National-World

By Gerardo Lemos and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales said his car was fired on in what he claimed was an “assassination attempt” amid simmering political tensions in the South American country. Morales, who was not injured, blamed the government for the attack, which he called a “failure” that adds

By Dana Karni and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli MP behind a bill that would prevent the main UN agency in Gaza and the West Bank from working in Israel has accused the US ambassador in Israel of lobbying opposition leaders to block the move. If the bill passes in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, this

By Jill Dougherty, CNN Tbilisi, Georgia (CNN) — In a dramatic show of unity, Georgia’s often fractured opposition gathered at the presidential palace in Tbilisi, standing shoulder to shoulder behind the president, Salome Zourabichvili, as she defiantly announced, “I do not recognize these elections. Recognizing them would be tantamount to legitimizing Russia’s takeover of Georgia

By Helen Regan and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty. Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost continuously since 1955, has lost its parliamentary majority in the

By Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people – a synod – which formally concluded Sunday. The

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Prince William has opened up about how a powerful childhood experience with his brother and late mother helped shape his work in combatting homelessness. In the Prince of Wales’ forthcoming documentary, “Prince William: We Can End Homelessness,” the 42-year-old heir to the British throne recalls visiting The Passage, a

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg were woken from their sleep by several explosions. Criminals had blown up an ATM located below a block of flats in the town center. The attack caused severe damage to the building and

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Polls opened Sunday in Japan’s general election, in a test for new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as he seeks voter support for his scandal-hit party just weeks after taking the role. Ishiba, the former defense minister, called a snap election immediately after winning the leadership contest of his Liberal

By Barbara Arvanitidis and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — At least 124 people were killed in attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Friday, activists and doctors say, which, if confirmed, marks one of the deadliest incidents in a civil war that shows

By Christian Edwards and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has condemned “deeply troubling incidents of violence unfolding at various polling stations” as the country votes in a crucial parliamentary election. Voting opened early Saturday in the election, seen as a stark choice between Russia and the West. The ruling Georgian Dream

By Niamh Kennedy and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Russia struck a major Ukrainian hospital used to treat injured soldiers, killing at least five people, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the Mechnikov Hospital in the south-central city of Dnipro one of the country’s “most important.” Before the war it treated up to