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By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Global military spending surged by almost 3% in 2025, fueled largely by ballooning defense expenditures in Europe and Asia, according to a report released Monday by a respected arms watchdog group. European defense spending jumped 14% from 2024, to $864 billion, and in Asia-Oceania the increase was 8.1%, to

By Lex Harvey, Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — In the year leading up to its dramatic seizure by US forces in the Indian Ocean, the oil tanker known as the MT Tifani made several trips between Iran and a stretch of water off the coast of Malaysia, around 60 miles from the glitzy skyscrapers of

By Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Betsy Klein, Christian Edwards, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — “The word ‘special’ does not begin to do it justice,” said Donald Trump of the relationship between the United States and Britain. “We’re like two notes in one chord, or two verses of the same poem – each beautiful on its

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The hashtag ‘alpine divorce’ has exploded on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram in recent months, with many women sharing traumatic, sometimes life-threatening experiences. The term is used to describe an event during a hike or other outdoor adventure, when one partner, usually male, abandons the other, who

By Annabella González, CNN (CNN) — At least 14 people were killed and at least 38 wounded, including five children, after a bomb tore apart a busy road in southwestern Colombia, according to local authorities. The incident was part of a “wave” of terror attacks this weekend, Colombian officials also said, as deadly violence resurges

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The flash mob descended on Brisbane’s city square, wearing double denim and blond wigs in the style of a legendary Australian singer as they danced with wild abandon to one of his 1980s hits. In an unlikely pairing, pro-Palestinian protesters have adopted John Farnham’s song “Two Strong

By Mohammad Al-Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, CNN Deir al-Balah, Gaza/Jerusalem (CNN) — Gaza held its first elections in more than 20 years on Saturday – but only in one city for a small fraction of the shattered territory’s population – amid a stalled process to advance the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The

By Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — In the hyper-masculine world of Latin-American drug cartels, it is sometimes the women you need to watch. That’s how the Mexican military hunted down one of the world’s most-wanted traffickers – Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes – in a daring operation earlier this year that included special forces storming his hideout in Jalisco state. Among the

By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — It is common knowledge among Ukrainian soldiers that anyone joining the military will, sooner or later, become a cat person. Felines are found in the most unlikely places on the front lines. In trenches, at checkpoints, in destroyed homes and at medical stabilization

By Uriel Blanco, CNN (CNN) — With just under two months to go before the 2026 World Cup, one of the tournament’s host cities in Mexico is experiencing a worrying trend. In Guadalajara, a city in Jalisco state plagued by drug violence and thousands of cases of disappeared people, residents are feeling increasingly unsafe. Nine