By Al Goodman and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday he will not resign, five days after canceling his public duties to “reflect” on whether to continue in the job, on the heels of a Spanish court opening a probe against his wife, Begoña Gomez. Sanchez, a socialist, made
Continue Reading CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Evelio Contreras, CNN. Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Vitel’homme Innocent’s picture on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list of fugitives suggests a crazed man – eyes wide and wild, teeth bared. It’s the photo you might expect for a gang leader accused of destabilizing a nation, who claims
Continue Reading By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Evelio Contreras, CNN. Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Vitel’homme Innocent’s picture on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list of fugitives suggests a crazed man – eyes wide and wild, teeth bared. It’s the photo you might expect for a gang leader accused of destabilizing a nation, who claims to
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo, Irene Nasser and Helen Regan, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — At least 71 people have been confirmed dead and 110 people are in hospital following floods near the town of Mai Mahiu in Kenya’s north-western Nakuru county, Nakuru governor Susan Kihika confirmed to CNN on Monday. According to Kihika, flooding in the
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Stephen Watts, CNN (CNN) — Three police officers were shot and injured by a gunman after responding to a shooting outside a home in Kenner, Louisiana, on Sunday, authorities said. The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Matthew Lathers, was eventually fatally shot by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office sniper, Sheriff Joseph Lopinto
Continue Reading By Josh Pennington, CNN (CNN) — Two Ukrainian servicemen were stabbed to death at a shopping center in southern Germany Saturday evening, by a suspected Russian national, German and Ukrainian authorities say. German police say a 36-year-old man died on the scene in the city of Murnau, and a 23-year-old man died later that evening
Continue Reading By Tareq Alhelou, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Zeena Saifi, CNN Rafah (CNN) — Dozens of Palestinian students and children staged a display of solidarity at a demonstration in southern Gaza on Sunday to express gratitude for the support seen on US college campuses in recent weeks. Video from the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah
Continue Reading CNN By Andrew Carey and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Putin’s forces have made further gains in at least three locations along the eastern front in Ukraine – including for the first time in several months an advance in the northern Kharkiv region – highlighting again Kyiv’s need for ammunition and weapons from the
Continue Reading By Zarah Ullah, Katharina Krebs, Darya Tarasova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A pair of Russian journalists have been detained on “extremism” charges and face accusations of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin are accused of producing content for Navalny’s prominent YouTube
Continue Reading By Eve Brennan, Catherine Nicholls and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Prince Harry will return to the United Kingdom in May to celebrate a milestone anniversary of the Invictus Games, the biennial sporting competition he founded a decade ago. The Duke of Sussex will give a reading at a ceremony at London’s St. Paul’s
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — An Austrian company plans to build a vessel worthy of a James Bond villain: a customized submersible superyacht that’s more than 500 feet long and can remain below the ocean’s surface for up to four weeks. Eat your heart out, Jeff Bezos. Here’s what else you
Continue Reading By Andrew Carey and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Vladimir Putin’s forces have made further gains in at least three locations along the eastern front in Ukraine – including for the first time in several months an advance in the northern Kharkiv region – highlighting again Kyiv’s need for ammunition and weapons from the United
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN (CNN) — Jim Wallis was a long-haired student activist in the early 1970s who read Marx, marched against the Vietnam War and had little use for evangelical Christianity. But one day he conducted an unusual theological experiment that would change his life. Wallis and several friends wanted to know how many scriptures in the
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — With tension mounting over an encampment in support of Palestinians at New York’s Columbia University, police strode onto campus this month and arrested more than 100 demonstrators. On the cusp of the close of the academic year, university communities across the nation remain on edge, not only over flares
Continue Reading By Nechirvan Mando and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Iraq has passed a new law that penalizes same-sex relations with up to 15 years in prison, a move condemned by rights advocates as the latest attack on the country’s LGBTQ community. The Iraqi parliament on Saturday passed a bill amending a 1988 anti-prostitution law to
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed and 33 injured in a tornado Saturday that struck Guangzhou, a city of 19 million people in southern China, according to Chinese state media. Authorities say 141 factory buildings were damaged but no residential houses collapsed, according to the Xinhua news agency. It
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation Friday allowing teachers and school staff in the state to be armed in school buildings and campuses, according to the General Assembly’s website. State legislators approved the bill Tuesday, which authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to
Continue Reading By Lauren Izso and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Hamas on Saturday published a video of two hostages, American-Israeli Keith Siegel and Israeli Omri Miran. In the video, Siegel, who appears to be speaking under duress, pleads for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a hostage release deal with Hamas. This is the first
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — Thirty-five rail cars of a train derailed in New Mexico Friday afternoon, prompting evacuations that lasted until Sunday and forcing a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 40 to close. McKinley County Fire & Rescue was dispatched around 12:40 p.m. Friday after the train derailed and caught fire
Continue Reading By Zeena Saifi, Kareem Khadder and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A desperately needed shipment of food aid destined for Gaza departed from Cyprus on Saturday, weeks after humanitarian efforts in the besieged enclave were severely disrupted following a deadly Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers. The deaths of the
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