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By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — Beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron has appointed outgoing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of trying to find consensus in a divided parliament and pass the 2026 budget. Earlier on Monday, outgoing Prime Minister François Bayrou submitted his resignation, which Macron accepted. He

By Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markin, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — A Russian cruise missile that hit a government building in central Kyiv on Sunday was filled with dozens of foreign parts, including chips and other electronic components made in the United States, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. The Iskander 9M727 missile that struck the building

By Tal Shalev, Mostafa Salem, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israel carried out an attack targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar on Tuesday, in an unprecedented strike on a key mediator in the Gaza conflict that threatened to derail renewed peace efforts and further inflame tensions in the region. A senior Israeli official told CNN that

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Attacks on Africa’s critical infrastructure are not uncommon. This year, insurgent militant groups led to a temporary shutdown of a tin mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo and fighting in Sudan’s civil war caused a blaze at the country’s largest oil refinery. Disruptions like these not only threaten

By Christian Edwards, Lucas Lilieholm, Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN (CNN) — An activist group seeking to break Israel’s siege on Gaza by sea said one of its main boats was struck by a drone at a port in Tunisia on Monday night, but all six passengers and crew are safe. Tunisia’s National Guard said claims of

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Lauren Kent, Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — A Russian aerial bomb attack on Tuesday killed at least 25 people and wounded 19 more in the rural Ukrainian village of Yarova in the eastern Donetsk region, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky described the airstrike as “brutally savage” and

By Lucas Lilieholm, Kareem Khadder and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Israel on Tuesday ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City, home to around a million Palestinians, ahead of its controversial military takeover. “To all residents of Gaza City and all its neighborhoods, from the Old City and Tuffah in the east to the sea

Exclusive by Stefano Pozzebon, Osmary Hernandez, Rocio Muñoz, CNN Caracas (CNN) — Venezuela is not seeking a military confrontation with the United States or any other regional actor, its Foreign Minister Yván Gil told CNN in a rare interview, as tensions rise with Washington, including over the recent deadly US Navy strike on a vessel

By Lex Harvey, Sugam Pokharel, Esha Mitra and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Nepali protesters, angered by a bloody crackdown, defied a police curfew and took over the streets of the capital Kathmandu on Tuesday, setting fire to the Supreme Court, parliament and other government buildings in the latest day of Gen Z-led protests

CNN By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo, Mike Valerio, Marianna Kim, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The detention of hundreds of South Korean nationals after a immigration raid on a factory in Georgia last week was an “unjust infringement” on the rights of South Korean people and businesses operating in the United States, the Asian

By Brad Lendon, Nectar Gan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Kim Jong Un on Monday watched a test of North Korea’s new high-thrust rocket engine, an event that sets the stage for Pyongyang to test its newest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-20, which state media said last week would be powered by the

By Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Thailand’s top court ordered the influential former prime minister and billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra to prison for one year on Tuesday in a dramatic turn of events for the embattled political titan. Thaksin, 76, a towering and divisive figure, served as prime minister from 2001 until he