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Story by Reuters Seoul (Reuters) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday over charges linked to military drones sent over Pyongyang to help create a pretext for his failed December 2024 martial law declaration, Yonhap reported. The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon guilty

Story by Reuters Bangkok (Reuters) — Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has died at 47, the royal palace said on Friday, after multiple health problems and nearly four years in a coma. The princess was hospitalized in December 2022 after a sudden loss of consciousness caused by

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is facing backlash online after the Hollywood A-lister and lifestyle entrepreneur starred in an advertisement for a luxury Israeli real estate project. The 53-year-old actress appears in the promotion for 51 Park, a 51-story real estate project in the coastal city of Herzliya, just

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Thursday the United States will take Iran’s Kharg Island and other oil infrastructure in the country, amid a deadlock in peace talks between the two nations. The island, a coral outcrop off Iran’s coast, is an economic lifeline for Tehran that typically handles roughly

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN London (CNN) — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered a fresh blow on Thursday after Secretary of Defense John Healey resigned over a budget dispute, saying the government is not willing to give the British Armed Forces the “resources they need.” Soon after, Minister of State for the Armed Forces Al

By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — When the US Department of Agriculture reported last week that it detected a case of New World screwworm in a Texas calf, ecologist Jeremy Radachowsky was not surprised. Radachowsky, the Mesoamerica and Western Caribbean director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, had long warned of the resurgence of the screwworm

By Thomas Bordeaux, Haley Britzky and Gianluca Mezzofiore (CNN) — US-made precision bombs appear to have struck two drinking water facilities in southern Iran, according to images posted by Iran’s semi-official news agency and an independent outlet, and analyzed by CNN. The photos of the damaged water tanks, which lie adjacent to each other, were

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The green, white and red colors of the Mexican flag are blanketing parts of Mexico City as the country’s capital gets ready to host the opening match of the World Cup this Thursday. From stores selling the bright green soccer jerseys of Mexico’s national team to digital billboards promoting

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Antoni Gaudí, the architect behind Barcelona’s most visited attraction – the Sagrada Família church – was hit by a tram in 1926 and died after not receiving immediate medical attention as onlookers had mistaken him for a beggar. Today, exactly one hundred years since the architect’s death, Pope Leo

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Barcelona (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV and Bad Bunny have been the two big crowd pullers in Spain in recent days. The pontiff has been packing out stadiums and plazas for prayer vigils and Masses, while the Puerto Rican rapper has been holding his party-style mega-concerts in front of tens of

By Emma Balleste and Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — A former Air Canada pilot faces criminal charges for flying tens of thousands of passengers for nearly 17 years with a fake pilot’s license, Canadian police announced Tuesday. Geoffrey Wall was arrested June 1 after investigators say he captained over 900 domestic and international flights from

By Issy Ronald, Hira Humayun, Kathleen Magramo, CNN London (CNN) — Police in Northern Ireland deployed water cannons as anti-immigrant protests entered their second night on Wednesday after a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder following a brutal knife attack. Video showed a crowd of protesters hurling objects toward police vehicles, and officers responding

By Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, CNN (CNN) — One Japanese city took no chances after a series of bear sightings this week, closing nearly 100 schools as officials scoured the town, and as attacks took place elsewhere in the country. Utsunomiya City, home to about half a million residents north of Tokyo, recorded its first

By Todd Symons, Kathleen Magramo and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said the US must respond after Iran brought down an Army Apache helicopter, whose crew members were safely rescued. Trump posted on social media Tuesday afternoon that the US military informed him Iran shot down the helicopter, which was patrolling the

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — “Kenya is not an American colony!” That was the chant echoing through Nairobi and other Kenyan cities last week as furious protesters vented their anger at plans for a US-funded isolation ward for Americans exposed to Ebola abroad. The controversial proposal has sparked fears of Ebola entering a country

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has described war as a “painful defeat” of negotiations while lamenting that violence and polarization has plunged the world into a “profound” crisis during a historic, peace-focused speech at the Spanish parliament Monday. Leo XIV’s address to politicians in the Cortes Generales, the first by a

By Simone McCarthy, Yoonjung Seo, CNN Beijing/Seoul (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for deepening “strategic coordination and cooperation” with North Korea shortly after receiving a pomp-filled welcome to mark his first visit to the secluded nation in seven years. The two sides should inject “powerful momentum” into their ties, Xi said during a

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the Mindanao region in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing dozens of people and triggering scenes of panic as buildings collapsed and emergency sirens blared in parts of the archipelago. The quake struck around 07:37 a.m. local time at a depth of about

By Yumi Asada, Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s youngest elected female mayor is making history again – by taking time off to become a first-time mom. Shoko Kawata, the 35-year-old mayor of Yawata city in Kyoto Prefecture, has announced she’ll be taking maternity leave around the coming birth of her child, putting herself at

By Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — Keiko Fujimori was 19 years old when she made her international debut at a 1994 event as Peru’s first lady. Dressed in black, the young woman appeared shy and nervous in front of the cameras on the arm of her father, then-President Alberto Fujimori, at the first Summit of