National-World

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Rob Picheta and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has arrived back in the country’s capital after being freed from an Iranian prison where she had spent weeks in detention. Sala is a reporter for the Italian daily Il Foglio, which said the journalist landed in Rome on

By Jay Ganglani, CNN (CNN) — A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the spider spans 9.2 centimeters (about 3.6 inches) from foot to foot, according to the Australian Reptile

By Mitchell McCluskey and Paula Newton, CNN (CNN) — After nearly a decade in power, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally bowed to a chorus of criticism that had become too loud to ignore, announcing his resignation on Monday. Among the loudest critics was one of his most loyal and longest-serving deputies. In December, then-Deputy

By Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae and Helen Regan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Crowds of people wrapped up against the bitter January cold clutch signs emblazoned with the slogan “Stop the Steal,” wave US flags, and don red MAGA-like hats. But this scene is 11,000 kilometers (7,000 miles) away from Washington, DC,

By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Ireland has joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice announced Tuesday morning. In a brief press statement, the ICJ said that Ireland had on Monday joined Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico, Libya, Bolivia, Turkey, the Maldives, Chile, Spain, and the State of Palestine in asking to

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed “ingratitude” for the deployment of his nation’s troops in the Sahel region in battling Islamist extremism. Macron told French ambassadors at a conference in Paris on Monday that Sahel nations

By Mostafa Salem and Tareq Al Hilou, CNN (CNN) — The United Arab Emirates has been in discussions about the possibility of playing a role in postwar efforts to rebuild Gaza, but its conditions for doing so have yet to be met, a UAE official told CNN. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touted the

By Maria Kostenko, Christian Edwards, Nick Paton Walsh and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Russia has claimed that its forces captured a battered but strategic town in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, while the Ukrainian military said it struck a command post during its counterattack in the Russian region of Kursk. After months of intense fighting,

By Saskya Vandoorne and Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV. From founding the National Front party – which his daughter has taken to new heights as

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo, Simone McCarthy and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean authorities have granted a request to extend a warrant to detain the country’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his surprise declaration of martial law last month. The warrant expired on Monday at midnight (10