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By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A one-time leading figure in Britain’s right-wing populist Reform UK party has been jailed for accepting cash bribes in exchange for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, was sentenced to ten and a half years at London’s Central Criminal Court on Friday after he admitted

By Svitlana Vlasova, Catherine Nicholls and Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept his plan – widely seen as favoring Russia – to end the war, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country faced “one of the most difficult moments” in its history. “I’ve

By Nimi Princewill, Hira Humayun, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Armed bandits kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have drawn the attention of the Trump administration. Despite some students managing to get to

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than 1.2 million Canadian dollars he had stored in bizarre locations around his home. On December 1, 2009, police visited Marcel Breton’s rural property on the outskirts of Thunder Bay, a city in northwest Ontario, looking

CNN By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Larry Madowo, Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only rocks and sticks, a CNN investigation has found. Geolocated videos from the scenes,

By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Larry Madowo, Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only rocks and sticks, a CNN investigation has found. Geolocated videos from the scenes, audio

By Karina Tsui, Matthew Rehbein, CNN (CNN) — When JD Vance told a stadium of thousands he hoped his wife would one day be moved “by the Christian gospel” the same way he was, he inadvertently stepped into a contentious dialogue in India and among the diaspora about religious freedom and, for some, evoked memories

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive information to China if Beijing were to get to them first. The aircraft – an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an MH-60 helicopter –

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Colombia has recovered gold and bronze coins, a porcelain cup and a cannon from a sunken Spanish warship dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks.” The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British

By Zeena Saifi, Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers set fire to cars in the latest arson in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a security meeting on settler violence. According to witnesses and WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, settlers torched a vehicle scrapyard in

By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — The United Kingdom did “too little, too late,” in its early response to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to thousands of more deaths, the head of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry said as its latest findings were released. “The initial response to the pandemic was marked by a lack of

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged. According to a 105-page report released by the non-profit organization, 32,000 Palestinians were expelled by