National-World

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine sent dozens of its own citizens to Russia last month, releasing them from prisons in an attempt to secure the release of dozens of Ukrainian civilians held illegally in Russian jails – a move described by human rights activists as desperate and worrying. According to the Ukrainian government,

By Jonny Hallam, Ibrahim Dahman and Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military says it has killed the leader of a Palestinian militant group that took part in the October 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel. Asaad Abu Sharia, who led the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement and its armed wing the Mujahideen Brigades, was killed

By Mauricio Torres, Fernando Ramos, Chris Lau and Sebastian Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, in the running to join next year’s presidential race, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot at an event in Bogota, allegedly by a teenager. The 39-year-old, from the center-right Centro Democrático – or

By Olivia Kemp and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — David Attenborough has described the human impact on the deep ocean floor as “unspeakably awful” in a conversation with Prince William to mark the launch of the veteran broadcaster’s latest documentary. In a video filmed at London’s Royal Festival Hall in early May and posted

By Christian Edwards, Kosta Gak and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap. “I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who was abducted alive during the October 7 attacks was recovered from southern Gaza in a military operation on Friday, according to a statement from the Israeli military and the Shin Bet security service. The announcement comes just days after Israel

By Todd Symons, Kosta Gak and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Massive Russian strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city killed at least five people on Saturday, officials said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine. Russia has conducted extensive attacks on Ukraine in recent days, in what is

Story by Associated Press Toronto (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta later this month, an invitation Modi accepted despite strained ties between the countries. The countries expelled each other’s top diplomats last year over the killing of a Sikh Canadian

By José Álvarez, Valeria Leon, Verónica Calderón, Sol Amaya, Michael Rios and Fidel Gutierrez, CNN (CNN) — Mexican prosecutors are investigating a widely shared surveillance video of the former boss of murdered woman carrying a suspicious bundle up a flight of stairs. Lorena Jacqueline Morales, who lived in the city of León in the central

By Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israel is arming local militias in Gaza in an effort to counter Hamas in the besieged enclave, officials say, as opposition politicians warned that the move endangers national security. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the covert enterprise on Thursday, calling it “a good thing.” In a

By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen Norbu was installed by Beijing as the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995 in defiance of the religion’s highest authority the