News

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A couple who bought a London mansion for £32,500,000 ($40,200,000) have been told by a court that they can hand the property back and recoup most of their costs after the house was found to have a huge moth infestation. Situated on one of the quiet leafy streets just

By Jeremy Diamond and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — When three Israeli hostages emerged at the weekend, emaciated and gaunt after 16 months in Hamas captivity, Israelis were shocked by the images. But inside the Israeli government, top officials were not surprised. The Israeli government has had intelligence for months indicating that many of the

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday jailed by a Swedish court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes. Six children and three women from the ethnic and

By Lauren Kent and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed non-White South Africans off the land to the benefit of White people. An act in 1913 limited

By Catherine Nicholls and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — At least 54 people were killed after a bus veered off a bridge into a ravine in Guatemala City on Monday, according to the country’s National Institute of Forensic Sciences. The bus was traveling across Belize Bridge in zone six of the Guatemalan capital when it

By Christian Edwards, Anna Chernova and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine “may be Russian someday,” throwing into question the future independence of a sovereign country that, with Western backing, has defended itself against Moscow’s full-scale invasion for nearly three years. Trump discussed his administration’s effort to end the

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has unveiled sweeping new regulations to tighten the release of information about its military online, a move that could obscure key sources for monitoring the world’s largest armed forces. The rules, announced over the weekend and taking effect on March 1, come as China is rapidly

By Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — North Korea has treated hundreds of Russian soldiers injured in Ukraine, Moscow’s ambassador to Pyongyang told state media, as he revealed new details of the reclusive state’s backing for the Kremlin’s war effort. Wounded Russian troops have been recovering in North Korean medical facilities, Ambassador Alexander Matsegora told state-run