remarks that some people prefer pets to children
September 05, 2024
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September 05, 2024
Exclusive: Ukraine army chief reveals the strategy behind Kursk incursion
September 05, 2024
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September 05, 2024
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is vowing to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January
September 05, 2024
The U.S. government has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds
September 05, 2024
A wave of violent storms and torrential rain have battered northern Italy, raising fears for the life of a man who was swept away on a tractor in the Piedmont region
September 05, 2024
A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank
September 05, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Haiti to reaffirm the government’s commitment to a multinational mission deployed to fight gangs in the Caribbean country and push for the organization of long-awaited general elections
September 05, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces an uncertain future after the small party that has helped keep his Liberal minority government in power withdrew its automatic support on
September 05, 2024
Tunisian legal scholars warned on Thursday that the legitimacy of next month's presidential election will be damaged if the electoral commission does not respect court
September 05, 2024
Poland backed away on Thursday from earlier claims that a drone had likely entered its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in August, after a 10-day analysis and search for
September 05, 2024
Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants in the town of Tubas and in a nearby refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Thursday, the military
September 05, 2024
Here are some of the key appointees in a Ukrainian cabinet reshuffle completed on Thursday and why their portfolios matter: FOREIGN MINISTER: ANDRII SYBIHA, 49
September 05, 2024
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday she wants the United States to do "much more" to press President
September 05, 2024
French conservative Michel Barnier, named prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, faces an overflowing in-tray on his desk, not least with tricky budget legislation
September 05, 2024
Thousands of students rallied in Bangladesh on Thursday to mark the one-month anniversary of the fall of long-serving former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after deadly
September 05, 2024
Initial examinations of four of the people killed when British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's family yacht sank off Sicily last month indicated they had died of suffocation as oxygen ran
September 05, 2024
Italy luxury yacht victims died of ‘dry drowning,’ first autopsies show
September 05, 2024
Ukraine has achieved "a lot" in its Kursk offensive into Russia but it's hard to say how the situation will develop next, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
September 05, 2024
The father of the doctor who was raped and murdered in India's Kolkata city said late Wednesday night that police rushed the family into cremating her even
September 05, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he did not believe Chinese investments in Africa were pushing the continent into a "debt trap" but were
September 05, 2024
Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei’s horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya’s tragic history of domestic violence against female athletes
September 05, 2024
The United States government says it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala
September 05, 2024
Two lawmakers say that Ukraine’s parliament has approved the appointment of a new foreign minister
September 05, 2024
Experts says that millions of people in Pakistan continue to live along the path of floodwaters showing neither people nor the government have learned any lessons from the 2022 devastating floods that killed 1,737 people
September 05, 2024
The United States secured the release of dozens of political prisoners in Nicaragua on Thursday following talks with the government of President Daniel Ortega, who
September 05, 2024
Gaza's schools lie in ruins or have been turned into shelters for families displaced by a war that has killed tens of thousands.
September 05, 2024
Michel Barnier named as new French prime minister
September 05, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak
September 05, 2024
The Chinese government is ending its intercountry adoption program
September 05, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union's former Brexit negotiator, as his new prime minister on Thursday, after weeks of drawn out talks
September 05, 2024
Ukraine and U.N. nuclear agency IAEA have agreed that the agency's experts will monitor the situation at key Ukrainian substations in addition to nuclear plants,
September 05, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive its first batch of 100,000 mpox vaccines from the European Union on Thursday, with a second delivery expected in the coming days
September 05, 2024
Salman Rushdie’s account of a stabbing attack that blinded him in one eye is among contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction book prize
September 05, 2024
The Netherlands will increase defence spending by more than 10% next year, investing in new tanks, fighter jets, frigates and air defence systems in a push to strengthen its
September 05, 2024
Top U.S. military leaders will be in Germany to discuss Ukraine’s wartime needs as Russia has conducted one of its deadliest airstrikes in the conflict and Ukraine presses its offensive in Russia’s Kursk region
September 05, 2024
Ukraine said 75 countries and international organisations have agreed a "shared vision" of measures to ensure the uninterrupted supply of Ukrainian agricultural products and help
September 05, 2024
Only rockstars and presidents can usually fill Indonesia's national stadium, but on Thursday it was octogenarian Pope Francis who drew more
September 05, 2024
Police kill armed man near Israeli consulate in Munich terror attack
September 05, 2024
Farm cooperatives in Brazil that supply some of the world's biggest multinational agricultural firms are buying soybeans grown illegally on Indigenous
September 05, 2024
Brazilian Justice Kassio Nunes Marques said the full Supreme Court will make the final decision on a case filed by a conservative political
September 05, 2024
Dubai is home to world’s tallest skyscraper. Now it’s building the second-tallest, too
September 05, 2024
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, chasing second major title, reaches US Open semifinals with win against No. 5 Daniil Medvedev
September 05, 2024
After two months of political chaos following snap elections, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday named as prime
September 05, 2024
Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Thursday to appoint nine new ministers, including the foreign minister and two deputy prime ministers,
September 05, 2024
Police in Munich have exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich, fatally wounding him
September 05, 2024
China’s New York envoy ‘performing his duties as usual’ after Chinese agent case, Beijing’s consulate says
September 05, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine's incursion into the Russian region of Kursk had failed to slow
September 05, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that China, India and Brazil could act as mediators in potential peace talks over Ukraine.
September 05, 2024
When Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a final summit this week with South Korean President Yoon
September 05, 2024
Pakistan's unprecedented arrest and court-martial of a former spy chief raises the heat on Imran Khan and could be the precursor to prosecuting the jailed former
September 05, 2024
China-Africa ties ‘best in history’ claims Xi as Beijing pushes back on Western debt trap criticism
September 05, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will take part in a meeting on Friday of the Ramstein group of nations which supplies arms to Ukraine, German magazine Spiegel reported.
September 05, 2024
On visit to Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause
September 05, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including the son of a prominent jailed militant
September 05, 2024
Germany's migration commissioner proposed deporting to Rwanda migrants who arrive illegally to the European Union through its borders with Belarus, as Berlin contemplates measures
September 05, 2024
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday the country will not stop its oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea despite claims by Beijing that Malaysia was infringing
September 05, 2024
Global property markets, rattled by the steepest rise in interest rates in a generation, will get little relief
September 05, 2024
One of the year’s strongest typhoons has deadly impact in ‘China’s Hawaii’ before hitting Vietnam
September 05, 2024
New Zealand's Māori monarch, Kīngi Tūheitia, has been laid to rest atop a sacred mountain as his youngest daughter, Ngā wai hono i te po, became the second Māori queen in a tradition dating back to 1858
September 05, 2024
Russia said on Thursday it would take retaliatory measures against U.S. media in response to U.S. charges against Russian media executives and state broadcaster RT, which Washington
September 05, 2024
The first legally binding international AI treaty will be open for signing on Thursday by the countries that negotiated it, including European Union members, the United States and Britain,
September 05, 2024
At least six Palestinians were killed and three wounded in the Israeli bombing of a vehicle in Tubas, West Bank, The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Red Crescent reported on
September 05, 2024
African countries' inadequate access to debt relief and scarce resources is a recipe for social unrest, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on
September 05, 2024
Dozens of African leaders have gathered in Beijing for a summit that signals China’s influence in a continent that it hopes will be a key ally in pushing back against a U.S.-led global order
September 05, 2024
Pope Francis on Thursday invited Muslims and Catholics to push global leaders to confront the dangers of climate change and extremism, and spoke of the common
September 05, 2024
Indonesia President Joko Widodo on Thursday urged developed nations to invest in energy transition and climate solutions in the country
September 05, 2024
Pope Francis has joined the grand imam of Southeast Asia’s largest mosque in pledging to work together to fight religiously inspired violence and protect the planet
September 05, 2024
President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday to step up China's support across debt-laden Africa with funding of nearly $51 billion over three years, backing
September 05, 2024
Who is the real Alice Guo? Fugitive mayor accused of spying for China faces legal reckoning after weeks on the run
September 05, 2024
Haiti has expanded its state of emergency to cover the entire nation's territory, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Garry Conille said on Wednesday, as the Caribbean country
September 05, 2024
Another plane linked to Venezuela’s Maduro is under investigation in the Dominican Republic
September 05, 2024
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday asked the attorney general's office to investigate the $11 million purchase of Pegasus spy software, which he said could have been
September 05, 2024
‘Russian spy’ whale may have been shot dead, say animal rights groups
September 04, 2024
While the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested tens of thousands of Chinese at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year, thousands are making Mexico their final destination
September 04, 2024
Oil prices held at a 14-month low on Thursday as worries about demand in the U.S. and China and a likely rise in supplies out of Libya offset a big withdrawal
September 04, 2024
New U.S. charges allege that a media company linked to six conservative influencers was a front for a Russian influence operation
September 04, 2024
The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said a cooling tower at Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had been badly damaged in a fire last month and would probably
September 04, 2024
A federal judge ordered the release Wednesday of a former U.S. Green Beret indicted in connection with a failed 2020 coup attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
September 04, 2024
US official lays out new details on Gaza ceasefire talks, says Netanyahu comments on Philadelphi Corridor not constructive
September 04, 2024
The White House is scrambling to put forward a new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and the
September 04, 2024
DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right-wing social media stars
September 04, 2024
Hamas said on Thursday there was no need for new ceasefire proposals for Gaza and pressure should be put on Israel to agree to a U.S. plan that the Islamist group had already
September 04, 2024
United Nations officials are hailing limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the war in Gaza
September 04, 2024
13-foot Burmese python seized from home; Snake donated to zoo
September 04, 2024
Journalists injured by Israeli fire during military raid in West Bank, eyewitnesses say
September 04, 2024
A spate of resignations from the Ukrainian government came with one major surprise: the departure of the highly regarded foreign minster
September 04, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must keep open-ended control of Gaza’s border with Egypt, digging in on his stance on an issue that has threatened to derail cease-fire efforts
September 04, 2024
Firefighters succeeded on Wednesday in reducing the extent of a massive wildfire that blazed for two days and destroyed 20% of a forest in the Brazilian
September 04, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel will only agree to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that guarantees the
September 04, 2024
Deputy U.S. national security adviser Jon Finer met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other officials in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss top priorities in
September 04, 2024
575 Years! The combined age of six South Florida sisters, including Teresa turning 106, could be one for the record books
September 04, 2024
China's consul general in New York left his post as scheduled after completing his posting, the State Department said on Wednesday, after New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she
September 04, 2024
An Air India Boeing 787-800 passenger plane en route from India to Britain made a precautionary landing in Moscow on Wednesday due to "technical problems", Sheremetyevo Airport said
September 04, 2024
The U.S. assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs says the U.S. is mulling a U.N. peacekeeping operation in Haiti as one way to secure funding and staffing for a current mission led by Kenya to quell gang violence in the Caribbean country
September 04, 2024
Two loggers have been killed by the reclusive Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru's Amazon
September 04, 2024
Colombia's peace efforts will not bear fruit while the Andean country is divided by social and economic strata comparable to India's caste system, a United Nations
September 04, 2024
After NY governor says China’s consul general was removed, State Department says ‘there was no expulsion action’
September 04, 2024
El Salvador should end a long-running state of emergency and reinstate suspended constitutional rights after achieving significant security gains due to its
September 04, 2024
China's consul general in New York left his post as scheduled after completing his posting last month, the State Department said
September 04, 2024
A 16-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin this week was shot dead by an Israeli sniper as she looked out of the
September 04, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suffered an unexpected blow on Wednesday when the small party helping keep his minority Liberal government in power
September 04, 2024
Pope Francis praised Indonesians on Wednesday for their large families and suggested that people in other countries are choosing to have pets rather than bring up children.
September 04, 2024
Fadi Aldeeb got the competing out of the way early at the Paralympic Games
September 04, 2024
Hisam Choucair lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and three young nieces when a devastating fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a 23-storey social housing block in
September 04, 2024
Russian lawmakers denounced as an infringement of freedom of speech U.S. punitive measures against state media group RT as part of what officials in Washington described as a
September 04, 2024
US service member detained in Venezuela, officials say
September 04, 2024
Mexico's lower house of Congress approved an overhaul of the country's judiciary early on Wednesday that would usher in a new era of
September 04, 2024
The Biden administration has announced criminal charges, the seizure of internet domains and sanctions related to Russian disinformation efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election
September 04, 2024
About 20 migrants are believed to be missing after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean this week
September 04, 2024
House Republicans have issued a subpoena for testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they finish their investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
September 04, 2024
The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election, including unveiling criminal charges against two Russian nationals, sanctions on ten individuals and entities, and the seizure of 32 internet domains.
September 04, 2024
The lawyer for Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez said on Wednesday the attorney general's office received his affidavit explaining why Gonzalez ignored three summons,
September 04, 2024
This airport was once the gateway to Europe. Now no one’s heard of it
September 04, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks after six hostages' bodies were found in Gaza this weekend, sparking massive protests in Israel.
September 04, 2024
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Wednesday he will step down next week after almost two years in office, during which his traditionally non-aligned country joined
September 04, 2024
Seven people were rescued and 21 people were missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said
September 04, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey wanted to deepen its ties with Egypt on natural gas and nuclear energy, after talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah
September 04, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Wednesday it was monitoring Chinese landing drills taking place in a province that lies opposite the island on the other side of the Taiwan Strait,
September 04, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that South Africa needed to pursue ambitious fiscal consolidation to restore the sustainability of its
September 04, 2024
A top Kremlin official says Turkey has formally applied for a membership in the BRICS bloc of developing economies as Russia and China seek to counter the West's global influence
September 04, 2024
Germany will not slacken in its military support for Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, trying to dispel fears Berlin might disappoint Kyiv amid a
September 04, 2024
An American woman wanted in the United States for the murder of two of her children and attempting to kill her third child denied the charges in a London court on
September 04, 2024
American Ezra Frech completes incredible Paralympic gold double
September 04, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he intended to discuss a gas supply contract with Serbia that expires in March 2025 with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin.
September 04, 2024
Hundreds of Israeli forces have for more than a week carried out the deadliest operation in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began
September 04, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responding to a question about the potential delivery of long-range U.S. missiles to Ukraine, warned the
September 04, 2024
Shopkeeper Alaa Fakih lies awake at night scared that another catastrophe could strike Lebanon.
September 04, 2024
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will remain in detention in the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland where he has been held since July, while Denmark decides whether to
September 04, 2024
The U.N. children’s agency says a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza reached 189,000 children, surpassing its target and providing a “rare bright spot” in nearly 11 months of war
September 04, 2024
A China-Africa summit in Beijing this week takes place as a continent slowly emerging from a series of defaults seeks to define its future cooperation with the
September 04, 2024
Syrian doctor Humam Razok felt relief when he arrived in Germany nine years ago after fleeing Damascus, where he had been jailed twice for his political beliefs.
September 04, 2024
North Korea is flying more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea in the latest round of Cold War-style psychological warfare between the rivals
September 04, 2024
Nearly three months after plunging France into political crisis by calling a snap election, President Emmanuel Macron is struggling to name a new
September 04, 2024
Capacity was reduced at one unit of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant after Russian attacks damaged the country's electricity transmission system, nuclear firm Energoatom said on
September 04, 2024
The president of East Timor sees Pope Francis’ upcoming visit as a prime opportunity to promote Asia’s youngest country on the world stage, not a time to confront the legacy of abuse by influential members of the clergy in the deeply Catholic nation
September 04, 2024
Former Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh, who was arrested on Tuesday over alleged financial crimes, will remain in detention at least until a hearing is scheduled, likely
September 04, 2024
Serbia's deputy prime minister has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and vowed that his country will remain an ally of Moscow despite its proclaimed bid to join the European Union
September 04, 2024
Israeli strikes hit targets of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon on Wednesday after dozens of missiles were fired into northern Israel, starting fires but causing
September 04, 2024
Braving the constant threat of airstrikes and bombings, 15-year-old Youssef Saad, a Gazan oud player, rides his bicycle through the war-ravaged streets of northern
September 04, 2024
Cambodia’s Defense Ministry says China is giving its navy two warships of the type it has had docked for months at a strategically important base being expanded with Beijing’s funding
September 04, 2024
Residents in northeastern Nigeria say at least 100 villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes
September 04, 2024
A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a "culmination of decades of failure" by the
September 04, 2024
Good progress is being made in rolling out a polio vaccine to children in Gaza but a permanent ceasefire in the 11-month war is needed to ease humanitarian
September 04, 2024
Russian airstrikes hit energy facilities and critical infrastructure in nine Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
September 04, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo, epicentre of an mpox outbreak that prompted a U.N. declaration of a global public health emergency, said it expects to
September 04, 2024
The deaths of a dozen migrants on the English Channel hasn't stopped more boats from attempting to cross from France to the U.K. Associated Press journalists watched a crowded boat make its way through the sea on Wednesday as French patrol boats monitored and crew threw life vests
September 04, 2024
Jarryd Wallace and Noelle Lambert begin competition at the Paralympics in the long jump Wednesday and Thursday respectively
September 04, 2024
The presidents of Turkey and Egypt are finding common ground on the war in Gaza as they continue to mend long-strained relations
September 04, 2024
Ukraine’s foreign minister tenders resignation ahead of cabinet reshuffle as Russian missiles kill at least 7
September 04, 2024
A day before he tendered his resignation as Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Russia's deadly attack on the city of Poltava shows Ukraine's need for air defense systems.
September 04, 2024
India supports a policy of development and not expansionism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Brunei on Wednesday, though he did not name any country.
September 04, 2024
Danish police detained activist Greta Thunberg at a Copenhagen protest against the war in Gaza and Israel's occupation of the West Bank on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the
September 04, 2024
The United States is building a network of alliances in the Indo-Pacific to counter China's threats there, its top diplomat in Taiwan said on
September 04, 2024
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, one of Ukraine’s most recognizable faces on the international stage, has submitted his resignation ahead of an expected reshuffling of government leaders
September 04, 2024
The leaders of South Korea and New Zealand have strongly condemned the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia
September 04, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed the Gaza war and ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the
September 04, 2024
China will address the risks of fragmentation and imbalances as it seeks to build new infrastructure aimed at upgrading its manufacturing sector, the government said on Wednesday.
September 04, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine needed "new energy", as he ordered a major government reshuffle at a crucial juncture in the war against
September 04, 2024
Brazil’s president says world doesn’t have to put up with Elon Musk’s ‘far right’ ideology just because he’s rich
September 04, 2024
In the rugged Micay Canyon of southwestern Colombia, rebel groups have beefed up their presence over the past two years despite efforts by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to negotiate peace deals with these irregular armies under a strategy known as total peace
September 04, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russia was adjusting its nuclear doctrine because the United States and its Western allies were threatening Russia by escalating the
September 04, 2024
Pope Francis has urged Indonesia to live up to its promise of “harmony in diversity” and fight religious intolerance
September 04, 2024
The leaders of South Korea and New Zealand condemned North Korea's nuclear weapons development and its military cooperation with Russia, Seoul's presidential office said on Wednesday
September 04, 2024
Around 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh in recent months, escaping escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, according to Bangladeshi
September 04, 2024
A global human rights watchdog has implicated Venezuelan security forces and pro-government armed groups in killings that occurred during the protests that followed the country’s disputed July presidential election
September 04, 2024
Weather forecasters who produce Colorado State University's closely watched hurricane outlooks said on Tuesday tropical storm activity in the first week of September would likely
September 04, 2024
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, to guard against
September 04, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping will open the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit on Thursday, where he is expected to urge African leaders gathered in Beijing
September 04, 2024
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says he is “gutted” after the killings of American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other Israeli hostages taken by Hamas
September 04, 2024
Student leaders reveal prison ‘nightmare’ after Gen Z revolution sets them free
September 04, 2024
A Russian drone and missile attack early on Wednesday killed seven people, including four members of the same family, in the western
September 04, 2024
House Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenas Blinken over Afghanistan withdrawal
September 04, 2024
China kicks off major African summit as it seeks to woo leaders amid pressure from the West
September 03, 2024
The world’s attention on Venezuela has focused lately on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the persecution of critics and the arrest warrant issued this week against the former opposition presidential candidate
September 03, 2024
The United States has seized Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane after determining that its acquisition was in violation of US sanctions, among other criminal issues. CNN's Kylie Atwood reports.
September 03, 2024
Maduro decrees Christmas will start in October as Venezuela cracks down on dissent
September 03, 2024
Trial has begun in Florida for four activists accused of illegally acting as Russian agents to help the Kremlin sow political discord and interfere in U.S. elections
September 03, 2024
US prosecutors charge Hamas leaders in October 7 attack
September 03, 2024
Baby OK after lightning shoots through home ceiling; roof collapses after bad weather
September 03, 2024
The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.
September 03, 2024
Patience is running out among United Nations Security Council members and the 15-member body will likely consider taking action if a ceasefire cannot
September 03, 2024
The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other militants in connection with the Oct. 7 rampage in Israel
September 03, 2024
A report from the United Nations released on Tuesday detailed alleged crimes committed by the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, including
September 03, 2024
Israel does not need to keep troops in the southern Gazan border area for security reasons and should not be used as a reason to prevent a deal to bring back
September 03, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday dismissed his deputy chief of staff Rostyslav Shurma, according to a decree on the presidential website.
September 03, 2024
Man accused of plotting wife’s rape by at least 50 strangers over almost 10 years in French trial
September 03, 2024
Hamas’ brutal new tactics signal new phase in war and hostage crisis
September 03, 2024
The cousin of Carmel Gat, one of the six hostages killed by Hamas, said he blames Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their deaths because of the prime minister's delay in agreeing to a deal.
September 03, 2024
The seven people killed in a weekend bus crash in Mississippi were all from Mexico
September 03, 2024
More tributes are pouring in from around the hockey community after the deaths of NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew
September 03, 2024
Former aide to New York governors charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese government
September 03, 2024
Italy's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the Venezuelan chargée d'affaires in Rome to complain about the arrest warrant that has been issued against opposition leader
September 03, 2024
Brazil's top foreign policy adviser on Tuesday slammed Venezuela's arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as "very concerning" and
September 03, 2024
The killing by Hamas militants of six hostages, whose bodies were recovered by Israeli troops over the weekend, underscores the urgency for a ceasefire deal in Gaza and release
September 03, 2024
Private companies involved in salvaging the Sounion tanker, which was attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, are exploring other options after the towing operation was
September 03, 2024
The IMF will become the first major international financial body to send its official mission to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Aleksei
September 03, 2024
Germany is sticking to its plan to deliver 12 IRIS-T SLM air defence systems to Ukraine, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, clarifying that he was referring
September 03, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that he had asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step up advocacy among Ukraine's Western partners to allow strikes on military
September 03, 2024
Protesters in Mexico City are blocking the entrance to Congress over proposals that would make judges stand for election
September 03, 2024
Israeli forces killed three people including a 16-year-old Palestinian girl in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, as a major
September 03, 2024
A senior official has confirmed a report that Turkey wants to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies but fell short of confirming that the NATO country had formally applied for membership
September 03, 2024
Ksenia Yudaeva, an adviser to Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina, will become Russia's new executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Moscow's current
September 03, 2024
Turkey has taken no concrete steps towards meeting its stated desire to join the BRICS group of emerging economies but "a process is underway", the spokesperson for the country's
September 03, 2024
A Nigerian court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for a British national and two Nigerians the police want to charge with treason and inciting the army following
September 03, 2024
At least 12 dead after boat carrying migrants sinks in the English Channel
September 03, 2024
The Ukrainian minister in charge of weapons production resigned on Tuesday in anticipation of another defence role and four other ministers stood
September 03, 2024
Denmark has reported cases of bluetongue in the country’s east, a non-contagious, insect-borne viral disease that is harmless to humans but can be fatal for so-called ruminant animals — mainly sheep but also cows and goats
September 03, 2024
From beneath the shrinking Lake Mornos in central Greece, the muddied remains of homes are reemerging nearly 45 years since the village that once
September 03, 2024
A Russian strike against a military educational facility in Poltava, central Ukraine, has killed 41 people and injured more than 180 others, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
September 03, 2024
There is no link between mobile phone use and an increased risk of brain cancer, according to a new World Health Organization-commissioned review of available published evidence
September 03, 2024
Salvagers have abandoned an initial effort to tow away a burning oil tanker in the Red Sea targeted by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels
September 03, 2024
Officials say Lebanon’s controversial former central bank governor has been detained after being questioned in several corruption cases
September 03, 2024
Israeli forces killed at least 35 Palestinians across Gaza on Tuesday as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian officials said, but brief pauses in
September 03, 2024
A showdown between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over the Gaza war is the latest in a series of confrontations
September 03, 2024
A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and freeing scores of hostages
September 03, 2024
At least 129 killed during mass prison break attempt in DR Congo
September 03, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of minority Muslims fled Myanmar in 2017 amid a government crackdown. Seven years on, they remain in refugee camps.
September 03, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the British government made a "shameful decision" when it suspended some arms export licences to Israel.
September 03, 2024
Dozens killed in Russian strike on military educational facility in central Ukraine
September 03, 2024
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants roared into a northeastern Nigerian village on motorcycles, opened fire on a market and set shops and homes
September 03, 2024
A year after Morocco's devastating earthquake in the High Atlas mountains only some 1,000 homes out of 55,000 under reconstruction have been rebuilt, according to
September 03, 2024
Officials say a boat carrying migrants has ripped apart in the English Channel as they tried to reach Britain from northern France, and 12 are dead
September 03, 2024
U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi, who is due to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine on Wednesay
September 03, 2024
Ukrainian officials say two Russian ballistic missiles blasted a military academy and nearby hospital in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 200 others
September 03, 2024
At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded when Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine's central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the
September 03, 2024
One of the worst massacres in Burkina Faso's history has provoked a fierce public outcry from victims' relatives and religious leaders, piling pressure on
September 03, 2024
At least 12 migrants died on Tuesday after their boat capsized on its way across the Channel to Britain, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin
September 03, 2024
Pay issues and shortages of equipment and manpower have sapped morale among Kenyan police officers deployed to Haiti and hampered their ability to
September 03, 2024
Columbia University resumed classes with students sunbathing and eating ice cream on the lawn that was home to a pro-Palestinian encampment last spring
September 03, 2024
Romania's lower house of parliament approved a draft law on Tuesday greenlighting the donation of a Patriot missile defence system to Ukraine.
September 03, 2024
The death toll from floods in Bangladesh rose to 71 on Tuesday with millions of people still stranded in devastated areas and increasing concern about outbreaks of
September 03, 2024
Gaza schoolgirl Rama Abu Seif longs to return to a classroom to study but it is now a dormitory for families displaced by war.
September 03, 2024
A Moscow court on Tuesday extended the detention of a French researcher accused of failing to register as a "foreign agent" in Russia while collecting military information of value
September 03, 2024
As voters prepare to cast their ballots in the November election, U.S. adversaries like China are making their own plans
September 03, 2024
Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas and turning away more people who reach its borders with
September 03, 2024
The U.S. is close to an agreement to give Ukraine long-range cruise missiles that could reach deep into Russia, but Kyiv would
September 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin received a red carpet welcome on Tuesday on a state visit to Mongolia, whose failure to arrest him under a warrant from the International Criminal Court was
September 03, 2024
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has described the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as “very fragile” following fresh attacks near the site in central Ukraine
September 03, 2024
The World Health Organization said that it was ahead of its targets for polio vaccinations in Gaza on Tuesday, day three of a mass campaign, and had inoculated about a quarter of
September 03, 2024
Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is going to South Korea to improve the two country's relations
September 03, 2024
Large protests have continued in Tel Aviv, Israel, for a third consecutive night as locals called on the government to reach a deal to bring hostages home
September 03, 2024
Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni underscored the role of police to provide "freedom from fear" in democracies in a speech to Pacific Islands police chiefs on
September 03, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit Seoul on Sept. 6-7 for a summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Yoon's office said on Tuesday.
September 03, 2024
Britain's decision to suspend some arms sales to Israel was roundly criticised on Tuesday with some British politicians and Jewish groups accusing the Labour
September 03, 2024
The United Arab Emirates president has pardoned 57 Bangladeshi citizens who were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms for staging a rare protest in the Gulf country,
September 03, 2024
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways said on Tuesday it had inspected its entire Airbus A350 fleet after the in-flight failure of an engine part and found 15
September 03, 2024
Just a few months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the country's financial adviser, Rothschild & Co, handed Kyiv's debt chief a thick black folder
September 03, 2024
New Zealand is tripling its tourist tax
September 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin received a red-carpet welcome to Mongolia as the country ignored calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
September 03, 2024
Australia's Navy and Air Force rescued two people after a terrifying night at sea as 20-foot waves tossed their stricken yacht nearly 200 miles off Australia’s eastern coast.
September 03, 2024
Two rescued from yacht after terrifying night at sea amid 20-foot waves
September 03, 2024
An eight-year-old boy was among two people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, while a third person died in a missile attack on the
September 03, 2024
Dozens of excited Indonesians waved on Tuesday as a motorcade carried Pope Francis through the capital as he began the first leg of an
September 03, 2024
Israelis were plunged into grief and anger after the military said six hostages were killed by their captors in Gaza just as troops were closing in on their location
September 03, 2024
At least 13 people have died in the Philippines due to tropical storm Yagi, while schools and government offices were closed in Manila and nearby provinces on
September 03, 2024
New Zealand will nearly triple entry fees for tourists, the government said on Tuesday, spurring criticism from the key tourism sector the higher levy will deter visitors.
September 03, 2024
Oil prices settled nearly 5% down on Tuesday at their lowest levels in nearly nine months on signs of a deal to resolve a dispute that has halted Libyan crude
September 03, 2024
Pope Francis has urged Indonesia to live up to its promise of “harmony in diversity” and fight religious intolerance
September 03, 2024
Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Gonzalez wanted for arrest for ‘crimes associated with terrorism’
September 02, 2024
Bakersfield WWII Veteran turns 100!
September 02, 2024
China and South Africa, whose top leaders met in Beijing, agreed to promote balanced trade and discussed boosting two-way investments between their industrial and
September 02, 2024
Russia's trade with India is booming and bilateral payments are proceeding smoothly without the glitches that have been hampering trade with
September 02, 2024
Ukraine announced on Wednesday that international bondholders had formally approved its plan to restructure over $20 billion of debt amid its ongoing war with Russia.
September 02, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that he will meet the head of the international nuclear agency in Kyiv after the official visits the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
September 02, 2024
Man rescued on Winooski River after being stuck in mud
September 02, 2024
Venezuela's attorney general's office said on Monday a court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, accusing him of
September 02, 2024
Coloradans with intellectual, developmental disabilities help rescue food for food banks
September 02, 2024
The head of Ukrenergo, Ukraine's power transmission network, was dismissed on Monday, public broadcaster Suspilne quoted sources as saying, on grounds of failing to protect energy
September 02, 2024
US captures ISIS leader who helped terror group escapees, military says
September 02, 2024
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Mongolia's failure to arrest visiting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, wanted on an international warrant, dealt a severe blow to the
September 02, 2024
Congo's eastern city of Goma held a memorial service on Monday for 200 victims of the conflict between the army and rebels that are waging a renewed insurgency in the vast central African
September 02, 2024
Hamas' armed wing said on Monday that since June the group has been operating under new instructions on how to handle hostages should Israeli
September 02, 2024
Union leaders rally workers on Labor Day to demand higher pay
September 02, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected calls to soften his demand to keep troops in the southern Gazan border area as
September 02, 2024
The salvage operation of the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently attacked by Iran-aligned Houthi militants, is about to begin, the European Union's mission in the Red Sea,
September 02, 2024
The U.S. government has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, citing violations of sanctions and export control laws
September 02, 2024
A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC has been discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, the Sicily region said on Monday.
September 02, 2024
The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after
September 02, 2024
German automaker BMW is recalling electric Mini Cooper SE vehicles due to problems in their batteries, which could potentially affect more than 140,000 autos worldwide, a company
September 02, 2024
Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Jerusalem on Monday
September 02, 2024
Exclusive: US seizes Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic
September 02, 2024
Pope Francis left Rome on Monday for Jakarta, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will start an ambitious 12-day
September 02, 2024
Britain will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there was a risk such equipment might be used to commit
September 02, 2024
The U.K. government says it's suspending exports of some weapons to Israel because they could be used to break international law
September 02, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide
September 02, 2024
Biden and Netanyahu at odds again after US president says Israeli PM not doing enough in ceasefire-hostage release talks
September 02, 2024
An Israeli-American family that became an international symbol in the struggle to free hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza lay their son to rest on Monday after the discovery of his body and those of five others brought a fresh outpouring of grief
September 02, 2024
Russia says it will make changes to the doctrine that sets out the circumstances in which it might use nuclear weapons. What might that mean?
September 02, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had arrived for a state visit in Mongolia, which lies on the route of a planned new gas pipeline connecting Russia
September 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Mongolia, a member of the international court that issued an arrest warrant for him
September 02, 2024
Dutch prosecutors said on Monday they want prison sentences of up to 14 years against two men from Pakistan over public calls for the murder of far-right anti-Muslim leader Geert
September 02, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday Ukraine's Western allies should not only allow their weapons to be used for strikes deep inside Russia, but also supply Kyiv with more of the
September 02, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of
September 02, 2024
An Israeli airstrike killed two civilians travelling in a car along Lebanon's southern coast on Monday, security sources said, including an employee of a cleaning company that is
September 02, 2024
Elon Musk-controlled satellite internet provider Starlink has told Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel it will not comply with a court order to block social media
September 02, 2024
An ethnic Greek politician in Albania who also has Greek citizenship was released from jail on Monday in a case that has sparked tensions between Albania and neighbouring Greece.
September 02, 2024
Beauty queen at center of South Africa xenophobia spat crowned Miss Universe Nigeria
September 02, 2024
The recovery of the bodies of six Israeli hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the Oct.
September 02, 2024
Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian
September 02, 2024
Some Germans are worried about the future of their country after Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany
September 02, 2024
Floods and a landslide killed seven people in the Philippines on Monday as tropical storm Yagi, locally known as Enteng, dumped heavy rain on the capital Manila and nearby provinces
September 02, 2024
US long jump star Tara Davis-Woodhall just won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Now, it is her husband Hunter's turn at the Paralympics to aim for gold in the men's 100m T64 and 400m T62 races.
September 02, 2024
Finland's government is proposing to ban most Russian citizens from buying property in the Nordic country in a move to protect national security, Defence Minister
September 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that young members of his family speak fluent Mandarin, though he told school children they should not forget the importance of
September 02, 2024
Turmoil over China’s influence in the affairs of South Pacific island nations has flared as it emerged that a Pacific leader at the region’s most important diplomatic summit apparently pledged to erase an affirmation of Taiwan’s involvement in the meeting from its closing statement
September 02, 2024
Russian emergency officials say they have recovered the bodies of all 22 people from a helicopter that crashed in Russia’s Far East leaving no survivors
September 02, 2024
Former U.S.
September 02, 2024
South Korea's health ministry said on Monday it was deploying military doctors to assist in some hospital emergency rooms due to a shortage of medical staff, but disputed
September 02, 2024
Poland has held a state burial of the remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II mass executions that were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of Death in the country’s north
September 02, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told China's Xi Jinping on Monday he wanted to narrow his country's trade deficit with Beijing, days before the Chinese leader is
September 02, 2024
Israeli protesters took to the streets for a second day on Monday and the largest trade union launched a general strike to press the government to reach a deal to
September 02, 2024
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked two crude oil tankers - the Saudi-flagged Amjad and the Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I - in
September 02, 2024
Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Monday the economy's growth composition is expected to be more balanced with less contribution from domestic demand this year.
September 02, 2024
Russian forces are advancing faster in eastern Ukraine than they have done for a long time, taking several square kilometres per day, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday as
September 02, 2024
Netanyahu defiant as protesters demanding a ceasefire-for-hostages deal bring Israel to a halt
September 02, 2024
Turkey's economy grew less than expected in the second quarter, expanding an annual 2.5% in the face of a year-long monetary tightening campaign, data
September 02, 2024
Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east Democratic Republic of
September 02, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden is adding to the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he isn't doing enough to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza
September 02, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back against a new wave of pressure to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza after hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested and went on strike
September 02, 2024
Myanmar's military government will conduct a nationwide population and household census in October, state media said on Monday, paving the way for a promised election next year amid raging
September 02, 2024
An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea, and a nearby Saudi-flagged tanker also came under fire, allegedly by the group
September 02, 2024
Some kindergartens will shut for a week in the Russian city of Belgorod near Ukraine's border while several schools will hold online classes after a Kyiv attack destroyed a child care
September 02, 2024
Climate change will be high on the agenda as Pope Francis embarks on his longest ever foreign trip on Monday, visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore over 12 days.
September 02, 2024
Thailand's new cabinet has been selected and should be submitted for royal endorsement within this week, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Monday.
September 02, 2024
Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched an overnight barrage of drones and cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv as children prepared to return to school on Monday after summer vacation
September 02, 2024
Loud explosions rocked Ukraine's capital Kyiv early on Monday as Russia launched a barrage of missiles, sparking fires and damaging homes
September 02, 2024
A woman has died and more than 120,000 were left without power after high winds and heavy rain hit southern Australia, authorities said on Monday.
September 02, 2024
A beluga whale that was suspected of spying for Russia after being discovered in Norwegian waters five years ago has been found dead, according to the non-profit organisation that had been
September 02, 2024
If China's claims on Taiwan are about territorial integrity then it should also take back land from Russia signed over by the last Chinese dynasty in the 19th century, Taiwan
September 02, 2024
Mexico's Lower House of Congress is slated to open debate on Tuesday on a controversial judicial reform and is expected to pass the legislation later in the week,
September 02, 2024
China urged the European Union to be "objective and fair" and careful with words and actions on issues in the South China Sea, after the bloc remarked on an incident that occurred
September 02, 2024
Anger is mounting across Israel over the deaths of six hostages killed inside Gaza. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
September 01, 2024
Grief and fury on Israel’s streets, as hostage killings pile pressure on Netanyahu to secure ceasefire deal
September 01, 2024
Oil prices edged higher on Monday, recovering some losses from late last week, as Libyan oil exports remained halted and concerns about higher OPEC+
September 01, 2024
A court on Monday released a former mayor of Taipei who now heads a small opposition party after he was arrested in a graft probe of a major property development in the Taiwanese
September 01, 2024
Azerbaijan's ruling party retained its majority in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, preliminary results showed, in the country's first vote since staging a
September 01, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for developing health, science and education facilities in rural areas alongside factories, state media KCNA reported on
September 01, 2024
German state elections that dealt a heavy blow to the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government and historic wins for two anti-establishment parties are likely
September 01, 2024
A five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court will vote on Monday whether to uphold Justice Alexandre de Moraes' ruling to shut down social media platform X in the country.
September 01, 2024
Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Istanbul to protest recent legislation that critics say is leading to the killing of stray dogs across Turkey
September 01, 2024
Mothers Fighting For Justice meet with police about gun violence, unsolved murders
September 01, 2024
Carjacker behind bars after stealing car with 3 sleeping children inside
September 01, 2024
China will urge a summit of 50 African nations in Beijing this week to take more of its goods, before Western curbs kick in on its exports such
September 01, 2024
With one of the world's tallest people on the team, Iran is chasing its third Paralympic gold medal in sitting volleyball
September 01, 2024
Mourners lit candles and placed icons on Sunday beneath photographs of the schoolchildren, teachers and parents who died 20 years ago when Islamist gunmen staged the
September 01, 2024
Azerbaijan's ruling party was on course for a single-seat majority on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election called by President Ilham Aliyev, according to an exit
September 01, 2024
Iranian state TV says an official investigation into the helicopter crash in May that killed Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other people found it was caused by challenging climatic and atmospheric conditions
September 01, 2024
The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday
September 01, 2024
The head of Israel's biggest labour union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to bring
September 01, 2024
The helicopter crash in which Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed was primarily caused by weather conditions that included thick fog, Iran's state TV said on Sunday, citing
September 01, 2024
Russia sees U.S.
September 01, 2024
A white beluga whale named “Hvaldimir” that was first spotted in Norway not far from Russian waters with a harness that ignited rumors he may be a Moscow spy has been found dead
September 01, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to conclude a ceasefire deal with Hamas to bring the remaining hostages home from Gaza, as
September 01, 2024
Paralympic triathlon events postponed following poor water quality in the Seine
September 01, 2024
Usha Vance's presence in the Trump-Vance campaign has energized some Indian Americans, particularly Hindu American conservatives
September 01, 2024
At least 47 people, including five children, were injured on Sunday after Russian missiles struck a shopping mall and events complex in Ukraine's northeastern city of
September 01, 2024
Russia will make changes to its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it regards as Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media
September 01, 2024
Just hours after a dawn air raid alarm rang through the city, Zaporizhzhia schoolchildren have celebrated the traditional first day of school
September 01, 2024
Gabon's junta has relaxed rules covering the rare kevazingo tree, allowing logging under certain conditions of a hardwood species that can take 500 years to grow to its full
September 01, 2024
Tropical cyclone Shanshan, downgraded from a typhoon, left seven people dead and widespread damage as it churned off the Pacific coast of central Japan on Sunday.
September 01, 2024
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Sunday for a strike to shut down the economy in order to pressure the government to reach a deal to release the remaining hostages
September 01, 2024
What we know about the six hostages killed in Gaza
September 01, 2024
Israel’s military said it recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive. Journalist Elliot Gotkine gives insight into each hostage.
September 01, 2024
Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Sunday the situation was "difficult" around Russia's main attack, which is focused in eastern Ukraine, but that all the necessary
September 01, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would not rest until it catches those responsible for the killing of six hostages whose bodies were recovered from
September 01, 2024
The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday
September 01, 2024
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies have begun a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip
September 01, 2024
Russia has launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and possibly other cities
September 01, 2024
Leader of Afghanistan’s resistance movement says he will defeat the Taliban ‘no matter the odds’
September 01, 2024
Hersh Goldberg-Polin: The ‘happy-go-lucky’ Israeli-American who became a symbol of Israel’s enduring hostage heartbreak
September 01, 2024
One civilian was killed and four others injured in Russian shelling overnight on Ukraine's Sumy region on the border between the two warring countries, the local Ukrainian
September 01, 2024
Three Israeli police officers were killed
September 01, 2024
Paralympics organizers say triathlon competitions in Paris scheduled for Sunday have been postponed for a day because of concerns about water quality in the Seine River after heavy rainfall
September 01, 2024
Searchers found no survivors among the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka with 22 people on board, state news agency TASS said on Sunday
September 01, 2024
Israel’s military said it has recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive – dealing fresh heartbreak to relatives who fear time is running out for loved ones seized by the militants more than 10 months ago.
September 01, 2024
Israel’s military says six hostages ‘brutally murdered’ in Gaza, including Israeli-American Goldberg-Polin
September 01, 2024
Minority athletes don’t just bear their countries’ hopes for gold at the Olympics and Paralympics
September 01, 2024
From California to Israel, companies are aiming to grow cocoa beyond the tropics in a bid to buffer chocolate's key ingredient from climate change
September 01, 2024
Polls closed Sunday evening in Azerbaijan's snap parliamentary election, the first since it regained full control of Karabakh, a former breakaway territory, in a lightning offensive last year
September 01, 2024
By Casey Hall and Xihao Jiang SHANGHAI - Shanghai Museum has pulled in crowds this summer for an exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics including cat statues and other feline imagery, and which on
September 01, 2024
Pope Francis is making the longest, farthest and most challenging trip of his pontificate when he goes to Asia and Oceania this week
September 01, 2024
Tens of thousands of Israelis have surged into the streets in an outpouring of grief and anger after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza
September 01, 2024
When Pope Francis visits Indonesia next week, he will stop by a mosque in Jakarta that has an unusual feature - a tunnel connecting it to the city's Catholic
September 01, 2024
China and Philippines trade blame over latest vessel collisions in disputed South China Sea
August 31, 2024
Massive protests swept Israel on Sunday following the death of six hostages in Gaza as frustration mounted over the failure of the country's
August 31, 2024
The IDF is asking the public to refrain from speculation as they announced the discovery of bodies in Gaza. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
August 31, 2024
Hostage families call for public to mobilize after Israeli military reports finding several bodies in Gaza
August 31, 2024
A Mexican judge ordered the Lower House of Congress not to discuss controversial judicial reform scheduled to be taken up by lawmakers the first week of September, according to
August 31, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy increased pressure on the United States to let Kyiv strike military targets deep inside Russian territory after his
August 31, 2024
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa CDC and
August 31, 2024
Nigeria will begin vaccinations for mpox from October 8 after regulatory approvals are concluded, a spokesperson for the country's National Primary Health Care
August 31, 2024
Electricity returned to Caracas and other parts of Venezuela on Saturday after a blackout plunged much of the country into darkness on Friday, although Reuters witnesses reported
August 31, 2024
Tugs are expected to begin towing a damaged Greek oil tanker on Sunday, Yemen's Houthi Foreign Minister Jamel Amer said, as the vessel remains adrift and on fire in the Red Sea.
August 31, 2024
Newly found seamount reveals spaghetti monster and other rare ocean creatures
August 31, 2024
7 Mexican travelers, ages 8 to 63, killed and dozens more people hurt in Mississippi bus crash
August 31, 2024
Russian bomb attacks on Ukraine’s Kharkiv leave at least 8 dead, more than 100 injured
August 31, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July
August 31, 2024
Norway's Princess Martha Louise married her long-term partner, American spiritual guru Durek Verrett, on Saturday in a ceremony attended by the Norwegian king and other royalty but
August 31, 2024
UN-led campaign to vaccinate children against Polio kicks off in Gaza
August 31, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says it has begun a multi-day campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus
August 31, 2024
Five people have been killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar as Moscow’s troops push ahead in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region
August 31, 2024
Blind soccer explained: What are the rules and why are some players allowed to see?
August 31, 2024
Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities said, as clashes took place in
August 31, 2024
A year since a military coup in Gabon ended the Bongo dynasty's 56-year rule, the country marked the anniversary in festive mood this week with
August 31, 2024
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday his country was unlikely to enter the European Union in 2028, a date targeted by some other western Balkan countries hoping to
August 31, 2024
No survivors after Russian authorities find wreckage of Far East helicopter crash
August 31, 2024
‘Nothing is left’: Israel’s military tells Gaza residents to go home but they find only rubble
August 31, 2024
The Philippines and China exchanged accusations of intentionally ramming coast guard vessels in disputed waters of the South China Sea on
August 31, 2024
From Mazar to Manhattan: How a young couple escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan
August 31, 2024
End of an era: The big change coming to European travel in November
August 31, 2024
Human-rights groups and the United Nations are using Saturday's two-year anniversary of a landmark U.N. report to call for action on the document which said that China
August 31, 2024
At least six people were dead as Typhoon Shanshan crept eastward through Japan on Saturday, drenching large areas with torrential rain, triggering landslide and flood warnings
August 31, 2024
Five people were killed and 46 injured in a Ukrainian attack on the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod late on Friday, the local governor said, the latest in a series of strikes
August 31, 2024
They vanished for weeks. Now Russia says it detained two Colombian men on suspicion of fighting for Ukraine
August 31, 2024
Northern Israeli students face uncertain school year as conflict with Hezbollah persists
August 31, 2024
CNN's Jim Sciutto visits a new school in Israel south of the Lebanese border that will be attended by students who were uprooted from their school as tensions rise in region.
August 31, 2024
A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards — regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize
August 31, 2024
The U.N. is about to launch an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, a disease that doctors fear has spread in the territory due to the massive humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by Israel's military offensive there
August 31, 2024
Seven US troops injured during Iraq raid that killed 15 ISIS operatives
August 31, 2024
Roadside executions the latest grim chapter for Pakistan’s oldest insurgency
August 31, 2024
Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv's right to self-defence, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag
August 31, 2024
Woman, child and pets rescued from sailboat after being stranded 925 miles off Honolulu during Hurricane Gilma
August 31, 2024
The United States military and Iraq have launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country’s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt
August 31, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two missiles targeting a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden
August 31, 2024
Tropical Storm Shanshan is slowly making its way into central Japan, halting trains and leaving underground passages brimming with water as officials warned of torrential rains in major cities, including Osaka and Tokyo
August 31, 2024
Ukrainian defense minister tells CNN ‘I hope we were heard’ after presenting list of targets inside Russia to US officials
August 30, 2024
Clashes broke out between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank on Saturday as Israel pushed ahead with a military operation in the
August 30, 2024
Argentina arrests man accused of links to 1978 killing by leftwing terror group
August 30, 2024
Hockey fans had yearned for Johnny Gaudreau to come home and play for either New Jersey or Philadelphia
August 30, 2024
Kamala Harris' strong support for Israel as it continues its war in Gaza is fueling calls for a fresh round of protests at campaign stops, universities and
August 30, 2024
Overseas swatting scheme wreaked ‘massive havoc’ in US, with fake bomb threats, kidnappings and plot to kill the president
August 30, 2024
At least two people died in Brazil after the roof of a church in the coastal city of Recife collapsed on Friday, city hall and state authorities said.
August 30, 2024
Ukraine’s Zelensky fires Air Force chief, days after fatal F-16 crash
August 30, 2024
A woman who survived the massacre of hundreds of villagers in central Burkina Faso described the horror of searching through bodies to find her brothers, in an interview
August 30, 2024
East Timor is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that secured its independence from its major neighbor Indonesia, which invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975
August 30, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed Ukraine's Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk on Friday, according to a presidential decree.
August 30, 2024
Top Ukrainian officials, including Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and the president's chief of staff Andriy Yermak, began a visit to Washington on Friday,
August 30, 2024
NASA has cut two astronauts from the next crew to make room on the return trip for the two stuck at the International Space Station
August 30, 2024
The head of Ukraine's power grid operator Ukrenergo, Vadym Kudrytskyi, is to be dismissed, Forbes Ukraine reported on Friday, citing four sources familiar with the matter.
August 30, 2024
A 4-year-old boy whose curiosity led to the destruction of a 3,500-year-old jar has returned to the museum in northern Israel where it happened, welcomed by forgiving curators who are using the accident as an educational opportunity
August 30, 2024
The United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday said it will dispatch a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh, as requested by the interim government, to investigate
August 30, 2024
Racist signs put up at bus stops may not be an isolated incident
August 30, 2024
The European Union rebuffed a request from Kyiv for the bloc to train Ukrainian soldiers inside the war-torn country, but will train them as close as possible to
August 30, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months
August 30, 2024
A struggle to control the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has already sparked a blockade of oil production and it threatens the worst crisis in years for the major energy
August 30, 2024
Ukraine's armed forces commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Friday his troops had advanced up to 2 km (1.2 miles) in Russia's Kursk region in the past day, pressing on with the
August 30, 2024
Ukraine urged Mongolia on Friday to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin on an International Criminal Court warrant when he visits on Sept. 3, but the Kremlin said it was not worried
August 30, 2024
Germany deports 28 Afghans after unveiling new security package
August 30, 2024
Russians who still share Western values are being told to choose sides and support their warring homeland or risk being victimised by the West, in the same way that
August 30, 2024
The World Health Organization chief said on Friday that mpox vaccines were set to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the next few days to fight a new strain of the virus.
August 30, 2024
Pope Francis on Friday urged people around the world to better protect the environment, ahead of a 12-day trip to Southeast Asia next week in which the pontiff is expected to
August 30, 2024
Coast Guard and Navy rescues a woman, child and pets 925 miles off Honolulu
August 30, 2024
A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a playground on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 77 more, local
August 30, 2024
According to official data, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952
August 30, 2024
OPEC+ is set to proceed with a planned oil output hike from October, as Libyan outages and pledged cuts by some members to
August 30, 2024
The start of operations at a Chinese-funded airport in Pakistan's Balochistan province has been pushed back for a security review after last
August 30, 2024
The rescue from Gaza of hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who belongs to the Bedouin community in Israel, has put the focus on a minority group that has largely existed on the margins of Israeli society
August 30, 2024
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
August 30, 2024
Czech explosive experts have detonated a World War II bomb at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was found last week
August 30, 2024
Fadi Aldeeb, the sole Palestinian Paralympic athlete, wants to show that ‘there is also life’ in Gaza
August 30, 2024
Israeli military says it killed Hamas commander and two other fighters in occupied West Bank
August 30, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the commander of the country’s air force after one of its Western-donated F-16 warplane crashed and the pilot died
August 30, 2024
Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states
August 30, 2024
Ukraine will continue to meet its obligations to transit Russian oil to Europe, a presidential aide said on Friday after earlier suggesting it could halt supplies via the
August 30, 2024
With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding
August 30, 2024
The European Union has not yet done enough to boost its own arms production capacities in light of geopolitical threats, in particular Russia's war on Ukraine, Commission President
August 30, 2024
Analysts have lowered their 2024 oil price outlook due to weak fuel demand from leading importer China and rising inventory levels as Saudi Arabia and OPEC+
August 30, 2024
A salvage operation to recover a Greek-registered oil tanker stranded ablaze in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants is expected to
August 30, 2024
The Kremlin has never made any deals with Telegram boss Pavel Durov, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, adding that he was not aware of any meetings between the tech
August 30, 2024
At the Paralympic Games in Paris, women are blazing trails in the roughest of sports — mixed-gender but male-dominated wheelchair rugby
August 30, 2024
Garment factories in Bangladesh, one of the world's biggest clothing production hubs, are struggling to complete orders on time as flooding disrupts their
August 30, 2024
The commander of Ukraine's air force said on Friday that it had shared with U.S. partners a preliminary report about an F-16 jet crash that took place on Monday.
August 30, 2024
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that ongoing corruption investigations into Russian defence officials involve "serious charges" that will lead to court trials.
August 30, 2024
Japan’s Defense Ministry has sought a record 8.5 trillion yen or $59 billion budget for the next year to fortify its deterrence on southwestern islands against China’s increasing threat
August 30, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Record stock market highs have lit up across the world once again - though not yet for the usual suspects in the S&P500 and Nasdaq.
August 30, 2024
Ancient humans built a bridge inside a cave on Mallorca nearly 6,000 years ago
August 30, 2024
Thai officials say the bodies of three foreign workers who were trapped for days in a railway tunnel in northeastern Thailand that collapsed while under construction have been retrieved after an intensive rescue effort
August 30, 2024
Power had returned to some parts of Venezuela on Friday evening after capital Caracas and much of the rest of the country were plunged into a blackout that
August 30, 2024
Turkmenistan’s mysterious, flaming ‘Gates of Hell’
August 30, 2024
The United Nations has released $100 million to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the U.N. said on Friday.
August 30, 2024
The Norwegian king’s eldest child will marry an American self-professed shaman in a picturesque corner of southern Norway on Saturday
August 30, 2024
Indonesia will conduct an audit to reform tourism on the tropical island of Bali to improve tourism quality and preserve local culture and jobs, a senior minister said on Friday.
August 30, 2024
The British government said on Friday it was "deeply concerned" by Israel's ongoing operation in the occupied West Bank, warning that risk of instability was serious and that there
August 30, 2024
A Russian attack overnight damaged a factory in Ukraine's northern city of Sumy, killed two women and injured at least 11 people, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday.
August 30, 2024
The United Nations will start vaccinating some 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip against polio on Sunday, a campaign that relies on daily eight-hour pauses in fighting
August 30, 2024
Pakistan's military has launched intelligence-based operations in the southwestern Balochistan province in response to attacks by insurgents that killed over 50 people this week,
August 30, 2024
An Israeli military strike has hit the first vehicle in a convoy carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians associated with a local transportation company
August 30, 2024
Israeli forces killed a local commander of the Islamist movement Hamas in the flashpoint city of Jenin on Friday as they pressed a major operation in the
August 30, 2024
China lacks the ability to "fully" invade Taiwan as it does not have the equipment, but is bringing on line advanced new weapons and has other options
August 30, 2024
Health authorities in the Gaza Strip confirmed the first case of polio in the Palestinian enclave in 25 years in August.
August 30, 2024
The Israeli military says it struck the West Bank city of Jenin on the third day of heavy fighting in the Palestinian territory and killed a senior Hamas commander in the city
August 30, 2024
Germany has deported Afghan nationals to their homeland for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power
August 30, 2024
Germany said it resumed flying convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country on Friday, days before German regional
August 30, 2024
While there has been a lot of talk about the West's strategic decoupling from China's sputtering economy, Europe's direct trade links with Beijing have actually been
August 30, 2024
Vietnam and the Philippines agreed on Friday to advance defence and military relations and deepen collaboration on maritime security, in a significant step by two
August 30, 2024
The Pacific Islands Forum has endorsed a plan to boost police numbers among its members, cutting the need to rely on external forces in a crisis, with China
August 30, 2024
New Zealand’s indigenous Māori king dies age 69
August 30, 2024
A slow-moving tropical storm is having a far-reaching impact in much of Japan, dumping heavy rain around Tokyo and flooding roads and riverside areas in the south
August 30, 2024
The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military's Gaza pier project says the mission was the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced
August 30, 2024
A historic cemetery for African Americans in Kingston, New York, is being reclaimed as the Pine Street African Burial Ground
August 30, 2024
Three years ago, the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan when the last American plane departed Kabul
August 30, 2024
Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir are gearing up for their first regional election in a decade that will allow them to have their own truncated government, also known as a local assembly, instead of remaining under New Delhi’s direct rule
August 30, 2024
New Zealand’s Māori King, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, has died at age 69, just days after the celebration of his 18th year on the throne
August 30, 2024
Australia's largest public transport project has achieved something few urban planners expect: social media fame.
August 30, 2024
Bangladesh indigenous people's rights activist Michael Chakma says he was woken up by his captors earlier this month in the dark, tiny
August 30, 2024
The president of New Caledonia's Congress, Roch Wamytan, an indigenous Kanak who had criticised France's handling of civil unrest in the French Pacific territory, has
August 30, 2024
Panamanian authorities deported a group of migrants to Ecuador on a second flight financed by the United States, as part of an agreement between the U.S. and Panama to
August 30, 2024
Washington urged Honduras to reconsider its intention to leave a long-standing extradition treaty on Thursday, as Honduran
August 29, 2024
Typhoon Shanshan soaked large swathes of Japan with torrential rain on Friday, prompting warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of
August 29, 2024
East Timor's independence was a gift to the world because it showed conflict could be resolved through negotiation, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on
August 29, 2024
US Navy rescued two Iranian mariners in distress last Friday, US military says
August 29, 2024
Daughter gets some closure as cold case unit identifies man 23 years later
August 29, 2024
Telegram founder faces probe into alleged ‘acts of violence’ against his child in Switzerland
August 29, 2024
Ecuador’s Ministry for Energy and Mines says it has begun to dismantle infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, home to the Waorani Indigenous people
August 29, 2024
New Zealand's Maori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday morning at age 69, according to a statement released by his representatives.
August 29, 2024
Zakia Khudadadi has made history at the Paris 2024 Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal
August 29, 2024
Nicaragua's government has banned 169 non-governmental organizations for allegedly not complying with sector regulations, according to a resolution published on Thursday in the government
August 29, 2024
Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham returned to the Paralympic stage Thursday for the first time since Rio 2016, this time seven months pregnant
August 29, 2024
Taiwan's embassy in Haiti on Thursday presented Haiti's national police and army with protective equipment such as helmets, tactical kneepads, eye protectors and bulletproof
August 29, 2024
The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to come to the United States
August 29, 2024
Israel agrees to pauses in fighting in Gaza for polio vaccination
August 29, 2024
A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar at a museum in Israel has been forgiven and even invited back
August 29, 2024
At least one person died and six sustained injuries during Russian shelling of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka on Thursday, the local governor said.
August 29, 2024
Tourists with plans to stay at Grand Canyon National Park over Labor Day weekend were forced to move Thursday to accommodations outside the park
August 29, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the country's telecommunications regulator Anatel to shut down Elon Musk's social media platform X after the billionaire failed
August 29, 2024
Israel is carrying out large-scale military raids in parts of the occupied West Bank, where the decadeslong conflict with the Palestinians had worsened even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza
August 29, 2024
Israel's defense minister on Thursday called for the expansion of the stated goals of the war in Gaza to include enabling residents to return to communities in northern Israel
August 29, 2024
Elon Musk hits out at judge threatening to suspend X in Brazil
August 29, 2024
Israel's military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the first
August 29, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released footage showing that they boarded and intentionally set explosives aboard a Greek-flagged tanker that was earlier abandoned after they repeatedly attacked it, putting the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill
August 29, 2024
The U.N. World Health Organization says it's reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children
August 29, 2024
As the world focuses on Gaza, the West Bank has reached boiling point. Here’s what to know
August 29, 2024
American archaeologist drowns after Viking replica boat capsizes in Norway
August 29, 2024
Iran's production of highly enriched uranium continues and it has not improved cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog despite a resolution demanding this at
August 29, 2024
Exclusive: Top Ukrainian pilot killed when US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed
August 29, 2024
A top Ukrainian pilot was killed when a US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed, just weeks after the long-awaited planes arrived in the country, a Ukrainian military source told CNN. The Ukrainian Defence Forces do not believe pilot error was behind the incident, the source added. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
August 29, 2024
The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Mongolia next week despite the country being a member of the International Criminal Court
August 29, 2024
Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking water mixed in with milk from his last surviving
August 29, 2024
Saudi Arabia issued royal decrees announcing changes to the heads of its joint forces, navy and land forces, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.
August 29, 2024
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands
August 29, 2024
Iran’s president has ordered an investigation into the death of a man in custody after activists alleged he was tortured to death by police in the north of the country
August 29, 2024
An al Qaeda-linked group said it killed nearly 300 people in Saturday's devastating attack in north-central Burkina Faso, but said it targeted militia members linked to the
August 29, 2024
Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Thursday he spent several days on the eastern Pokrovsk front and described fighting there as "exceptionally tough".
August 29, 2024
Egypt could begin transitioning from subsidising essential commodities to providing direct cash assistance to its poorest citizens as early as the next fiscal year (July to June),
August 29, 2024
Tornadic winds knocked nearly four dozen train cars off a track in North Dakota, part of a storm system that spurred reports of five tornadoes across the Dakotas
August 29, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Thursday to deepen ties with Britain over defence, security, migration and energy after a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in
August 29, 2024
Israel says it killed Islamic Jihad commander in battle at mosque, as West Bank raid enters second day
August 29, 2024
The German government on Thursday announced a proposed package of tighter security and asylum measures following a deadly stabbing spree linked to Islamic State
August 29, 2024
The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste
August 29, 2024
Families of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip protested near the border on Thursday, demanding a deal to secure their release and at one point made a dash
August 29, 2024
An F-16 fighter jet used by Ukraine crashed on Monday, Kyiv's military said, the first such loss reported since the long-awaited arrival of the U.S.-made planes in the country was
August 29, 2024
Track cyclist Caroline Groot of the Netherlands has won the first gold medal of the Paralympic Games and Chinese Paralympians claimed four on the first day of competition
August 29, 2024
As salvage operations began on an abandoned Greek-flagged oil tanker with deck fires still burning from Houthi rebel attacks, the
August 29, 2024
The captain of Mike Lynch's yacht flew out of Palermo on Thursday, 10 days after the British tech tycoon and six other people were killed when the vessel sank off the coast of Sicily.
August 29, 2024
China's coast guard urged the Philippines on Thursday to stop sending missions to resupply a vessel near a contested shoal in the South China Sea, warning that such "adventurous
August 29, 2024
Four months after devastating flooding wrecked their house in southern Brazil, Milton do Nascimento and his family still have no permanent home and are sleeping
August 29, 2024
The search for an Indian tourist who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Malaysia’s capital has entered a seventh day, with the operation hampered by strong undercurrent flows and worries about soil instability after a second sinkhole emerged nearby
August 29, 2024
The Nuremberg Code was developed during trials for Nazi officials accused of performing inhumane experiments − but its influence has been far wider.
August 29, 2024
More than half of Libya's oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff
August 29, 2024
An interim government in Bangladesh has signed the instrument of accession to an international convention of the United Nations aiming at preventing enforced disappearances as a state party
August 29, 2024
Majority of Americans favor US military aid to Israel until hostages are returned, new polling says
August 29, 2024
A Danish court has rejected the extradition request from India of a Danish national accused of being involved in a 1995 arms smuggling case, going against Denmark’s top prosecuting authority which had given the green light to sending Niels Holck abroad
August 29, 2024
A U.S. admiral says American forces are ready with a “range of options” to deal with increasing acts of aggression in the disputed South China Sea after consultations with treaty ally the Philippines
August 29, 2024
Ireland and the European Union's top diplomat have urged the bloc to review its relations with Israel as the death toll mounts in Gaza and the West Bank
August 29, 2024
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August 29, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza were waiting on Thursday to see if there would be a pause in fighting to allow a polio vaccination campaign to begin
August 29, 2024
In Bolivia's lowland region of Santa Cruz, farmer Mario Guasasi packed up his belongings this week, putting mattresses, food,
August 29, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has ordered an investigation into the death in custody of a defendant in the northern city of Lahijan, state media reported on Thursday.
August 29, 2024
Paris showcases riveting outdoor opening ceremony for Paralympics in historic first
August 29, 2024
The United States is pushing China to break a longstanding resistance to nuclear arms talks, seeing a "limited opportunity" for early two-way conversations on
August 29, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister hopes to make progress on improving Ankara's rocky ties with the European Union on Thursday as he attends a meeting of EU ministers in Brussels for the
August 29, 2024
Indonesia and Australia signed a defense agreement on Thursday that both sides described as a significant upgrade to their military relationship
August 29, 2024
A United Arab Emirates official said on Thursday the government was in contact with French authorities and representatives of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is a UAE citizen.
August 29, 2024
What is sitting volleyball? Sport featuring the world’s tallest ever Paralympian explained
August 29, 2024
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced a $3 billion deal to buy 12 French warplanes, shifting his country away from its dependence on Russian arms
August 29, 2024
Emergency workers in South Korea's capital say that two people have been injured after a sinkhole suddenly opened and swallowed their SUV
August 29, 2024
The last time Liana spoke to her husband Husain before he was captured by Ukrainian troops, he said what he always told her:
August 29, 2024
Uzbekistan is looking to electric cars to help drive its green transition
August 29, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Telegram founder Pavel Durov's case should not turn into "political persecution" after a French judge put the Russian-born tech entrepreneur under
August 29, 2024
A Russian drone and missile attack on Monday forced Ukraine to disconnect several nuclear power units from the grid, posing a risk to the nuclear
August 29, 2024
Iraq's air defences shot down a Turkish drone on Thursday in Iraqi air space over the northern city of Kirkuk, four police and army sources said.
August 29, 2024
Ukraine's military says that one of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed
August 29, 2024
Thai court sentences son of Spanish TV star Rodolfo Sancho to life in prison for murder
August 29, 2024
The European Union's top diplomat is pressing Ukraine’s international backers to lift restrictions on the use of weapons they provide so the country's armed forces can strike military targets inside Russia
August 29, 2024
The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants in a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank, including a well-known local commander
August 29, 2024
Israeli troops killed a local commander of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank and four other militants on
August 29, 2024
When a crate escorted by the FBI from New York was opened this week at the national museum of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, Kaitip Kami instantly recognised the
August 29, 2024
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday he has asked the bloc's members to consider imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers for "hate messages"
August 29, 2024
Ukraine said it shot down two missiles and 60 drones over nine regions in an overnight attack, after Russia stepped up its assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure earlier this week.
August 29, 2024
US security official meets China’s Xi as American election looms large over relations
August 29, 2024
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has ordered the government to back its climate goals with more concrete plans for action through 2049
August 29, 2024
Ukraine's military said on Thursday it had attacked an artillery depot and two oil storage facilities in Russia, causing a fire on Wednesday at the Atlas oil depot in the southern
August 29, 2024
Heavy rains battered India and Pakistan's coastal areas along the Arabian Sea, flooding cities in western India's Gujarat state and forcing thousands of
August 29, 2024
Alphabet's Google is considering building a large data centre in Vietnam, a person briefed on the plans said, in what would be the first such
August 29, 2024
The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants, including a local commander, in the occupied West Bank
August 29, 2024
Massacre survivors say history is repeating – with new perpetrators
August 29, 2024
Here are some statistics about Pope Francis, 87, who is in the midst of a 33,000-km (20,500-mile) tour of four Southeast Asian nations. WHEN WAS POPE FRANCIS ELECTED?
August 29, 2024
Pope Francis leaves on Monday for a visit to four island nations across southeast Asia, an ambitious trip to urge global action on climate change that may
August 29, 2024
Japan urges 4 million to evacuate as lumbering Typhoon Shanshan threatens south with up to a meter of rain
August 29, 2024
After three weeks of fighting, Russia is still struggling to dislodge Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region
August 29, 2024
A devastating typhoon that tore through the Philippines, Taiwan and China last month, destroying infrastructure and leaving more than 100 people dead, was made significantly
August 29, 2024
China's embassy in the Philippines on Thursday said it had sent a diplomatic note of protest to the Japanese embassy in the Southeast Asian country concerning "irresponsible"
August 29, 2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has met with U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan as the latter wound up a three-day visit to Beijing with the stated aim of keeping communications open in a relationship that has become increasingly tense in recent years
August 29, 2024
The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is debating whether it should remove statues, signs and monuments with colonial ties and how those spaces should be used instead
August 29, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice is threatening to shut down the operations of X, formerly Twitter, in that country unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours
August 29, 2024
Oil prices settled up by more than a dollar a barrel on Thursday as supply disruptions in Libya and plans to lower output in Iraq raised fears of tighter global
August 28, 2024
A strong storm is lashing southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds, causing at least three deaths as it crawls up the length of the archipelago and raising concerns of flooding, landslides and extensive damage
August 28, 2024
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August 28, 2024
The new fight to reform the UN’s colonial-era world order
August 28, 2024
Polio vaccines are coming to Gaza, but for this baby boy, its first case in 25 years, they’re too late
August 28, 2024
Smoke from wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is causing people in the region to cough, burning their throats and reddening their eyes
August 28, 2024
Navy considers sidelining supply ships due to staffing shortages: Reports
August 28, 2024
Senior Ukrainian officials to present Biden admin with list of targets in Russia this week, lawmaker says
August 28, 2024
Ryan Evans, who was killed in a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine, was a safety adviser whose wealth of combat experience and professional manner made
August 28, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed concern at the growing threat from far-right groups in the United Kingdom and called on progressive political
August 28, 2024
Following a pair of defections by opposition senators, Mexico’s ruling party is edging closer to a steamroller two-thirds majority in both houses of congress
August 28, 2024
Frail and malnourished, rescued hostage hopes war in Gaza ends ‘for all Palestinian and Israeli families’
August 28, 2024
World Food Programme halts movement in Gaza after repeated gunfire strikes aid vehicle
August 28, 2024
An Iranian hacking group ran a fake professional recruiting business to lure national security officials across Iran, Syria and Lebanon into a cyber espionage trap,
August 28, 2024
Ukrainian Embassy to honor Volusia native who died saving others in Ukraine
August 28, 2024
A defense official says Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week to honor service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal
August 28, 2024
An Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza returned to a hero’s welcome tinged with a bitter reality
August 28, 2024
Police has been eliminated in most parts of the world, but the infectious disease is still spreading in a small number of countries
August 28, 2024
Russia bans entry to dozens of American journalists, including WSJ, NYT and Washington Post
August 28, 2024
Yemen's Houthi group has agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to reach a damaged crude oil tanker in the Red Sea, Iran's
August 28, 2024
Venezuela's opposition coalition said on Wednesday that party leader Biagio Pilieri was arrested in Caracas after appearing at a rally alongside coalition leader Maria Corina
August 28, 2024
The United Nations World Food Programme temporarily suspended movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, saying at least 10 bullets
August 28, 2024
The Russian economy has shown solid growth in many sectors while unemployment remains at a record low, new data showed on Wednesday, prompting officials to hint at a brighter
August 28, 2024
Oceanographers find underwater mountain bigger than Mount Olympus
August 28, 2024
Biden administration may soon restart key immigration program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
August 28, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that the body of a soldier abducted by Gaza militants on October 7 was rescued and taken to Israel.
August 28, 2024
Supporters of Venezuela's political opposition and backers of the ruling party each held rallies on
August 28, 2024
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced 92 additions to its list of Americans banned from entering the country
August 28, 2024
US sanctions Israeli group and individual for alleged West Bank violence against Palestinians
August 28, 2024
A senior U.S. general accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday of undermining the democratic will of Venezuela's people following July's disputed
August 28, 2024
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are taking to the streets in an attempt to revive protests against him following last month’s disputed election
August 28, 2024
NATO members reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen Ukraine's defences at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, which brings together officials from Ukraine and the
August 28, 2024
Russia's foreign ministry on Wednesday said it was banning entry to Russia for 92 U.S. citizens including journalists, lawyers, and the heads of what it said were key military-
August 28, 2024
Philadelphia's Camac Street returning to its roots, when it was paved in wood
August 28, 2024
CNN's Larry Madowo explains why Namibia plans to kill more than 700 wild animals and distribute the meat to the people struggling with food insecurity as the country grapples with its worst drought in 100 years.
August 28, 2024
The fate of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is "largely a question that is going to be answered" by the leader of the Palestinian militant group, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen
August 28, 2024
The editor of an independent online news service in Myanmar says a military court has given a life prison sentence to one of its journalists and sentenced another to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law
August 28, 2024
Ukraine's top diplomat said on Wednesday that the biggest problem faced by Kyiv as it battles Russia is that its allies are afraid of approving new policies to
August 28, 2024
A controversial reform of Mexico's judiciary will be debated and voted on in Congress next week, a leading ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday, amid concerns from Canada
August 28, 2024
Officials say two German boys, who got buried in the sand after digging a hole in a dune in northwestern Denmark on Sunday, have died
August 28, 2024
This Paralympian could be the first disabled person to go to space
August 28, 2024
The cost of insurance for ships sailing through the Red Sea has nearly doubled after Yemen's Houthis attacked a tanker that appears to be
August 28, 2024
Teenager Diaa al-Adini was one of the few Palestinians who found a functioning hospital in war-ravaged Gaza after he was wounded by an Israeli strike.
August 28, 2024
Telegram founder Pavel Durov under formal investigation with bail set at $5.56 million, prosecutor says
August 28, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for another year, but Israel's
August 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will mount a counteroffensive to try to retake territory in the Kursk region captured by Ukrainian troops, but Russian
August 28, 2024
The White House says Beijing and Washington will plan for a phone call in the coming weeks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden
August 28, 2024
Voters in Ecuador last year approved a referendum to keep some 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park
August 28, 2024
Some countries have pledged to donate doses of mpox vaccines to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, after the World Health Organization declared it a global public health emergency
August 28, 2024
Greek vessel attacked by Houthis in Red Sea appears to be leaking oil, Pentagon warns
August 28, 2024
Inside the town where three religions come together
August 28, 2024
The leaders of Germany and the United Kingdom plan to draw up a treaty meant to deepen the two nations’ trade, defense and other relations
August 28, 2024
The city of Jenin, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has been a hotbed of conflict between the Israeli military and Palestinians in recent years.
August 28, 2024
Israeli forces sent tanks deeper into Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and launched strikes across the enclave as they battled Hamas-led militants, killing
August 28, 2024
Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would put two men on trial for setting fire to the Koran in a series of incidents last year that prompted outrage in the Muslim world
August 28, 2024
Egypt delivered its first military aid to Somalia in more than four decades on Tuesday, three diplomatic and Somali government sources said, a
August 28, 2024
Here is a timeline chronicling Libya's years of chaos and division: 2011 - Revolt and civil war An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads, becoming
August 28, 2024
Nearly 1,500 academics, researchers and scientists specializing in Antarctica gathered in southern Chile for the 11th Scientific Committee on Antarctic
August 28, 2024
The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed talk by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about a plan he has to end the war and said Russia would continue what it calls its "special
August 28, 2024
A Russian missile has slammed into Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city
August 28, 2024
Yoon Hyeonjeong, a 19-year-old South Korean activist, says the fate of her years-long fight for more action to tackle climate change hinges on what could be a landmark
August 28, 2024
Bangladesh's caretaker government revoked a ban on the country's main Islamic party and its affiliated groups on Wednesday, saying it has not found evidence of their involvement in "
August 28, 2024
‘It could have been us’: American father and daughter recall horror of Iceland cave collapse
August 28, 2024
Pope Francis on Wednesday strongly decried the treatment of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe, saying it was a "grave sin" not to offer
August 28, 2024
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August 28, 2024
The U.N.
August 28, 2024
Exclusive: Inside Iran’s hacking operation that has US officials on edge ahead of 2024 election
August 28, 2024
U.S. officials are accusing Iran of hacking into the Trump campaign. Now CNN has taken a closer look at an intricate network using phishing and other attacks to target people linked to both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
August 28, 2024
Israel launches large-scale West Bank raid as minister calls for Gaza-style operation
August 28, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday it wanted the International Atomic Energy Agency to take a "more objective and clearer" stance on nuclear safety, a day after the agency head visited a
August 28, 2024
Ukraine’s first lady wants her country’s children to view themselves not as a generation enduring a grinding war but rather as “a generation of winners.”
August 28, 2024
A typhoon moving at a bicycle speed has begun dumping rain on parts of Japan, leaving one person dead and several injured as weather officials issued the highest-level warnings in the country’s south, expected to be the most hard-hit
August 28, 2024
Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and has sealed off the volatile city of Jenin
August 28, 2024
Hamas said that 10 of its fighters have been killed during a large-scale Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank
August 28, 2024
A severe drought in northern Greece, worsened by successive heat waves and low rainfall, is causing water shortages that are threatening agriculture, drying up lakes, and stressing local communities dependent on tourism
August 28, 2024
When Pope Francis makes his trip to Asia's youngest country, East Timor, it will make him the second pope to visit after John Paul in 1989, and the first since the country gained independence from Indonesia in 2002
August 28, 2024
When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it appeared that the global clergy sexual abuse scandal that has compromised the Catholic Church’s credibility around the world had finally arrived in Asia’s newest country
August 28, 2024
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has returned to the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India after undergoing a knee replacement surgery in New York
August 28, 2024
The latest flurry of Gaza cease-fire talks — the back-and-forth over now-familiar sticking points and appeals from around the world — obscures a grim truth about the monthslong efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war and free scores of hostages
August 28, 2024
A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand, with more capacity set to come on line
August 28, 2024
Thousands of young Haitians are jumping at the chance to become soldiers as widespread gang violence creates rare job opportunities in a deeply impoverished country where work is scarce
August 28, 2024
Ukraine’s daring ground offensive has taken the fight to Russia, but not nearly as much as its leaders would like
August 28, 2024
Hundreds of Israeli troops backed by helicopters, drones and armoured personnel carriers raided the flashpoint cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and other areas in
August 28, 2024
Biden authorized troubled Gaza pier operation as officials warned of weather and security challenges, watchdog finds
August 28, 2024
Britain is circulating a United Nations resolution on Myanmar urging renewed peace efforts
August 28, 2024
Leaders of several Pacific Islands have endorsed an Australian-funded A$400 million ($271 million) plan to improve police training and create a
August 28, 2024
Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo has died at a hospital in Brazil five days after collapsing during a game in Sao Paulo
August 28, 2024
A report from a government watchdog says President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza this year over warnings from staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development
August 28, 2024
The record high temperatures and sweltering weather that suffocated Japan this summer did not stop 77-year-old farmer Yasuyuki Kurosawa
August 28, 2024
Two journalists who led a now-closed Hong Kong online news outlet will hear a verdict in their sedition case on Thursday
August 28, 2024
Top Chinese and U.S. officials discussed holding fresh talks between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in the near future, the two
August 28, 2024
Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory
August 28, 2024
Nicaragua’s Ortega offers to send ‘fighters’ to Venezuela after disputed election
August 28, 2024
A Ukraine drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's southern Rostov region, while drones also attempted to attack the Kirov region, some 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of the
August 28, 2024
Southwestern Japan braced on Wednesday for what officials say could be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region, as some residents in the path of Typhoon
August 27, 2024
US hopeful that likelihood of wider conflict breaking out between Israel and Hezbollah has reduced, officials say
August 27, 2024
Ukraine’s Zelensky says Russia incursion is part of victory plan he intends to show Biden
August 27, 2024
A Swiss citizen working on a U.S.-funded aid project has been arrested in Burkina Faso, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland and a foreign official said on
August 27, 2024
South Korea's Samsung SDI said on Wednesday it has completed an agreement with General Motors to build a joint electric vehicle (EV)
August 27, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended the test of an upgraded 240mm rocket launcher system, state media said on Wednesday.
August 27, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has named the ruling socialist party boss to oversee the country’s police forces
August 27, 2024
Mexico pauses relations with US and Canadian embassies
August 27, 2024
U.S. health officials say more than 20 people returning to the U.S. from Cuba had been infected with a virus transmitted by bugs
August 27, 2024
Israel's military has rescued its eighth hostage from Gaza, a 52-year-old man found in an underground room in a tunnel in southern Gaza
August 27, 2024
President Joe Biden’s top Middle East adviser on Tuesday held talks in Doha with senior Qatari leaders on the ongoing efforts to complete a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas
August 27, 2024
Canadian police have warned an aide to a Sikh leader who was assassinated in British Columbia last year, of an increased threat to his life, a prominent Sikh separatist said on
August 27, 2024
United Nations aid operations in the Gaza Strip continued on Tuesday, a day after a senior U.N. official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt
August 27, 2024
The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion that was recently attacked by Yemen's Houthis is still on fire in the Red Sea and now appears to be leaking oil, a Pentagon spokesman
August 27, 2024
Mexico’s president says he has put relations with the United States and Canadian embassies “on pause” after the two countries voiced concerns over a proposed controversial judicial overhaul
August 27, 2024
It’s rare to see both Nina’s at the same time, but both appeared to be developing in 2024. That could help soften hurricane season, but don’t bet on it.
August 27, 2024
When the Russian government hacked into Hillary Clinton's campaign emails and leaked them to the press in 2016, intelligence officials agonized for weeks about the correct response
August 27, 2024
The United States has "significant concerns" about issues which could spring up as a result of the popular election of judges in Mexico, the U.S. embassy said in a diplomatic
August 27, 2024
The United States remains committed to defending Israel in any Iranian attack, and was hopeful about a possible Gaza ceasefire agreement, White House national security
August 27, 2024
Two nearly 2,000-year-old tombs with magnificent wall paintings will be open to the public for the first time in southern Israel after a painstaking conservation process
August 27, 2024
Peaceful street protests and international pressure still have the potential to unseat Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado
August 27, 2024
At least 170 killed in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, authorities say
August 27, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to China next week to discuss cooperation on the economy, agriculture and satellite
August 27, 2024
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday made major changes to his cabinet, including leadership of the oil and finance ministries and state oil company PDVSA, after a
August 27, 2024
The Mexican government has paused its relationship with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez
August 27, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will convene a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on Wednesday at Kyiv's request, a spokesperson for the Western military alliance said on
August 27, 2024
Brazil's lower house of Congress on Tuesday created a committee to monitor investigations into an aircraft crash in Sao Paulo state earlier this month, in which
August 27, 2024
A Pakistani truck driver, who rescuers initially thought was dead, was recovering on Tuesday after hospital staff receiving bodies realised he was alive despite
August 27, 2024
Flooding kills scores as Sudan grapples with civil war
August 27, 2024
Russian forces are closing in on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, prompting some
August 27, 2024
In the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, residents and farmers have anxiously watched and waited for clouds to bring rain to refill dried-out
August 27, 2024
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the war with Russia would eventually end in dialogue, but that Kyiv had to be in a strong
August 27, 2024
On the rugby field as well as on the streets of the Spanish island of Tenerife, Moussa Diaby Wage is one of thousands of migrants from Mali
August 27, 2024
Russia said the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned
August 27, 2024
Israel’s military says it has rescued Kaid Farhan Al-Qadi a 52-year-old hostage held by Hamas since October 7, in a “complex operation” in southern Gaza. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.
August 27, 2024
‘Brought back to life’: Family hails rescue of Israeli hostage from Hamas tunnel in Gaza
August 27, 2024
IBM is the latest Western firm to retreat from China
August 27, 2024
The White House condemned a missile attack in Ukraine over the weekend that injured Reuters journalists and killed a safety adviser for the news agency, and offered Reuters its
August 27, 2024
Germany’s newest panda twins are thriving at the Berlin Zoo
August 27, 2024
Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in southern Gaza in "a complex rescue operation", the military said on
August 27, 2024
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr defended on Tuesday the deployment of 2,000 police officers at the weekend to arrest an influential pastor accused
August 27, 2024
U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi said after visiting Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant on Tuesday that there was a risk of a nuclear accident and the situation was
August 27, 2024
Israeli forces rescued a hostage found alone underground in Gaza, freeing a living captive from Hamas’ vast tunnel network for the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that ignited the war
August 27, 2024
U.N. agencies on Tuesday raised the alarm about the spread of mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo's refugee camps where people are more susceptible to infection
August 27, 2024
Thailand's Pheu Thai Party will drop the army-backed Palang Pracharat Party from its coalition when it forms the next government, an
August 27, 2024
A leading African scientist says the growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease
August 27, 2024
A U.N. agency says that the collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend has flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people
August 27, 2024
Ukraine's top commander said on Tuesday that Kyiv's forces were still advancing in Russia's Kursk region, but warned that Moscow was building up its forces on the eastern Pokrovsk
August 27, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday that the involvement of the United States in Ukraine's ongoing incursion into Russia's western Kursk region was "an
August 27, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader has opened the door to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
August 27, 2024
UN halts Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli military orders new evacuation amid polio vaccine push
August 27, 2024
China's government has recognized the authority of the Catholic bishop of Tianjin, Melchior Shi Hongzhen, the Vatican said on Tuesday, who had previously been placed under
August 27, 2024
Russia on Tuesday condemned a move by Ukraine to ban a Moscow-linked branch of the Orthodox Church, describing it as an attack on Christianity and a blow to freedom of religion.
August 27, 2024
The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday called for Afghanistan's Taliban to immediately repeal a set of "egregious" laws that it said were attempting to turn women into
August 27, 2024
Spain’s prime minister has announced a series of agreements with the West African nation of Mauritania to stem a surge in migrants making the dangerous Atlantic journey to the Canary Islands
August 27, 2024
Police in India fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of Kolkata on Tuesday to demand the
August 27, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he backed an early, peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict,
August 27, 2024
Preacher wanted by FBI on sex crime charges evades Philippine police as followers resist in dayslong standoff
August 27, 2024
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Tuesday that Ukraine needed an extra $15 billion to cover its budget deficit in 2025.
August 27, 2024
Palestinians displaced by fighting in the Gaza Strip crowded onto the seashore as Israeli forces continued to
August 27, 2024
Relations between Moscow and Paris have reached a nadir following the arrest of Russian-born Telegram boss Pavel Durov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
August 27, 2024
The first Hong Kong activist to defend himself in person in a landmark national security trial against 47 pro-democracy campaigners said on Tuesday he had no
August 27, 2024
Russia has fired dozens of missiles and drones across Ukraine for a second day
August 27, 2024
China strongly condemns the attacks in Pakistan and will continue to give strong support to the country in anti-terrorism action, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry
August 27, 2024
A nuclear plant in western Russia, where fighting is raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces, is especially vulnerable to a serious accident because it lacks a
August 27, 2024
British Paralympian John McFall will be taking a stand for sports and space this week after becoming the first person with a physical disability to be effectively
August 27, 2024
A separatist group has claimed responsibility for the deadliest day in recent history in Pakistan’s Balochistan and warned that “even more intense and widespread” attacks are coming
August 27, 2024
A political alliance centered on the working class has emerged as a strong contender in Sri Lanka’s presidential race
August 27, 2024
‘The ocean is overflowing’: UN chief issues global SOS as new reports warn Pacific sea-level rise outstrips global average
August 27, 2024
Japan claims Chinese military plane violated its territorial airspace for the first time
August 27, 2024
Israel's military says a “complex operation” has been conducted to free a hostage in Gaza
August 27, 2024
Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than
August 27, 2024
A drought on the Italian island of Sicily has become so severe that many residents of the city of Caltanissetta have been without running water for
August 27, 2024
A top White House official has arrived in China for talks on a relationship that has been severely tested during President Joe Biden’s term in office
August 27, 2024
A senior ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Washington was behind the French arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder and the CEO of the Telegram messaging platform
August 27, 2024
China called U.S. sanctions on its entities over the Ukraine war "illegal and unilateral" and "
August 27, 2024
As South Korea scrambles to halt the sharp decline in its birth rate, policymakers are having a hard time convincing many in their 20s and
August 27, 2024
It’s been a wild week of weather in many parts of the United States
August 27, 2024
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been charged with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly mocked the country’s previous king
August 27, 2024
U.S. planemaker Boeing said on Monday it expects China to need 8,830 new planes through 2043, as the country's aviation industry expands and modernizes to meet growing demand for passenger
August 27, 2024
Federal appeals court allows Florida’s restrictions on gender-affirming care to take effect for now
August 27, 2024
When Pope Francis begins his Asia tour next week, one of his early stops will be at Indonesia’s iconic Istiqlal mosque
August 27, 2024
Gen. McMaster says Trump bears some responsibility for chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal
August 27, 2024
Russia launched missile and drone attacks targeting scores of Ukrainian regions and killing at least six people, officials said on Tuesday, a day after Moscow's biggest air attack of
August 27, 2024
A gauge of global shares climbed in choppy trading while oil prices slipped on Tuesday as investors weighed geopolitical risks as well as
August 27, 2024
Malaysia has charged opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with sedition for allegedly insulting the country's former king, his lawyer said on
August 27, 2024
The violation of Japan's airspace by a Chinese military aircraft is "utterly unacceptable", the top Japanese government spokesperson said on Tuesday, a day after Japan scrambled jets
August 27, 2024
U.S.
August 27, 2024
U.S. ships could escort Philippine vessels on resupply missions in the South China Sea, a top admiral said on Tuesday, describing what he called an "
August 27, 2024
Indo-Pacific commander Adm. Samuel Paparo says the U.S. military is open to the possibility of escorting Philippine ships in the disputed South China Sea, depending on consultations under the allies’ 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty
August 27, 2024
China spent about $15 billion, or 7% of its defence budget, on exercises in the Western Pacific in 2023, according to a previously unpublished Taiwanese estimate,
August 27, 2024
Powerful explosions were heard in Kyiv early on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses and local media reported, with Ukraine's air defence forces saying all of the country was under the threat
August 27, 2024
At least 30 dead after dam collapses in Sudan, UN agency says
August 26, 2024
A U.S. Army private who fled to North Korea just over a year ago will plead guilty to desertion and four other charges and take responsibility for his conduct
August 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday ocean temperatures are rising in the Pacific Islands at three times the rate worldwide, and its population was "uniquely
August 26, 2024
A former head of investigations for Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office told officials investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students that the so-called “historic truth” presented to the public weeks later was cooked up by the highest ranking officials in the Mexican government
August 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is putting out yet another climate SOS to the world
August 26, 2024
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late on Monday expressing deep concern "over the
August 26, 2024
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday was meeting with nearly three dozen athletes from the nation’s Olympic delegation in the capital, Brasilia
August 26, 2024
At least one person died and five could still be under the rubble after a Russian missile struck a civilian infrastructure building in the central Ukraine city of Kryvyi Rih, regional
August 26, 2024
Sea level rises in the Pacific Ocean are outstripping the global average, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report showed on Tuesday, imperiling low-lying island states.
August 26, 2024
The buildings in Brazil’s modernist capital, Brasilia, have been enveloped in smoky air the past two days
August 26, 2024
Soldier who fled to North Korea expected to plead guilty to desertion and assault at court martial
August 26, 2024
Kenyan police deployed to Haiti haven’t received full promised salary in two months
August 26, 2024
Polio vaccines are coming to children in Gaza. What road awaits them?
August 26, 2024
President Joe Biden has spoken with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
August 26, 2024
A Pennsylvania museum has agreed to sell a 16th century portrait that once belonged to a Jewish family that was forced to part with it while fleeing Nazi Germany
August 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Monday named Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke to a top post at the agency, after the official spearheaded fiscal reforms in the Caribbean
August 26, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu named new homeland security and foreign intelligence chiefs on Monday, a week after their predecessors resigned abruptly, as Africa's most populous
August 26, 2024
The United States continues to assess that the threat of attack against Israel by Iran and its proxy groups still exists, the Pentagon said on
August 26, 2024
Israeli settlers shot dead one Palestinian and wounded three others in the occupied West Bank's Bethlehem, while five others were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nur Shams refugee camp
August 26, 2024
A suspected case of mpox in a passenger at Brazil's main international airport is likely chickenpox, a Sao Paulo hospital said on Monday, as health officials remain on alert for a
August 26, 2024
Pavel Durov, the CEO of messaging app Telegram, was detained in Paris Saturday. The Kremlin now denies President Vladimir Putin met with him during a state visit to Azerbaijan last week. Clare Duffy explains.
August 26, 2024
Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey, a journalist for Reuters, is in critical condition following a missile strike on Saturday on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency said
August 26, 2024
Venezuela’s ‘little commandos’ took on Maduro. Now they may be leading a new wave of migration
August 26, 2024
Negotiations in Cairo to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal are still pressing ahead, White House national security spokesperson John
August 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday it had seen media reports about the death of a Reuters safety adviser in a missile strike on a Ukrainian hotel, and that Moscow targeted only military
August 26, 2024
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy is seeking a shorter federal prison sentence for his part in the torture of two Black men
August 26, 2024
Three tropical cyclones are swirling over the Pacific Ocean, including a tropical storm that blasted Hawaii’s Big Island with heavy rain
August 26, 2024
Officials in Spain say thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls
August 26, 2024
Aviation officials from Asia are making a case for global action to reduce injuries from turbulence, with recent high-profile incidents
August 26, 2024
The Taliban is rejecting concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public
August 26, 2024
Canada is reducing by tens of thousands the number of temporary foreign workers it brings in, reversing some expansions to the program it made in 2022 as the
August 26, 2024
Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United
August 26, 2024
The office of Venezuela's top prosecutor issued a second summons on Monday for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez to be questioned about an opposition website that published
August 26, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo no longer expects to receive its first delivery of mpox vaccines this week, the head of its response team said on Monday, as Congo
August 26, 2024
United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt on Monday after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah in the central
August 26, 2024
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his elected successor defended their proposed judicial overhaul on Monday, as a major U.S. business lobby added its voice to
August 26, 2024
Progress made in Gaza ceasefire talks but still work to do on ‘final details,’ US official says
August 26, 2024
Bianna Golodryga speaks to Haaretz journalist Amos Harel and Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution about the ongoing ceasefire talks in Cairo — and why so many players involved are not interested in a deal.
August 26, 2024
The death toll from devastating floods caused by relentless monsoon rain and overflowing rivers in Bangladesh has risen to 23, with around 1.24 million families stranded
August 26, 2024
A Pakistani court on Monday acquitted a local man of cybercrime offences involving the spread of fake online information which fuelled riots in Britain, his lawyer said.
August 26, 2024
Torrential rain and an earthquake greeted leaders welcomed to the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga, underscoring the natural and climate crises the region faces
August 26, 2024
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested as part of a judicial inquiry, with no political motive, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday.
August 26, 2024
World’s oldest man, born same year the Titanic sank, celebrates 112th birthday
August 26, 2024
Israeli officials and media reacted with satisfaction on Monday after a long-expected missile attack by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement appeared to have
August 26, 2024
Residents of Lebanese cities felt only partial relief on Monday that one of the biggest exchanges of fire between armed group Hezbollah
August 26, 2024
Orcas rammed a sailboat off the coast of northwestern Spain and damaged the vessel's rudder, prompting the maritime rescue service to tow the boat ashore, the service said on Monday
August 26, 2024
Switzerland hosted United Nations Security Council members at a meeting in Geneva on Monday to recommit to international humanitarian law, describing an "alarming" global context
August 26, 2024
Police in Iceland called off a search for missing persons under a glacier on Monday and said earlier reports that two tourists had been trapped there were wrong.
August 26, 2024
Canada’s government says it is imposing a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles that matches U.S. tariffs and follows similar plans announced by the European Commission
August 26, 2024
Russia said on Monday it had struck Ukrainian forces at more than a dozen places along the front in the Kursk region of western Russia where Ukraine has carved out a slice of
August 26, 2024
The Pentagon is preparing for what it calls ‘great power competition’ among the US, Russia and China.
August 26, 2024
The U.N. health agency has launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission
August 26, 2024
Russia said on Monday it had conducted a massive strike on Ukraine which it said had disrupted the electricity supply and the transport by rail of arms and ammunition to the front
August 26, 2024
Denmark will close its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso after a series of military coups over the past few years, the Danish foreign ministry said on Monday, as it formally
August 26, 2024
Free colonoscopies and million dollar paydays: How countries rewarded their Olympic champions
August 26, 2024
Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Monday that it only operated in Africa and in Russian ally Belarus, and its soldiers were no longer fighting in the Ukraine war.
August 26, 2024
Two Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday night, the Chinese embassy in Pakistan said,
August 26, 2024
Oilfields in eastern Libya that account for almost all the country's production will be closed and production and exports halted, the eastern-based administration
August 26, 2024
Last week's alert at a NATO base in Germany housing the Western alliance's fleet of AWACS surveillance planes was due to a potential drone threat, a security source said on Monday.
August 26, 2024
One of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals has been emptying out in recent days as Israel has ordered the evacuation of nearby areas
August 26, 2024
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez starts his second visit this year to West Africa on Tuesday, aiming to curb migration to
August 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people
August 26, 2024
Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the
August 26, 2024
French performer Barbara Butch carried the Paralympic torch on Sunday evening in an act of defiance after being targeted by hate speech over her appearance in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
August 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations on Monday during a visit to Solingen, where a deadly mass stabbing linked to Islamic State has emboldened
August 26, 2024
Seven people were in hospital, with one in a serious condition, after a fire at Russia's Omsk oil refinery, the local governor said on Monday, although the plant said it was
August 26, 2024
Multiple attacks in Pakistan’s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent years
August 26, 2024
Israel's hardline Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir repeated a call for Jews to be allowed to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, drawing sharp criticism
August 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday it did not know what Telegram founder Pavel Durov, arrested by French police on Saturday, was accused of, and said Russia would wait for an official
August 26, 2024
Ukraine says it has a new homegrown long-range weapon that will allow it to strike deep into Russia without asking permission from allies
August 26, 2024
Japan's defence ministry said it had scrambled jets against a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft that had briefly breached its airspace on Monday morning.
August 26, 2024
Iran said on Monday that Israel had lost its power to deter and that the strategic balance in the region had shifted against it, following attacks by the Lebanese armed group
August 26, 2024
Italian prosecutors have placed Captain James Cutfield under investigation over the deaths of Mike Lynch and six others after the British tech tycoon's superyacht sank off Sicily last
August 26, 2024
Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on Sunday, forcing more families to flee, saying its
August 26, 2024
Russia targets cities and infrastructure in largest air attack since war began, Ukraine says
August 26, 2024
A Greek-flagged tanker repeatedly attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea remains ablaze but hasn’t sprung a major oil leak in the waterway
August 26, 2024
Hundreds of migrants took advantage of a thick mist to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday and early on Monday, local police said.
August 26, 2024
One American tourist dead in Iceland following ice cave collapse
August 26, 2024
Russian forces close in on key Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. But fleeing is hard – even for those who can afford it
August 26, 2024
CNN’s Anna Coren reports from a rescue boat run by volunteers who were bringing aid to people affected by flooding in Bangladesh. The CNN team were on their way to remote locations on a mission to pick up people who were not able to flee on foot themselves.
August 26, 2024
Millions in this country are stranded by flooding. Many blame their neighbor
August 26, 2024
Russia battered much of Ukraine with scores of missiles and drones that officials say killed four people, injured more than a dozen, and damaged energy facilities
August 26, 2024
Iran does not seek to increase Middle East tensions, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani, adding that its response to the killing of the Hamas
August 26, 2024
How an Alaska couple managed to escape a deadly landslide – but lost everything
August 26, 2024
A landslide in Alaska has killed at least one person.
August 26, 2024
The Philippines has confirmed two more mpox virus infections of the milder clade 2 variety, its health ministry said Monday, bringing the number of active cases to three.
August 26, 2024
Malaysian authorities are working to salvage a 45-year-old fast attack naval ship that sank after it struck an unknown underwater object
August 26, 2024
Italian prosecutors have placed under investigation the captain of the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week in a storm, killing British tech magnate
August 26, 2024
At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan's province of Balochistan when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and
August 26, 2024
The first criminal trial arising from a five-year investigation into allegations of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center is underway
August 26, 2024
China’s military is carrying out armed patrols near the Myanmar border this week, where the government is concerned about potential fallout from fierce fighting in a civil war on the other side
August 26, 2024
The ferocious exchange of fire by Hezbollah and the Israeli military is raising fears of a regional war beyond the tense border
August 26, 2024
Officials in Pakistan say gunmen in the restive southwest have killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks in one of the deadliest days of violence in Baluchistan province
August 26, 2024
The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion has been on fire in the Red Sea since Aug. 23 after an attack by Yemen's Houthis with no obvious
August 26, 2024
Flash floods and mudslides across Thailand brought by monsoon rains have killed 22 people and injured 19, authorities said on Monday, warning some provinces of further risk, with
August 26, 2024
Police in Iceland have called off a search for two tourists initially believed missing after the collapse of an ice cave that killed one person and seriously injured another
August 26, 2024
Nearly 11 months into the war with Hamas, Israel’s economy is struggling as the country’s leaders grind ahead with an offensive in Gaza that shows no signs of ending and threatens to escalate into a wider conflict
August 26, 2024
Vietnam's parliament on Monday approved another major reshuffle of senior positions in the government of the Communist-run country as it prepares to elect a new president in October,
August 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is tying Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members
August 26, 2024
Russia's Saratov regional airport lifted flight curbs on Monday imposed after homes were damaged as a result of Ukraine's drone attack that wounded a woman, Russian officials and news
August 26, 2024
After a short-lived calm following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, fighting resumed Monday
August 26, 2024
Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 200 missiles and drones on Monday, killing seven people and striking energy facilities
August 26, 2024
The Philippine government slammed China on Monday for "repeated aggressive, unprofessional and illegal" actions in the South China Sea after a string of clashes and incidents on air
August 26, 2024
Protesters have marched across Mexico in the latest opposition to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial overhaul and other moves by the governing party that critics say will weaken democratic checks and balances
August 25, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched as new "suicide drones" took off and destroyed test targets including a mock tank, and urged researchers to develop artificial
August 25, 2024
A well-known Venezuelan journalist was detained in Caracas on Sunday by police who raided her home, according to a journalists union and a local rights organization.
August 25, 2024
Ukraine on Sunday called on Belarus to pull back what it described as significant levels of Belarusian forces and equipment deployed at their common border.
August 25, 2024
Israel’s military says polio vaccines for more than 1 million people have been delivered to Gaza, after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter-century
August 25, 2024
There was no agreement on Sunday in the Gaza ceasefire talks that took place in Cairo, with neither Hamas nor Israel agreeing to
August 25, 2024
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Sunday a broad cabinet reshuffle of 19 ministers that included those for defence, foreign affairs and the economy, ahead of a presidential
August 25, 2024
Lebanon' current premier says five-time former Prime Minister Salim Hoss has died at age 94
August 25, 2024
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that his group would assess the impact of its rocket and drone attack on Israeli military targets earlier in the day before
August 25, 2024
American rapper Macklemore says he canceled an upcoming October concert in Dubai over the United Arab Emirates’ role "in the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis” in Sudan
August 25, 2024
At least 20 people have died and more than 5.2 million have been affected in Bangladesh by floods caused by relentless monsoon rains and overflowing rivers, officials
August 25, 2024
Russian lawmaker Maria Butina said on Sunday that the arrest of Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram, was part of a witch-hunt that means
August 25, 2024
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that efforts to mend ties with Turkey had so far brought no tangible results.
August 25, 2024
Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees rallied in camps in Bangladesh on Sunday on the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown that forced them to flee, demanding
August 25, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned America's top general during a meeting on Sunday of the dangers of a major conflict in Lebanon. U.S. Air Force General C.Q.
August 25, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said negotiations were ongoing with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland regarding the second summit on peace in a conversation with
August 25, 2024
Air France has cancelled its flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut until at least Monday, the company said after Hezbollah launched rockets and drones at Israel on Sunday and Israel's
August 25, 2024
Firefighters have brought under control a large forest fire in the Portuguese island of Madeira that had been burning for 11 days, but authorities said on Sunday they would remain
August 25, 2024
At least 40,405 Palestinians have been killed and 93,468 others injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, said the Gaza Health Ministry.
August 25, 2024
Chinese coast guard ship have fired water cannons, blocked and rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel in the disputed South China Sea, where hostilities between the Asian neighbors have flared alarmingly at sea and spread into the air in recent weeks
August 25, 2024
Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees have rallied in a southern Bangladeshi coastal district where they live in sprawling camps, marking the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus from Myanmar
August 25, 2024
A British safety adviser working with a team of Reuters journalists was killed when a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk
August 25, 2024
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire over the weekend that briefly raised fears of an all-out war
August 25, 2024
A top UN official is warning that the Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws provide a distressing vision for Afghanistan’s future
August 25, 2024
Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen as a "soldier" of the
August 25, 2024
Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk,
August 25, 2024
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday that Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of the Telegram messaging app, miscalculated by fleeing Russia and thinking that
August 25, 2024
Two bus accidents in northeast and southwest Pakistan killed as at least 34 people on Sunday, the authorities said.
August 25, 2024
China has expressed its opposition to the latest U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies over their alleged ties to Russia’s war in Ukraine, saying it would adopt necessary measures to safeguard the rights and interests of the country’s businesses
August 25, 2024
Pakistani officials say at least 36 passengers have been killed and dozens more injured in two separate bus crashes that occurred hours apart
August 25, 2024
Thirteen people were killed and two injured in Indonesia's North Maluku province on Sunday after floods in the east of the sprawling archipelago, authorities said.
August 25, 2024
The northern bald ibis, or the Waldrapp, once soared over North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Europe
August 25, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would take all measures necessary to defend itself, after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah launched hundreds of
August 25, 2024
Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 37, Ukrainian military and local authorities said on Sunday.
August 25, 2024
Thirteen people including a Russian couple died in a mudslide on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the authorities said Sunday, after calling off a search for missing persons.
August 25, 2024
‘They told me to strip.’ Former Palestinian detainee says he was sexually abused in an Israeli prison
August 25, 2024
Christiane speaks with Yuli Novak, head of B'Tselem, about their report alleging serious abuses inside Israeli detention centers and prisons -- allegations which the IDF and the prison service deny.
August 25, 2024
China's Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday it strongly opposed a U.S. decision to add multiple Chinese entities to its export control list over Russia-related issues.
August 25, 2024
Not many people know the world's first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil
August 25, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart and reaffirmed Washington's commitment to Israel's defense, the Pentagon said late on Saturday.
August 25, 2024
Israel launches ‘preemptive’ strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires back hundreds of rockets
August 25, 2024
Israel’s military said it launched “preemptive strikes” against Hezbollah in Lebanon, saying the militants were preparing to launch a barrage of missiles and rockets at Israel. “Whoever hurts us — we hurt him,” said Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
August 25, 2024
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with around 100
August 25, 2024
A round of high-level talks in Cairo meant to bring about a cease-fire and hostage deal to at least temporarily end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has ended without a final agreement
August 25, 2024
A deputy Taiwan foreign minister will attend this week's meeting of Pacific Islands leaders in Tonga, Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Sunday, as China and the United States jostle
August 25, 2024
The European Union's top diplomat says that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has “not provided the necessary public evidence” to prove he was the winner of July’s elections
August 24, 2024
Syrian man confesses to stabbing to death 3 people at German festival
August 24, 2024
Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified
August 24, 2024
Israel says it is prepared for any retaliatory attack from Iran or Hezbollah
August 24, 2024
Local authorities say that wildfires in Brazil’s southern Sao Paulo state have killed at least two people
August 24, 2024
A bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis has been unveiled at a city park in Georgia
August 24, 2024
Iranian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of Biden and Trump administration associates, Meta says
August 24, 2024
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people on Friday.
August 24, 2024
Hungary's foreign minister said on Saturday the European Commission's decision not to mediate in a dispute over a blockage of oil supplies from Russia via Ukraine into his country
August 24, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that he briefed Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday on the battlefield situation after Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region and
August 24, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promoted his top army commander to a four-star general, his office said on Saturday, just weeks after Kyiv's surprise incursion into
August 24, 2024
Gaza ceasefire and hostage negotiators discussed new compromise proposals in Cairo on Saturday, seeking to bridge gaps between
August 24, 2024
The top U.S. general began an unannounced visit to the Middle East on Saturday to discuss ways to avoid any new escalation in tensions that could spiral into a
August 24, 2024
A statue honoring John Lewis replaces former Confederate monument in Georgia
August 24, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has locked horns with Israeli ceasefire negotiators over his insistence that Israel will not pull out of the so-called Philadelphi Corridor in
August 24, 2024
Italian authorities open manslaughter investigation into superyacht sinking
August 24, 2024
Another body has been brought to shore as Italian authorities continue to search for the six missing people from the “Bayesian” superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily. Four bodies were found by divers on Wednesday, though their identities remain unclear. One body was recovered on Monday - thought to be that of the onboard chef Recaldo Thomas. Among the six individuals reported missing are British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah Lynch.
August 24, 2024
Police detain suspect allegedly behind synagogue blast in southern France
August 24, 2024
Ukraine’s president signs law banning Russia-linked religious groups
August 24, 2024
Health workers say multiple Israeli airstrikes have killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza while officials including a Hamas delegation gather for high-level cease-fire talks in neighboring Egypt
August 24, 2024
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 115 prisoners of war from each side on Saturday after the United Arab Emirates acted as an intermediary.
August 24, 2024
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged over 100 prisoners of war as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion
August 24, 2024
Ukraine is somberly marking its 33rd year of independence as war with Russia rages on
August 24, 2024
A Hamas delegation headed by its senior official Khalil al-Hayya will arrive in Cairo on Saturday to hear from mediators on the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks that took place
August 24, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian "drone missile" on Saturday that he said would take the war back to Russia and
August 24, 2024
As Paris transitions from the Olympics to the Paralympics, the city is adapting both its venues and its energy for the next big event
August 24, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a law banning Moscow-linked religious organisations, the parliament website said on Saturday.
August 24, 2024
Hundreds of police, backed by riot squads, have raided a vast religious compound in a southern Philippine city in search of a local preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking
August 24, 2024
Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east African country to four, according to the health ministry.
August 24, 2024
Hundreds of mourners in southern Pakistan have attended the funerals of 28 Shiite pilgrims who were killed in a bus crash in Iran this week while heading to Iraq
August 24, 2024
The EU's diplomatic service has called on member states to better adapt a military training mission for Ukraine to Kyiv's needs but stopped short of recommending the bloc send
August 24, 2024
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says an isolationist policy isn’t “healthy” as she called on the Republican party to stand with her country’s allies during a visit to Taiwan
August 24, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has acknowledged that he does not have the backing in parliament to change the country's abortion law, which is among the most restrictive in Europe
August 24, 2024
The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and wounded eight more at a crowded festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary
August 24, 2024
The Israeli military is issuing evacuation orders for southern Gaza at an unprecedented pace
August 24, 2024
The Paris Paralympics flame has been lit in the British village of Stoke Mandeville, widely considered the birthplace of the Paralympic Games
August 24, 2024
Hezbollah: What weapons does it have? A visual guide
August 24, 2024
Israel’s military said more than 100 projectiles were fired overnight from Lebanon into Israel. This comes after Israel carried out some of its most intense strikes on Lebanon against Hezbollah since the October 7 attacks. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
August 24, 2024
Kyiv’s incursion into Russia sends a defiant message to its Western backers: We can win this war
August 24, 2024
Officials say a Philippine fisheries bureau plane has been threatened by flares fired from a Chinese island
August 24, 2024
Tropical Storm Hone has increased to a Category 1 hurricane while continuing its steady approach toward Hawaii late Saturday
August 24, 2024
Two elderly women from Arizona were shot dead in a vehicle along a highway in Mexico's northern Sonora state, local prosecutors said on Friday, adding they had immediately
August 24, 2024
Brazil's Sao Paulo state said that wildfire outbreaks were affecting or closing in on 30 of its cities on Friday evening, adding two people had died in an industrial plant trying
August 23, 2024
‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid
August 23, 2024
Men’s tennis world No. 1 Jannik Sinner says he hasn’t ‘done anything wrong’ after avoiding doping suspension
August 23, 2024
North Korea expressed serious concern and strongly condemned on Saturday a revised nuclear strategic plan approved by U.S. President Joe Biden this year.
August 23, 2024
Gabon has registered its first case of mpox, the health ministry said in a statement that did not specify which variant of the viral infection was recorded.
August 23, 2024
Authorities say an attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen
August 23, 2024
Even if a Gaza ceasefire is agreed, Israel has made clear it reserves the right to resume the war with Hamas
August 23, 2024
Drought and crop failure are a pervasive threat in Guatemala where hunger and malnutrition run rampant, particularly in rural areas - a reality that
August 23, 2024
Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests delivered to their home free of charge starting in late September
August 23, 2024
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court stressed the court had jurisdiction to investigate Israeli nationals and asked judges to urgently decide on arrest warrants for
August 23, 2024
The White House says that ongoing cease-fire talks in Cairo have been constructive and will continue over the weekend as the U.S. and Mideast allies continue to press Israel and Hamas to forge an agreement
August 23, 2024
Data from India’s historic moon mission supports long-standing lunar theory
August 23, 2024
Hone strengthens into a hurricane as it threatens Hawaii with fire and floods
August 23, 2024
Israel offers new proposal for the Philadelphi corridor to Hamas
August 23, 2024
Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will be asked to testify about an opposition website where voting tallies from a
August 23, 2024
Fires have broken on a Greek-flagged oil tanker previously attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week
August 23, 2024
Spain’s leader has met with the regional president of the Canary Islands to discuss irregular migration as the archipelago struggles to care for thousands of unaccompanied minors who made it there
August 23, 2024
Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban
August 23, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization called for global concerted action to control a new mpox outbreak, announcing a response plan that will require at least $135 million over
August 23, 2024
Three fires blazed on a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Friday, one day after rescuers evacuated its crew in the wake of
August 23, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sweeping sanctions against hundreds of firms across Russia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, accusing them of providing products and services that enable Russia’s war effort and aiding its ability to evade sanctions
August 23, 2024
Mourners gathered at a cemetery in Russia's former imperial capital under a light summer rain shower on Friday to celebrate a man they said had given his life to serve
August 23, 2024
US unveils massive tranche of sanctions targeting Russia as Biden announces new aid for Kyiv
August 23, 2024
Hundreds of migrants from India, Nepal and Vietnam have been stuck in Sao Paulo's international airport for weeks in alarming conditions,
August 23, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that his government would wait for Venezuela's government to publish local vote tallies from the South American
August 23, 2024
Power outages totaling 14 hours or more per day were reported on Thursday across much of crisis-racked Cuba, leaving millions of
August 23, 2024
Spanish authorities fear that as many as 150,000 more migrants from Africa may be set to make the perilous crossing this year to the Canary Islands, already
August 23, 2024
Husband of missing Virginia mom is accused of killing her in their home then dragging her body outside, court documents show
August 23, 2024
President Joe Biden spoke by phone to the leaders of Qatar and Egypt on Friday, pushing for an elusive Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal as negotiators
August 23, 2024
The death toll from a migrant boat capsizing on the border between Serbia and Bosnia has risen to 11
August 23, 2024
Two freight trains have collided and derailed in Colorado, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring two crew members
August 23, 2024
London is set to have its first memorial to victims of transatlantic slavery, with the mayor's office announcing on Friday the design of a long-awaited monument
August 23, 2024
Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon on Friday killed at least eight fighters and one child, according to security sources, as armed group Hezbollah responded with artillery
August 23, 2024
Sullivan to China next week, sources say, as US works to manage bilateral relationship
August 23, 2024
The United States on Friday added 105 Russian and Chinese firms to a trade restriction list over their alleged support of the Russian military as Washington seeks to keep up pressure on
August 23, 2024
A volcano spewed lava and smoke over
August 23, 2024
A world away from eastern Ukraine's drone-filled battlefields, authorities in Moscow have tried to turn the Russian capital into a summer chill-out zone despite Europe's biggest
August 23, 2024
World No. 1 Nelly Korda has shot 4-under 68 to take a three-stroke lead after the second round of the Women’s British Open in her quest for a second major title of a dominant year for the American
August 23, 2024
The world’s youngest nation set a date for its first post-independence elections as intense anticipation reflects both an urgent need for stability and the high stakes involved.
August 23, 2024
Scientists identified the ‘ManhattAnt’ — and they have theories on why it’s taking over NYC
August 23, 2024
ISIS-affiliated inmates kill four prison officers at Russian penal colony
August 23, 2024
A U.N. committee urged Britain on Friday to pass measures to curb hate speech and xenophobic rhetoric which it said had played a direct role in fuelling summer riots.
August 23, 2024
Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
August 23, 2024
A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health
August 23, 2024
A Thai court on Friday accepted a criminal lawsuit against seven senior security personnel over their alleged roles in the deaths two
August 23, 2024
President Joe Biden is dispatching his national security adviser Jake Sullivan to China next week
August 23, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday the two countries must be able to talk frankly about their disagreements and also pursue
August 23, 2024
Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their
August 23, 2024
Final body, believed to be that of tech tycoon’s daughter, recovered from wreck of sunken Sicily superyacht
August 23, 2024
Ukraine’s military says it used high-precision glide bombs provided by the United States to carry out strikes in Russia’s Kursk region
August 23, 2024
The World Health Organization said on Friday its partners such as Gavi and UNICEF can start buying mpox vaccines before they are approved by the U.N. health agency,
August 23, 2024
Thousands of people rallied in several cities in Indonesia on Friday, pressuring its poll body to issue rules for regional elections amid outrage
August 23, 2024
A court in southern Russia on Friday sentenced five men to more than six years in prison each in the first convictions related to a mass anti-Israel protest last October at an
August 23, 2024
"Long live the peace mission!"
August 23, 2024
Russia's security services shot dead four inmates on Friday who had taken hostages at a penal colony, fatally stabbed four of its staff
August 23, 2024
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence
August 23, 2024
Italian rescuers have brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily, believed to be the daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who also perished when the boat sunk earlier this week
August 23, 2024
SpaceX's attempt at the first ever private spacewalk next week will be a test of trailblazing equipment, including slim spacesuits and a cabin with no airlock,
August 23, 2024
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to China next week for talks with top Chinese diplomat
August 23, 2024
Police in Malaysia say that an Indian woman disappeared in Kuala Lumpur when pavement collapsed beneath her and she fell into a sinkhole, where she may have been swept away by an underground water current
August 23, 2024
Floods wreaked more havoc in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, raising this week’s total death toll to 30, officials and media reports said Friday
August 23, 2024
Russia accused Ukraine on Friday of trying to attack the Kursk nuclear power station overnight in what it called an act of "nuclear terrorism", days before the head of the U.N.
August 23, 2024
Western China's development must build a "strong sense of community" and safeguard national unity and border stability, according to a readout from a key Politburo meeting,
August 23, 2024
The Berlin Zoo has announced that longtime resident giant panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins — for a second time
August 23, 2024
Climate change and security will dominate discussions at next week's meeting of Pacific Islands leaders in Tonga as China and the United States jostle for influence in
August 23, 2024
Ukraine's Navy confirmed on Friday that it had destroyed a ferry in the Russian port of Kavkaz that was used to deliver fuel and weapons to occupied Crimea.
August 23, 2024
Officials say a bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims has driven off a highway in Nepal, leaving 27 killed and 16 injured
August 23, 2024
India’s Modi arrives in Ukraine for talks with Zelensky weeks after Putin meeting
August 23, 2024
NATO says security at an air base in western Germany was raised temporarily because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat.”
August 23, 2024
Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India's northeastern state of Tripura on Friday after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides
August 23, 2024
A bus carrying 43 Indian tourists and crew members plunged into a rain-swollen river in neighbouring Nepal on Friday, killing more than half of those on board, a Nepali armed
August 23, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his role “as a friend” to help bring peace to Ukraine in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
August 23, 2024
NATO has lowered the security level for its base in the German town of Geilenkirchen, it said on Friday, after the state of alert had been raised overnight "based on intelligence
August 23, 2024
Ukraine's newly minted judges have waited years to be hired and know they must
August 23, 2024
France's left-wing parties told Emmanuel Macron on Friday that they want to form the next government, as the French President kicked off
August 23, 2024
A house fire in a northern Serbian city has killed six people, including four children, police said
August 23, 2024
Harris says bloodshed in Gaza is devastating, emphasizes support for hostage and ceasefire deals
August 23, 2024
The top United Nations humanitarian official for Gaza says that successive Israeli evacuation orders have displaced 90% of the Palestinian territory's 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October
August 23, 2024
Thai rescuers used hoes on Friday to search muddy, forested terrain for debris and the remains of nine people aboard a charter flight that crashed the day before, authorities said,
August 23, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron is holding talks with key political players in a bid to form a new government
August 23, 2024
Taiwan wants to continue its free way of life and rejects being ruled by China's Communist Party, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on
August 23, 2024
An Australian court ruled on Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a
August 23, 2024
Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering an ornamental garden from the 1700s where a wealthy politician and enslaved gardeners grew exotic plants from around the world
August 23, 2024
Tropical Storm Hone is expected to deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend as it passes south of the island chain
August 23, 2024
The Philippines could "stir up trouble" at yet another "Chinese" island in the South China Sea, China's state-backed Global Times reported, after what it said were Manila's "
August 23, 2024
Children are drinking from puddles and wading through sewage pools, as Israel pummels water systems in Gaza
August 23, 2024
As far as Chicago’s storied protests go, the numbers outside the Democratic National Convention were unremarkable
August 23, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formulated a response to the ongoing Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region and those responsible for attacking Russia will be punished, Russian
August 23, 2024
Lava is continuing to spew from a volcano in southwestern Iceland, the sixth time since December the volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes Peninsula
August 23, 2024
State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced
August 23, 2024
South Korean police said on Friday a fire at a lithium battery maker that killed 23 people in June occurred as the company raced to produce batteries to meet a deadline
August 23, 2024
China and Belarus have agreed to strengthen cooperation in a range of sectors including trade, security, energy and finance, according to a joint statement, after Chinese Premier
August 23, 2024
The legislature of Mexico City has approved the most ambitious rent control law since the 1940s, which will limit increases to the inflation rate each year
August 23, 2024
Disappointed Pro-Palestinian activists said Kamala Harris' speech to close the Democratic convention in Chicago failed to demonstrate any break
August 23, 2024
India's Narendra Modi urged President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday to sit down for talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine and offered to act
August 22, 2024
A dense bamboo forest in rebel-held territory surrounds the training ground in eastern Myanmar where more than 100 young people, mostly in their twenties, are undergoing rigorous military
August 22, 2024
North Korea's foreign ministry denounced a U.S. planned sale of Apache helicopters to South Korea, state media KCNA said on Friday, vowing to take additional steps to bolster its
August 22, 2024
Panama to launch deportation flights to China and India, as well as regional neighbors
August 22, 2024
Questions mount over six hostages’ fate in Gaza after IDF finds gunshot wounds
August 22, 2024
Former coach, teacher arrested on child sex abuse charges
August 22, 2024
The NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen has raised its security level "based on intelligence information indicating a potential threat," it said late on Thursday.
August 22, 2024
The Biden administration will send about $125 million in new military aid to Ukraine
August 22, 2024
The proposed reform of Mexico's judiciary threatens the country's democracy and its vital trade relationship with the United States, the top U.S. diplomat in Mexico said on
August 22, 2024
Teens volunteering to help Ukrainian children who lost parents to war
August 22, 2024
AstraZeneca has warned it could relocate its vaccine manufacturing site from the UK to the United States as talks with the new Labour government over plans to cut state aid have become
August 22, 2024
Russian drone attacks killed two civilians and wounded a third on Thursday in Ukraine's Sumy region, on the border with Russia, the regional administration said in a statement.
August 22, 2024
US military asking contractors to help haul boats used in troubled Gaza pier mission back to the US
August 22, 2024
1,500 policies to fix global warming were implemented in 41 countries. Here are the ones that worked best
August 22, 2024
The US has given military aid to Israel since the 1960s, backed by both domestic and regional strategic interests, including containing Iran.
August 22, 2024
Pakistani officials say gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in eastern Punjab province, killing at least 11 officers and wounding several others
August 22, 2024
FDA signs off on updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech
August 22, 2024
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday its Director General Rafael Grossi will assess the situation at Kursk nuclear power plant during his visit next week.
August 22, 2024
Israel's military court has extended the house arrest of soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee until Sept. 4 but will allow the defence to hold a hearing on
August 22, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied reports suggesting Israel is considering agreeing to the deployment of an international force along a narrow border strip
August 22, 2024
Ukraine's air force said on Thursday it used a U.S.-made GBU-39 bomb to strike a Russian platoon command post in the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukraine has mounted an incursion.
August 22, 2024
Ukraine said representatives of more than 40 countries and international organisations took part in a meeting on Thursday to follow up on a peace summit hosted by Switzerland in June.
August 22, 2024
Bullets were found in the bodies of the six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza this week, the Israeli military and the Hostage Families Forum campaign group said on Thursday.
August 22, 2024
U.S. and Israeli delegations started a new round of meetings in Cairo on Thursday aimed at resolving differences over a truce proposal to end more than 10 months of war between
August 22, 2024
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday that he wanted more African students to come to Italy, in remarks that may exacerbate a coalition squabble
August 22, 2024
Greek-flagged oil tanker poses ‘environmental hazard’ after attack in Red Sea
August 22, 2024
The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public
August 22, 2024
Huge 2,492-carat diamond, believed to be world’s second-largest, unearthed in Botswana
August 22, 2024
A Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal "now is in sight," the U.S. envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on Thursday, urging members
August 22, 2024
Panama's government announced on Thursday additional deportation flights for migrants apprehended in the Central American nation to Ecuador, India and China, in a bid to reduce
August 22, 2024
Russia opens criminal investigation into CNN correspondent for reporting in Ukrainian-occupied Russia
August 22, 2024
A ferry loaded with fuel tanks sank in the Russian port of Kavkaz in southern Krasnodar region on Thursday after a Ukrainian attack, local authorities said.
August 22, 2024
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will visit South Korea at the end of September to discuss plans to build a new nuclear power unit at the Slovak Jaslovske Bohunice plant, news agency TASR
August 22, 2024
A court in Bangladesh’s capital has allowed police to interrogate two journalists in their custody for four days in connection with the murder of a garment worker, who joined recent student protests against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that forced her to step down and flee to India earlier this month
August 22, 2024
Disagreements over Israel's future military presence in Gaza and over Palestinian prisoner releases are obstructing a ceasefire and hostage deal, according to ten sources
August 22, 2024
Mariia Moiseieva watched from her bed as a relative packed her belongings into plastic bags for the bedbound 94-year-old to be evacuated from the
August 22, 2024
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of a yacht that sank earlier this week off Sicily during a storm, Massimo Mariani, an
August 22, 2024
President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Thursday of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power station in an overnight attack.
August 22, 2024
The European Union sent two water bombing planes from Spain to the Portuguese island of Madeira on Thursday to help efforts to put out a wildfire that has been raging for eight days
August 22, 2024
Titanic newspaper article discovered in wardrobe after 112 years
August 22, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow had informed the U.N. nuclear
August 22, 2024
The penguin in a world famous same-sex penguin couple has died in a Sydney aquarium at 11 years old
August 22, 2024
Officials in Pakistan say a court has allowed investigators to question a man in their custody for four more days about his role in spreading misinformation that sparked widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month
August 22, 2024
Ukraine's border guard service said on Thursday that Kyiv had seen no signs of Belarusian troop or military hardware movements near their shared border since Minsk announced it was sending
August 22, 2024
Three years after the fall of Kabul, this Paralympian hopes to inspire women around the world through her act of defiance
August 22, 2024
A United Nations team will meet Bangladesh's interim government and other stakeholders from Thursday to discuss the process to investigate alleged human rights
August 22, 2024
Ukraine has ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Wednesday, opening the possibility of more prosecutions of Russian officials for war crimes
August 22, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow had informed the U.N.
August 22, 2024
Qatar's prime minister will visit Iran in the coming days, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.
August 22, 2024
Poland wants to deepen its cooperation with India in the defence industry, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, as Warsaw seeks to benefit from New Delhi's
August 22, 2024
Humanitarian aid resumes in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur after 6-month border closure
August 22, 2024
Israeli hostage families to boycott October 7 memorial as ceasefire talks drag on
August 22, 2024
Thailand on Thursday confirmed an mpox case reported this week was the clade 1b strain of the virus, the second confirmed case of the variant outside of
August 22, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will on Friday make his first visit since taking office in May to the sensitive Kinmen islands that sit next to the Chinese coast and
August 22, 2024
Police in St Petersburg have detained an Israeli-Canadian racing car driver wanted by the United States for alleged fraud relating to an illegal online stock trading scheme, the
August 22, 2024
Ukraine conducted a drone attack on Russia's Marinovka military airfield in the southern Russian region of Volgograd, striking a storage site for fuel and glide bombs, a security
August 22, 2024
Floods kill more than 30, impact millions in Bangladesh and northeast India
August 22, 2024
Russia and Ukraine both reported new battlefield gains on Thursday, with Kyiv hailing the capture of another village on Russian soil but hundreds of
August 22, 2024
A fraction of available aid has passed through the Adre border crossing from Chad into Sudan's hunger-ravaged Darfur region this week following a move by the Sudanese army to
August 22, 2024
Russian officials say Ukraine launched another cross-border drone attack. In response, Ukrainian officials in and around Pokrovsk are urging residents to flee as Russian forces advance. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz.
August 22, 2024
Parents hide children from mandatory evacuations as Ukraine says Russia advancing fast on key city
August 22, 2024
Residents of eastern city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, find themselves in a desperate race to evacuate as Russian forces advance.
August 22, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he had travelled to the country's northeast border area from where Kyiv's forces have conducted a major cross-border offensive
August 22, 2024
The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana
August 22, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will attend a meeting of European Union ministers in Brussels next week that Ankara hopes will pave the way for improved ties with the bloc, the
August 22, 2024
A drone strike during an Israeli military operation in the volatile West Bank city of Tulkarm on Thursday killed three Palestinians, the Palestinian health ministry said.
August 22, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urging diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine during a visit to Poland, saying that no conflict can be solved on a battlefield
August 22, 2024
Relentless monsoon rains and flooding have stranded nearly three million people in Bangladesh and killed two, submerging vast areas and damaging homes and infrastructure
August 22, 2024
Modi meets Polish leaders ahead of ‘landmark’ trip to Ukraine
August 22, 2024
Thousands protested in cities across Indonesia on Thursday, capping a dramatic week in politics in the world's third-largest democracy as President Joko Widodo, better known as
August 22, 2024
Floodwaters have inundated parts of India and Bangladesh, causing at least 15 deaths
August 22, 2024
A French destroyer rescued 29 mariners from an oil tanker that came under repeated attack from Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, while also destroying a bomb-carrying drone boat in the area
August 22, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first visit to the border area where his forces launched their surprise offensive into Russia two weeks ago
August 22, 2024
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of a yacht that sank earlier this week off Sicily during a tempest, a source close to
August 22, 2024
The Italian coast guard says the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered off the coast of Sicily from the wreckage of a superyacht whose builders had called unsinkable
August 22, 2024
Officials in Serbia and Bosnia say a baby was among at least 10 people who drowned after a boat packed with migrants overturned while carrying them from Serbia to Bosnia
August 22, 2024
China firmly opposes any country allowing the Dalai Lama to make visits under any pretext, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.
August 22, 2024
Chinese prosecutors have indicted a Japanese citizen on suspicion of espionage, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday, adding that the rights of the people involved in the case
August 22, 2024
Authorities in Russia's western Kursk region have begun installing concrete shelters to help protect civilians amid an ongoing Ukrainian incursion, the acting regional governor said
August 22, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 16 people in the Gaza Strip
August 22, 2024
Wearing a bulky protective suit and helmet, Mohamed Ahmed inches towards the truck where explosives wired to a mobile phone have been planted in Somalia's capital,
August 22, 2024
The U.S. embassy in Kyiv said there was a heightened risk of Russian missile and drone attacks throughout Ukraine in the coming days as the country prepares to mark 33 years since its
August 22, 2024
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank this week
August 22, 2024
Cambodia’s prime minister has led a celebration of the return of dozens of precious centuries-old artifacts from museums and private collectors abroad, and said his government will continue working with others to bring home more such cultural treasures
August 22, 2024
A Greek-flagged oil tanker carrying 150,000 tonnes of crude that was evacuated by its crew after being attacked in the Red Sea now poses an
August 22, 2024
Three South Korean skiers were killed and two people were seriously injured after their vehicles collided head-on in New Zealand
August 22, 2024
One half of world-famous gay penguin couple dies in Sydney aquarium
August 22, 2024
Taiwan's defence spending will rise 7.7% next year, outpacing expected economic growth, the cabinet said on Thursday, as the island adds more fighter
August 22, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a historic visit Friday to Ukraine
August 22, 2024
Ukrainian commanders and soldiers say some new troops refuse to fire at the enemy
August 22, 2024
Tomiko Itooka is now the world’s oldest living person at age 116
August 22, 2024
An explosion triggered a fire at a pharmaceutical plant in southern India, killing at least 18 workers
August 22, 2024
An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in southern India on Wednesday, which killed at least 17 people and injured 36, was due to a
August 22, 2024
China launched an anti-subsidy investigation into dairy imports from the European Union a day after the bloc's revised tariff plan for China-made electric vehicles.
August 22, 2024
Zhang Peiyi, a Shanghai resident, has been fighting for custody for her two children from a former marriage in a case that has lasted for more than four years
August 22, 2024
The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the United States in July just got stranger
August 22, 2024
The Taliban says it wants people to visit Afghanistan. Here’s what it’s like
August 22, 2024
Brazil will tighten up rules to enter the country without a visa starting next week, the government said on Wednesday, after migrants have been increasingly using
August 22, 2024
Veteran PBS journalist Judy Woodruff has apologized for remarks she had made regarding former President Donald Trump and negotiations for peace between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
August 22, 2024
The parents of a 23-year-old American taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel have given a moving speech at the Democratic National Convention
August 22, 2024
Guatemalan police have arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in a tractor trailer in the scorching summer heat
August 21, 2024
Tyler Johnson and his father were hunting in the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska when a brown bear attacked them. Hear them recount what happened in the moments after.
August 21, 2024
Fact check: Trump falsely claims Harris met with Putin before Ukraine invasion
August 21, 2024
‘There are no longer places to go’: Thousands in Gaza forced to flee again after Israeli evacuation orders
August 21, 2024
President Joe Biden has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the United States presses Israel and Hamas to agree to a “bridging proposal” that could lead to a cease-fire in the war in Gaza
August 21, 2024
A New York man was charged on Wednesday with operating as an illegal agent of the Chinese government in the United States, accusing him of spying on Chinese pro-
August 21, 2024
Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreign citizens from Asia who are seeking refuge in the country as a means to migrate to the United States and Canada
August 21, 2024
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena said on Wednesday he was "fully open" to trade deals with China via the South American trade bloc
August 21, 2024
Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov told a visiting delegation of U.S. congressmen on Wednesday that Kyiv's attack on Russia's Kursk region was intended to protect Ukraine.
August 21, 2024
Judges and magistrates joined a strike on Wednesday as protests against a judicial reform pushed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
August 21, 2024
Israel has not agreed to withdraw its troops from the so-called Philadelphi corridor along the border between Egypt and Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office
August 21, 2024
As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A new study shows where the largest changes will occur.
August 21, 2024
Man arrested in Pakistan for alleged role in spreading disinformation linked to UK riots
August 21, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a televised statement that Israel has delivered “crushing blows” to its enemies in the last few days.
August 21, 2024
Biden spoke with Netanyahu Wednesday at a critical moment in Gaza talks
August 21, 2024
A cat in South Carolina has been reunited with his owner after 11 years thanks to a microchip
August 21, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday his forces understood what Moscow was attempting to do on the Pokrovsk front in eastern Ukraine, scene of Russian advances,
August 21, 2024
A rehabilitated sea turtle has been released back into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida beach
August 21, 2024
More than 2,000 pro-Palestinian protesters rallied just a half mile from a neighboring park where pro-Israel demonstrators gathered
August 21, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday Ukraine had not consulted Berlin about its Aug. 6 shock incursion into Russia and that he
August 21, 2024
Brazilian airline Voepass has decided to reduce some service to nine locations after one of its planes crashed and killed 62 people in Sao Paulo state earlier
August 21, 2024
A wildfire raging on Portugal's island of Madeira continued into its second week on Wednesday, having burned through at least 4,400 hectares (10,872 acres) of vegetation, prompting
August 21, 2024
Two further bodies have been found in a luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.
August 21, 2024
The Czech government on Wednesday nominated Jozef Sikela, who helped steer the European Union's response to the energy crisis following Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022, as its
August 21, 2024
Shahed Abu Omar, 20, was in her third year studying computer science at Gaza’s Al Azhar University when it was reduced to rubble by Israel's military campaign in
August 21, 2024
Key mediator Egypt is expressing skepticism about the proposal meant to bridge gaps in cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas
August 21, 2024
The helicopter crash in which Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in May was caused by weather conditions and the aircraft's inability to handle the weight it was carrying
August 21, 2024
Turbulence leaves two people injured on plane heading for London
August 21, 2024
Ukraine said on Wednesday it had destroyed Russian pontoon bridges with U.S.-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia's Kursk region, while
August 21, 2024
Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily have found five bodies and searched for a sixth as questions intensified about why the sailboat sank so quickly
August 21, 2024
Orthodox priests brought an icon to the scene of a huge fuel depot fire in southern Russia sparked by a Ukrainian drone attack in the hope it would help tame its flames, the local
August 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Poland for top-level security and trade talks before heading to neighboring Ukraine, which is at war with India’s strategic partner, Russia
August 21, 2024
Divers scouring the wreck of the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily have found the bodies of two of the six passengers who were missing, a source close to the matter said
August 21, 2024
Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region means there will be no talks between Moscow and Kyiv until Ukraine is completely defeated on the battlefield, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy
August 21, 2024
Indonesia President Joko Widodo on Wednesday said he respected decisions of the country's institutions, amid a move by his allies in parliament to
August 21, 2024
Geopolitical shocks could disrupt the political and security landscape and strain unity in the Pacific Islands region amid strategic rivalry between China and U.S. allies, a think-
August 21, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese premier Li Qiang in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
August 21, 2024
Congo has recorded 1,030 of the 1,405 new mpox cases in Africa over the last week
August 21, 2024
Escalating conflict between Israel and Iran is partly the result of an unsuccessful, decade-long plan to ‘contain and deter’ the Iranian regime.
August 21, 2024
India is likely to begin conducting a long-delayed population census in September, two government sources said, as Prime Minister
August 21, 2024
Iran’s hard-line parliament has approved all members of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Cabinet, the first time in over two decades a leader has been able to get all of his officials through the body
August 21, 2024
Ukrainian forces are using U.S.-manufactured HIMARS rocket systems to destroy pontoon bridges and engineering equipment in Russia's Kursk region, Ukraine's military said on Wednesday,
August 21, 2024
A severe drought has rendered tap water undrinkable in several towns along Spain's Costa Blanca, forcing holidaymakers and locals to queue at
August 21, 2024
China to probe European dairy imports as trade dispute escalates
August 21, 2024
Fifth body found in search for those missing from sunken superyacht
August 21, 2024
Quit dating apps, Russia tells border region citizens over security fears
August 21, 2024
Japanese town quietly removes its Mount Fuji-blocking barrier
August 21, 2024
Amid stifling heat and humidity in the remote Colombian jungle, guerrillas carrying machine guns and rifles creep their way through the
August 21, 2024
Switzerland said on Wednesday it would participate in two European Union security initiatives aimed at strengthening cooperation between armed forces in a bid to boost the neutral
August 21, 2024
Ukraine's parliament voted on Wednesday to ratify the Rome Statute, officials said, allowing the country to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a step Ukrainian leaders
August 21, 2024
European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China
August 21, 2024
The European Union's draft findings from an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EV) lack objectivity and fairness, a Chinese industry body said on Wednesday.
August 21, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had bombed Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight, and Hezbollah said it had carried out a
August 21, 2024
A Greek-flagged tanker was adrift in the Red Sea on Wednesday after repeated attacks that started a fire on the vessel and caused the ship to lose
August 21, 2024
The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the U.N.
August 21, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and U.S.
August 21, 2024
Sergei Chemezov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the United States and its Western allies risk triggering a global war
August 21, 2024
A Greek-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea has come under repeated attack, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze in an assault suspected to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
August 21, 2024
Israeli tank and drone strikes in Gaza have killed at least 17 people
August 21, 2024
The United Nation's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) appealed on Wednesday for $18.5 million in assistance to provide health care services to people impacted by the
August 21, 2024
China opened an anti-subsidy probe into dairy imports from the European Union on Wednesday, stepping up tension with the bloc a day after Brussels
August 21, 2024
China is seriously concerned about a report that said the United Stated approved a nuclear strategic plan to focus on China's rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal, the Chinese
August 21, 2024
Four bodies were retrieved on Wednesday from the sunken wreck of a yacht belonging to the wife of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, the Italian fire
August 21, 2024
Russian authorities say Moscow has come under one of the largest attacks by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, and that it destroyed all of them
August 21, 2024
Masked police officers in Romania have carried out fresh raids at the home of internet influencer Andrew Tate, who is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
August 21, 2024
Chile's SQM, the world's second-largest lithium producer, reported a bigger-than-expected 63.2% slide in its quarterly profit on Wednesday due to weak prices of the battery metal,
August 21, 2024
Russia’s Putin and China’s No. 2 official praise deepening ties as Ukraine war grinds on
August 21, 2024
For Kyiv-area resident Olha Pavlovska, who huddles with her neighbours every week to discuss the often grim news from the front, Ukraine's shock incursion into
August 21, 2024
The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, the administration's spokesperson told local broadcaster Tolo, accusing
August 21, 2024
Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on
August 21, 2024
Pacific Islands leaders postponed a visit to French territory New Caledonia to assess civil unrest between indigenous Kanaks and French loyalists, the regional bloc's chairman and Cook
August 21, 2024
A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq has crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people
August 21, 2024
Ukraine advances in Russia as Moscow mayor accuses Kyiv of ‘one of largest ever’ drone attacks
August 21, 2024
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor reacts to Ukrainian troops blowing up a second bridge in the Kursk Russian territory.
August 21, 2024
Ukraine's rapid military offensive into Russia's Kursk region seems to have caught Moscow unprepared
August 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will "share perspectives" on the peaceful resolution of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia during his visit to Kyiv this week,
August 21, 2024
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said it firmly opposes a revised draft from the European Union on punitive tariffs for Chinese made electric vehicles,
August 21, 2024
The Philippines' health minister said on Wednesday a recently detected mpox case in the Southeast Asian nation is of the mild Clade 2 variant and not the newer variant that has
August 20, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka he backed his "Ocean of Peace" plan during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese
August 20, 2024
Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones that were shot down by air defences in what Russian officials called one of the
August 20, 2024
The top U.N. official in Libya is warning that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” and without renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections there will be greater instability
August 20, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday inspected Chechen troops and volunteers readying to fight Ukraine, the Kremlin said, in what was Putin's first
August 20, 2024
African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’
August 20, 2024
Blinken says Israel has agreed to Gaza withdrawal terms in ‘bridging proposal,’ despite reported comments from Netanyahu
August 20, 2024
Panama deports 29 Colombian migrants on first US-funded repatriation flight
August 20, 2024
California man breaks 'bike surfing' world record
August 20, 2024
Ukraine's military said its forces had come under multiple Russian attacks over the course of Tuesday on the Toretsk and Pokrovsk fronts in eastern Ukraine.
August 20, 2024
Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on
August 20, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unscheduled visit to Chechnya, his first trip to the mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation in nearly 13 years
August 20, 2024
New forecast reveals when and where hurricane season could get active after Ernesto
August 20, 2024
US sanctions former Haitian President Martelly over drug trafficking allegations
August 20, 2024
A classified nuclear strategic plan approved by President Joe Biden this year is not a response to a single country or threat, the White House said on Tuesday, after the New York
August 20, 2024
Russian soldier defects to Ukraine after spying for resistance group for months
August 20, 2024
The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders
August 20, 2024
The United States on Tuesday disputed a report that cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying he might have convinced U.S.
August 20, 2024
Ukraine’s parliament has banned the activities of religious groups tied to the Russian Orthodox Church or any other faith group supporting Russia’s invasion
August 20, 2024
Tens of thousands of customers are still without power across Puerto Rico, a week after Ernesto swiped the U.S. territory as a tropical storm
August 20, 2024
Greece said on Tuesday it would offer emergency compensation totalling millions of euros to hundreds of households and businesses affected by a blaze that killed one woman and
August 20, 2024
Iran says it will not take ‘hasty action’ against Israel for killing of Hamas political leader
August 20, 2024
A looming stoppage of freight railway operations across Canada would disrupt North America's agricultural supply chain, snarling
August 20, 2024
The sinking of a luxury yacht on Aug. 19 off the northern coast of Sicily left seven people dead, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter Hannah and Morgan Stanley's
August 20, 2024
A 14-year-child boy has died from his injuries in hospital after a Russian munition struck a kiosk a few metres from a children's playground in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region,
August 20, 2024
Multiple pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested after clashing with police during a protest that began outside the Israeli consulate and spilled out onto the surrounding streets on the second night of the Democratic National Convention
August 20, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the former president of Haiti, Michel Joseph Martelly, following accusations that he abused his influence to facilitate drug trafficking into the U.S. and sponsored gangs that have contributed to instability in the Caribbean country
August 20, 2024
The shipwreck of a luxury yacht moored off the coast of Sicily is the latest sign that the Mediterranean is becoming a more dangerous sea to sail
August 20, 2024
New protests outside the DNC after additional fencing built in response to pro-Palestinian protesters breaching outer barrier
August 20, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday its forces had taken control of what it described as the strategically important logistics hub of Niu-York in eastern
August 20, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that a balance was needed between mobilising troops and keeping the war-ravaged economy running.
August 20, 2024
The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Haiti's former president, Michel Joseph Martelly, over drug trafficking allegations, accusing him of playing a significant role in
August 20, 2024
Panama has deported 29 Colombians on a flight that the government says is the first paid for by the United States under an agreement the two countries signed in July
August 20, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other African countries could start vaccinating against mpox within days, Africa's top public health agency said on
August 20, 2024
Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating
August 20, 2024
Russia said it summoned a senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday to protest over what it called the "provocative actions" of American journalists reporting from Russia's Kursk region.
August 20, 2024
A superyacht that sank off the Sicilian coast during a storm left six passengers missing, including British tech kingpin Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah
August 20, 2024
King Charles III met Tuesday with survivors of the stabbing rampage that killed three young girls in northern England, viewing flowers and teddy bears laid in remembrance of the victims and signing a book of condolence as Britain recovers from widespread unrest fueled by the tragedy
August 20, 2024
Specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts are searching for six missing passengers and crew, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht that was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly sank off Sicily
August 20, 2024
World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117
August 20, 2024
An intense storm sank a luxury yacht off Sicily's coast on Monday, killing one man and leaving six missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his
August 20, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping on Tuesday hailed the Chinese Olympic delegation for maintaining high standards of "morality, style and cleanliness" in their pursuit of gold metals at
August 20, 2024
The need to keep water cool in Gaza, where electricity is in short supply and 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes, has spurred a resurgence in
August 20, 2024
Geopolitical tensions, uncertainty created by the upcoming U.S.
August 20, 2024
The Moscow Stock Exchange is discussing ways to challenge sanctions imposed by the United States and Britain that led to a halt in exchange trading of dollars and euros and a freeze
August 20, 2024
A tornado sank a luxury sailing boat off the coast of Sicily. Here’s what we know
August 20, 2024
Maria Branyas, who was the world's oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117, according to her account on the X platform and a spokesperson at
August 20, 2024
The Russian military said on Tuesday that its forces had taken control of what it described as the strategically important logistics hub of Niu-York in eastern
August 20, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S.
August 20, 2024
The Taliban's morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral
August 20, 2024
Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Bloomer missing after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily
August 20, 2024
Ukraine has approved the final details of a new system of minimum export prices for the country's key grains and oilseeds shipments, the government said on Tuesday, a plan that grains
August 20, 2024
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner gears up for US Open with Cincinnati Open win
August 20, 2024
At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced families west of Gaza City, the enclave's civil defence authorities said.
August 20, 2024
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters have rallied in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade, the first one since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation
August 20, 2024
The German Federal Court upheld a 99-year-old woman's conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War
August 20, 2024
Ukrainian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law envisaging a ban on the activities of a Russia-linked branch of the Orthodox church, paving the way for a
August 20, 2024
Russian sources say Ukrainian forces have either destroyed or damaged all three of the bridges over the Seym River in western Russia as Kyiv’s incursion enters its third week
August 20, 2024
A World Health Organization official stressed on Tuesday that mpox, regardless of whether it is the new or old strain, is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to control its
August 20, 2024
The Czech Republic will use some of the interest earned on Russian assets frozen in the European Union to buy hundreds of thousands more artillery shells for Ukraine, the Czech
August 20, 2024
Bodies of six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza, Israel says
August 20, 2024
Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday, as negotiations continued in an effort to bring back more than 100
August 20, 2024
People were urged to stay inside their homes in Ukraine's Ternopil after a large fire broke out overnight during air raid alerts, the military administration of the western Ukrainian
August 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has ended his latest visit to the Middle East without securing a cease-fire in Gaza
August 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has visited fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar as he presses ahead with the latest diplomatic mission to secure a cease-fire in the war in Gaza, even as Hamas and Israel signal that challenges remain
August 20, 2024
Japan is ramping up promotional efforts to boost seafood exports to more destinations in Asia, the U.S., and Europe as it seeks to fill a sales
August 20, 2024
India's Supreme Court created a hospital safety task force on Tuesday to recommend steps to ensure medical workers' safety, days after the rape and murder of a
August 20, 2024
Hillary Clinton casts Harris in the lineage of female political firsts
August 20, 2024
She says Israeli military killed her husband and daughter. Then soldiers brought her to an Israeli hospital
August 20, 2024
Five-year-old Shams and her mother, Sanaa, share their heartbreaking story of loss and survival in war-torn Gaza, facing the trauma of violence and the death of family members. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
August 20, 2024
Israel wants lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, which Hamas has long rejected
August 20, 2024
Russia hit energy infrastructure in northern Ukraine in an overnight missile and drone attack and caused a huge fire in the west of the country, resulting in an increase in chlorine
August 20, 2024
China will beef up its 2.88 trillion yuan ($406 billion) social security fund, making it "bigger and stronger" to help support its rapidly ageing population as the number of new
August 20, 2024
The Philippines on Tuesday said China's coast guard was not helping efforts to build confidence in the South China Sea, after accusing it of ramming and damaging its vessels in the
August 20, 2024
More than 200 South Korean and U.S. fighter jets are due to fly around the clock for five days this week in what would mark the largest number of sorties flown in training by the
August 20, 2024
Taiwan showed off its missile firepower on Tuesday, launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in front of reporters during a visit to a
August 20, 2024
Global stocks hovered near their highest in a month on Tuesday, while the dollar hit an eight-month low, as investors focused on bets that
August 20, 2024
The Philippines has agreed to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center for a limited number of Afghan nationals aspiring to resettle in America
August 20, 2024
Most students at Columbia University who faced disciplinary action, suspension or arrest for participating in pro-Palestinian protests opposing Israel's war in
August 20, 2024
Radioactive waste from the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II heading to Michigan
August 20, 2024
Belarus said on Monday it had sent aircraft, air defence forces and armoury to its border with Ukraine, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko said he had deployed nearly a third of
August 20, 2024
Experts meet in Bangkok this week to advance what would be the first international treaty to tackle the surging problem of plastic pollution
August 19, 2024
Oil prices fell about 1% to a two-week low on Tuesday as Middle East supply concerns eased after Israel accepted a proposal to tackle disagreements blocking a ceasefire deal in Gaza, and
August 19, 2024
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea early on Tuesday crossing the militarized border in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the
August 19, 2024
The United States on Monday accused Iran of launching cyber operations against the campaigns of both U.S. presidential candidates and targeting the American public with
August 19, 2024
Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close
August 19, 2024
The Democratic Party has been riven for months by the war in Gaza, giving rise to a protest movement that threatened President Joe Biden’s electoral coalition
August 19, 2024
Former co-defendant of British tycoon missing in luxury yacht sinking dies after being struck by car
August 19, 2024
The U.S. State Department condemned "dangerous actions" by China on Monday against Philippine vessels in the South China Sea.
August 19, 2024
US concludes Iran is behind hacking attempts targeting Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns
August 19, 2024
Hamas senior official Osama Hamdan criticized U.S.
August 19, 2024
Police in Haiti’s capital tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protesters in the capital, Port-au-Prince, as they called on law enforcement to help them stop the gangs that have violently seized control of their neighborhoods
August 19, 2024
A federal judge has temporarily cleared the way for a transgender girl to play soccer for her high school team while she and another student challenge a New Hampshire ban
August 19, 2024
Ukraine's military said its troops were subjected to dozens of attacks by Russian forces on Monday around Toretsk and Pokrovsk, two settlements in eastern Ukraine where Moscow is
August 19, 2024
An Argentine federal judge on Monday ordered a three-month suspension of deforestation in northern Chaco province, a rare step to protect one of the world's
August 19, 2024
Woman sentenced to 11 years in prison after arguing she was legally allowed to kill a man because he sexually trafficked her
August 19, 2024
Senior officials will convene for Gaza ceasefire negotiations in Cairo before week's end, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday, adding
August 19, 2024
Challengers seeking to throw Robert F
August 19, 2024
Congo's health minister says the country will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States
August 19, 2024
Global warming may have contributed to the freak storm that sank a luxury British-flagged yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Italian climatologist Luca Mercalli
August 19, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces captured more than 1,250 square km (480 square miles) in a "defensive operation" in Russia's Kursk region and urged allies to allow
August 19, 2024
Athletes on the Refugee Paralympic Team are looking to send a message of hope as they strive for the podium at the 2024 Paralympic Games that begin in Paris next week
August 19, 2024
Eight kayakers rescued in Vermont
August 19, 2024
U.S.
August 19, 2024
Firefighters backed by 40 vehicles and a helicopter struggled to contain a wildfire on Monday on the southern coast of Portugal's island of Madeira that has burnt through more than
August 19, 2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to receive its first doses of an mpox vaccine by next week, following promises from the United States and Japan to help it fight its outbreak,
August 19, 2024
Egyptian officials and the U.S. ambassador inaugurated renovations of several monuments and buildings in Historic Cairo, including the Bimaristan al-Muayyad Sheikh, a hospital
August 19, 2024
A collection of unions representing Mexico's judicial workers launched an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday ahead of votes by lawmakers on
August 19, 2024
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that
August 19, 2024
The Group of Seven (G7) rich democracies agreed in June to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets to give Ukraine $50 billion in loans, aiming to ensure Kyiv can continue its fight
August 19, 2024
Lithuania on Monday began construction of a military base, which will accommodate up to 4,000 combat-ready German troops once completed by the end of
August 19, 2024
Police in England and Wales strip search a child every 19 hours, sometimes fail to carry out those searches correctly, and disproportionately search Black children,
August 19, 2024
Officials in Connecticut say two women died after being swept away by floodwaters brought by torrential rains that fell there and on New York's Long Island
August 19, 2024
Modi to visit Ukraine, weeks after Kyiv condemned Indian PM for hugging Putin in Moscow
August 19, 2024
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is missing after a luxury yacht was struck by a violent storm and sank off the Sicilian capital Palermo on Monday, a person familiar with the
August 19, 2024
Chechen warlord shows off gun-mounted Tesla Cybertruck
August 19, 2024
In Gaza, a mother worries that her month-old son, Mohammed, could be infected with polio after the Palestinian health ministry confirmed the first case
August 19, 2024
Britain's support for Ukraine remains unwavering, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, in response to comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
August 19, 2024
One case of the mpox virus has been detected in Pakistan of the clade 2 variety, the country's ministry of health said on Monday, adding that no cases of the clade 1b strain of
August 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel stepping up diplomatic pressure in a last-ditch attempt to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage release deal.
August 19, 2024
Civilians in Ukraine's eastern strategic logistics hub of Pokrovsk have no more than two weeks to evacuate as Russian troops press towards it, while those in nearby Myrnohrad have only a
August 19, 2024
Officials say flash floods triggered by the latest monsoon rains have swept through streets in southern Pakistan and blocked a key highway in the north
August 19, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday his country's assault on Russia's Kursk region showed that Kremlin threats of retaliation were a bluff, and he
August 19, 2024
Six people missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, and one dead after tornado sinks luxury yacht off Sicily
August 19, 2024
Italian officials are searching for the six missing passengers off the coast of Sicily who were believed to be aboard a luxury yacht that was hit by a tornado and sank. Emergency services report one dead, and 15 people rescued, including one child. The boat was anchored about half a mile from the port of Porticello on the Mediterranean island.
August 19, 2024
Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases are fleeing Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army is bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
August 19, 2024
The U.S.
August 19, 2024
A Russian investigator said on Monday that Ukraine had struck and damaged a third bridge over the Seym river in Russia's Kursk region a day earlier, where Moscow's troops have been
August 19, 2024
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Moscow was not ready to hold peace talks with Ukraine for now given Kyiv's attack on Russia's Kursk region, but that
August 19, 2024
Grenada has become the first country in the world to use a so-called hurricane clause in a government bond - a special feature that allows authorities to postpone debt
August 19, 2024
The leaders of China and Vietnam have pledged to further their economic ties and gave a nod to their shared communist ideology during the first visit by Vietnam’s new president to Beijing
August 19, 2024
The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency
August 19, 2024
Blinken says Israel has agreed to US proposal to close remaining gaps on ceasefire deal and calls on Hamas to do the same
August 19, 2024
4Ocean wants to rid Guatemala Rio Motagua, one of the world's most polluted rivers, of plastic.
August 19, 2024
The mission to clean up one of Central America’s most polluted rivers
August 19, 2024
The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier
August 19, 2024
One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a luxury yacht was
August 19, 2024
British tech magnate Mike Lynch and several other people are missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily, Italy’s civil protection and authorities said
August 19, 2024
Britain will use an emergency measure to detain suspected criminals in police station cells until it can find space for them in its overcrowded prisons after police arrested
August 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza
August 19, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah port last month appeared to be an indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians which may amount
August 19, 2024
A former Saudi official has alleged that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman forged his father’s signature on the royal decree that launched the kingdom’s yearslong, stalemated war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels
August 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether the latest draft had addressed concerns cited by the militant group
August 19, 2024
Dozens of protesters broke through a security fence near the site of the Democratic National Convention on its opening day as thousands took to the streets to voice their opposition to the war in Gaza
August 19, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine on Friday to boost ties with Kyiv, weeks after a trip to Moscow in which he rebuked Russian President Vladimir
August 19, 2024
Two German warships await orders from Berlin, their commander said, to determine whether next month they will be the first German naval vessels in decades to pass
August 19, 2024
Old aircraft carrier, once part of mighty Soviet fleet, burns in Chinese lagoon
August 19, 2024
Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had designated The Clooney Foundation for Justice, a U.S. non-profit group, as an "undesirable" organisation for carrying out work at "a Hollywood
August 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet with Israel’s prime minister on Monday as mediators say they are closing in on a deal to halt the war in Gaza and free hostages captured by Hamas
August 19, 2024
The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December last year, its health department said on Monday, adding it was awaiting test
August 19, 2024
China and Vietnam signed 14 documents spanning cross-border railways to crocodile exports on Monday, after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Vietnam's new leader To
August 19, 2024
Russia has complained to Germany over its investigation into the 2022 explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the RIA state news agency reported on Monday, after a
August 19, 2024
A Russian court rejected an appeal of a U.S. soldier who was sentenced in June to nearly four years in a penal colony after being found guilty of stealing $113 from his girlfriend and
August 19, 2024
Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships have collided at sea, damaging at least two of the vessels, in an encounter near a new flashpoint in their increasingly alarming confrontations in the disputed South China Sea
August 19, 2024
South Korea and the United States kicked off annual summertime military exercises on Monday, seeking to boost their joint readiness to fend off North Korea's weapons and cyber
August 19, 2024
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will attend the Democratic National Convention that begins on Monday in Chicago, Ardern's spokesperson said on
August 19, 2024
Oil prices fell by more than $2 a barrel Monday on the prospect of successful Middle Eastern peace talks reducing supply risks, while leading oil importer China's
August 18, 2024
The Philippines and China accused each other on Monday of ramming vessels and performing dangerous manoeuvres in the South China Sea, the latest flare-up after the two
August 18, 2024
U.S. and South Korean troops have begun a large-scale exercise aimed at strengthening their combined defense capabilities against nuclear-armed North Korea, which again is accusing the allies of practicing an invasion
August 18, 2024
Explosion in Tel Aviv declared a ‘terror attack’ by Israeli authorities
August 18, 2024
Ernesto regained hurricane strength on Sunday and the storm was causing dangerous rip currents on beaches along the U.S. East Coast and Canada, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
August 18, 2024
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have wrapped up their visit to Colombia by participating in a forum on the challenges facing women of African descent as they participate in politics
August 18, 2024
Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca has defended his decision to give midfielder Enzo Fernandez the captain’s armband for the team’s opening game of the season despite the Argentina international being filmed singing a racist chant this offseason
August 18, 2024
The Palestinian group Hamas said on Sunday that a new proposal meant to bridge the gaps between Israel and the Islamist armed group over a Gaza ceasefire were
August 18, 2024
Hundreds of Portuguese firefighters on Sunday scrambled to put out a wildfire sweeping parts of the Atlantic island of Madeira's south coast, a popular tourist destination, with
August 18, 2024
Ukrainian air forces destroyed another strategic bridge over the Seym River in Russia's Kursk region, limiting the supply capacity of a Russian group opposing the Ukrainian advance,
August 18, 2024
A cholera outbreak has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more recently in Sudan, which has been roiled by a 16-month conflict and devastating floods
August 18, 2024
Ukraine aims to create Kursk ‘buffer zone,’ Zelensky says, as Kyiv’s forces blow up second Russian bridge
August 18, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will use his ninth diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to press for the quick conclusion of an elusive cease-fire agreement
August 18, 2024
The union at BHP's giant Escondida copper mine in Chile said on Sunday in a memo to its members that it could relaunch a strike later in the day if the company does not "rectify
August 18, 2024
Ernesto has regained hurricane status as the storm churns away from Bermuda and heads farther out into the northeastern Atlantic Ocean
August 18, 2024
Israel is conducting a "robust investigation" of suspects accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian prisoner and is committed to upholding international legal standards regarding
August 18, 2024
Algeria will immediately begin supplying Lebanon with fuel for its power plants, Algerian state radio said in a statement on Sunday, after Lebanon's electricity company said the day
August 18, 2024
Russia on Sunday denied a report that Ukraine's attack on the Kursk region had derailed indirect talks with Kyiv on halting strikes on energy and power targets, saying there had
August 18, 2024
Israeli strike kills 7 members of same family as Blinken lands to make fresh push for truce
August 18, 2024
Pro-Palestinian activists face complicated new decisions as Democrats gather to support a surging Kamala Harris
August 18, 2024
Libya's Tripoli-based central bank said on Sunday it would shut down all operations and not resume work until a senior bank official kidnapped earlier in the day was released.
August 18, 2024
Heavy rains lashed Alpine regions of Austria and left parts of Vienna under water at the weekend, causing severe damage in parts of the country and disrupting road and rail transport,
August 18, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the daring military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone
August 18, 2024
Malawi's main opposition party, the Democratic Progress Party endorsed on Sunday former President Peter Mutharika to be its candidate in next year's presidential election.
August 18, 2024
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that Ukraine had stationed more than 120,000 troops at its border with Belarus and Minsk had deployed nearly a third of its armed
August 18, 2024
Acute malnutrition is rapidly increasing in areas of Yemen controlled by the government, with the most critical cases along areas of the Red Sea
August 18, 2024
More than 20 injured after Ferris wheel catches fire at music festival in Germany
August 18, 2024
U.S.
August 18, 2024
North Korea condemned Ukraine's incursion into Russia as an unforgivable act of terror backed by Washington and the West, adding it would always stand with Russia as it seeks to
August 18, 2024
Four years after the military ousted Mali’s then-president and came to power, many residents say economic troubles are worsening and constant power cuts are hurting businesses.
August 18, 2024
The latest Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 29 people, including young quintuplets
August 18, 2024
Russia on Sunday carried out its third ballistic missile attack on Kyiv this month but preliminary data indicated most of the projectiles were shot down on approach, the military
August 18, 2024
Thousands of activists are expected to converge in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, hoping to call attention to abortion rights, economic justice and the war in Gaza
August 18, 2024
Vietnam's top leader To Lam arrived in China on Sunday for a three-day visit, according to Chinese state media, which Beijing's foreign ministry has said will include meetings with
August 18, 2024
Paetongtarn Shinawatra was endorsed as prime minister by Thailand's king on Sunday, two days after parliament elected her, paving the way for her to form a cabinet in the coming
August 18, 2024
Extreme weather in parts of Canada causes major flooding, power outages
August 18, 2024
The leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States issued a joint statement on Sunday marking the anniversary of their summit at Camp David and reaffirmed a pledge to jointly
August 17, 2024
An oil spill, which appeared to originate from Venezuela's El Palito refinery several days ago, has contaminated a bay off the country's north-central coast in the Caribbean Sea,
August 17, 2024
Safety at Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is deteriorating, IAEA warns
August 17, 2024
One of Russia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing plumes of ash 3 miles into the sky over the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula and briefly triggering a “code red” warning for aircraft
August 17, 2024
Venezuelans across the world responded to a call from their country’s political opposition
August 17, 2024
Volcano erupts in Russia after 7.0-magnitude earthquake, sending ash column 5 miles high
August 17, 2024
Poland's prime minister has reacted to reports that revived speculation about who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022
August 17, 2024
Social media company X says it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest their legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders
August 17, 2024
Israel said it killed two senior Hamas militants in an airstrike on their car in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, claiming they were involved in the killing
August 17, 2024
Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov has invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Russia after being filmed behind the wheel of one of the company’s Cybertrucks mounted with a machine gun
August 17, 2024
Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit the road around the perimeter on Saturday, according to International Atomic Energy
August 17, 2024
Ukraine is reaping "huge political gains" from its military offensive into western Russia but the incursion is not altering the "anti-
August 17, 2024
Venezuela's political opposition and its supporters gathered in cities around the country on Saturday to demand recognition of what they
August 17, 2024
CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh reports from Ukraine’s border with Russia as Ukraine’s forces advance farther into Russia following their surprise incursion.
August 17, 2024
How Ukraine turned the war on its head with surprise attack on southern Russia
August 17, 2024
Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary group have rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children
August 17, 2024
Neolithic people moved Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone over hundreds of miles
August 17, 2024
The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video on Saturday of himself driving a Tesla Cybertruck with what looked like a machinegun mounted on top, saying he
August 17, 2024
Blaze erupts at London’s historic Somerset House
August 17, 2024
Investigators say the latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has ended with three more containing visible gunshot wounds
August 17, 2024
Firefighters were battling to contain wildfires in five Turkish provinces on Saturday, the Forestry Minister said, though a blaze in the western Izmir region that broke out on
August 17, 2024
Around 125 firefighters tackled a fire in the roof of London's Somerset house on Saturday, though the historic building's major art collections, including works by
August 17, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday his troops had strengthened positions in Russia's Kursk region nearly two weeks into their incursion, and called for bold
August 17, 2024
Russia is keeping up its assault on Ukraine even as Ukrainian forces push into Russia’s Kursk border region
August 17, 2024
Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of planning to attack a nuclear plant in the Kursk region that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's troops have entered and blame such a "provocation" on
August 17, 2024
Israeli strike kills 10 in southern Lebanon in one of the deadliest incidents since October 7
August 17, 2024
An Israeli strike has killed at least ten people in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said, prompting Hezbollah to launch a barrage of retaliatory rockets at Israel. CNN's Ben Wedeman walks through the rubble of a destroyed warehouse in Toul.
August 17, 2024
In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia's western border, there was no sign from Moscow that
August 17, 2024
Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit a perimeter access road on Saturday, according to International Atomic Energy Agency
August 17, 2024
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed at least 18 people, all from the same family
August 17, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda over open waters of the Atlantic after crossing over the tiny British territory early in the day with heavy rains and strong winds
August 17, 2024
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon has killed at least 10 Syrian nationals including a woman and her two children
August 17, 2024
The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak
August 17, 2024
Russia ‘rapidly approaching’ key Ukraine city despite Kursk setback
August 17, 2024
Indonesia celebrated its independence anniversary at the site of its planned new capital, Nusantara, for the first time on Saturday, in a scaled-
August 17, 2024
Anger at the Indian government’s failure to deter rising violence against women has fueled protests by medics and women’s groups across Indian cities after a trainee doctor was raped and killed last week
August 17, 2024
Residents of West Bank town say deadly settler attack was ‘most vicious’ yet
August 17, 2024
Israeli settlers fired bullets at residents of the Palestinian town of Jit in the West Bank before setting fires to homes and cars. CNN's Nic Robertson spoke to residents who survived the deadly rampage.
August 17, 2024
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza town of Zawayda on Saturday,
August 17, 2024
Russia's foreign ministry said Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to destroy a bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk region, killing volunteers trying to
August 17, 2024
10-month-old contracts Gaza’s first case of polio in 25 years
August 17, 2024
A humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo is contributing to mpox outbreaks there and elsewhere in Africa that have been deemed a global health emergency by the World Health Organization
August 17, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has a history with China
August 17, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto knocked out power, downed trees and flooded parts of Bermuda on Saturday but the British island territory appeared to have
August 17, 2024
Indonesia is marking 79 years of independence with a ceremony in its future new capital of Nusantara, a city still under construction
August 17, 2024
Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is finalising plans to visit the U.S. in late September for the U.N.
August 17, 2024
Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday as medical professionals
August 17, 2024
Argentina's Federal Police dismantled what it said was a terrorist cell planning attacks on the Jewish community in the city of Mendoza, the National Security Ministry said in
August 17, 2024
‘We don’t know what’s happening’: Fear and confusion in Kursk as Russian residents take shelter and Ukraine advances
August 17, 2024
CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh gains access inside the Russian town of Sudzha, a city that Ukrainian President Zelensly says his forces now occupy. CNN was accompanied by the Ukrainian military who reviewed the video without sound prior to release for operational security reasons, yet had no editorial control.
August 17, 2024
Muted response from UK and France after Israeli FM calls for retaliation to any Iran strike
August 17, 2024
US watches closely as Ukrainian forces push into Russia with US-provided arms
August 16, 2024
Around 10 people were killed, including two children, and five were wounded by an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the city of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, state news
August 16, 2024
Brazil's federal police formally accused the country's former justice minister, who served under ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, of acting to block voters in an opposition stronghold
August 16, 2024
23-year-old woman still hospitalized after road rage attack
August 16, 2024
A carnival float featuring a Hindu temple that is planned for an upcoming India Day Parade in New York City has sparked controversy, with a number of groups calling it
August 16, 2024
Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings
August 16, 2024
Palestinian health officials say the first case of polio has been recorded in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah
August 16, 2024
A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and into the Russian town of Sudzha
August 16, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since September 2020, a result of asylum being temporarily suspended
August 16, 2024
Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh gained some of the first access to a Ukrainian-held Russian town Friday, to witness their control over the town of Sudzha and the intensity of the fight. CNN was accompanied by the Ukrainian military who reviewed the video without sound prior to release for operational security reasons, yet had no editorial control.
August 16, 2024
5-year-old who survived crash finishes first week of kindergarten
August 16, 2024
Blinken to travel to Israel in push for Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal
August 16, 2024
The U.S.
August 16, 2024
US and allies push for Israel-Hamas ceasefire to be reached next week after presenting fresh proposal to warring sides
August 16, 2024
Ukrainian army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Friday that Kyiv's forces were advancing between one and three kilometres in some areas in the Kursk region, 11 days since beginning an
August 16, 2024
President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation to establish a national monument to commemorate the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill
August 16, 2024
Peace activists from several countries are setting out on a converted trawler to defy an Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
August 16, 2024
Family of South Florida woman missing in Spain continues to search for answers
August 16, 2024
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu has received the Olympic bronze medal that was first awarded to U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles but later revoked over a scoring controversy
August 16, 2024
The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus’ transmission
August 16, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for parties to the conflict in Gaza to provide concrete assurances guaranteeing humanitarian pauses
August 16, 2024
A pilot died on Friday after the Fouga Magister jet which he was flying during an airshow in Lavandou, southern France, crashed into the Mediterranean sea, said French authorities.
August 16, 2024
Muawiya Sedeh, a 38 year-old father of five was at home in the West Bank village of Jit when his house was torched by a band of Jewish settlers, some masked
August 16, 2024
Ukraine has set up storage facilities in its northern region of Sumy to hold and send humanitarian aid to Russian civilians in the Kyiv-held part of Russia's western region of Kursk, the
August 16, 2024
Economic sanctions imposed by the West on Russia will remain in place for decades, even if there is a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, a senior Russian foreign ministry official said
August 16, 2024
The U.S. women’s soccer team has returned to the top of the FIFA world rankings after winning gold last weekend at the Paris Olympics
August 16, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday that he believes the Venezuelan government has authoritarian inclinations, but added he would
August 16, 2024
The International Court of Justice said on Friday it would hold public hearings starting Dec. 2 in an advisory opinion case that may become a reference point in defining
August 16, 2024
The Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Friday he expects a "good result" from ongoing talks with the United States on new measures to restrict exports of
August 16, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto bore down on Bermuda on Friday as a Category 2 storm, threatening the British island territory with strong winds, a
August 16, 2024
The US is experiencing its largest summer Covid wave in at least two years
August 16, 2024
African leaders will meet in Zimbabwe on Saturday for a scheduled summit of the 16-nation Southern African Development Community
August 16, 2024
A series of Ukrainian strikes wounded at least seven people and set a shopping centre ablaze in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, the top Russian
August 16, 2024
His love of music is helping refugees and immigrants build new lives
August 16, 2024
Israeli leaders have roundly condemned a settler attack that killed one Palestinian and torched homes and cars in the occupied West Bank
August 16, 2024
Photos from space show just how close Greece wildfires got to burning whole towns
August 16, 2024
More imported cases of a new mpox strain will appear in Europe in the coming weeks but the risk of sustained transmission remains low, the head of
August 16, 2024
China will impose export controls on some antimony products from Sept. 15, it said on Thursday, citing national security, adding to measures imposed by Beijing since last year to curb
August 16, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto has started to pound Bermuda with heavy winds and rain after officials on the tiny British territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean opened shelters and closed government offices
August 16, 2024
Biden designates the site of 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, a national monument
August 16, 2024
Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk have urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army is quickly closing in on what has for months been one of Moscow’s key targets
August 16, 2024
India has announced three-phased assembly elections in disputed Kashmir, the first in a decade and in a new political environment after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomy and downgraded it to a federally controlled territory
August 16, 2024
The US maintains close to 1,000 troops in Syria and supports Kurdish groups in the northeast and some opposition groups in the southeast.
August 16, 2024
Mediators to the Gaza War cease-fire talks say the two-day talks wrapped up and they aim to reconvene in Cairo next week to seal a deal to stop the fighting
August 16, 2024
The Israeli army ordered people in south and central Gaza areas it had previously designated humanitarian safe zones to leave on
August 16, 2024
As conflict casts a shadow across the Middle East, people are getting rich in Dubai
August 16, 2024
The election of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as Thailand’s prime minister represents a remarkable comeback for the political dynasty founded by her billionaire father, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by a military coup in 2006
August 16, 2024
More evidence has emerged that Mexican authorities disposed of the bodies of dissidents in “death flights” during the country's 1965-1990 “dirty war.”
August 16, 2024
A U.S. official says mediators are preparing for a possible cease-fire and hostage-release deal in Gaza, in a sign that mediators believe an agreement to end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war might be imminent
August 16, 2024
After a Russian missile tore through Ukraine's largest children's hospital last month, fundraiser Yevhen Vember sprang into action, marshalling more than $9 million
August 16, 2024
An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan
August 16, 2024
New footage captured by AFP reveals a Ukrainian truck transporting blindfolded individuals believed to be Russian soldiers. CNN's Clare Sebastian reports.
August 16, 2024
Putin promised poorly trained conscripts wouldn’t be sent to war. Now the front line has come to them
August 16, 2024
Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr. says Beijing weaponizes tourism to the Pacific Island archipelago in an effort to force it to sever ties with Taiwan
August 16, 2024
A daring Ukrainian military push into Russia’s Kursk region has seen Kyiv’s forces seize scores of villages, attack air bases and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II
August 16, 2024
Giant panda Ying Ying has given birth to twins at Ocean Park in Hong Kong. The first-time mother is the oldest giant panda on record to give birth at 19 years old. That's the equivalent of 57 in human years.
August 16, 2024
Some families of hostages held in Gaza believe the latest round of cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas could be the last best chance to set their loved ones free after more than 300 days of captivity
August 16, 2024
Thailand’s Parliament has elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of the divisive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, as the country’s new prime minister
August 16, 2024
The leaders of Australia and New Zealand said on Friday the AUKUS trilateral defence pact would boost regional security and stability, as both countries warned they
August 16, 2024
Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, drawing condemnation from top officials
August 16, 2024
Thousands of people in northern Japan were ordered to evacuate because of risks of flooding and mudslides from a powerful typhoon approaching in the Pacific Ocean
August 16, 2024
Coast Guard rescues boater adrift in flooded vessel
August 16, 2024
'I still cry:' Residents look back on Tropical Storm Fred's impact 3 years later
August 16, 2024
A float in Sunday’s upcoming India Day Parade in New York City that celebrates a Hindu temple built over a razed mosque in India is being criticized as anti-Muslim
August 15, 2024
Shut out of school by the Taliban, Afghan girls and women are finding new ways to learn
August 15, 2024
Watchdogs are raising new concerns about legacy contamination in Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and home to a renewed effort to manufacture key components for nuclear weapons
August 15, 2024
Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha paused on Friday with negotiators to meet again next week seeking an agreement to end fighting between Israel
August 15, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed a pledge to deepen cooperation with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked an anniversary of
August 15, 2024
Protests against the war in Gaza have put intense pressure on U.S. college leaders, who are charged with bridging bitter campus divides while balancing free speech rights with concern for safety on campus
August 15, 2024
Iraq postpones plans for US troop withdrawal amid regional tensions
August 15, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential vote, has finally been formally declared Mexico's President-elect, the first woman to hold the office in Mexico
August 15, 2024
A black X is appearing on the doors of Maduro opponents in Venezuela
August 15, 2024
The world’s largest iceberg is spinning in an ocean vortex with no end in sight
August 15, 2024
Prince Harry and Meghan are in Colombia. Here’s what to know about their visit
August 15, 2024
Jordanian citizen charged with attacking Florida solar power facility and making threats over anti-Israel beliefs
August 15, 2024
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have arrived in Colombia, where they will participate in several events promoting mental health for young people and how to combat cyberbullying, one of the couple’s latest philanthropic causes
August 15, 2024
Russia appears to have diverted several thousand troops from occupied Ukraine to counter Kursk offensive, US officials say
August 15, 2024
Swedish health officials say they have identified the first case of a person with the more infectious form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo
August 15, 2024
The rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata last week has brought women onto the streets across India, furious at persistently high levels of sexual
August 15, 2024
Turkey and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding on military, security and counter-terrorism cooperation, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday, after two
August 15, 2024
Hong Kong has welcomed the births of its first locally born giant pandas
August 15, 2024
Independent experts with the United Nations have urged Bahrain to ensure those held at its Jaw prison have access to adequate food, water and medical care
August 15, 2024
As students return to college campuses across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza
August 15, 2024
Global Fest fashion show to showcase designs from many nations
August 15, 2024
A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was critically injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death is showing “small but significant signs of progress” from a severe brain injury
August 15, 2024
An international group of astronomers has joined calls to create a standard for keeping time on the moon, where seconds tick by faster
August 15, 2024
Wednesday’s decision by Thailand’s Constitutional Court to oust Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin after just under a year in office was jarring
August 15, 2024
Police say a court in Greenland has ruled that veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson must remain in custody as authorities consider Japan’s request for his extradition
August 15, 2024
Ukraine captures Russian town of Sudzha as Kyiv’s forces advance, Zelensky says
August 15, 2024
A tiny South American deer that will weigh just 15 to 20 pounds when fully grown is making its debut at the Queens Zoo in New York City
August 15, 2024
Venezuela’s opposition has been dealt a blow as countries that had been pressuring President Nicolás Maduro to release vote tallies backing his claim to victory in last month’s presidential election are now suggesting the possibility of repeating the contest
August 15, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto unloaded flooding rainfall on Puerto Rico as it pulled away from the island Wednesday afternoon and now heads towards Bermuda, bringing the potential for dangerous beach conditions on the eastern seaboard of the US. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam reports.
August 15, 2024
A home in North Carolina collapsed due to strong swells from Hurricane Ernesto, which also delivered heavy blows to Bermuda and has begun ramping up coastal danger for much of the United States’ Eastern Seaboard.
August 15, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto has intensified to a Category 2 storm and is currently on track to hit Bermuda. The storm’s massive waves threaten dangerous rip currents this weekend along the East Coast of the United States. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has more.
August 15, 2024
Ernesto restrengthens to a hurricane as dangerous beach conditions continue along East Coast
August 15, 2024
Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani has warned that opening a bridge to traffic in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica without NATO's coordination risks a conflict
August 15, 2024
The first of four supermoons this year is about to rise
August 15, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto on Thursday strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it barreled toward Bermuda threatening major damage over the weekend from powerful
August 15, 2024
The U.N. refugee agency has agreed to monitor the first three months of a contentious accord between Italy and Albania to process migrants' asylum requests at two centers in Albania
August 15, 2024
Ukraine has chalked up a string of victories more than a week since blindsiding Russia with a lightning cross-border assault, but the risks are piling
August 15, 2024
The World Health Organization had declared mpox a global health threat in 2022 and 2024. While most mpox infections are mild, some can be fatal, and cases are spreading in Africa.
August 15, 2024
As police departments across the US and the world adopt real-time crime centers, there’s a need for better public understanding of how these centers work.
August 15, 2024
By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.
August 15, 2024
Jacinda Ardern, like Kamala Harris, unexpectedly became the leader of her political party close to the election. The similarities don’t stop there.
August 15, 2024
NATO member Poland is paying tribute to its historic victory over the Red Army by honoring fallen Poles and displaying its modern armed forces, which it hopes will deter the threat it sees in modern-day Russia
August 15, 2024
Hundreds of student protesters and other political activists in Bangladesh have attacked and barred the supporters of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's supporters from reaching her father and independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s house — now a museum — in the capital
August 15, 2024
New Zealand to extradite internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the US
August 15, 2024
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in 10 months of war in Gaza, health ministry says
August 15, 2024
CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports on an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment building, killing the wife and days-old twin children of Mohammad Abu Al Qumsan. He had left their home to get the twins' birth certificates. His wife and the twins were among at least 23 people killed in several Israeli strikes in the area, according to hospital officials.
August 15, 2024
Russian court gives 12-year treason sentence to Russian-American over $50 charity donation
August 15, 2024
With the death toll in Gaza surpassing 40,000 after 10 months of war, the small, densely packed territory is crammed with bodies
August 15, 2024
China says it will restrict exports of a mineral used in a wide range of products from batteries to weapons
August 15, 2024
The wife of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that investigators had told her his death in an Arctic prison colony in February was caused by a
August 15, 2024
The Health Ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war
August 15, 2024
As cases rise against her, including murder accusations, Bangladesh will decide whether to ask India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,
August 15, 2024
A U.S.-Russian dual national has been convicted of treason in a Russian court and sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges stemming from a donation of about $52 to a charity aiding Ukraine
August 15, 2024
The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for
August 15, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s troops have taken full control of Sudzha
August 15, 2024
France is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of the French Riviera in World War II to push back the Nazis
August 15, 2024
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
August 15, 2024
Russian court sentences US citizen to 15 days in prison for attacking police officer
August 15, 2024
Kiribati's pro-China President Taneti Maamau and opposition leader Tessie Lambourne won their seats in a national election held in the remote Pacific Island nation, unofficial results
August 15, 2024
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will be nominated as the country’s new prime minister in a parliamentary vote, her party and its coalition partners said Thursday
August 15, 2024
Japan braces as powerful Typhoon Ampil strengthens near Tokyo
August 15, 2024
The White House says talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war have resumed in Doha and are expected to run into Friday
August 15, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to step up his country’s effort to defend a rules-based international order in a solemn ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II
August 15, 2024
International mediators have held a new round of talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages
August 15, 2024
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has pledged to travel to Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war rages
August 15, 2024
The Taliban have deliberately deprived at least 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans
August 15, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed concern over the unrest that led to a change of government in neighboring Bangladesh and the attacks on Hindus and other minorities there
August 15, 2024
Ukrainians watch their troops’ counteroffensive with mix of satisfaction and fear
August 15, 2024
Ukraine’s stunning incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region was a bold gamble for the country’s military commanders, who committed their limited resources to a risky assault on a nuclear-armed enemy with no assurance of success
August 15, 2024
Japan marked the anniversary on Thursday of its defeat in World War Two with visits by at least three cabinet ministers to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that other
August 15, 2024
China's factory output slowed for a third straight month in July, showing the recovery in the world's second-largest economy was losing steam, although the
August 15, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol offered on Thursday to establish a working-level consultative body with North Korea to discuss ways to ease tension and resume
August 15, 2024
Thailand's ruling alliance on Thursday backed the daughter of divisive tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra to become the next prime minister, a
August 15, 2024
Columbia President Minouche Shafik steps down months after protests over Israel-Hamas war gripped campus
August 15, 2024
Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi cleared of charge after death sentence overturned
August 14, 2024
Google says an Iranian group linked to the country’s Revolutionary Guard has tried to infiltrate the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen people linked to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump since May
August 14, 2024
A federal prosecutor in Argentina has formally charged former President Alberto Fernández with committing violence against former first lady Fabiola Yáñez
August 14, 2024
The first day of U.S.-led peace talks aimed at finding a solution to Sudan’s brutal conflict concluded in Geneva with the country’s military absent and the other warring party’s participation unclear
August 14, 2024
US expresses frustration that North Korea is blocking efforts to recover remains of American casualties from Korean War
August 14, 2024
Google says Iranian efforts to hack US presidential campaigns are ongoing and wide-ranging
August 14, 2024
UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns
August 14, 2024
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will arrive in Colombia on Thursday
August 14, 2024
WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency
August 14, 2024
Germany closes military base over suspicion water supply was sabotaged
August 14, 2024
The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency
August 14, 2024
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the
August 14, 2024
A couple of decades ago, when Claudia Santos felt the need for spiritual shelter, she dug into her countries’ history and there she found it: Her ancestors, the Mexica
August 14, 2024
Mexico’s president has lashed out at U.S. funding for a Mexican anti-corruption non-profit group, and says he will send a diplomatic note to the United States in protest
August 14, 2024
For more than a week, Ukrainian troops have pushed into the Kursk region of Russia, just north of their border, in the most extensive incursion by Kyiv’s forces in the 2½-year-old war
August 14, 2024
Mural celebrating Black Italian volleyball star defaced with racist graffiti
August 14, 2024
China’s top diplomat has visited Myanmar and met with the leader of its military government as growing instability from the neighboring country’s civil war causes concern in Beijing
August 14, 2024
A top Hamas official says the Palestinian militant group is losing faith in the United States’ ability to mediate a cease-fire in Gaza ahead of a new round of talks scheduled for this week
August 14, 2024
North Korea will reopen to international tourism this winter, tour operators say
August 14, 2024
A court in the Russian capital has handed a 15-day sentence to a U.S. citizen on charges of disorderly conduct
August 14, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a morning press conference on Wednesday that he would send a diplomatic note to the United States over what he called
August 14, 2024
Researchers are one step closer to understanding how Stonehenge was created
August 14, 2024
Talks aimed at ending Sudan's shattering 16-month-old civil war began on Wednesday in Switzerland although the absence of the military dampened hopes for imminent steps to alleviate
August 14, 2024
Germany on Wednesday condemned a visit by two Israeli ministers to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, known to Jews as Temple Mount, and said it expects the Israeli
August 14, 2024
The United States, one of the world's biggest plastic makers, will support a global treaty calling for a reduction in how much new plastic is produced each
August 14, 2024
Ukraine has stolen the initiative from Russia with its cross-border offensive into the Kursk region
August 14, 2024
About half of all homes and businesses on Puerto Rico were without power on Wednesday as Hurricane Ernesto churned north into the warm
August 14, 2024
North Darfur’s remaining hospital risks closure as Sudan’s civil war intensifies
August 14, 2024
Kosovo’s prime minister is calling for the full reopening of a bridge in the flashpoint city of Mitrovica, saying it would be another step toward free movement and not a threat to anyone
August 14, 2024
Ukrainian man wanted over Nord Stream pipelines explosions
August 14, 2024
Russian lawmaker Maria Butina on Wednesday said that the West was involved in the Ukrainian incursion into sovereign Russian territory and was thus "poking the bear" in a dangerous
August 14, 2024
The Kremlin has pushed a dual narrative: that the conflict represents an existential battle with the West, but that life goes on as normal for most Russians.
August 14, 2024
Attempts to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act have faltered, leaving tens of thousands of Afghans who fled chaos during the fall of Kabul in limbo.
August 14, 2024
Israel has published plans for one of its proposed new settlements in the occupied West Bank, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on
August 14, 2024
Fumio Kishida pushed through Japan's biggest wage increases in decades, but it was not enough to make up for the impact the battered yen
August 14, 2024
Refugee Olympic Team’s historic first medalist Cindy Ngamba hopes to inspire millions
August 14, 2024
Ukraine said on Wednesday it carried out its largest long-range drone strike of the war on four Russian military airfields overnight, which were hailed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
August 14, 2024
China has resubmitted plans to build a new large embassy in London, a contested project that could test how the new Labour government handles relations with the
August 14, 2024
China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States, Britain and Australia should not advance their nuclear submarine cooperation until the international community has
August 14, 2024
The World Health Organization has declared the increasing spread of mpox in Africa a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders
August 14, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto has dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and knocked out power for nearly half of all customers in the U.S. territory
August 14, 2024
Mosaic buried for thousands of years uncovered by archaeologists
August 14, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said on Wednesday he believed all-out war between Israel and Lebanon's powerful militant group Hezbollah could be avoided but that Israel and Hamas needed
August 14, 2024
Ukrainian forces are pushing on with their major cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region for a second week
August 14, 2024
Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin removed from office in shock court ruling
August 14, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was dismissed on Wednesday by the Constitutional Court for a breach of ethics in appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who was
August 14, 2024
The Taliban are celebrating their third year as rulers of Afghanistan at a former U.S. air base
August 14, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday killed at least 17 people, including five children and their parents
August 14, 2024
People in Kiribati are going to the polls for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the government’s stronger ties with China
August 14, 2024
Firefighters battled on Wednesday to extinguish the remnants of a wildfire near Athens that killed a woman, torched buildings, devoured woodland
August 14, 2024
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will elect its new president on Friday to replace outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and lead a party that has governed the country for most
August 14, 2024
Hurricane Ernesto knocked out power to half of Puerto Rico and is strengthening as it heads toward Bermuda
August 14, 2024
Tropical Storm Ernesto is expected to intensify into a dangerous hurricane as it skirts Puerto Rico. CNN's Chad Myers reports.
August 14, 2024
Ernesto is gaining strength in the Caribbean Wednesday, reaching Cat-1 hurricane status as it brings heavy rainfall, gusty winds and storm surge primarily to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Laura Aguirre has a 3:30p ET pkg with free custom audio tags.
August 14, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he would step down as prime minister next month, after a three-year tenure marked by scandal and declining public support.
August 14, 2024
China has uncovered widespread corruption in its funeral services industry, state media said on Wednesday, with offences such as illegal fees and
August 14, 2024
Bangladesh court orders murder probe into ousted former leader Sheikh Hasina
August 14, 2024
International mediators are hoping to kickstart stalled cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas with a new round of talks meant to finally clinch a deal between the sides
August 14, 2024
Japan issued its first “megaquake advisory” last week after a powerful earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of the country’s southern main island of Kyushu
August 14, 2024
Within a week of unseating Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka’s traffic
August 14, 2024
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will step down next month, won’t run for re-election
August 14, 2024
Of all the Russian dissidents freed in the historic East-West prison swap on Aug. 1, Andrei Pivovarov spent the most time behind bars – three years
August 14, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday the government must continue to promote growth in wages and investment for the economy to make a full exit from
August 14, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will not seek another term as his party's leader, meaning Japan will get a new prime minister in September
August 14, 2024
Cruise ships change itineraries to dodge Ernesto
August 14, 2024
A 1994 plane crash looms over investigation into Brazil flight tragedy
August 13, 2024
US State Department approves $20 billion potential weapons sales to Israel
August 13, 2024
Walz once praised Muslim leader who shared antisemitic propaganda
August 13, 2024
Ukraine's military incursion into Russia has "created a real dilemma" for Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden said on
August 13, 2024
The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles
August 13, 2024
A Gazan father went to register his twins’ births. They were killed in an Israeli strike, hospital officials say
August 13, 2024
San Francisco prosecutors have charged 26 protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for hours in April to demand a cease-fire in Gaza
August 13, 2024
Workers arriving at the London Zoo were surprised to discover an unexpected exhibit that suggested the animals were being set free
August 13, 2024
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Tuesday that Russia needs to be forced to participate in a summit on peace as it would not do so willingly.
August 13, 2024
British authorities have now arrested more than 1,000
August 13, 2024
Russia criticized Western allies of Ukraine at the United Nations on Tuesday for not condemning Kyiv's incursion into the Russian region of Kursk,
August 13, 2024
A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group has been convicted of dozens of crimes against humanity in a key moment of justice for many in Uganda who suffered decades of its brutal insurgency
August 13, 2024
High-stakes Gaza ceasefire talks have ended. Here’s what to know
August 13, 2024
Remains found in a tomb in northwestern Spain are likely to belong to a ninth-century bishop believed to have helped create the Camino de Santiago, one of Christianity's most
August 13, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin told visiting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that Moscow was pained by the plight of his people and backed their aspiration to
August 13, 2024
Real Madrid’s Vinícius Jr. offered over $1 billion to move to Saudi Arabia, per reports
August 13, 2024
Poland on Tuesday signed a contract with the U.S. to buy 96 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters as it bolsters its armed forces following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
August 13, 2024
A panel of experts from the United Nations said Venezuela’s recent presidential elections lacked “basic transparency and integrity."
August 13, 2024
Tropical Storm Ernesto threatened on Tuesday to bring heavy rainfall, dangerous storm surges and strong winds to the U.S. and
August 13, 2024
Ernesto getting stronger as it plows through Caribbean islands. Here’s where it could go next and how fast it could intensify.
August 13, 2024
The Russian Defense Ministry says its forces have checked an effort by Kyiv’s troops to expand a stunning weeklong incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
August 13, 2024
A 3-month-old infant was the only member of her family to survive an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip late Monday
August 13, 2024
Tropical Storm Ernesto is poised to become a hurricane after brushing past Puerto Rico as officials closed schools, opened shelters and moved dozens of the U.S. territory’s endangered parrots into hurricane-proof rooms
August 13, 2024
Cracks are widening in a public tiff between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister
August 13, 2024
Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the
August 13, 2024
Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a call from her self-exile in India for an investigation into the killings of students and others during weeks of violent protests in her country that prompted her ouster
August 13, 2024
A senior U.N. official says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have stormed the headquarters of the U.N. Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa
August 13, 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged countries to step up their donations in response to the world's largest displacement crisis in Sudan, warning on Tuesday
August 13, 2024
Ukraine is restricting the movement of civilians within a 20 km (12 mile) zone in a northeastern region bordering Russia, Kyiv's general staff said on Tuesday, as its troops push
August 13, 2024
Iran has rejected a call by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions
August 13, 2024
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician freed in the massive prisoner swap with Russia, tells CNN's Erin Burnett about the brutal conditions of living in solitary confinement at a Russian prison.
August 13, 2024
Sri Lanka's telecommunications regulator has issued a licence to Elon Musk's Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to provide the country with satellite broadband services, the
August 13, 2024
The Berlin Zoo has much anticipated news: Meng Meng the panda is pregnant again, months after the first giant pandas born in Germany were sent to China
August 13, 2024
Firefighters in Greece are battling scattered fires, hoping to end the major wildfire that burned into the northern suburbs of Athens, triggering evacuations and leaving at least one person dead
August 13, 2024
Greece's worst wildfire of the year eased on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday thanks to weaker winds, pausing progress of a
August 13, 2024
People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic, government statistics show.
August 13, 2024
Russia launched 38 attack drones and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine's air force said on Tuesday.
August 13, 2024
Russian forces on Tuesday struck back at Ukrainian troops with missiles, drones and airstrikes in actions that one senior commander said had
August 13, 2024
A Japanese business executive has returned to Japan after being convicted and released this week after more than a month of detention in Myanmar
August 13, 2024
Ever since Bangladesh's prime minister was forced to step down and fled the country, her supporters and associates have faced retaliatory attacks
August 13, 2024
Hundreds of fleeing Rohingya reportedly killed in drone strikes as fears mount of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
August 13, 2024
Older adults are grappling with how artificial intelligence is changing the world
August 13, 2024
An Arlington, Virginia, family whose son made the ultimate sacrifice for his V-22 Osprey crew will be honored with the Navy and Marine Corps' highest noncombat honors
August 13, 2024
The United States is asking Turkey and other allies that have ties with Iran to persuade it to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East, the U.S. ambassador to
August 13, 2024
Voters in Arizona will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion up to about 24 weeks to the state constitution
August 13, 2024
A Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea has been targeted in a third attack by suspected Yemeni rebels in their campaign of assaults over the Israel-Hamas war
August 13, 2024
A study released Monday using data from NASA's Mars InSight lander shows evidence of liquid water far below the surface of the fourth planet, advancing the search
August 13, 2024
The pilot of the plane that crashed down in Brazil last week has been buried in Sao Paulo, becoming the first person laid to rest among the 62 victims, as authorities continue working to determine what caused the accident
August 12, 2024
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Los Angeles area
August 12, 2024
Space forecasters say solar storms persisting from the weekend may produce colorful auroras across the Northern Hemisphere
August 12, 2024
Israel is monitoring developments in Iran regarding a threatened strike against Israel, but the military has not changed its precautionary guidelines to the public, the Israeli
August 12, 2024
Yurii Oliynyk sat milking his cows on his farm in northeastern Ukraine, hunkering down as fighting from his country's new push into Russia raged on a few
August 12, 2024
Lebanon’s health care system has been battered by multiple crisis but is now preparing for the possibility of a devastating wider conflict with Israel
August 12, 2024
Tropical Storm Ernesto is headed for Puerto Rico. Here’s where it could go next
August 12, 2024
Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) said on Monday that Russia was trying to falsely accuse Kyiv's military of war crimes as Ukraine pressed on with a ground incursion into Russia's
August 12, 2024
Displaced in south Lebanon five times, Kamel Mroue and his wife Mariam are anxious about their next move as they follow the news of clashes
August 12, 2024
Russian forces have reduced the number of guided bomb attacks on border settlements in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, the local governor said on Monday, while Moscow troops
August 12, 2024
Pakistan's military said on Monday it had arrested retired general Faiz Hameed, former head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, in connection with a land
August 12, 2024
Worldwide, the number of people with dementia is set to dramatically rise in the next 25 years. But a new report shows it doesn’t have to happen.
August 12, 2024
Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers, or 386 square miles, of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region
August 12, 2024
CNN’s Anna Coren speaks with familes mourning people killed in demonstrations that toppled the Bangladeshi government.
August 12, 2024
Turkey and Syria could meet at the ministerial level as part of efforts to normalise ties if suitable conditions are created, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters in an
August 12, 2024
Turkey is pleased with its deal with the United States regarding the procurement of Block-70 F-16 fighter jets and modernisation kits, and the process is continuing as planned,
August 12, 2024
A report shows that coastal tribes in the Pacific Northwest experience some of the most severe effects of climate change but face an array of bureaucratic barriers when it comes to accessing government funds meant to help them adapt
August 12, 2024
A major forest fire has raged into the northern suburbs of Athens, killing one person and triggering evacuations of several areas as swirling winds hampered efforts of hundreds of firefighters and dozens of water-dropping planes
August 12, 2024
South Korea and the United States will begin annual summertime military drills next week to ramp up their capability to counter North Korea's weapons and cyber
August 12, 2024
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain have endorsed the latest push by mediators United States, Qatar and Egypt to broker an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war
August 12, 2024
The United Kingdom, France and Germany called on Iran and its allies to refrain from attacks against Israel that would further escalate tensions and jeopardise the chances of a ceasefire
August 12, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Ukraine's biggest attack on Russian territory since the start of the war was aimed at improving Kyiv's negotiating
August 12, 2024
A man has died after an unauthorized helicopter flight in Queensland, Australia ended in a crash on a hotel roof, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people from the building as flames engulfed the aircraft
August 12, 2024
Ukraine is scrambling to ship as much grain as it can this summer, taking advantage of military gains it has made in the
August 12, 2024
High up in the mountains of Maui, residents of one small town have taken their future into their own hands after a fire last year that burned 19 homes
August 12, 2024
Footage of the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop plunging while in a flat spin sent shockwaves across Brazil
August 12, 2024
A generation of young people, many of whom cannot remember a time before Sheikh Hasina was Bangladesh’s prime minister, led protests that resulted in her ouster
August 12, 2024
Ret. Lt. General Mark Hertling explains why he thinks US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's decision to announce he ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East is "unusual."
August 12, 2024
South Korea and the United States will start their annual joint military exercises next week with a focus on improving their combined capabilities to deter and defend against growing North Korean nuclear threats
August 12, 2024
Hong Kong’s top court on Monday upheld the convictions of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists over their roles in one of the biggest anti-government protests in 2019
August 12, 2024
Hong Kong's top court on Monday unanimously dismissed the bid to overturn the convictions of media tycoon Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy campaigners for an
August 12, 2024
A slow-moving storm is dumping intense rainfall on northern Japan, causing rivers to swell and sending some residents to shelters
August 12, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area
August 11, 2024
World stocks edged higher on Monday while the yen slipped as a holiday in Japan removed one source of recent volatility, with investors
August 11, 2024
Youth unemployment worldwide last year dipped to a 15-year-low and is likely to continue falling through 2025, although weaker growth means Asia has lagged this trend, the
August 11, 2024
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of starting a fire at the dormant Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Sunday, but both sides reported no sign of elevated
August 11, 2024
Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel as threat of Iran attack looms
August 11, 2024
State Department of Public Safety troopers recently helped rescue an escaped sulcata tortoise that was attempting to cross Interstate 10 near Picacho
August 11, 2024
An ATR-72 turboprop plane operated by regional carrier Voepass crashed on Friday in a residential area near Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing all 62 passengers aboard.
August 11, 2024
A wildfire burned northeast of Athens, darkening the sky as the smell of smoke and soot pervaded the Greek capital
August 11, 2024
More than 80 years after he went missing in Romania, an American WWII airman has been honored
August 11, 2024
Two people were found dead after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the Channel from near the French port of Calais to Britain ran into difficulties early on Sunday, French
August 11, 2024
A fourth summer heatwave has hit Spain in recent days, with northern regions of the country sweltering in abnormally high temperatures of over 40 degrees
August 11, 2024
Residents fled their homes on Sunday as a fast-moving wildfire outside Athens fuelled by hot, windy weather burned trees,
August 11, 2024
Hamas leader Sinwar wants a ceasefire deal, mediators say, but Netanyahu’s stance unclear
August 11, 2024
Serbia’s president has accused demonstrators who oppose a lithium mining project in the Balkan country of being part of a Western-backed “hybrid” warfare against his government and vowed to take strong legal action against those protesters who have blocked railway and road traffic in the capital a day earlier
August 11, 2024
The U.S. Navy is struggling to build affordable warships needed to face expanding threats around the world
August 11, 2024
At least 18 people were killed when a landfill collapsed in the Ugandan capital, according to the Red Cross
August 11, 2024
USA and China tie for most gold medals in the 2024 Summer Olympics
August 11, 2024
Girl, 3, and boy, 4, confirmed dead in Brazilian plane crash as rescuers retrieve bodies
August 11, 2024
Zelensky confirms Ukrainian troops are fighting inside Russian territory
August 11, 2024
A video appears to show a convoy of about a dozen burnt-out Russian military trucks in Ukraine's southwestern Kursk region, as Ukrainian cross-border assaults continue.
August 11, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has proposed former nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as the country’s new foreign minister and named a woman as housing minister
August 11, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza a day after health authorities said an airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians
August 11, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has indirectly acknowledged ongoing military actions in Russia's Kursk border region to “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.”
August 11, 2024
More than 40 families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil have gathered at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as three French government investigators arrived in the country
August 11, 2024
The ritualized circumcision of thousands of boys, known as Imbalu, began Aug. 3 in a remote corner of Uganda and will continue until the end of 2024
August 11, 2024
US and coalition personnel sustained minor injuries in Friday drone attack in Syria, official says
August 11, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to "restore justice" and pressure
August 11, 2024
Belarus reinforces military power on its Ukraine borders after drone interceptions
August 10, 2024
A 4-year-old boy and his 35-year-old father were killed in an overnight Russian air strike outside of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
August 10, 2024
Romania’s Ana Barbosu replaced American Jordan Chiles as the Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics floor exercise after the International Gymnastics Federation restored Barbosu's third-place standing
August 10, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says it has been hacked and is blaming Iranian actors for stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents
August 10, 2024
American gymnast Jordan Chiles’ bronze medal in floor exercise in doubt after CAS ruling
August 10, 2024
Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has said that he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa
August 10, 2024
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Saturday that the kingdom would not be a battlefield for Iran or Israel, as the region braces for a possible new wave of attacks by
August 10, 2024
By land, sea and sky, Māori are using Indigenous knowledge to combat climate change
August 10, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were fighting in Russia's Kursk region and said the operation was part of Kyiv's drive to
August 10, 2024
The International Gymnastics Federation restored Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu to third in the women’s floor exercise final on Saturday, potentially forcing American gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze she won in the event
August 10, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has cancelled a planned holiday to focus on his government's response to a series of racist riots that targeted Muslims and migrants, a Downing
August 10, 2024
Ukraine’s Olympic fan clubhouse stands out for its somber atmosphere, with moments of silence for war victims and documentaries about the destruction
August 10, 2024
A Sierra Leonean military court has convicted 24 soldiers of their roles in last year's attempted coup
August 10, 2024
The U.S. women’s soccer team has won its fifth Olympic gold medal by beating Brazil 1-0 in the final at the Paris Games
August 10, 2024
The one question Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is repeatedly asked about before her city hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics is traffic
August 10, 2024
Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation
August 10, 2024
Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has resigned following new protests by students and other demonstrators, as the interim government starts functioning after a mass uprising toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
August 10, 2024
Iran’s newly-elected president has reappointed a U.S.-educated official as director of the country’s nuclear department
August 10, 2024
South Korea’s military says North Korea is again flying balloons likely carrying trash toward the South, adding to a bizarre psychological warfare campaign amid tensions between the war-divided rivals
August 10, 2024
Russia has announced increased security measures in the border region of Kursk
August 10, 2024
Bangladesh's chief justice and central bank governor have resigned, officials said on Saturday, as student protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee
August 10, 2024
A man convicted in the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been discharged from jail after signing a contract to join the military operation in Ukraine, state-run
August 10, 2024
The female boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting have faced intense scrutiny after the International Boxing Federation claimed the athletes had previously failed a gender eligibility test. CNN's Christina Macfarlane speaks with two-time Olympic track and field champion Caster Semenya, who has been deemed ineligible to run for similar reasons, but is fighting her case at the European Court of Human Rights.
August 10, 2024
Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics to end Kenya’s dominance of the race
August 10, 2024
A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said
August 10, 2024
French authorities vow that cleanup efforts on the Seine River will allow Parisians to finally open up as a summertime swim spot
August 10, 2024
Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 20 km (12 miles) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine's
August 10, 2024
At least 90 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school and mosque in Gaza sheltering displaced people, according to local officials. Witnesses said there was no advance warning of the attack. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed to CNN that it hit the compound, saying its air force “precisely struck Hamas terrorists operating within a Hamas command and control center embedded” in the building.
August 10, 2024
Israeli strike on mosque and school in Gaza kills scores, sparking international outrage
August 10, 2024
Exclusive: Inside the foreign mission sent to battle Haiti’s gangs
August 10, 2024
US women ‘here to win’ Olympic soccer gold ahead of crunch match against Brazil
August 10, 2024
U.S. coach Emma Hayes looks ahead to Saturday's Olympics football final against Marta's Brazil.
August 10, 2024
Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 80 people in a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza City
August 10, 2024
Brazilian rescue teams have retrieved the remains of all 62 passengers from the wreckage of a plane crash in Sao Paulo state as families began gathering in the metropolis to identify and bury their loved ones
August 10, 2024
North Korean leader says he will not seek outside help to recover from floods that devasted areas near the country’s border with China
August 10, 2024
The swift Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region that began last week has been the largest cross-border raid by Kyiv’s forces in the nearly 2 ½-year war, and has exposed Russia’s vulnerabilities and dealt a painful blow to the Kremlin
August 10, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City school compound housing displaced Palestinian families killed around 100 people, the Gaza Civil Emergency Service said on
August 10, 2024
Kamala Harris’ VP pick has a long history with China. But Beijing may not be happy about it
August 10, 2024
Olympic breaking athlete disqualified for ‘free Afghan women’ cape
August 10, 2024
CNN’s Oren Liebermann gets an exclusive look inside missile alert facilities in Minot, North Dakota, where US airmen manage and prepare Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
August 09, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un revisited a flooded area near the country's border with China this week to address plans to support those affected by recent heavy rainfall and floods
August 09, 2024
Dominant USA wins, a botched baton handoff, drama in the shot put and other takeaways from track and field at the Olympics
August 09, 2024
FDA declines to approve novel MDMA therapy to treat PTSD, with request for more trial data
August 09, 2024
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif reflects on her victory against Chinese opponent Yang Liu in the 66kg gold medal bout at the Paris Summer Olympics. She addresses the challenges she faced, including defending her identity as a woman amidst online scrutiny.
August 09, 2024
Officials say a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone
August 09, 2024
It was a dramatic night for the United States in track and field at the Paris Olympics, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won gold after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex
August 09, 2024
The U.S. is sending Ukraine an additional $125 million in weapons to assist in its military operations against Russia, including much-needed air defense capabilities, radars to detect and counter enemy artillery and anti-tank weapons
August 09, 2024
Crowds of women have shown up at Imane Khelif’s fights during the Paris Olympics to rally around the Algerian boxer as she faces online abuse over misconceptions about her sex
August 09, 2024
US releases $3.5 billion to Israel to spend on US weapons and military equipment, months after Congress appropriated
August 09, 2024
Kansas City resident embarking on 400-mile European bike ride to raise funds for WWII memorial
August 09, 2024
US National Security Council spokesman rebukes Israeli finance minister as ‘dead wrong,’ amid push for ceasefire talks
August 09, 2024
The State Department says it's opted against what would have been its first-ever blocking of aid to an Israeli military unit over rights abuses
August 09, 2024
After arriving in Germany as part of the massive East-West prisoner swap, Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has hit the ground running
August 09, 2024
A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil, with dramatic footage from the scene showing the plane’s destroyed fuselage in flames on the ground.
August 09, 2024
Brazilian passenger plane crash outside São Paulo kills 62
August 09, 2024
The United States men’s basketball team is seeking a thrilling finish to its Paris Olympics run when it plays France in a gold-medal showdown
August 09, 2024
Iran is set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to "harshly punish" Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran, a
August 09, 2024
The United Nations is imposing the rule of law on cyberspace with a new global deal requiring a crackdown on the illegal misuse of computer technology
August 09, 2024
A man who used social media to stoke racial hatred during far-right violence in Britain and encouraged people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers has been sentenced to more than three years in prison
August 09, 2024
The United States has determined that alleged human rights violations by a Israeli Defense Force unit have been "effectively remediated" after reviewing new information provided
August 09, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson won her first Olympic gold medal, bringing the American women from behind in the anchor lap to capture the 4x100 relay
August 09, 2024
Chinese rocket breaks apart in low-Earth orbit, creating a cloud of space debris, US Space Command says
August 09, 2024
'Held onto a branch and it broke:' Three children rescued from Raleigh creek amid Debby flooding
August 09, 2024
Dozens of Russian military personnel are being trained in Iran to use the Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, two European
August 09, 2024
These Gazan children have been reunited with their families after months of war. But thousands remain unaccompanied
August 09, 2024
A Brazilian airliner says one of its passenger planes with 61 people aboard has crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all who were aboard
August 09, 2024
Paris Olympics organizers have issued health recommendations, but no restrictions, for dozens of athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 during the Games
August 09, 2024
Maduro says he will block X in Venezuela for 10 days, after spat with Musk over contested election
August 09, 2024
The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department
August 09, 2024
A Russian businessman released as part of last week's prisoner swap between Russia and the West is dropping his appeal of his U.S. conviction for engaging in a hack-and-
August 09, 2024
Water quality data used by Paris Olympics organizers shows that bacteria levels in the Seine River were within acceptable levels on the days that athletes swam in the famed waterway
August 09, 2024
Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has used dozens of drones to attack Israel in recent months
August 09, 2024
Backed by an outpouring of community spirit, a library in Liverpool is rebuilding after vandals torched it during a spate of racist riots in England
August 09, 2024
Smartmatic executives charged by Justice Department in alleged Philippines bribery scheme
August 09, 2024
Tourist is caught carving initials into 2,000-year-old home at Pompeii
August 09, 2024
The United Nations refugee agency says flood conditions in Sudan are hindering the delivery of aid to areas where many are already facing starvation and famine, including to a camp for those who have fled the ongoing fighting in North Darfur
August 09, 2024
Hundreds of people protested in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday against violence targeting the country's minority Hindus since former prime minister Sheikh Hasina quit and
August 09, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has canceled a planned trip to Central Asia to lead the government’s response after scientists urged people to prepare for a possible “megaquake” off the country’s southern coast
August 09, 2024
A newly opened camp for displaced Palestinians with disabilities is providing some much needed help for around 100 vulnerable people in the town of
August 09, 2024
Many countries are enacting measures to counter population decline, but manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic and environmental problems.
August 09, 2024
Crew of Philippine and Vietnamese vessels blasted a boat with water cannon and simulated a search and rescue on Friday, in the first such joint
August 09, 2024
Russia’s army has in recent months made an unrelenting effort to punch through Ukrainian defenses at selected points along the front line in eastern Ukraine
August 09, 2024
The Chinese government has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over European Union tariffs on electric vehicles made in China
August 09, 2024
When war last came to the edges of Lebanon's capital nearly two decades ago, Bilal Sahlab drove his family to a secluded mountain town, rented an apartment and waited out the
August 09, 2024
The foreign ministers of Somalia and Ethiopia will meet in Ankara next week to discuss disagreements over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland
August 09, 2024
Israeli tanks returned to the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Friday, forcing families to evacuate along congested roadways, as
August 09, 2024
Russia has declared a “federal-level” emergency in the Kursk region following a large-scale incursion from Ukraine and sent reinforcements there
August 09, 2024
A Russian missile struck a supermarket in the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the front-line Donetsk region on Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 43 others, Ukrainian
August 09, 2024
Pakistan would support all efforts to prevent war escalating in the Middle East, its foreign ministry said on Friday, as fears grow of a wider conflict
August 09, 2024
Dozens of countries, academics and rights groups have filed legal arguments either rejecting or supporting the International Criminal Court’s power to issue arrest warrants in its investigation into the war in Gaze and Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel
August 09, 2024
Palestinians are fleeing large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza where the Israeli military has begun a new assault after ordering another mass evacuation
August 09, 2024
Video shows bodies on burnt-out Russian trucks in Kursk region as Ukrainian cross-border assaults rage
August 09, 2024
Pakistan celebrates its first Olympic medal in decades as javelin hero breaks Games record
August 09, 2024
Iraqi teen arrested in Vienna after Taylor Swift terror attack plot thwarted
August 09, 2024
Israeli troops have launched a new assault into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis
August 09, 2024
It’s been 15 years since a teenage runner from South Africa was publicly scrutinized over her sex at a major sports event
August 09, 2024
Nagasaki has marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response to the Japanese city’s refusal to invite Israel
August 09, 2024
When they compete at the Paris Games, they’re just athletes at their peak, and the emphasis isn't that they come from regions ravaged by war
August 09, 2024
The first priority of Bangladesh's caretaker government is to improve law and order in the strife-torn country by restoring the morale of law enforcement
August 09, 2024
Just two days after being disbanded by court order, Thailand’s main progressive political party has regrouped under a new name and vowed to continue its fight for reforms despite continuing opposition from the conservative establishment that blocked the party from taking power despite finishing first in last year’s election
August 09, 2024
A Philippine appeals court has reversed a regulator’s 2018 order to shut down a prominent news outlet, marking a legal victory for journalists who angered former President Rodrigo Duterte by reporting critically on his deadly crackdown on illegal drugs and alarming human rights record
August 09, 2024
China launches satellites to rival SpaceX’s Starlink in boost for its space ambitions
August 09, 2024
In Bangladesh, weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a broad uprising that forced the prime minister to flee the country and resign
August 09, 2024
Authorities say four suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea
August 09, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby continues its deadly path on the eastern seaboard after making it's second landfall in the US.
August 09, 2024
Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa's news website Rappler won an appeal to restore its corporate licence after a court overturned a
August 09, 2024
As instructors shout commands, dozens of students taking part in a pilot Czech army programme aimed at boosting flagging enlistment numbers crawl
August 09, 2024
First responders have launched high-water rescues in rural New York and Pennsylvania due to flash flooding from the remnants of Debby
August 09, 2024
Residents of a tiny village in western Serbia don’t care if their government has agreed with the European Union to open a lithium mine in their sprawling valley: They say it is never going to happen
August 09, 2024
Iran steps up influence campaign aimed at US voters with fake news sites, Microsoft says
August 09, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will likely survive a critical court decision next week that could see him dismissed from office,
August 09, 2024
A human rights activist since the 1980s, Oleg Orlov thought Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became leader
August 09, 2024
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled plans to visit Central Asia and Mongolia this weekend, following an unprecedented advisory that the risk
August 09, 2024
Ancient pot of gold unearthed in Turkey hints at ‘gravest misfortune,’ researchers say
August 08, 2024
Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar are jointly demanding that Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza
August 08, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday took tensions with social media platform X and its owner Elon Musk to new heights, banning the
August 08, 2024
'There it is!': Alligator sightings in Ottawa County's Crockery Lake continue
August 08, 2024
Justice for Reba: Reward doubled for person responsible for English bulldog's abuse
August 08, 2024
Mediators urge Israel and Hamas to accept ‘final’ proposal on ceasefire deal as threat of Iran attack looms
August 08, 2024
Olympic moment of the day: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone defends 400m hurdles title, smashes world record and makes history
August 08, 2024
Team USA comes back from 17-point deficit to survive Serbia, advances to the gold medal game
August 08, 2024
Canada and Australia, expressing alarm at China's claims over the disputed waters of the South China Sea, on Thursday said they would increase their military and defense industry
August 08, 2024
The government of Paraguay has effectively ordered the United States ambassador to leave the South American nation, escalating tensions between the allies in the wake of the Biden administration’s sanctions on a tobacco company linked to the country’s powerful former president
August 08, 2024
With six points in two seconds, the U.S. Olympic team was on its way
August 08, 2024
US updates injured count in Al Asad attack to 5, down from 7
August 08, 2024
The two giant pandas sent from China to the United States earlier this year are making their public debut at the San Diego Zoo
August 08, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, took time out of his Olympic duties to rally a group of enthusiastic supporters in Paris
August 08, 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone once again broke her own world record, powering over the 400-meter hurdles in 50.37 seconds to defend her Olympic title
August 08, 2024
American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 metres hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title on Thursday.
August 08, 2024
Brazil’s government has kicked out Nicaragua’s ambassador to the nation in retaliation for a similar move by the Central American country’s President Daniel Ortega
August 08, 2024
Authorities say two men linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are facing terrorism charges in the U.S. in connection with the interception of a vessel in the Arabian Sea that resulted in the deaths of two Navy SEALs
August 08, 2024
Belgian publisher removes opinion column that described an urge to stab ‘every Jew’ over Gaza
August 08, 2024
The Netherlands has won gold in men’s field hockey after beating Germany 2-1 in a shootout in the final at the Paris Olympics
August 08, 2024
Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters, falling to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, then collapsing on the track and being carted off in a wheelchair
August 08, 2024
Guerschon Yabusele scored 17 points and France beat Germany 73-69 to advance to the men’s Olympic basketball gold medal game
August 08, 2024
Authorities say two suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea
August 08, 2024
Federal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina
August 08, 2024
A federal lawsuit accusing Massachusetts Institute of Technology of tolerating antisemitism after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel has been dismissed while a similar one against Harvard University can continue
August 08, 2024
Minnesotan charged with "kingpin statute" for allegedly running "sprawling" Mexican drug trafficking ring
August 08, 2024
Harris navigates Gaza conflict on campaign trail
August 08, 2024
Federal investigators say they have uncovered the DNA of a former U.S. Green Beret on some of the 60 automatic weapons he allegedly smuggled from Florida to South America as part of a failed 2020 coup attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
August 08, 2024
Residents of a frontline Israeli city feel Hezbollah’s war ‘getting closer’
August 08, 2024
A top U.N. counterterrorism official has told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist groups
August 08, 2024
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is on standby to assist in the evacuation of Europeans and third-country nationals if conflict in the Middle East deepens, officials said
August 08, 2024
For the seven athletes competing for Haiti, participating in the Paris Games has always been about more than just winning gold
August 08, 2024
Like thousands of Gaza children, Yasmine Al-Shanbari, 3, is not only suffering from the upheaval of war all around them.
August 08, 2024
The United States on Thursday banned imports from five more Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses involving the Uyghurs, according to a government posting,
August 08, 2024
In the year since the Lahaina fires on Maui, the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement has helped more than 6,000 families through a robust recovery project
August 08, 2024
‘Furious battles are underway’: Kursk residents call on Putin for help after Ukrainian incursion
August 08, 2024
A soil expert explains why flooding rice fields in South Florida benefits the agriculture-rich region.
August 08, 2024
Israeli forces stepped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics said, in further battle with Hamas-led
August 08, 2024
Turkey has blocked access to the popular video game platform Roblox over concerns about content that could lead to child abuse, the country's justice minister said.
August 08, 2024
Israel’s Western allies have condemned remarks by the country's far-right finance minister who suggested that causing the starvation of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians “might be just and moral” until Hamas-held hostages are released
August 08, 2024
Russian prosecutors on Thursday asked for a 15-year sentence in the treason trial of a Russian-American woman, who has pleaded guilty, Russian news agencies reported
August 08, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire
August 08, 2024
South Korean authorities are questioning a suspected North Korean resident who crossed into the South, according to South Korea’s military
August 08, 2024
Russia's Defense Ministry says the country's troops are fighting Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region on the third day of one of the largest cross-border incursions of the war
August 08, 2024
British authorities say they're preparing for the possibility of further unrest, even as they applaud the efforts of anti-racism campaigners and police who largely stifled a threatened wave of far-right demonstrations overnight
August 08, 2024
Like thousands of Nigerians and millions of others across the developing world, higher fuel costs have irked Antonia Arosanwo.
August 08, 2024
Russian authorities have rejected Anheuser-Busch InBev and Anadolu Efes' deal whereby the world's top beer maker would sell its stake in their Russian joint venture to the Turkish
August 08, 2024
A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan’s southern coast and injured nine people, but most of the injuries are minor and there have been no reports of serious damage
August 08, 2024
US Ambassador to Japan to skip Nagasaki peace ceremony after Israel excluded
August 08, 2024
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, triggering tsunami advisories, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
August 08, 2024
Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack
August 08, 2024
Police have launched a manhunt in Barcelona for ex-Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont
August 08, 2024
Euronav expects a rise global sea trade this year driven by the rerouting of Red Sea shipping though a change in the U.S. presidency and a slowdown in China's economy are risk factors, the
August 08, 2024
Tropical Depression Debby is heading up the East Coast as it has made landfall for a second time
August 08, 2024
A woman was left trapped in her SUV after she drove through flood waters following Hurricane Debby.
August 08, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has taken the oath of office to lead Bangladesh’s interim government after protests forced out Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this week
August 08, 2024
A wave of disappointment swept over opposition activists in Belarus last week as the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War unfolded and they learned it included none of the Belarusian political detainees who’ve been locked up for years by its authoritarian leader
August 08, 2024
A Venezuelan aid worker’s arrest while catching an international flight has cast a spotlight on the climate of fear and repression engulfing the South American nation in the wake of its disputed presidential election
August 08, 2024
A Venezuelan aid worker’s arrest while catching an international flight has cast a spotlight on the climate of fear and repression engulfing the South American nation in the wake of its disputed presidential election
August 08, 2024
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end in July
August 08, 2024
Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus took charge of Bangladesh's caretaker government on Thursday, hoping to help heal the country that was convulsed by weeks of violence,
August 07, 2024
The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a U.S.-based, non-governmental organisation, said on Thursday that a Palestinian staff member had been killed in Gaza.
August 07, 2024
'I didn't do one thing wrong': Woman faces homelessness amid rental issues
August 07, 2024
Britain saw almost 2,000 antisemitic incidents in the first half of 2024, a record figure for the first six months of any year, a Jewish advisory body said on Thursday.
August 07, 2024
Successor to slain Palestinian negotiator is a hardliner who resides in Gaza’s tunnels and has no realistic chance of being in Doha for talks.
August 07, 2024
‘More of us than you’: Thousands of anti-racism protesters turn out to counter far-right rallies in UK
August 07, 2024
South Korea could rupture its U.S. alliance and shock financial markets if it started building nuclear weapons, Defence Minister Shin Won-sik told
August 07, 2024
The world is falling well short of a promise signed at global climate talks last year to triple the amount of wind power, according to research by an energy think tank released Thursday
August 07, 2024
Quincy Hall’s incredible charge and 4 other takeaways from a dramatic night of track and field at the Olympics
August 07, 2024
Deadlier strain of mpox spreads to more countries, raising officials’ alarm
August 07, 2024
Quincy Hall became the latest American to electrify Olympic track and field with an out-of-nowhere comeback on Day 12 of the Paris Olympics
August 07, 2024
Throughout decades of political change in Argentina, the annual Aug. 7 pilgrimage to St. Cayetano Sanctuary has served as a potent, and grim, reminder that in Argentina, economic despair remains a constant
August 07, 2024
Residents in Alaska’s capital are clearing out waterlogged homes following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier
August 07, 2024
State Dept calls for Israel to investigate allegations of ‘horrific’ sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees
August 07, 2024
Reports of rape, torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel's military are deeply concerning, the White House said on Wednesday.
August 07, 2024
Taking the easy road has never been the way for American hurdler Freddie Crittenden, and he certainly didn’t change at the Olympics
August 07, 2024
Britain and Egypt asked their airlines on Wednesday to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspace amid growing fears of a possible broader
August 07, 2024
For Liverpool's biggest mosque, it's been a week of firsts.
August 07, 2024
Community fighting against tiny homes for the homeless
August 07, 2024
For some American Jews, a path to German citizenship opens options their ancestors never had
August 07, 2024
Military-run hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are in upheaval following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to throw out a plea agreement
August 07, 2024
The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence
August 07, 2024
‘What a special moment’: US figure skating team finally receives Beijing 2022 gold medals in ceremony under the Eiffel Tower
August 07, 2024
CNN's Coy Wire meets the USA figure skating team in Paris, France, where they finally received their gold medals from the Winter Olympics in Beijing. No medals were awarded after a Russian figure skater tested positive for doping at the 2022 games.
August 07, 2024
Chile's President Gabriel Boric said on Wednesday he does not recognize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "self-proclaimed" victory in the country's hotly contested election
August 07, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is just a month into his job and facing a crisis as widespread rioting spreads across the U.K. Starmer, who once was the chief prosecutor for England and Wales, is having to tap that expertise as he tries to restore order and hold violent protesters accountable
August 07, 2024
A Yemeni official says that 30 people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding in the southern city of Hodeidah following several days of heavy rains
August 07, 2024
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva,
August 07, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization says he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency
August 07, 2024
Israel's ambulance service has stocked blood supplies in a fortified underground centre, factories have moved out hazardous materials and municipal
August 07, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday an emergency committee will be convened to discuss whether the current mpox outbreak in the
August 07, 2024
Hungry and displaced Gazans see their misery continuing with Hamas’ new leadership
August 07, 2024
Two sons of ‘El Chapo’ made agreement before one flew to the US and was arrested, Mexican official says
August 07, 2024
Elon Musk has been accused of exacerbating tensions after a week of far-right rioting in Britain, sparking calls for the government to speed up the rollout of laws
August 07, 2024
Russian-American woman admits guilt in treason case, Russian state media reports
August 07, 2024
A court in Moscow has upheld the decision to arrest in absentia Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, state news agency RIA reported on
August 07, 2024
Palestinian teenager Maisa al-Ghandour had big dreams of becoming a doctor or teacher until she was blinded almost two weeks ago in an Israeli strike in war-ravaged
August 07, 2024
Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has become a hometown hero in Algeria, a conservative, Muslim-majority country where attacks on her gender have been interpreted as attacks on the nation
August 07, 2024
‘We deserve to exist’: Ukraine’s most successful Olympian fighting for more than medals
August 07, 2024
Yahya Sinwar’s appointment as the top leader of Hamas formalizes a role he assumed in the early hours of Oct. 7, when the surprise attack into Israel that he helped mastermind ushered in the bloodiest chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
August 07, 2024
Comoros President Azali Assoumani has granted sweeping new powers to his son, Nour El Fath, allowing him to intervene at all stages of government decision making,
August 07, 2024
Nigeria has arrested seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags during anti-government protests this week in the northern state of Kano, Peter Afunanya, a
August 07, 2024
Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women's sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout
August 07, 2024
Animal rights activists storm pope’s general audience to protest bullfighting
August 07, 2024
Police in France investigating the sabotage of high-speed rail lines hours before the Paris Olympics' Opening Ceremony have asked the U.S.
August 07, 2024
The presidential campaign of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González says he will not appear before the country’s high court
August 07, 2024
A court in Beijing has ruled against an unmarried Chinese woman in the case over her right to freeze her eggs
August 07, 2024
Russia says Ukrainian troops crossed into its territory and launched ‘massive attack’
August 07, 2024
Riots have erupted at anti-immigration protests in towns and cities across Britain in the last week, with attacks by far-right groups on hotels housing asylum seekers and on mosques
August 07, 2024
New Zealand's prime minister is defending the removal of basic Māori phrases meaning “hello” and “New Zealand” from a lunar new year invitation to an Australian official
August 07, 2024
Bangladesh’s incoming interim leader Muhammad Yunus has appealed for calm and urged all parties to help the country rebuild after weeks of violence that killed hundreds of people and prompted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India
August 07, 2024
A court in Bangladesh overturned on Wednesday the conviction of Muhammad Yunus, the head of the country's interim government, in a case relating to labour law violations, the lawyer
August 07, 2024
The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election in September
August 07, 2024
Swedish officials say no one will be allowed to fish out any of the nearly 100 bottles of 19th-century Champagne and mineral water nestled in a shipwreck off southern Sweden without proper authorization
August 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region was a major provocation.
August 07, 2024
Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says he plans to return to his country on Thursday despite the likelihood of being arrested on his return
August 07, 2024
Israeli forces on Wednesday issued new evacuation orders to Palestinians in areas of north Gaza that were among the first to be hit at the start of the war with
August 07, 2024
A British man was on Wednesday jailed for three years for violent disorder during anti-Muslim riots last week, as the first sentences from a wave of violence after the
August 07, 2024
The U.S.
August 07, 2024
Dissidents freed from Russian jails under a prisoner swap between Russia and the West last week have already discussed the
August 07, 2024
CNN Paris correspondent Melissa Bell reports from the water as Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo delivers on her promise to swim in the River Seine - in an effort to alleviate concerns around the river's suitability for swimming events during the Paris Olympics, despite a 1.4 billion Euro (1.5 billion USD) clean-up plan ahead of the Games. The Opening Ceremony will take place on the river on July 26, if currents are not too strong.
August 07, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Japan has decided to skip this year's atomic bombing memorial service in Nagasaki after Israel was not invited
August 07, 2024
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, the country's first leftist leader in modern times, came to power two years ago under a banner of
August 07, 2024
Bob Woodward’s next book, continuing a long tradition of election year releases, will focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and their place in American presidential politics
August 07, 2024
Authorities in Nepal all five people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed in the mountains just north of the capital
August 07, 2024
A Polish man was sentenced to four months in prison on Wednesday for punching Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen while she walked through Copenhagen
August 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is describing a Ukrainian incursion into the country’s southwestern Kursk region as a “large-scale provocation” as his officials say they are fighting off cross-border raids for a second day
August 07, 2024
Fighters backed by Iran and the Syrian government have attacked areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in eastern Syria
August 07, 2024
A court in Thailand has ordered the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward Party, which won national elections in 2023, saying it violated the constitution by proposing an amendment of a law against defaming the country’s royal family
August 07, 2024
Turkey has filed a formal request with the International Court of Justice to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel
August 07, 2024
Four deputy governors of Bangladesh's central bank were forced to resign on Wednesday after about 300-400 officials protested against what they said was corruption by
August 07, 2024
Thousands of police and anti-racism protesters gathered on streets across Britain on Wednesday to challenge expected far-right
August 07, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the newly chosen Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has the power to ensure that a cease-fire deal is reached for the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
August 07, 2024
Who is Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate leader of Bangladesh’s interim government?
August 07, 2024
India has evacuated all non-essential staff and their families from its embassy and consulates in neighbouring Bangladesh, two Indian government sources said on Wednesday, after
August 07, 2024
The ex-partner of former Argentine President Alberto Fernández has accused him of physically and emotionally abusing her
August 07, 2024
Turkey on Wednesday filed its official request to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel over its conduct in the war in Gaza in the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
August 07, 2024
5.2 magnitude earthquake near Bakersfield rumbles through Southern California
August 07, 2024
Authorities say that part of a hotel in western Germany collapsed, leaving two people dead and trapping seven others in the wreckage for hours
August 07, 2024
The U.S. said on Wednesday it would provide nearly $414 million in humanitarian assistance for the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 25 million people need such
August 07, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu. Is the Bank of Japan taking the mantle of market saviour from the Fed? Nikkei investors sure hope so.
August 07, 2024
The Nobel Peace laureate tapped to lead an interim government in Bangladesh called for calm and boarded a flight on Wednesday to return home, a day
August 07, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces that had penetrated its southern border near a major natural
August 07, 2024
Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million cars in China for a remote software upgrade to ensure that they warn the driver when the trunk is not locked shut
August 07, 2024
Dubai International Airport has seen a record 44.9 million travelers pass through its terminals in the first half of this year
August 07, 2024
Olympic open water swimmers have trained in the long-polluted Seine River after Paris organizers determined it was safe to dive in
August 07, 2024
Bolivia’s socialist President Luis Arce says national referenda will be held soon on the removal of politically combustible fuel subsidies and on the constitutionality of presidential reelections
August 07, 2024
The night before long-time leader Sheikh Hasina abruptly fled Bangladesh amid deadly protests, her army chief held a
August 07, 2024
Toronto police on Tuesday detonated what they said was a "hoax device" at a satellite campus of the University of Toronto that they had earlier described as an explosive device.
August 06, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken for the first time on his decision to throw out a plea deal for the accused mastermind of al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks and two other defendants
August 06, 2024
Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said on Tuesday he wants to host a summit of 17 Latin American presidents to discuss the political situation in Venezuela and support
August 06, 2024
Preparing to again defend Israel, US presses Iran and Israel to de-escalate
August 06, 2024
Hurricane Debby leaves Lighthouse Beach Park submerged in sand
August 06, 2024
USA rolls, Serbia comes back and France’s home court advantage. Here are 6 takeaways from the men’s basketball quarterfinals
August 06, 2024
The United States has communicated to Iran and Israel that conflict in the Middle East must not escalate, Secretary of State
August 06, 2024
Niger's junta on Tuesday cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine over remarks from officials it said showed Ukraine's support for groups involved in fighting in neighbouring Mali that
August 06, 2024
US women’s soccer team to play Brazil in final as Marta bids for golden farewell
August 06, 2024
USA’s Cole Hocker produces one of the upsets of the Paris Olympics to win 1,500-meter gold
August 06, 2024
Australia will begin co-manufacturing guided weapons with the US next year to boost supply for allies in the Indo Pacific and increase a US military presence in the
August 06, 2024
Thailand's Constitutional Court will on Wednesday rule on the fate of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, a week after it dissolved 2023 election winner Move Forward, underlining the
August 06, 2024
Mexico has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Oct. 1 inauguration of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing Mexico's
August 06, 2024
There was a moment where Brazil might have thought it had a chance
August 06, 2024
Kevin Durant stands alone in U.S. Olympic basketball scoring history
August 06, 2024
‘They tried to kill people:’ Rotherham residents despair after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers
August 06, 2024
Gabby Thomas has sped to the win in the women’s 200 meters at the 2024 Olympics
August 06, 2024
Israel's Olympic team said athletes have received threats as they compete in Paris
August 06, 2024
Hezbollah leader says group will respond but keeping Israelis waiting is part of ‘punishment’
August 06, 2024
Pakistani national with ties to Iran charged in connection to a foiled assassination plot potentially targeting Trump
August 06, 2024
The Justice Department says a Pakistani man alleged to have ties to Iran has been charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations on U.S. soil
August 06, 2024
Yahya Sinwar, named leader of Hamas on Tuesday, masterminded the bloodiest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, having made no secret of his desire to
August 06, 2024
From Jesse Owens to Bob Beamon to Carl Lewis and plenty more, Americans have ruled the men’s long jump at the Summer Olympics
August 06, 2024
A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran has been charged in the United States in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S.
August 06, 2024
Senior United Nations officials appealed to the Security Council on Tuesday for help in getting humanitarian aid access in Sudan "across borders, across
August 06, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was right to tone down his criticism of the central bank and if he taps Gabriel Galipolo to head the monetary
August 06, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader
August 06, 2024
Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said
August 06, 2024
Top U.S. national security leaders are calling for calm in the Middle East and say they are directly pressing Israel, Iran and others to avoid escalating the conflict
August 06, 2024
American teenager Sam Watson sets world record in speed climbing, the fastest sport at the Paris Olympics
August 06, 2024
Newly discovered fossils shed light on the origins of curious ‘hobbit’ humans
August 06, 2024
Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino on Tuesday reaffirmed the military's "absolute loyalty" to President Nicolas Maduro, amid an ongoing dispute over the
August 06, 2024
Ukraine wrestler Zhan Beleniuk will try to bring pride to his warn-torn country when he competes for an Olympic medal in the Greco-Roman category
August 06, 2024
A senior Mexican official says that since Venezuela’s disputed presidential election nine days ago, officials from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are in constant contact with representatives of both Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González, seeking a solution to the country’s political crisis
August 06, 2024
New research suggests ancestors of the “hobbits” were even smaller
August 06, 2024
The United States and Australia kicked off high-level talks on Tuesday that will focus on China's "coercive behaviour", as
August 06, 2024
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters broke into an Israeli army base near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, the military said, as demonstrations against call up orders for religious Jews
August 06, 2024
Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’
August 06, 2024
Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier three times over Beirut in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday, leading to loud booms that sent people in the city running for cover just ahead
August 06, 2024
Military leaders have formed an interim government and promised a transition to civilian rule. Protesters who brought down the previous government are demanding nothing less.
August 06, 2024
Ukraine has put additional funding towards its domestic missile programme, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as it tries to narrow a gap in capabilities with Russia, which has
August 06, 2024
Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria has advanced to the gold-medal bout in the women’s welterweight division with a semifinal victory at the Paris Olympics amid scrutiny over misconceptions about her gender
August 06, 2024
Nigeria has detained some tailors for making Russian flags that were waved during anti-government protests this week in northern states, the state
August 06, 2024
Seeking a more comfortable life, 50-year-old carpenter Andreia Costa moved to Portugal from Brazil in 2022, but within months her hopes were
August 06, 2024
Groups linked to Russia’s government are using online disinformation to spread false information about the 2024 Olympics and portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool
August 06, 2024
The release of a Russian hit man and the assassination of Israel’s enemies in Lebanon and Iran have shone a spotlight on killings carried out on state orders.
August 06, 2024
Mohammed Shahabuddin, the president of Bangladesh since April 2023, is the country's sole top constitutional authority since Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to
August 06, 2024
China said it would begin adding controls and regulation to the production of three chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl, the White House said on Tuesday, calling the move "a
August 06, 2024
A top Russian official told Ukraine on Tuesday that the longer it waited to enter peace talks, the tougher the terms would be for its people.
August 06, 2024
The chief foreign correspondent for Fox News, Trey Yingst, will have a book out this fall timed to the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel
August 06, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said sufficient police would be on the streets to handle anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riots in
August 06, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a restrained response to Israel's suspected
August 06, 2024
Sheikh Hasina resigned as Bangladesh's prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of dedly
August 06, 2024
Like thousands of Israeli reservists, Michael Ofer Ziv and Yuval Green were called up to war following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7th. After serving in Gaza and witnessing the military's destructive approach, they tell CNN's Jeremy Diamond why they, and dozens of others, are refusing to serve again.
August 06, 2024
‘Going to a very bad place’: Israeli reservists who refuse to return to Gaza cite military’s destructive approach
August 06, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been chosen to head Bangladesh’s interim government after student protests sparked an uprising that toppled the former leader
August 06, 2024
A United Nations expert on Tuesday condemned Israel's killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El Rify in Gaza and urged that the deaths be
August 06, 2024
In Gaza, where energy is scarce, one Palestinian tailor has found a way to make the wheel of his sewing machine turn again in the chaos of war.
August 06, 2024
North Korea said Germany's entry into a U.S.-led U.N. border monitoring force on the Korean peninsula would raise tensions, accusing Washington of creating an Asian version of NATO,
August 06, 2024
The mayhem that swept across world markets this week was partly caused by a market strategy known as the “carry trade.”
August 06, 2024
Israeli forces killed 45 Palestinian fighters in Gaza over the past day, the military said on Tuesday, after heavy fighting in which
August 06, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The speed and scale of Tuesday's 10% Tokyo bounce after its worst day in 37 years suggests the wild global market swings of the past
August 06, 2024
The American coach of Olympic champions Andre De Grasse and Marcell Jacobs has been kicked out of the Paris Games
August 06, 2024
In photos: A photographer’s journey with the Palestinian Bedouin
August 06, 2024
China says it has launched a rocket carrying a constellation of a reported 18 satellites as part of efforts to assert its presence in space
August 06, 2024
Bangladesh's parliament was dissolved on Tuesday, the president's office said in a statement, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following violent
August 06, 2024
Lebanon is working to ensure any response to the Israeli killing of a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut does not trigger total war in the Middle East, its Foreign Minister Abdallah
August 06, 2024
The chief of Russia's general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected Russian forces in the combat zone in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.
August 06, 2024
Bangladesh’s ‘Gen Z revolution’ toppled a veteran leader. Why did they hit the streets and what happens now?
August 06, 2024
Public employees in Australia's most populous state have been told to end remote working in a directive from the premier of New South Wales as he seeks to reverse work-from-home habits established during the pandemic
August 06, 2024
Bangladesh's first female leader Khaleda Zia was freed from house arrest on Tuesday, a day after her nemesis Sheikh Hasina quit as premier and fled, one more twist to
August 06, 2024
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of the global microcredit movement who could shepherd Bangladesh's new interim government, was an arch foe of
August 06, 2024
India on Tuesday told those travelling to the United Kingdom to be cautious and follow the advice of security agencies after violent protests in different parts of Britain.
August 06, 2024
A fast-moving wildfire that swept into a Southern California hillside community this week destroyed five homes and damaged three others
August 06, 2024
At least one person was killed and 12 others, including an eight-month old baby, were injured on Tuesday when a Russian missile struck a residential area of Kharkiv in northeast
August 06, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said it remained "fully committed to Bangladesh and its people" after protests ousted the prime minister.
August 06, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine had launched an armoured assault into Russia's southern Kursk region, but Moscow's forces had responded and the region's governor described the
August 06, 2024
South Korea said on Tuesday it will issue a ban on its citizens travelling to the border areas of Israel and Lebanon after advising them to leave the countries amid
August 06, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has chosen the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack as the group's new leader
August 06, 2024
Russia had suspicions that Ukraine planned to attack Russia during the Navy Day parade which was attended by President Vladimir Putin last month and Moscow contacted Washington about
August 06, 2024
With Giorgia Meloni, Italy has probably the most openly anti-abortion prime minister in western Europe, but terminating
August 06, 2024
The Gaza Strip must be transferred to the control of legitimate Palestinian authorities, and Israeli plans for temporary control of the enclave are unacceptable, Palestinian President
August 06, 2024
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will head Bangladesh’s interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule
August 06, 2024
Human Rights Watch says Chad’s military was responsible for the deaths of several detainees who were arrested after protests in October 2022
August 06, 2024
Hiroshima officials are urging world leaders to stop relying on nuclear weapons as deterrence and take immediate action toward abolishment — not as an ideal, but to remove the risk of atomic war amid the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East
August 06, 2024
Global stocks rallied on Tuesday, partly reversing some of the previous day's steep declines, while the Japanese yen took a breather, after central bank officials said all the right things
August 06, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was named chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and
August 06, 2024
South Korean farmer Ma Myung-sun had low expectations for the crop of subtropical bananas he planted in a community farm in Seoul, but warmer
August 06, 2024
Kauli Vaast from French Polynesia and Caroline Marks from the United States won gold medals in surfing at the Paris Olympics in Tahiti on Monday
August 06, 2024
Venezuela launches criminal investigation into opposition figures
August 05, 2024
The World Bank on Monday said it was assessing the impact of events in Bangladesh on its loan program with the country after its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled.
August 05, 2024
The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the Gaza conflict, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia's state news agency, adding that he will
August 05, 2024
Equities around the world rebounded on Tuesday from the previous day's aggressive sell-off while Treasury yields rose and the dollar was
August 05, 2024
Israeli forces backed by drone strikes killed at least 11 Palestinians in clashes around the volatile West Bank city of Jenin, the military and
August 05, 2024
Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for the ninth time in his career
August 05, 2024
A regional Indigenous organization reports that a reclusive tribe has attacked loggers suspected of operating illegally in its territory in the Peruvian Amazon
August 05, 2024
Brazil’s Ministry of Justice is sending more law enforcement agents to Mato Grosso do Sul state after clashes between Indigenous peoples and farmers over the weekend
August 05, 2024
Freed American says she’s ‘finally being treated as a human being’ after Russian detention
August 05, 2024
Venezuela's attorney general Tarek Saab said on Monday his office will launch a criminal investigation against opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez, who
August 05, 2024
Defense officials say several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at a military base in Iraq
August 05, 2024
At least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Middle East
August 05, 2024
Jean-Philippe Mateta scored twice as France advanced to the final of the men’s soccer tournament at the Paris Olympics with a 3-1 win over Egypt after extra time
August 05, 2024
UN probe finds 9 UNRWA employees ‘may have’ been involved in October 7 attack
August 05, 2024
Ukraine's air defence shot down two Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles, two cruise Kh-59 cruise missiles and 15 attack drones that Russia launched overnight, it said on Tuesday on
August 05, 2024
Colombia's armed forces have restarted operations against leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said on Monday.
August 05, 2024
Venezuela’s top prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation against the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González and its leader Maria Corina Machado over their call on the armed forces to abandon their support for President Nicolás Maduro and to stop repressing demonstrators
August 05, 2024
Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next
August 05, 2024
Israel has conducted a systematic policy of prisoner abuse and torture since the start of the Gaza war, subjecting Palestinian detainees to acts ranging from
August 05, 2024
Biden, Harris meet with national security team as US watches for Iranian retaliation
August 05, 2024
Two Katyusha rockets on Monday were fired at Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base which hosts U.S. and other international forces in western Iraq, security sources said.
August 05, 2024
A small tornado has damaged buildings, flipped cars and sent debris swirling over downtown Buffalo
August 05, 2024
Venezuela is launching a criminal probe against the opposition leaders contesting last month's election for inciting police and military
August 05, 2024
Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record Monday night at the Olympics, clearing 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6 inches) to cap his second straight gold-medal performance on the sport’s biggest stage
August 05, 2024
Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian world-record high jumper, may have just won Olympic gold, but she and other winning athletes from Ukraine are not resting in Paris — they’re trying to shine the spotlight on the war tearing apart their country
August 05, 2024
The foreign ministers of Italy and Iraq called on Monday for diplomacy and de-escalation in the Middle East, saying they were deeply concerned about increasing tension threatening the
August 05, 2024
The United States has been urging other countries through diplomatic channels to tell Iran that escalation in the Middle East is not in their
August 05, 2024
Hundreds of Israelis have sent orange balloons into the air to mark the fifth birthday of one of two children held captive by militants in the Gaza Strip
August 05, 2024
Brazil announced a diplomatic agreement on Monday that will allow it to represent the interests of Argentina and Peru in Caracas, after Venezuela severed ties with the two nations
August 05, 2024
The British government said on Monday officials were examining the role foreign states had played in amplifying disinformation online which had
August 05, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah, in a phone call on Monday with U.S.
August 05, 2024
The U.N. says it has fired additional staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel
August 05, 2024
The current political unrest in Bangladesh is expected to disrupt the country's clothing industry, potentially affecting global apparel retailers from H&M to Zara as they head into the key
August 05, 2024
In Beirut, shops are open and traffic is as snarled as ever
August 05, 2024
Tropical storm Debby made landfall as a hurricane in one of the least populated areas of Florida, but it's been blamed for at least four deaths in that state
August 05, 2024
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August 05, 2024
Nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) may have been involved in the Oct.
August 05, 2024
The first substitution made in the Olympics men’s soccer semifinal match between Morocco and Spain was the referee
August 05, 2024
The U.S. government commended Bangladesh's army on Monday for its "restraint" and urged the democratic formation of an interim government
August 05, 2024
Bloomberg News is apologizing for a premature story written last week about the prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and says it has disciplined the journalists involved
August 05, 2024
Middle East braces for week that could determine the course of the Gaza war
August 05, 2024
In choosing its next leader, Hamas will be looking for a candidate who can safeguard deep ties with Tehran at a time when Iranian
August 05, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing anger in Israel and abroad over his handling of talks on a Gaza ceasefire that have faltered, just as fears
August 05, 2024
Ethiopia has imported 14 million litres of cooking oil to ensure sufficient supplies of the basic commodity, its trade minister said, after the country's central bank floated
August 05, 2024
A meltdown in world equity markets in recent days is more reflective of a wind-down of carry trades used by investors to juice their bets than a hard
August 05, 2024
These scientists want to safeguard Earth’s species by cryogenically preserving them on the moon
August 05, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused social media platforms of “digital fascism” for allegedly censoring photographs of Palestinian “martyrs.”
August 05, 2024
The United States military has completed its withdrawal from air base 201 in Niger, officials said on Monday, after Niger's ruling junta ordered nearly 1,000 U.S. military
August 05, 2024
Israel returned the bodies of more than 80 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli airstrikes killed at
August 05, 2024
The U.S. has handed over its last military base in Niger — one of two crucial hubs for American counterterrorism operations in the country — to local authorities
August 05, 2024
If Iran retaliates for the assassination of its close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week, its regional allies - known as the "Axis of Resistance" to Israel and U.S.
August 05, 2024
Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as Bangladesh's prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of protests, has been one of the dominant figures in its
August 05, 2024
The Algerian and Taiwanese boxers embroiled in a dispute over gender in sport at the Paris Games were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships
August 05, 2024
Gunmen have stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia’s restive Papua region
August 05, 2024
The director of a park showcasing Russia's military might was arrested on fraud charges, along with a top Defense Ministry official, part of a sweeping investigation into abuse of office in the top echelons of the military leadership
August 05, 2024
Armed men backed by farmers in trucks and tractors attacked Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil's farming state of Mato Grosso do Sul at the weekend, injuring 11 of them,
August 05, 2024
In war-ravaged Gaza, even the dead cannot rest.
August 05, 2024
Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, has died at age 97
August 05, 2024
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are likely to play a central role if the country retaliates for the assassination of its close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week.
August 05, 2024
Black women who are more frequently exposed to racism showed stronger connections in areas of the brain involved in rumination and heightened vigilance, both of which lead to faster biological aging.
August 05, 2024
Leader of Vietnam’s Communist Party died on July 19, 2024. Among those who paid tribute was US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
August 05, 2024
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation after weeks of violent protests, announced on Monday in a televised address by the army chief, has brought focus once more
August 05, 2024
Here are some reactions to the news that Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina has resigned as prime minister and fled the country following violent street protests.
August 05, 2024
A German federal court says it has rejected a former Syrian secret police officer’s appeal against his conviction for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail in his homeland
August 05, 2024
Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister in Bangladesh’s history, has resigned and fled the country, bringing a tumultuous end to her 15-year rule as an extraordinary wave of protest succeeded in toppling her government
August 05, 2024
Poland's defence ministry signed offset deals with Boeing and General Electric worth nearly 1 billion zlotys ($255 million) on Monday, bringing it closer to finalising a $12 billion
August 05, 2024
Those leaving Lebanon hold their families extra tight as they say goodbye
August 05, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told a senior ally of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Monday that Tehran was determined to expand
August 05, 2024
Hurricane Debby has made a landfall near Steinhatchee Florida, in the Florida Big Bend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday.
August 05, 2024
Bangladesh prime minister flees to India as anti-government protesters storm her residence
August 05, 2024
The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations gripped the South Asian nation.
August 05, 2024
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Seán O’Malley as archbishop of Boston and named the current bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, Richard Henning, to replace him as leader of one of the most important Catholic archdioceses in the United States
August 05, 2024
Emerging market equities around the world tumbled on Monday, as fears of a recession in the United States sparked a global selloff and sent investors running for
August 05, 2024
Just over a month after he became Bangladesh's army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman has been thrust into the limelight, announcing the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who fled
August 05, 2024
Lebanon on Monday received emergency medical supplies to equip its hospitals for possible war injuries and Beirut airport was teeming with people trying to leave the country amid
August 05, 2024
Pope Francis on Monday named a new leader for the Roman Catholic Church in Boston, succeeding the retiring archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, one of the
August 05, 2024
Norwegian world-record holder Karsten Warholm turned in the fastest time in 400-meter hurdles qualifying as he tries to defend his Olympic title
August 05, 2024
Bulgaria faces its seventh parliamentary election in just three years after the last of three political parties tapped by President Rumen Radev to form a coalition government returned
August 05, 2024
Nearly 100 police officers from the Democratic Republic of Congo fled to neighbouring Uganda over the weekend as fighting between M23 rebels and the military in Congo's east
August 05, 2024
Myanmar’s military regime says it has lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast
August 05, 2024
Israel’s ambassador to Japan criticizes Nagasaki’s peace ceremony invitation snub
August 05, 2024
Ukraine has received a $3.9 billion grant from the United States via the World Bank, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday.
August 05, 2024
Protests in Nigeria over the soaring cost of living ebbed on Monday, with only a few hundred people turning out in major cities following a deadly crackdown by security
August 05, 2024
Afghan Olympic sprinter sends powerful message to Taliban on women’s rights
August 05, 2024
China’s internet explodes with pride at ending US swim relay reign – and a sense of vindication
August 05, 2024
Myanmar's junta has lost communications with senior officers at a major military base near the Chinese border, in a rare admission of battlefield failure after rebels announced they had
August 05, 2024
Bangladesh is on the boil again with close to 100 people killed on Sunday as protesters, calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation, clashed with security
August 05, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said violent protesters who had targeted Muslim communities would swiftly face the "full force of the law"
August 05, 2024
French authorities are making broad use of discretionary powers during the 2024 Olympics and their run-up to keep hundreds of people they deem to be potential security threats away from the biggest event modern France has ever organized
August 05, 2024
A Vietnamese coast guard ship arrived in Manila on Monday for a four-day goodwill visit and joint exercises as the two countries attempt to put aside their own territorial disputes in the face of rising tensions with China over control of key features in the South China Sea
August 05, 2024
The Group of Seven major democracies urged restraint and de-escalation in the Middle East on Monday, saying that recent events "threatened to ignite a broader conflict in the region
August 05, 2024
Cambodia on Monday broke ground to build a controversial, China-funded canal to link the capital Phnom Penh to the sea despite environmental concerns and the risk of straining ties with neighboring Vietnam
August 05, 2024
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops
August 05, 2024
Turkey urged its citizens in Lebanon to leave the country if they do not need to stay, due to the possibility that the security situation there will deteriorate rapidly, its
August 05, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby slammed Florida with torrential rain, high winds and flooding, contributing to at least five deaths as it turned menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard’s low-lying regions and threatened to flood some of America’s most historic Southern cities
August 05, 2024
Bangladesh’s prime minister has resigned and fled the country, after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs descended into violence and grew into a broader challenge to her 15-year rule
August 05, 2024
North Korea claims it’s sending 250 new missile launchers toward the South Korean border
August 05, 2024
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations
August 05, 2024
Share markets around the world tumbled and bonds rallied on Monday as fears the United States could be heading for recession sent investors rushing from risk assets while wagering interest
August 05, 2024
North Korea has marked the delivery of 250 nuclear-capable missile launchers to frontline military units as leader Kim Jong Un said his country should prepare for prolonged confrontation with the United States
August 05, 2024
A brown bear has mauled to death a 41-year-man as he walked through a forest in Russia's Far East, RIA state news agency reported on Monday.
August 05, 2024
Eastern China baked under unseasonably high temperatures, with the excessive heat expected to linger in mega coastal cities in the highly industrialised
August 05, 2024
Australia on Monday raised its terror threat level to "probable" from "possible", citing an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50% chance of the
August 05, 2024
Oil fell in volatile trade on Monday as a selloff continued on global stock markets, but the slide was limited by fears Iran's retaliation for the assassination of a
August 04, 2024
Equities suffered heavy losses around the globe on Monday as Wall Street added to a rout that started in Japan, while the dollar tumbled
August 04, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the delivery of 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers to front-line troops, state media KCNA reported on Monday, which
August 04, 2024
New Zealand's green credentials are at risk as the government rolls back environmental reforms in a bid to boost a flailing economy and fulfil promises made to
August 04, 2024
Novak Djokovic says that Olympic gold ‘supersedes everything’ as he defeats Carlos Alcaraz in thrilling final
August 04, 2024
Olympic moment of the day: Cindy Ngamba wins first ever medal for Refugee Olympic Team
August 04, 2024
Olympic swimmers spoke out about the Chinese doping scandal that has hung over these Paris Olympics as the events finished
August 04, 2024
Belgium has withdrawn from the mixed relay triathlon race and Switzerland has had to mix up its roster after athletes from both countries fell ill following the initial triathlon races last week. CNN's Melissa Bell has more.
August 04, 2024
Voices across the globe are expressing concern over the growing number of arrests in Venezuela following last weekend's disputed elections
August 04, 2024
At least 30 killed in Israeli strike on two Gaza school shelters: Palestinian Civil Defense
August 04, 2024
The United States closed out Olympic swimming with a wide range of emotions
August 04, 2024
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies called on all parties involved in the current conflict in the Middle East to avoid actions that could lead to an
August 04, 2024
Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur's Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of special
August 04, 2024
Female athletes of color have historically faced disproportionate scrutiny and discrimination when it comes to sex testing and false accusations that they are male or transgender
August 04, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane as it heads toward Florida
August 04, 2024
Pakistan's jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, who blames the military for his ouster and 12-month-old imprisonment on what he calls trumped-up charges, said
August 04, 2024
An international aid group says it was forced to ration malnutrition treatment for children in a famine-hit area in Sudan's Darfur region because of a blockade imposed by a notorious paramilitary group on the area
August 04, 2024
Ukraine’s newly arrived F-16 fighter jets have been put on display by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said the planes will boost the country’s war effort against Russia
August 04, 2024
Ukraine confirms F-16s have arrived in country as Zelensky heralds ‘new chapter’ in fight against Russia
August 04, 2024
Kaylia Nemour of Algeria delivered the country’s first gold medal in gymnastics, putting together a thrilling routine in the uneven bars final to edge Qiu Qiyuan of China
August 04, 2024
Ukrainian pilots have started flying F-16s for operations within the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, confirming the long-awaited arrival of the
August 04, 2024
The United States is telling its citizens to leave Lebanon and is deploying more military might in the Middle East as preventative and defensive measures, Jonathan Finer, White
August 04, 2024
In the shadow of the Kremlin, more than 70 Russians paid homage on Sunday to Wagner fighters killed in a major battle with Mali rebels and Islamist fighters, one of the mercenary
August 04, 2024
A 24-year-old firefighter was killed by a falling tree while battling a forest blaze northeast of Jasper in the Western Canadian province of Alberta on Saturday, the police said in
August 04, 2024
A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station
August 04, 2024
The Beirut port blast anniversary this year coincides with soaring regional tensions
August 04, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit three African countries this week in an effort to drum up support for Kyiv's position in its war with Russia, his ministry said on
August 04, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday condemned what he described as "far-right thuggery" and said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent
August 04, 2024
Foreign citizens urged to leave Lebanon ‘as soon as possible’ as regional tensions spike
August 04, 2024
A selloff that rocked equity markets around the world is clouding the outlook for investors looking to buy stocks on the cheap, as worries over the U.S
August 04, 2024
Ukrainian military officials say they have sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours
August 04, 2024
An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 30 people, Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said it struck a
August 04, 2024
Nearly 100 people have been killed and hundreds more injured as renewed anti-government protests sweep across Bangladesh
August 04, 2024
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson pulled out of the women’s 200 meters and will not race for an individual medal at the Paris Olympics
August 04, 2024
At least 91 people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse tens of thousands of
August 04, 2024
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi concluded a rare visit to Iran on Sunday with a plea for an end to the escalation of violence and for the region to be able to live in "peace,
August 04, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered humanitarian assistance to help North Korea cope with damages from recent floods, in another sign of expanding relations between the two nations
August 04, 2024
Debby strengthens to a Category 1 hurricane ahead of Florida landfall as Southeast braces for potentially historic rain
August 04, 2024
Millions are under alerts as Tropical Storm Debby intensifies with potential to strengthen to a hurricane. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers reports.
August 04, 2024
One Ukrainian journalist’s mission to stop Russian and Belarusian athletes competing at the Paris Olympics
August 04, 2024
A Palestinian attacker killed two people and wounded two others in a stabbing spree in central Israel on Sunday before being shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said.
August 04, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, while the United States and allies prepare to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike and prevent an even more destructive regional conflict
August 04, 2024
The Philippines and Germany on Sunday committed to signing a defence cooperation arrangement this year, vowing to uphold international rules-based order in the region
August 04, 2024
Debby muscled up into a full-fledged hurricane late Sunday and took aim at making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida's Gulf Coast by midday on Monday, the U.S.
August 04, 2024
Thousands of displaced residents on Maui have faced a year of anxious uncertainty since the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century devastated Lahaina
August 04, 2024
Hawaii residents have faced a year of challenges since the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century decimated the historic town of Lahaina, on Maui, on Aug. 8, 2023
August 04, 2024
Among the Russians freed in this week's historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019
August 04, 2024
Russian submarine sunk in Crimean port, Ukraine claims
August 04, 2024
A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a container ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, the first assault by the group since Israeli airstrikes targeted them
August 04, 2024
The U.S. is deploying additional military might in the Middle East as a defensive measure with a goal of de-escalating tensions in the region, a White House
August 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered humanitarian aid to North Korea, which has been hit by heavy rainfalls and floods, Pyongyang's state media KCNA said on
August 03, 2024
Israelis fear for hostages as Netanyahu celebrates ‘crushing blows’ against enemies
August 03, 2024
Less than an hour after Alex Walsh was denied an Olympic bronze medal for a disqualification in her 200-meter individual medley, younger sister Gretchen helped set a 4x100 mixed medley relay world record with the Americans
August 03, 2024
Anti-Netanyahu protests erupt in Israel over delayed hostage deal
August 03, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on two Gaza shelters kill 17, says Gaza Civil Defense
August 03, 2024
KYIV - Ukraine's human rights commissioner urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to investigate an image widely shared online on Saturday that he said likely
August 03, 2024
Already rated one of swimming's all-time greats coming into the Paris Olympics, Katie Ledecky made it official on Saturday by storming to victory in her signature
August 03, 2024
The head of a group of family members of victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks says she's hearing nearly unanimous praise of the U.S. defense secretary's nullification of plea deals for the accused mastermind and two others
August 03, 2024
Katie Ledecky has capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win the same event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle
August 03, 2024
Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two on Saturday in this strategic logistical hub in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region,
August 03, 2024
It’s an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of Mexico
August 03, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback story hit a brick wall Saturday when Julien Alfred romped to the 100-meter title in 10.72 seconds to blow away the field and bring the first-ever Olympic medal to her island country of St. Lucia
August 03, 2024
Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela’s capital, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide
August 03, 2024
A passionate crowd showered Algerian boxer Imane Khelif with cheers during her fight Saturday at the Paris Olympics following a cascade of backlash over false claims about her gender
August 03, 2024
Halfway to its goal of gold, the U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the medal round at the Paris Olympics
August 03, 2024
The IDF now says they killed Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ military chief in Gaza, in a July airstrike. The IDF released video of the strike in Khan Yunis, Gaza. At least 90 Palestinians were reportedly killed in the strike that hit a displacement camp, CNN reported at the time.
August 03, 2024
The strike a week ago in the Israeli-held Golan Heights that killed 12 Druze children unified Druze across the region in grief
August 03, 2024
Scientists digitally dissect ancient Egyptian ‘screaming’ mummy
August 03, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby is strengthening as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida
August 03, 2024
Spectator dragged from arena for holding up Taiwan banner during Olympic badminton match
August 03, 2024
Thousands of people have protested peacefully in Bangladesh’s capital to demand justice for more than 200 students and others killed during protests last month, but violence was reported at similar events elsewhere in the country
August 03, 2024
Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria has clinched a medal at the Paris Olympics following days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender have exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports
August 03, 2024
Violent disorder swept across several British cities on Saturday, injuring police and damaging property in the most
August 03, 2024
The Army will expand its basic combat training for newly enlisted soldiers
August 03, 2024
Supporters of jailed Belarusian Nobel Peace laureate Ales Bialiatski say the human rights activist should have been included in the biggest East-West prisoner swap
August 03, 2024
Air France said on Saturday it and its affiliate Transavia were further extending their suspensions of flights between Paris and Beirut until at least Aug 6, amid rising regional
August 03, 2024
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Palestinian militant group Hamas' leader Ismail Haniyeh was slain in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg,
August 03, 2024
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan's double world champion Lin Yu-ting are women who have every right to compete at the Paris Olympics despite a gender dispute
August 03, 2024
Noah Lyles finished second in his opening heat of the 100 meters at the Olympics but still advanced and kept alive his hopes for the sprint double
August 03, 2024
Léon Marchand is carrying on a long tradition of athletes from host nations becoming Olympic greats
August 03, 2024
A number of British police officers have been injured as far-right activists faced off with anti-racism protesters following a stabbing rampage at a dance class earlier this week that left three girls dead and several wounded
August 03, 2024
At least 32 killed after suicide bombers target beach restaurant in Somali capital
August 03, 2024
Israel's army says two airstrikes in the West Bank have killed nine Palestinian militants as violence flares again in the Israeli-occupied territory
August 03, 2024
The father of Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer at the centre of an Olympic row over whether athletes with Differences of Sexual
August 03, 2024
Gambia has been rocked in recent months by a heated debate on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice rooted in concepts about sexual purity and control of women
August 03, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby forms in the Gulf of Mexico, expected to reach hurricane strength before landfall in Florida
August 03, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby formed off the coast of Cuba according to the National Hurricane Center. As Debby continues to emerge into the Gulf of Mexico, incredibly warm ocean temperatures are expected to fuel intensification to a Category 1 hurricane just before landfall. CNN's Elisa Raffa reports.
August 03, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians on Saturday, hours after two
August 03, 2024
Tropical storm Debby formed late Saturday and was expected to surge up into a hurricane before it slams into Florida's northern Gulf Coast shoreline on Monday, the National
August 03, 2024
Freed Americans, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan, return to the US as part of the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
August 03, 2024
After emotional family reunions, the 3 Americans freed in a historic prisoner swap face a challenging road ahead
August 03, 2024
In the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a clear, morale-boosting message to his security services: If you get caught, Russia will bring you home
August 03, 2024
About half the U.S. state attorneys general have traveled to France for an event cosponsored by a group largely funded by companies
August 03, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused South Korean media of tarnishing the North’s image
August 03, 2024
A transgender woman’s use of the women’s locker room at a suburban St. Louis gym is prompting protests and calls for an investigation
August 02, 2024
US sending aircraft carrier, warships and fighter squadron to Middle East as region braces for Iranian retaliation
August 02, 2024
The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region
August 02, 2024
Myanmar rebels are claiming their biggest victory yet over junta forces. Could it be a turning point in the brutal civil war?
August 02, 2024
Olympic moment of the day: France complete clean-sweep of the medals in the men’s BMX racing
August 02, 2024
From Vietnam to Manitowoc; a soldier's helmet is brought home
August 02, 2024
Russia pulled back weapons shipment to Houthis amid US and Saudi pressure
August 02, 2024
Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda took the lead with a little more than a lap left in a masterpiece of a 10,000-meter race to finish in an Olympic-record 26 minutes, 43.14 seconds in front of a roaring crowd on an electric opening night at the track
August 02, 2024
An Israeli delegation will travel to Cairo in the coming days for negotiations to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said
August 02, 2024
Hero teenager and sergeant reunite with man they helped save
August 02, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday offered his support to the artists behind the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony who had received death threats and praised their
August 02, 2024
A gold medal was finally won at the Paris Olympics by one of the neutral collective of athletes
August 02, 2024
An earthquake alarm that went off on Friday in Mexico's capital was produced by an error, the country's Seismic Instrumentation and Recording Center said in a statement.
August 02, 2024
Léon Marchand completed his dominating run through the Paris Olympics, capturing his fourth swimming gold with another runaway victory in the 200-meter individual medley Friday night
August 02, 2024
US government sues TikTok for allegedly violating children’s privacy law
August 02, 2024
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza who was released from jail on Thursday in a major prisoner swap said he and others were subject to illegal psychological torture during their
August 02, 2024
The Russian opposition activists released from jail in Russia and deported to Germany in a major prisoner swap on Thursday said they would continue their political activity from
August 02, 2024
Kimia Yousofi finished last in her 100 metres preliminary heat on Friday but sent a message just by stepping on to the track, advocating for women in Afghanistan after
August 02, 2024
Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, released from a Russian jail in a major prisoner swap on Thursday, said he wanted to return to Russia but it was made clear to him there
August 02, 2024
Relatives of people arrested during protests in Venezuela over the country's contested presidential election are calling for their release outside police
August 02, 2024
LGBTQ+ athletes, officials and observers have warned that a deluge of hateful comments misidentifying a female boxer in the Paris Olympics as transgender or a man could pose dangers for the LGBTQ+ community and female athletes
August 02, 2024
The United States broke their own world record in the 4x400 mixed relay in the opening heats at the Paris Olympics on Friday, crossing the line in three minutes 7.41
August 02, 2024
Days before the Paris Olympics began, French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla was stuck in a row with her government over the right to wear a hijab at the opening ceremony.
August 02, 2024
Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition activist freed from jail in Thursday's prisoner swap, pledged to carry on his political
August 02, 2024
Tommy Fleetwood is chasing more gold outside Paris, this time an Olympic medal and not the Ryder Cup trophy
August 02, 2024
The 24-person blockbuster prison swap carried out this week required the U.S. to regroup after the unexpected death in February of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who’d been seen as a key cog in a potential exchange
August 02, 2024
Russian assaults are raising pressure on the strategic eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk, Ukraine said on Friday, as waves of
August 02, 2024
Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team slams French hijab ban after Olympic match
August 02, 2024
Community hails teens heroes after saving man who crashed into river
August 02, 2024
Children of undercover Russian spy couple only learned their nationality on flight to Moscow
August 02, 2024
Powerful and politically-connected "construction mafias" are scaring away investors and holding back infrastructure projects needed to grow South Africa's economy
August 02, 2024
The Church of England's spiritual head urged governments on Friday to respect the findings of the United Nations top court that Israel's occupation of Palestinian
August 02, 2024
Tropical Storm Debby forecast to hit Florida this weekend with torrential rain and wind
August 02, 2024
A tropical storm warning has been issued in parts of Florida in anticipation of Tropical Storm Debby hitting the state this weekend. CNN's Derek Van Dam reports on the latest forecast.
August 02, 2024
Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s former No. 2 diplomat in Cuba, has resettled in South Korea
August 02, 2024
At least 20 people were injured in clashes and police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds as thousands protested in the Bangladeshi capital and other
August 02, 2024
U.S. officials are warning that a newly confirmed famine in Sudan's Darfur region is on pace to become the world's worst in decades
August 02, 2024
The United States was eliminated from the Olympic men’s soccer tournament after a 4-0 loss to Morocco in the quarterfinals
August 02, 2024
Canadian figure skaters will not join the United States and Japan on the podium at the Paris Olympics next week
August 02, 2024
Hezbollah forces on Friday resumed rocket and artillery attacks against Israel, ending the lull along the border following Israel's killing of the Lebanese group's military
August 02, 2024
Amid fears of wider Middle East conflict, Poland has advised its citizens against travelling to Lebanon, Israel and Iran, according to updated guidance published on Friday.
August 02, 2024
Following the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, there are still some Westerners held in Russia or Belarus, as well as Russian and Belarusian dissidents viewed by the West
August 02, 2024
A famine-stricken camp in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region is facing a significant new influx of displaced people while floods threaten to contaminate water and
August 02, 2024
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics
August 02, 2024
St. Louis School student in an international baton twirling competition
August 02, 2024
Poland's president asked a contested top court on Friday to decide whether reform of a body that appoints judges is constitutional, effectively blocking legislation the government
August 02, 2024
Russia's foreign ministry accused YouTube on Friday of censoring content and preventing access to information at the behest of the United States, warning that it saw ample grounds to
August 02, 2024
Village of Manchester rejoices as Paul Whelan is released after 2,043 days in Russian detention
August 02, 2024
Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are pushing for Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro to meet with the opposition candidate in last
August 02, 2024
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said on Friday that the United States is "at the forefront of a coup attempt" against the South American country amid a dispute over
August 02, 2024
As if he knew his time had come, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's last words to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Ali Khamenei before he was assassinated in Tehran
August 02, 2024
When Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was suddenly moved to a detention center in Moscow from his Siberian prison, he thought he was being taken from his cell to be shot
August 02, 2024
Famine declared in Sudan’s Darfur region after months of civil war
August 02, 2024
Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will face each other for the 2024 Olympics tennis men's singles gold medal
August 02, 2024
With a steeply pitched tiled roof piercing misty green hills in southern India and a stream gushing through rocks
August 02, 2024
Al-Qaida propaganda indicates a shift toward low-tech, high-impact attacks that can be executed by lone actors to disrupt daily life and instill fear on a massive scale.
August 02, 2024
New protests have erupted in Bangladesh against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government, demanding accountability for more than 200 people killed in last month’s violent clashes with security forces
August 02, 2024
Thousands of mourners have converged around the flag-draped coffin of Hamas’ slain political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the emirate of Qatar as the fallout from his death in an alleged Israeli attack surged with breathtaking speed
August 02, 2024
France called on Friday for the immediate release of French researcher Laurent Vinatier by Russia as it welcomed Thursday's major prisoner exchange that resulted in the release 16
August 02, 2024
A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their
August 02, 2024
Israel's foreign ministry summoned the deputy Turkish ambassador for a reprimand on Friday after Turkey's embassy in Tel Aviv lowered its flag to half mast in response to the
August 02, 2024
Tunisian opposition parties, presidential candidates and human rights groups have accused the authorities of using "arbitrary restrictions" and intimidation in order
August 02, 2024
Mega-cities on China's eastern coast are facing another spell of scorching heat as temperatures hovered around 40 Celsius (104
August 02, 2024
When deadly landslides struck hillside villages in southern India on Tuesday, many people ran toward higher ground and watched their homes get swept away by torrents of mud, floodwater and giant rolling boulders
August 02, 2024
Emergency officials say at least four people have died and dozens are feared buried under rubble after an apartment block in Russia's Ural Mountains collapsed following a gas explosion
August 02, 2024
The United Nations world food price index eased slightly in July according to data released on Friday, with a decline in the index for cereals offset in part by increases for meat,
August 02, 2024
The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region
August 02, 2024
Airlines are avoiding Iranian and Lebanese airspace and cancelling flights to Israel and Lebanon, as concerns grow over a possible conflict in the region after the
August 02, 2024
A rights group says at least nine people have been killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against the economic crisis gripping the country
August 02, 2024
Nigerian police are on red alert and may seek the help of the military after protests against the cost of living and governance issues turned violent in some cities
August 02, 2024
Sri Lanka must make further efforts to raise fiscal revenue if it is to maintain economic stability and restore debt sustainability, the International Monetary Fund
August 02, 2024
An Australian investigation has found the Israeli military’s attack on an aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven people resulted from serious failures of defense procedures, mistaken identification, and bad decisions
August 02, 2024
Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him
August 02, 2024
Japan stocks plunge by nearly 6% in biggest drop since start of pandemic
August 02, 2024
Rescuers in China scrambled on Friday to locate dozens of people still missing a week after the year's most powerful typhoon roared into the southern province of Hunan,
August 02, 2024
Germany joined the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea on Friday, becoming the 18th nation in a group that helps police the heavily
August 02, 2024
Turkey blocked access to social media platform Instagram on Friday for failing to comply with the country's "laws and rules", a government minister said.
August 02, 2024
Italy's ITA Airways is suspending flights to and from Tel Aviv "due to the geopolitical developments in the Middle East and to ensure the safety of its passengers and crews", the
August 02, 2024
Inside the ‘painstaking’ negotiations that led to the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War
August 02, 2024
Tears, hugs and a salute as three freed Americans back on US soil after historic prisoner swap with Russia
August 02, 2024
President Joe Biden spoke with reporters after three Americans arrived back in the US after a major prisoner swap with Russia.
August 02, 2024
Bangladesh bans Jamaat-e-Islami party following violent protests that left more than 200 dead
August 02, 2024
In India and China, torrential rains have killed more than 250 people in the past week
August 02, 2024
Firefighters battling California’s largest wildfire of the year are preparing for treacherous conditions entering the weekend
August 02, 2024
More than 3,200 people were arrested on college campuses this spring during a wave of pro-Palestinian tent encampments protesting the war in Gaza
August 02, 2024
Four people were rescued from a house in India's Kerala state on Friday, three days after devastating landslides, as
August 02, 2024
Tears of joy flowed in the Oval Office the moment families of prisoners such as Evan Gershkovich, freed by Russia in the biggest such swap since the Cold War,
August 02, 2024
A plane carrying detainees released by Russia landed in the United States late on Thursday at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, media footage showed.
August 02, 2024
Israeli air strikes that killed international aid workers in Gaza in April were the result of serious operational failures but were not intentional, according to an
August 02, 2024
Biden weighs more US defenses for Israel as the region prepares for Iranian retaliation
August 02, 2024
US says Maduro lost Venezuela election as opposition leader says she’s in hiding
August 02, 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia will hold interest rates on Tuesday at near a 13-year high and wait until the first quarter of 2025 before reducing them,
August 01, 2024
Fragments from at least four drones downed by Russian air defences struck areas of the port of Sevastopol early on Friday in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Russia-appointed governor said.
August 01, 2024
17-year-old Summer McIntosh wins ‘surreal’ second gold medal of the Paris Olympics
August 01, 2024
Venezuela's top court on Thursday accepted a request by President Nicolas Maduro for all presidential candidates to present their vote tallies, as a dispute about results in last
August 01, 2024
U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was released from detention in Russia in a prisoner swap in 2022, has welcomed the return of Americans Evan
August 01, 2024
At least 30 dead after Typhoon Gaemi cut off towns in China’s Hunan province
August 01, 2024
The European Union's internal affairs chief warned Hungary on Thursday that its decision to ease visa restrictions for Russians and Belarusians posed a potential security threat
August 01, 2024
Brittney Griner knows only too well the swirling emotions of being involved in a prisoner swap
August 01, 2024
The U.S. and Russia completed on Thursday their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a deal involving 24 people, many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries who released individuals in their custody as part of the exchange
August 01, 2024
Breanna Stewart scored 26 points and the U.S. beat Belgium 87-74, clinching a spot in the Olympic quarterfinals
August 01, 2024
The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to a record high for the month of July in almost two decades, government data showed on
August 01, 2024
Parents face life imprisonment after son's fatal fall from window at the Independence Towers
August 01, 2024
Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation
August 01, 2024
President Vladimir Putin gave Russian nationals freed in an historic prisoner exchange with the West a hero's welcome on Thursday as they stepped off a plane in
August 01, 2024
Biden celebrates prisoner deal and importance of allies in key moment for his legacy
August 01, 2024
Warning sirens sounded in northern Israel, the Israeli military said on Thursday, amid heightened alert over the possibility of retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah following the
August 01, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday declared Friday, Aug 2, a day of national mourning over the killing of the head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh.
August 01, 2024
A half dozen masked assailants ransacked the headquarters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in the latest escalation of violence against opponents of Nicolas Maduro following the country’s disputed presidential election
August 01, 2024
The largest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West in decades could help U.S.
August 01, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S.
August 01, 2024
Venezuela's oil production and exports were working normally on Thursday following last weekend's disputed presidential election that has triggered protests and international
August 01, 2024
The landmark prisoner swap agreed by Russia, the United States and several of its allies that brought home journalist Evan Gershkovich and former marine Paul
August 01, 2024
A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crash off the coast of Japan in November that killed all eight crew members was caused by a failure in the gear box and the pilot's decision
August 01, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson makes her long-awaited Olympic debut as track and field events rev up Friday at the Paris Olympics
August 01, 2024
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August 01, 2024
Ohio’s historical society has struck a deal that will allow it to take control of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks located on a golf course east of Columbus
August 01, 2024
Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?
August 01, 2024
Joyous family reunions were caught on camera when Americans released from Russia came home overnight.
August 01, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran by bomb planted months before blast, source says
August 01, 2024
Here is international reaction to Thursday's East-West prisoner exchange: WALL STREET JOURNAL Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker, whose correspondent Evan Gershkovich was included in
August 01, 2024
Following are details of some of the people from the United States, Russia and several other countries being freed in a major prisoner exchange, as named by the United States. U.S.
August 01, 2024
A Montenegrin appeals court has upheld a ruling by a lower court to hand over a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to his native country
August 01, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday welcomed the release of a number of prisoners from Russia including dual Russian-British dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, who had been
August 01, 2024
Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has retained Victoire Sidemeho Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister and a government will be formed in the coming days in line with a new constitution,
August 01, 2024
Vadim Krasikov, the Russian at the center of a massive prisoner swap, has long topped the Kremlin’s list for an exchange
August 01, 2024
The Air Force says a deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying instead of heeding multiple warnings that he should land
August 01, 2024
Israeli forces hit a school in Shejaia in Gaza City on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 29, Palestinian civil emergency services said, as fighting continued in various
August 01, 2024
Please disregard US--United States-Russia-Prisoner Swap, published at 11:46 a.m. ET on Aug. 1, 2024, and datelined in WASHINGTON
August 01, 2024
Here are names of those freed under a major East-West prisoner exchange on Thursday, according to a senior Administration official.
August 01, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned far-right demonstrators after outbreaks of violence in London and elsewhere following the killing of three young girls in Southport,
August 01, 2024
When Washington and Moscow exchange prisoners, it usually comes after months of secret, back-channel negotiations
August 01, 2024
The United States and Russia have completed a 24-person prisoner swap, the largest in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free
August 01, 2024
The German government played a key role in Thursday's prisoner swap between Moscow and the West with its release of Vadim Krasikov,
August 01, 2024
Israel said on Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the overall leader of Hamas and the architect of the Palestinian group's Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli soil, had been
August 01, 2024
Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed group Hezbollah vowed on Thursday a "definite" response to Israel's killing of its top military commander, saying the strike had crossed red lines and
August 01, 2024
At least three protesters were killed in Nigeria's Kaduna state on Thursday, Reuters reporters and eyewitnesses said, as demonstrators rallied across the country against rising cost
August 01, 2024
UK rocked by far-right riots fueled by online disinformation about Southport stabbings
August 01, 2024
Coast Guard repatriates 32 migrants to Cuba
August 01, 2024
Evan Gershkovich landed what he told friends he regarded as a dream assignment in Moscow in 2022 - reporting for a famous newspaper on one of the world's
August 01, 2024
On Dec. 28, 2018, agents with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a little-known former U.S. marine named Paul Whelan in Moscow's Metropol Hotel,
August 01, 2024
A global food monitor concluded on Thursday that war in Sudan had caused famine at a camp for displaced people in North Darfur, and similar conditions may exist elsewhere in the region.
August 01, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah did not clear its sensitive sites or evacuate top officials in Beirut's suburbs before this week's attack that
August 01, 2024
An extensive east-west prisoner swap, involving 26 people, took place in Ankara on Thursday, the Turkish presidency said.
August 01, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has requested a phone call with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva amid tensions over a contested election, a Brazilian source
August 01, 2024
American citizens Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich are expected to be part of a historic prisoner swap between Russia and the United States. Whelan, an ex-US marine, was arrested in Moscow in 2018, subsequently charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Evan Gershkovich, a journalist with the Wall Street Journal, was arrested in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2023 while on assignment, and also charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years. The United States had designated both as wrongfully detained.
August 01, 2024
The body of Stephen Lawrence, a Black teenager killed in an unprovoked racist attack in London three decades ago, will be returned to Britain from Jamaica where he was originally
August 01, 2024
CNN's Matthew Chance explains why he believes President Vladimir Putin agreed to a massive prisoner swap that included Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
August 01, 2024
Russia releases Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in historic prisoner swap with West
August 01, 2024
Suspected human remains found at Michigan construction site determined to be from pre-modern era
August 01, 2024
Three newly freed Americans are back on U.S. soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia
August 01, 2024
The war in Sudan and restrictions on aid deliveries have caused famine in at least one site in North Darfur, and have
August 01, 2024
Sitting in a spartan, third-class train carriage about to leave Pokrovsk's railway station in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Arkhipov reflected on the grinding
August 01, 2024
More than 100 conflicts fester around the world
August 01, 2024
A controversial plan in Italy to set up detention camps in Albania for migrants picked up at sea has again been delayed, with a source close to the matter saying on Thursday it was a
August 01, 2024
Warsaw has come to a standstill on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising
August 01, 2024
Security forces have fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s spiraling economy
August 01, 2024
Imane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after just 46 seconds
August 01, 2024
Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ shadowy longtime military leader and one of the alleged masterminds of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza, is said to be dead following an Israeli airstrike last month
August 01, 2024
At least three protesters were killed in Nigeria's Kaduna state on Thursday, Reuters reporters and eyewitnesses said, as demonstrators rallied
August 01, 2024
Bangladesh has banned the Jamaat-e-Islami party, its student wing and other associate bodies, terming the party as a “militant and terrorist” organization as part of a nationwide crackdown following weeks of violence that left more than 200 people dead and thousands injured
August 01, 2024
The United States is considering fresh sanctions on Venezuela following Sunday's disputed presidential election.
August 01, 2024
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday proposed a "reset" to mend relations with the United States, Interpress news agency reported, after Washington paused more
August 01, 2024
The head of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israeli military said on Thursday, its
August 01, 2024
Israeli military says it killed Hamas chief Mohammed Deif in Gaza last month
August 01, 2024
Hamas' military leader Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds of the Oct. 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel, was an elusive figure who had a long and secretive career in the
August 01, 2024
Parliament's decision to strip a jailed opposition lawmaker of his seat is "null and void", Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled, prompting calls by his lawyer and the
August 01, 2024
Tahiti is hosting the surfing competition for the Paris Olympics and has been a coveted destination for the sport for decades, but it’s only in more recent years that local surf culture and talent begun to develop among younger generations
August 01, 2024
The Israeli military says it has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July
August 01, 2024
The head of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israeli military said on
August 01, 2024
Top Iranian officials will meet the representatives of Iran's regional allies from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Thursday to discuss
August 01, 2024
South Korea is ready to provide North Korea with relief supplies for damage caused by recent heavy rainfall, South Korea's Red Cross said on Thursday, marking a rare
August 01, 2024
Whenever it rains very heavily in the hills of Wayanad in southern India, many people stay awake, recalling a 2019 landslide that killed about 20 people.
August 01, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for “all parties” in the Middle East to avoid escalatory actions that could plunge the region into further conflict
August 01, 2024
Venezuela's contested election is the latest in a blockbuster year that will see nearly half the world head to the polls.
August 01, 2024
With large parts of the world in turmoil and deep uncertainty over the future direction of America’s global role, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought this week to project an aura of calm normalcy as he traveled through Asia on his first overseas mission since President Joe Biden jolted the 2024 presidential race with his withdrawal
August 01, 2024
One of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed while countering a Russian barrage, killing the pilot
August 01, 2024
China had its hottest month in observed modern history in July, Chinese state media reported, mirroring record hot weather seen around the world last month.
August 01, 2024
Toyota says its April-June profit rose 1.7%, boosted by a favorable exchange rate, as vehicle sales grew around the world despite a certification scandal that halted production in Japan for several months
August 01, 2024
Hezbollah’s leader warned that the militant group's conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase.”
August 01, 2024
Indian soldiers rushed to complete construction of a metal bridge on Thursday to connect the worst affected area in the
August 01, 2024
Israel not invited to ceremony commemorating 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki
August 01, 2024
Crippling drought from a nearly rainless year, along with record-high temperatures, is stressing farmers on the Italian island of Sicily
August 01, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet senior police leaders on Thursday, his office said, after a second night of clashes between protesters and police prompted by the
August 01, 2024
China doping controversy casts a shadow over Olympic swimming
August 01, 2024
Two back-to-back strikes in Beirut and Tehran targeted high-ranking figures in Hezbollah and Hamas and have been attributed to Israel
August 01, 2024
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday accused Meta Platforms of cowardice after his Facebook post on the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was removed,
August 01, 2024
Hopes of finding more than 180 missing people alive are waning as rescue workers searched through mud and debris for a third day after landslides set off by torrential rains killed at least 194 people in southern India
August 01, 2024
Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto said his upcoming administration would maintain ties with "great friend" Russia after meeting President Vladimir Putin, adding that he
August 01, 2024
Five years after Hong Kong's massive anti-government protests erupted, the lives of many young people who were jailed or arrested during Beijing’s political crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement remain in limbo
August 01, 2024
Woman gets jail for importing fruit from Vietnam infested with fruit flies
August 01, 2024
Australia has asked its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately, saying there was a real risk that the tensions between Israel and militant group Hezbollah could escalate seriously
August 01, 2024
A Canadian warship passed through the Taiwan Strait in what Ottawa called a commitment to an open Indo-Pacific, drawing a rebuke from China
August 01, 2024
The dollar gained on Thursday as rising geopolitical tensions drove a safe-haven boost, while the British pound fell after the Bank of England cut interest rates
August 01, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will lead funeral prayers for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday, Iran's state-run Press TV said.
July 31, 2024
Australia is struggling to improve the lives of the country's Indigenous population, with only five of 19 measures on course to meet targets, showed a government report
July 31, 2024
China and India will speed up negotiations around a disputed border and continue to maintain peace and tranquility in the areas, China's foreign ministry said in a statement on
July 31, 2024
Ukraine's human rights commissioner demanded an explanation on Wednesday from Russian authorities over the death in captivity of a member of the Azov brigade who took part in the three-
July 31, 2024
Maduro warns he’ll call for a ‘new revolution’ if forced by ‘North American imperialism’
July 31, 2024
North Korea wants to reopen nuclear talks with the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected as president and is working to devise a new negotiating strategy, a
July 31, 2024
President of 9/11 Justice and son of a 9/11 victim Brett Eagleson joins CNN’s Jake Tapper to discuss the unsealing of reports pointing to the Saudi Arabian government’s involvement in 9/11.
July 31, 2024
US reaches plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
July 31, 2024
US Army captain becomes first female nurse to graduate from the Army’s elite Ranger Course
July 31, 2024
United Nations Security Council countries on Wednesday called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to avert a wider Middle East conflict after the
July 31, 2024
Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
July 31, 2024
A judge in Detroit has approved a settlement in a 2017 lawsuit that challenged the detention of Iraqi nationals who were targeted for deportation during the Trump administration
July 31, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Kyiv does not want China to act as a mediator in its 29-month-old conflict with Russia but hoped Beijing would apply greater
July 31, 2024
Living in makeshift camps in the heart of Mexico City, many Venezuelan migrants grow increasingly anxious for their friends and family back home
July 31, 2024
The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has agreed to plead guilty
July 31, 2024
The man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have agreed
July 31, 2024
President Nicolás Maduro claimed victory, but regional leaders and outside observers have cried foul.
July 31, 2024
Kenya and the Central African Republic have declared new outbreaks of mpox as Africa's health officials are racing to contain the spread of the disease in a region lacking vaccines
July 31, 2024
US women’s soccer team qualifies for Olympic quarterfinals as group winner after 2-1 victory over Australia
July 31, 2024
A full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah would likely set the entire region on fire, involving Iran and its proxies, and could drag the US into direct confrontation with Tehran.
July 31, 2024
The U.S. men's basketball team had an easier time with South Sudan in the rematch than it did when the teams first met a couple of weeks ago
July 31, 2024
The White House on Wednesday voiced concern about the increased risk of an escalation into a broader Middle East war after the assassination
July 31, 2024
White House says reports of Hamas leader’s assassination in Iran ‘don’t help with the temperature going down’
July 31, 2024
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through the streets of central Istanbul late on Wednesday to protest the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
July 31, 2024
Saudi Arabia has detailed a massive stadium building project to host the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer
July 31, 2024
The United States on Wednesday urged its citizens to not travel to Lebanon, citing rising tensions between Israel and the Lebanon-based
July 31, 2024
A group of nearly 70 people allege they were sexually abused as children while housed in detention centers in Pennsylvania
July 31, 2024
King Mohammed VI invited French President Emmanuel Macron for an official visit, after Paris announced a position in support of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed territory of
July 31, 2024
A pair of assassinations of anti-Israel militant leaders hours apart is threatening to set off a regional clash and upend already fragile talks toward ending the war in Gaza
July 31, 2024
Scarred by the last bout of intra-cartel fighting, residents in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa are bracing themselves for violence amid fears
July 31, 2024
Israel’s suspected killing of Hamas’ political leader in the heart of Tehran points to an Israeli government ever more openly at odds with diplomatic efforts by the Biden administration to calm the region
July 31, 2024
Al-Jazeera says two of its reporters were killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza
July 31, 2024
Despite a spike in tensions in the Middle East, U.S.
July 31, 2024
Trump asks Rep. Mike Waltz, China hawk, to be his national security adviser
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North Korea ratifies mutual defence treaty with Russia
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Chipotle shareholders sue over fallout from skimping on portion sizes
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Archaeologists identify centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images
Queen Bey and Yale: The Ivy League university is set to offer a course on Beyoncé and her legacy