National-World

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The human tragedy was undeniable: around 72,000 desperate people surging across a breakwater barrier from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last Thursday, some drowning and others trampling their fellow migrants underfoot, leaving at least 72 dead. But while the dramatic incident passed almost as quickly as it

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages. The move was widely ridiculed in the Pacific Rim nation, where English is already widely used, including in courts and parliament. The English Language Bill states that the addition of English as

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s brutal heat wave has already sparked record-breaking temperatures, deadly wildfires and mass evacuations. Now a new crisis looms: an energy shortage. Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar warned on Monday that the “hardest five days are ahead of us” as the country’s sole nuclear power station teeters on the

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — What did you do in the past 29 days? New Zealand ultrarunner Sophie Woods ran 1,240 miles across eight countries to conquer one of the world’s toughest endurance challenges – breaking both the men’s and women’s time records. The 42-year-old conquered the Via Alpina, which involves traversing a vast

By Helen Regan, Ross Adkin, Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, in what appeared to be her first public meeting with a foreign official in several years, and which comes after

CNN By Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — Thunderstorms have disrupted Cuba’s attempt to restore electricity, the national grid operator said Monday, less than a day after the country suffered its sixth nationwide blackout of the year. “During the process of restoring the National Electric System, prevailing weather conditions caused disruptions to the grid, directly affecting

Story by the Associated Press Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Peru has temporarily suspended the operations of sightseeing airline Aerodiana after one of its planes crashed in the country’s Ica region on Saturday, killing 11 European tourists and two crew members. Aerodiana, which flies customers over the Nazca Lines archaeological site in southern Peru, must suspend all operations “until

Story by the Associated Press Ceuta, Spain (AP) — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Fernando García Velázquez took the admissions exam for Mexico’s most famous university four times before finally getting the result that should have guaranteed him admission. On his first three attempts, he had no option other than to travel the 400 km (250 miles) from his native Veracruz to

CNN Staff Dharamshala, India (CNN) — Cheogyal Dawa couldn’t contain his emotions when he finally came face-to-face with an image he hadn’t seen openly displayed since he was a small child: a portrait of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader. “I was so excited I burst into tears,” Cheogyal said of seeing the large

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — After three difficult years, armed groups loyal to Tehran appear to be bouncing back across the Middle East, reinforcing Iran’s leverage in its war with the United States and Israel. For decades, experts say, these groups played a key role: acting as a powerful deterrent against direct attacks on

By Anna Chernova, Alessandra Freitas, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s mayor says a bomb blast that killed at least five people including the woman carrying the device and injured 19 others at a restaurant was a “terrorist attack.” An unidentified woman attempted to enter a private event at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya

By Sophia Saifi, Sana Noor Haq, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers have located the body of famed Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja who died alongside nine others after an avalanche struck his expedition in Pakistan last week. Purja, who made history over the years by climbing some of the world’s highest peaks, was part of