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By Rob Picheta and Joseph Ataman, CNN London (CNN) — Britain will build new attack submarines, invest billions on nuclear warheads and move toward “war-fighting readiness,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, shortly before the publication of a landmark review of the future of the country’s military. Starmer’s government said it would build “up to”

By Christian Edwards, Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Gul Tuysuz and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian and Ukrainian delegates met in Istanbul on Monday for their second set of direct peace talks, a day after Kyiv launched a shock drone attack on Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, in an operation that President Volodymyr Zelensky said was a

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A massive eruption at Mount Etna forced tourists to flee the volcano on Monday after a plume of high temperature gases, ash and rock “several kilometers high” billowed into the air above them, Italian authorities said. Footage posted on social media shows long lines of

By Helen Regan and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s large-scale drone attack on Russian air bases thousands of miles behind the front lines is the latest in a long line of daring missions by Ukraine’s forces against its giant neighbor. The operation, more than a year and a half in the making, involved drones

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Erin Patterson, the Australian woman accused of killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth with a meal laced with death cap mushrooms, has taken the stand in her own defense at a trial that has captured worldwide attention. On Monday, the start of the sixth

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Mongolia has been thrown into fresh political crisis with the country’s prime minister announcing his resignation following weeks of protests sparked by his family’s lavish displays of wealth. Young Mongolians had taken to the streets of the capital putting pressure on Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai, who lost a vote

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Since last sitting down with Ukraine to talk peace, Russia has launched four of its five largest drone attacks against the country, killed more than 340 of its civilians and continued to peddle its false narrative about the unprovoked war it has been waging for more than a decade.

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist government’s efforts to unspool the legacy of authoritarianism in the country. Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law

By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Tim Lister, Mitchell McCluskey and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces have destroyed dozens of Russian warplanes parked at air bases thousands of miles from the front lines, according to a source in the country’s security services, in one of Kyiv’s most audacious and sophisticated counter assaults since the

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Athletes, coaches and officials are among 22 people killed in a road accident in northern Nigeria as they returned from the country’s National Sports Festival on Saturday, local authorities have said. Others were left “seriously injured” by the accident, according to a statement issued by Kano’s government office. The

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Someone has apparently been impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. One of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers and the first woman to hold the title of chief of staff, Wiles reportedly believes her phone and contact list were hacked. The administration only discovered the issue when

By Abeer Salman, Mohammad al Sawalhi, Eyad Kourdi and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli military near an aid distribution site in Gaza on Sunday according to Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses, with Israel’s military denying that its troops fired “within or near” the aid site. The Palestinian