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By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — An American delegation on religious freedom cut short its visit to Saudi Arabia after one of its members was asked to remove his Jewish head covering, or kippah. The delegation from the US Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) was on an official visit to the UNESCO heritage site of

By Darya Tarasova and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Alexey Navalny’s chief of staff was attacked in Lithuania Tuesday, the Kremlin critic’s team said, as Lithuania’s intelligence agency pinned the blame on Russia as the “likely” force behind the assault. “Leonid Volkov has just been attacked outside his house. Someone broke a car window and

By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Jennifer Hansler and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation following a meeting of regional Caribbean leaders on Monday, bowing to the inevitable as law and order in the country collapsed and international pressure grew for him to step aside. Henry has been in the

By Christian Edwards, Olga Voitovych and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Pro-Ukrainian groups of Russian fighters claimed to have launched cross-border attacks in two regions of Russia on Tuesday, hours after Kyiv fired a wave of drones at targets across the country. The Freedom for Russia Legion – a group of Russian dissidents fighting for

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is some background information about the trials and execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Facts Hussein was charged with premeditated murder, imprisonment and the deprivation of physical movement, forced deportation and torture. Seven other defendants stood trial with Hussein: Barzan Hassan, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Awad al-Bandar, Abdullah Ruwaid,

By Matthew Chance, CNN Moscow (CNN) — There is an inevitability about the outcome of Russia’s looming presidential election. Like it or not, Vladimir Putin, the man driving a catastrophic war in Ukraine, a brutal crackdown on dissent, and a lurch toward isolation in Russia, now the most sanctioned nation on earth, is poised to win a

By Nadine Schmidt, CNN Berlin (CNN) — An American man has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a tourist and the attempted murder of her friend – both US citizens from Illinois – in a gruesome attack near one of Germany’s most popular tourist sights. A German court convicted

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive “giant whirlpools,” according to new research. Scientists analyzed sediments, drilled from hundreds of deep-sea sites over the past half century, to look back tens of millions of

By Martin Goillandeau and Amy Croffey, CNN (CNN) — Controversial internet influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were detained in Romania on Monday over UK sex offense charges, and will ultimately be extradited to Britain, Romanian authorities said on Tuesday. Officers from the country’s Criminal Investigation Service and officers from the town of Voluntari

By Brad Lendon and Rhea Mogul, CNN Delhi (CNN) — India said Monday it had joined the world’s top nuclear powers by mastering the ability to put multiple warheads atop a single intercontinental ballistic missile. The successful test of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) technology on the indigenously developed Agni-V ICBM puts India in