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By Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — For decades, drug lords with names like “El Chapo” and “El Mencho” have been the poster boys of the US fight against Mexican drug trafficking. Now the Trump administration has adopted a new target: well-heeled politicians who allegedly accept dirty money to help the criminals. The

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s education minister said Saturday he had resigned in a major victory for young protesters, whose spiraling demonstrations have presented a rare and growing challenge to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Protesters have been calling for accountability after allegations entrance exams to esteemed medical schools had been

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones. These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs more than 4,000 meters above sea level, where researchers hope to create an

By Sophie Tanno, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — International Criminal Court member states voted Friday to dismiss the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, following allegations of sexual misconduct. The vote to remove Khan comes days after his accuser went public in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Khan has denied all wrongdoing. It also comes

By Abeer Salman, Kara Fox, Eugenia Yosef and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military began preparations for a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank on Friday after four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes there. The military said a group of settlers entered an area of the West Bank

By German Padinger, CNN (CNN) — It’s a fight for control over a stash of gold locked away in one of the world’s largest and most secure vaults, but this is no 18th century pirate novel or bank heist movie. It’s the situation facing the Venezuelan government as it attempts to navigate its way through

By Issy Ronald, Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — French authorities ordered the complete evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on Friday, launching boats to help rescue people from the popular tourist destination as wildfires tear across western Europe. Evacuation boats operated from three piers on the peninsula, which is situated about 70 kilometers (43

CNN By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Dan Hodge and Yasmin Coles, CNN (CNN) — Chinese ships fired water cannon at Philippine vessels, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday – the third tense confrontation this week in the contested waters. Besides rich fishing grounds in

By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Dan Hodge and Yasmin Coles, CNN (CNN) — Chinese ships fired water cannon at Philippine vessels, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday – the third tense confrontation this week in the contested waters. Besides rich fishing grounds in its

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — For the first time, two Chinese nationals have been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics achievement – a win hailed across China as a milestone in the country’s bid to cement its role as a science and technology powerhouse. Wang Hong and Deng Yu were named Thursday