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By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Vietnam is on a South China Sea island-building binge that will likely see it soon surpass the area China has reclaimed in the strategic and contested Spratly Islands, according to a new report from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. Since the start of 2025, Hanoi has been dredging and

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand Police have released CCTV footage believed to show a fugitive father who has been on the run with his three children in the remote wilderness for nearly four years. Thomas Callam Phillips has been hiding his children Jayda, Maverick and Ember, in the dense New Zealand bush

CNN By José Álvarez, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A meeting of the Mexican Senate descended into violence Wednesday, after one of its members apparently became enraged at not getting a chance to speak. The scuffle broke out between two high-ranking senators toward the end of a session that had included a heated debate on

By José Álvarez, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A meeting of the Mexican Senate descended into violence Wednesday, after one of its members apparently became enraged at not getting a chance to speak. The scuffle broke out between two high-ranking senators toward the end of a session that had included a heated debate on the

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A time capsule sealed by Princess Diana in 1991 has been dug out of a children’s hospital in London to enable the construction of a new cancer center. Workers who were either born in 1991 or already working at the hospital that year helped remove the capsule which

By Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign that the group is under stress from development. The sightings of members of Mashco Piro tribe come

By Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Seven migrants were transferred from the United States to Rwanda in August under a deportation agreement with the US, authorities in the East African country said Thursday. Rwanda said earlier in August it would accept up to 250 deportees from the US. Yolande Makolo, a spokeswoman for the

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s decision to approve the Trump administration’s offer to take in migrants unwanted by the United States has sparked criticism in the East African nation that already houses the continent’s largest refugee population. “The whole scheme stinks” without parliamentary oversight, Mathias Mpuuga, until recently the leader of the opposition

By Jennifer Hansler, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — France, Germany and the United Kingdom have begun the process to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. The triggering of the so-called snapback sanctions, a move that the United States welcomed on Thursday, comes as diplomatic efforts to restrain Iran’s growing nuclear program have

By Sebastian Shukla, Sophie Tanno, and Claudia Otto, CNN Unterluss, central Germany (CNN) — For three years European nations have funneled huge amounts of arms to Ukraine to help Kyiv battle Russia’s full-blown invasion. Now, with reserves dwindling from a grinding, ammunition-guzzling conflict that shows no sign of ending, a factory that opened in Germany