National-World

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Ace Aguirre was just two bites into his oatmeal on the morning of November 4 when he noticed something strange: mud had seeped onto the living room floor of his bungalow in Cotcot, a village in the Philippines’ Cebu province. The moments that followed will be forever seared into

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Fernando Ramos, CNN (CNN) — At least seven Colombian soldiers were killed and 30 wounded Thursday when a guerrilla group attacked an Army base with drones and explosives, the military said. The attack, which happened at Military Base 27 in the northern department of Cesar, was attributed to the National Liberation Army

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — There is no longer famine in Gaza, a United Nations-backed hunger monitor announced on Friday, after an influx of humanitarian aid into the strip following a ceasefire agreed in October between Israel and Hamas. “Following a significant reduction in conflict, a proposed peace plan, and improved access

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV on Friday appointed Bishop Richard Moth, who regularly speaks out on social concerns such as prisons, as the new Archbishop of Westminster, the most senior Catholic Cleric in England and Wales. The appointment of Bishop Moth, 67, of Arundel and Brighton in southern England, is Pope

By Chris Lau, Samra Zulfaqar, Kristie Lu Stout, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The white wreaths were piled high on the doorsteps of a funeral house in Hong Kong, a stark reminder of a city still laying its dead to rest more than four weeks after a devastating fire. Outside Universal Funeral Parlour were thousands

By Niamh Kennedy, Saskya Vandoorne, Caroline Baum, CNN (CNN) — A German man has been found guilty of drugging and raping his unconscious wife for years and sharing video of his crimes on the internet, in a case that has drawn comparisons to the trial of Dominique Pelicot in France. Fernando P., a 61-year-old school

By Joseph Ataman, Ross Adkin, CNN Brussels (CNN) — EU leaders early Friday announced a multi-billion dollar funding plan for Ukraine’s economy and military for the next two years – with the package funded for now by borrowing cash and not tapping into billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets held in the bloc. Due

By Hira Humayun, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national buy-back scheme for firearms to “get more guns off our streets” following the Bondi Beach massacre. Speaking at a press conference in Canberra on Friday, Albanese said the scheme would buy surplus, newly banned, and illegal firearms. The

By Jessie Yeung, Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — Imagine this: You’re a South Korean teenager taking a notoriously grueling 8-hour college entrance exam. You’ve been prepping for this for months, perhaps years. You reach the English portion, and you see this: If you thought that was difficult, how about this? These were among the questions

By Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — It was a bitterly cold night in March 1997 in a mud hut high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and we were surrounded by well-armed al-Qaeda fighters. Peter Arnett asked their leader a simple question: “What are your future plans?” Osama bin Laden replied, “You’ll see them and