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By Kathleen Magramo, Karol Suarez and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Known as “la Doctora” for her glittering academic credentials, Claudia Sheinbaum is a physicist with a doctorate in energy engineering, the former mayor of one of the world’s most populous cities, and was part of the United Nations panel of climate scientists that received

By Tara John and CNN en Español (CNN) — Mexico has elected its first female president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and Mexico City’s former mayor, is on track to win the country’s largest election in history. Sheinbaum has won between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to what is known as Quick

CNN By Heather Chen, Hanako Montgomery and Moeri Karasawa, CNN Hong Kong/Tokyo (CNN) — Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s largest mammals. But he doesn’t want to protect them. He wants to hunt them. To do that his

By Nadine Schmidt and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Berlin (CNN) — Pavlo Kushnirov was among the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the eastern city of Bakhmut with the 114th territorial defense brigade on a sunny day last winter when Russian shelling changed his life forever. “For two days our unit was under heavy bombardment from Russian artillery and drones.

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China on Monday accused Britain of recruiting a married couple employed by the Chinese central government to spy for its MI6 intelligence service, as the two countries trade allegations of espionage. In a statement, China’s civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), said it had recently cracked

CNN By Tara John and Michelle Velez, CNN (CNN) — Mexicans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in a historic election, overshadowed by violence, that is expected to return the country’s first woman president. The two leading presidential candidates are women: Claudia Sheinbaum from the leftist Morena party and Xochitl Gálvez, from the

By Tara John and Michelle Velez, CNN (CNN) — Mexicans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in a historic election, overshadowed by violence, that is expected to return the country’s first woman president. The two leading presidential candidates are women: Claudia Sheinbaum from the leftist Morena party and Xochitl Gálvez, from the conservative

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Soccer icon David Beckham exchanged beekeeping tips with King Charles, he said, when the pair met ahead of the former England captain being named ambassador for The King’s Foundation. Beckham met the King at Highgrove Gardens in the Cotswolds, England, where he also met students of the King’s

By Eugenia Yosef, Sophie Tanno and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to resign and bring down the governing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he accepts a peace proposal laid out by US President Joe Biden. Biden unveiled on Friday what he said was a three-phase Israeli proposal

By Niamh Kennedy and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say. The head of the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ivan Fedorov, told Ukrainian television that the power plant can