National-World

By Tara John and Ivonne Valdés, CNN and CNN en Español (CNN) — Juan Brito López was in his mid-20s when soldiers rushed into his home in the village of Pexla, nestled in Guatemala’s western highlands. He escaped, hiding in the wilderness, but could not save his wife and four daughters. Now 70 years old, Brito López recounted the

By Abeer Salman, Zeena Saifi and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Israeli settlers surrounded Palestinian villages and attacked residents across the occupied West Bank, eyewitnesses told CNN, after an Israeli boy who had gone missing from a settlement was found dead. The body of Binyamin Achimair, 14, was found in the area of

By Adam Pourahmadi and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked container ship in a helicopter operation near the Strait of Hormuz, state news agency IRNA reported, with tensions already high after Iran warned it would retaliate for a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria. IRNA reported that Iran’s

By Tamara Qiblawi, Ben Wedeman, Muhammad Darwish and Charbel Mallo, CNN Kafr Kila, Lebanon (CNN) — Shredded Lebanese and Hezbollah flags tower over a destroyed boardwalk where a panoramic view of Israel’s Upper Galilee stretches out for miles. “Buses (of people) used to come here just to see the Holy Land,” says Lt. Col. Juan

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Standing alongside my colleagues as we watched the total solar eclipse, I was struck by the way that wonder unites us all. We were a few of the more than 16,000 people gathered at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland to observe the celestial spectacle. People struck up friendships

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni says surrogacy is “inhuman” and is backing steeper penalties against the practice, including fines of up to $1 million and multiple-year prison sentences. The act of surrogacy — with or without payment — is already illegal in Italy but Meloni’s Brothers of Italy

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call to explore beyond Earth. The tragedy killed seven astronauts as the Columbia shuttle disintegrated upon its return to Earth

CNN By Sandi Sidhu, Teele Rebane and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping mall in Sydney, Australian police said. Police were called to Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple

By Sandi Sidhu, Teele Rebane and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping mall in Sydney, Australian police said. Police were called to Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple people

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Agnes Marciniak-Kostrzewa’s phone won’t stop ringing. She’s been in the property business for 25 years, helping Poles to buy homes on Spain’s southern shores, but the past few months have been “really crazy.” There are lots of reasons why people might trade the Baltic coast for the Mediterranean. More than

By Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — The world’s biggest election kicks into gear next week when the first ballots are cast in India’s mammoth national polls, considered the most consequential in decades with the potential to shape the country’s future. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to decide whether to grant Prime

By Michael Rios and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has been established after weeks of uncertainty, according to a decree published in Haiti’s official state journal. The move comes a month after Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced he would step down once the council is

By Kareem Khadder, Zeena Saifi and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of armed Israeli settlers stormed a village in the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to several homes and cars in one of the largest attacks by settlers this year, according to Palestinian officials. At least one Palestinian man was killed by gunfire in the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The total solar eclipse that delighted spectators across Mexico, the United States and Canada on Monday was a celestial experience not to be missed. Millions were in the path of totality to watch as the moon moved between Earth and the sun. Readers shared their images of the eerie

By Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Several journalists, including a CNN stringer, were injured in an attack on a refugee camp in central Gaza, amid mounting concerns about media workers being killed and injured while covering Israel’s military campaign. Israeli tanks launched a “targeted attack” where several

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Vietnam War. Causes of Vietnam War 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north begin fighting France for control of the country. 1949