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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Over 20,000 revelers gathered for an illegal rave on a military site in central France despite the risks of unexploded ordnance nearby. The event organized on social media as the “Bourges Teknival” has been taking place on a military firing range which authorities have deemed “very dangerous.” Partygoers from

By Sophie Tanno, CNN London (CNN) — A British woman who was denied permanent birth control through the UK’s national health service on the grounds she might regret the decision has won her case with the country’s health ombudsman after a 10-year battle. Leah Spasova, a psychologist from Oxfordshire, spent years trying to obtain sterilization

By Anabella González, Djenane Villanueva, Ana María Cañizares, CNN (CNN) — The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is holding but the war’s impact is still being felt in the daily lives of millions of people in Latin America – and could continue to be for months to come. From rising fuel prices to

By Mauricio Torres, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa said on Friday he will temporarily step down from his post, days after he was indicted in the US on drug trafficking charges. Ruben Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa since 2021, and nine current or former high-ranking Mexican

By Todd Symons, Fred He and Martha Zhou, CNN Beijing (CNN) — In the flagship Beijing store of the world’s biggest drone maker, display racks designed to showcase DJI’s famous flying products sit awkwardly empty. The Chinese capital is now effectively drone-free. Under sweeping new rules that took effect May 1, you cannot buy, rent,

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — From almost any other country, the answer would have been a firm no. But when the United Arab Emirates came under a relentless Iranian attack during the US-Israeli war on Tehran, Israel agreed to deploy one of its most sensitive military systems. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly ordered the

By Issy Ronald, Jomana Karadsheh, Florence Davey-Attlee, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed in London in what police described as a terrorist incident. The two men aged 76 and 34 were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, on Wednesday. On Friday morning,

By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Front Royal, Virginia (CNN) — King Charles III came to the United States to mark Britain’s loss in the war of independence. He left with an historic win. The 77-year-old monarch faced a number of possible pitfalls from a bombastic US president known for creating controversy and generating headlines

By Nic Robertson, Jessie Yeung, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — As the stalemate between Washington and Tehran drags on and the world waits in hope of a deal, the very real possibility of an alternate outcome – the resumption of war – looms overhead. The clock was already ticking down on Friday to an anticipated

By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — Violent crowds clashed with police outside a hospital in a remote Australian outback town Thursday night as they demanded authorities hand over an accused child-killer. Dramatic footage showed police officers dodging rocks and sticks while rioters smashed police cars and set a police van on fire. Officers can

By Esha Mitra, CNN Murshidabad / Kolkata, India (CNN) — Sadre Alam went to war for India. Suprabuddha Sen’s grandfather illustrated its first constitution. For decades, both men exercised their rights enshrined in that document to vote in the world’s largest democracy. Days before polls opened in crucial state elections in April, they found out

By Reuters (Reuters) — Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, more than five years after the military ousted the civilian government she led and jailed the Nobel laureate. Suu Kyi, 80, has been detained by the junta since and her whereabouts

By Simone McCarthy, Martha Zhou, CNN Beijing (CNN) — The world’s largest electric vehicle maker is locked out of its biggest potential overseas market. But BYD – the Chinese EV behemoth – says barriers restricting it and other Chinese carmakers from American consumers won’t stop it from maintaining that top spot in an industry transforming

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — “If you are visibly Jewish, you’re not safe” in Britain, the country’s chief rabbi said Thursday, expressing the anxiety of the British Jewish community after two men were stabbed in a London neighborhood already reeling from several recent antisemitic attacks. “I’m sad to say that today’s event

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — “If you are visibly Jewish, you’re not safe” in Britain, the country’s chief rabbi said Thursday, expressing the anxiety of the British Jewish community after two men were stabbed in a London neighborhood already reeling from several recent antisemitic attacks. “I’m sad to say that today’s event

By Ivana Kottasová, Kosta Gak, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A bomb that killed a soldier in a remote Russian town was likely targeting a notorious Russian commander known as the Butcher of Bucha, Russian and Ukrainian media and military bloggers said. Russian authorities said the bomb attack on Tuesday in the far-east Khabarovsk region

By Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla, CNN (CNN) — A spat between the US and Germany has reached new heights, with US President Donald Trump threatening to pull some American troops from the country amid disagreements about the US-led campaign in Iran. “The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany,

CNN By Michael Rios, David Culver, Carlos Martinelli, Mary Triny Mena, CNN Miami (CNN) — A commercial passenger plane from the US landed in Venezuela on Thursday for the first time in nearly seven years, as the countries continue to restore economic ties following the ouster of Venezuela’s strongman leader in January. The inaugural American

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli grain importer has said it will not receive the cargo of a ship allegedly carrying stolen Ukraine grain after the vessel became the focus of a major diplomatic spat between the two countries. The Israel Grain Importers Association said that the cargo – which Kyiv says was

By Clare Sebastian, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — For the third time in 12 days, the Russian Black Sea town of Tuapse woke up Tuesday to apocalyptic scenes. Thick toxic fumes, and flames rising up from the latest Ukrainian drone attack on the Rosneft-owned Tuapse oil refinery, almost reached the heights of the surrounding Caucasus