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By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — On board the Iberia Airways flight taking Pope Leo XIV from Tenerife back to Rome, the captain made an announcement. A technical problem had been discovered, and the plane wasn’t able to take off. Moments later the pope and some of his entourage left the aircraft. I was one

By Yumi Asada, Chris Lau, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — When a Japanese court granted Hiromu Sakahara a retrial, there was no defendant in the dock celebrating the prospect of freedom. Instead, family members gathered around his grave to share news that he had longed to hear in life after a decades-long fight for justice. Sakahara

By Maria Santana, CNN After the New York Knicks’ thrilling comeback victory during this week’s Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Karl-Anthony Towns delivered one of the funniest lines of the night at a press conference. Asked about his Knicks’ teammate José Alvarado’s skill and impact on the court, Towns smiled and said: “It’s tough

By Mostafa Salem, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — When Iranian officials convened in Tehran to discuss the nation’s water crisis this month, President Masoud Pezeshkian asked them to remove their blazers to cope with the sweltering heat instead of switching on the air conditioning. Dressed in a short-sleeved polo shirt, his gesture was meant to

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