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By Tal Shalev, Kara Fox, Andrew Carey, Henrik Pettersson, Soph Warnes, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel faces weeks, possibly months, of political limbo after final results show there’s no clear winner in its elections. Neither of the two main blocs – one led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, the other led by

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An attempt by murderer Erin Patterson, who killed three people with a meal of toxic mushrooms, to overturn her conviction has failed, with an appeals court finding that her original sentence was too light for her “cold and calculated” crimes. Patterson, now 52, was found guilty last

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she returned to the country from exile this past week to mobilize society as she pushes for new elections next year. “I have returned to finish a task and to fulfill a mandate,” she said Thursday in her first news conference since

By Lauren Kent, Vasco Cotovio, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — The deadly train crash in Spain’s Toledo province has sparked fresh criticism of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government and raised questions about the country’s investment in public infrastructure – just weeks before national elections in November. Wednesday’s crash marks the third deadly train disaster

By the Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Parts of a large volcanic rock formation crashed down in Turkey’s popular tourism destination of Cappadocia on Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring five others, officials said. A section of the rock formation — known as a fairy chimney — tumbled in Cappadocia’s Goreme region,

By Amarachi Orie, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl has been hospitalized after sustaining serious injuries in a wolf attack inside a German zoo’s enclosure. The girl was with two other children and a staff member when at least one wolf attacked her on Wednesday morning at Johannismühle Wildlife Park, south of Berlin,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A Russian drone struck the main railway station in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro as people waited to board a train on Thursday morning, killing 15 people. Another 10 people were wounded in the strike, the latest in a series of Russian attacks on transport and

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration and the Kremlin are discussing the possible lifting of US sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, Russian state media quoted a Kremlin aide as saying, in what would be another US concession to Moscow in negotiations to end its war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Three days after losing Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, joining other prominent allies of the Bolsonaro political movement who have sought refuge in the United States while facing legal troubles back home. The defeated candidate reportedly crossed into Argentina with his wife and

CNN By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — In a political career that has spanned more than three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has been written off too many times to count, only to prove the obituaries were penned prematurely. Israel’s election results this week appear to give the prime minister’s opponents a chance to end his

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — No clear winner has emerged from Israel’s election with all the votes counted, according to the Israeli Central Elections Committee. Both major political blocs have fallen short of the 61 seats needed to form a majority government in Israel’s 120-seat parliament, called the Knesset, setting up the country

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Individuals from as many as 27 different countries may have died in this week’s high-speed train collision in Spain, the country’s prime minister said Friday, as the process to identify victims continued. The deadly crash happened Wednesday after one train plowed into another near the town of Urda, in

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Can Cuba outlast Trump? The US president has vowed that Cuba could be the next US adversary to face his wrath. “What we’re going to do with Cuba is, we’re going to come back from Iran,” Trump said at campaign rally in Florida on Friday. “Those beautiful