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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It’s dark outside. The news cycle is relentless. But Finland’s national broadcaster has a solution: Adorable puppies, available any time, night or day. Yle has been drawing millions of people to its website with “Pentulive” – Finnish for “Puppy Live” – a 24/7 live stream of Hilkka, a Lagotto

By Nimi Princewill, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — The leader of a Kenyan Christian cult has been found guilty of the murder of 190 children through an organised system of enforced fasting and abuse. Paul Mackenzie was on Monday convicted along with about 30 other suspects at Mombasa High Court over the deaths of 191

By Jack Guy (CNN) — A priest has been killed by a falling crucifix at a church in Ecuador as he performed a mass that was being live streamed online. Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari died on Saturday at the Perpetuo Socorro church in the city of Guayaquil, southern Ecuador, according to a statement from the

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A 43-year-old man has been charged with ramming an Australian lawmaker with a vehicle in what police said was a “targeted” attack that inflicted serious injuries requiring the amputation of her leg, according to media reports. Helen Haines, 65, who represents the federal seat of Indi, was

By Oren Liebermann, Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Amid US pressure on a surge of settler violence in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police arrested at least 10 suspects in the weekend attacks on a Washington Post journalist and an entourage of European diplomats. Police said the operation to locate and arrest the suspects

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — French authorities promised a “massive” police presence for planned protests on Saturday and imposed localized curfews for a second consecutive night as the country grapples with the fallout from its worst rioting in years. The moves come after protests over education and the cost of living spiraled into a

By Mostafa Salem, Aida Karimi, Leila Gharagozlou, CNN (CNN) — Iran has signaled that it is preparing for another round of war with the United States and has issued public threats against Washington and its allies in an apparent bid to deter President Donald Trump from restarting the current conflict. Over the past month, Iranian

By Tim Lister and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has excoriated Ukraine’s leader after the country launched one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of his demand it stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure. There have been growing tensions between Ukraine and

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has made his first major public appearance since his lung cancer surgery, saying the experience brought him closer to all those who suffer, from the same spot in the Vatican he announced a week ago he needed an operation. The 71-year-old pontiff lead the Sunday

By Tal Shalev, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — For years, Israelis driving the country’s highways in the final weeks of an election have seen the same image: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing beside President Donald Trump, under the slogan, “A different league.” Less than two weeks before the October 27 vote, the billboards of Netanyahu

By Daniel Dale, Jessie Yeung, Paula Newton, Max Saltman, CNN Toronto (CNN) — Four Canadian service members were killed and dozens injured in a major fire Saturday that occurred as troops were conducting combat training with live munitions at one of the country’s largest and busiest military bases, officials said Sunday. Thirty-nine people were being

By Mauricio Torres, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — Months after a deadly car wreck revealed the CIA’s participation in a raid on a Chihuahua drug lab, authorities arrested César Jáuregui, Chihuahua’s former attorney general, for allegedly allowing US spies to participate in the operation without permission from the Mexican government. Gilberto Loya Chávez, the acting

By Joseph Ataman, Catherine Nicholls, Sana Noor Haq, James Legge, CNN (CNN) — France’s President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation on Sunday evening as communities reeled from one of the most violent nights of unrest in recent years after largely peaceful anti-government protests descended into rioting, leaving government buildings torched, one police officer and one

By Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers attacked a group of European diplomats in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, one day after a Washington Post journalist was injured in another assault. Settlers attacked the group of European diplomats in the village of Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian village east of Ramallah,

CNN By James Legge, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has waived a further slate of sanctions related to Russian fossil fuel sales, sparking a bipartisan backlash days before they were to take effect under a bill he signed into law last month. The waiver announced in an executive order Friday comes

By Zahra Ullah, Anna Chernova, CNN Moscow (CNN) — “Something is constantly breaking, something is constantly not working,” 31-year-old Anton from St. Petersburg says. He came home one night to darkness. His smart bulbs were not turning on. The bulbs are powered by Yandex, a Russian technology company that provides internet- related services and digital

By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — Beijing has invited now-ousted White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to visit China more often after she claimed the country lacks “proper toilets” in a recent interview. Zacharia, who was sacked by President Donald Trump less than a week into her job following an onslaught of scrutiny, came under

By James Legge, Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has waived a further slate of sanctions related to Russian fossil fuel sales, sparking a bipartisan backlash days before they were to take effect under a bill he signed into law last month. The waiver announced in an executive order Friday comes as

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin from hospital on Friday, just days after his lung cancer surgery, and expressed his concern about the “grave humanitarian situation” in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city. During the call, the Vatican said Leo expressed “deep concern” about