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By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Iran was hit with so-called snapback sanctions on Sunday local time, at a time of high tension in the Middle East. But what does that mean? The term is used for the reimposition of United Nations sanctions against Iran a decade after they were suspended as part of a

By Lex Harvey, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Russia has agreed to help China equip and train an airborne battalion, according to leaked documents reviewed by a leading think tank, illustrating the ever-deepening military partnership between Beijing and Moscow. Russia in 2023 agreed to sell a suite of military equipment to China’s People’s Liberation Army

By Diego Mendoza, Todd Symons, CNN (CNN) — The United States announced it would cancel the visa of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Friday, after he publicly called on its soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump, further straining relations between Washington and Bogota. Petro, who has previously clashed with the Trump administration on migration and

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A major fire at South Korea’s national data center has halted hundreds of online government services including postal and tax facilities, Reuters reported. The blaze likely began with an explosion of a battery at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon city, about 85 miles (130 kilometers) south of

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Without firing a shot, Russian President Vladimir Putin has over the past week managed to bring the war in Ukraine to millions of Europeans largely untouched by the conflict. And it started not with a bang but a whimper. As Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, told anxious Danes

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla will undertake a state visit to the Holy See this fall, Buckingham Palace has announced. The trip – which will take place in late October – will see the royal couple hold their first meeting with Pope Leo XIV, who was elected

Personal essay by Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after arriving to Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly a seminal moment for Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member (perhaps now

By Tal Shalev, Jennifer Hansler, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out on Friday at Western countries’ recent recognition of Palestinian statehood, accusing world leaders of “buckling under the pressure of a biased media, radical Islamist constituencies and antisemitic mobs.” Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu rejected

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Doha (CNN) — CNN interviewed a key Hamas negotiator and member of the militant group’s political bureau, Ghazi Hamad, this week, at a key moment in the war with Israel. Two weeks earlier, Hamad had survived an attack on the Hamas delegation in Doha, the capital of Qatar, which has been

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced Friday. According to the short announcement, Shakur, who was also known as Joanne

By Sophie Tanno, CNN London (CNN) — Data including photos, addresses and the names of more than 8,000 children has been stolen by cyber hackers targeting a nursery chain in the United Kingdom, British news outlets have reported. The hackers published some of the stolen photos and profiles from the Kido nursery group on the