National-World

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Sandi Sidhu, CNN (CNN) — Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last week, the United Nations’ human rights office said on Tuesday. The bloodshed in the coastal heartland of former ruler Bashar al-Assad saw more than 800 people killed

By Sophia Saifi, Asim Khan, Saleem Mehsud and Rhea Mogul, CNN Quetta, Pakistan (CNN) — Nearly 350 hostages were rescued at the end of a deadly standoff between Pakistan’s military and armed militants who hijacked a train in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, a security source told CNN Wednesday. The incident, which began Tuesday,

By Jessie Yeung and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Greenland’s pro-business opposition party won the Arctic island’s closely-watched parliamentary election on Tuesday, following a race dominated both by US President Donald Trump’s annexation threat and growing calls from residents for independence from Denmark. The center-right Demokraatik party, which advocates for a slower approach to independence,

CNN By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Since Donald Trump began his second term, Canadian politician Doug Ford has become one of the loudest international voices to contest the US president’s “America First” trade policy. The Ontario premier is now a ubiquitous presence on US cable news as he pushes back against US tariffs on

By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Since Donald Trump began his second term, Canadian politician Doug Ford has become one of the loudest international voices to contest the US president’s “America First” trade policy. The Ontario premier is now a ubiquitous presence on US cable news as he pushes back against US tariffs on Canadian

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Lauren Kent, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Ukraine had accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the United States, following critical peace talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia. The ceasefire proposal accepted by Ukraine covers the

By Nathaly Triana, CNN en Español Colombia (CNN en Español) — “My God, you also handed my son freedom,” said Patricia Cortes when she left El Buen Pastor prison on September 17, 2024. She had hoped to be able to guarantee her son’s food and health upon leaving prison. However, after six months of freedom,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An Indonesian social media influencer who suggested Jesus should cut his hair has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in jail after being found guilty of spreading hate speech against Christianity. Ratu Thalisa, a Muslim transgender woman who has nearly 450,000 followers on TikTok, was sentenced by

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands following his dramatic arrest in Manila the day before over a brutal, years-long anti-drugs crackdown that left thousands of his citizens dead. Duterte was placed on a flight late on

By Asim Khan, Saleem Mehsud and Sophia Saifi, CNN Quetta, Pakistan (CNN) — Separatist militants killed at least 10 people after hijacking a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, according to government and railway officials. Nine of those killed were security personnel, Imran Hayat, a senior railway official,