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By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado has published a “freedom manifesto” outlining her vision of a “new era” for the country without its strongman Nicolás Maduro. The four-page document, dated November 9 but made public on Tuesday, lays out the democratic pillars she says all Venezuelans are entitled to,

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s domestic spy service, MI5, warned lawmakers on Tuesday that China’s intelligence services are posing as recruiters to target people who work in Parliament, just weeks after the collapse of a case against two British nationals accused of spying for Beijing. In an alert, MI5 said that the

By Dana Karni and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — At least one Israeli was killed and three injured in a ramming and stabbing attack at a junction in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to Israeli emergency services. The group was attacked in a vehicle ramming and stabbing incident at Gush Etzion Junction, according

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian model and entrepreneur Pamela Genini had what many might consider an enviable life. The 29-year-old Milan resident was a successful real estate agent focused on high-commission seaside properties. A thriving influencer who was discovered on a popular reality TV program a decade earlier, she had just

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Washington has spent years warning countries about the dangers of accepting Chinese loans. But over the past two decades the United States has been the largest recipient globally. That’s the finding of a new report by AidData, a research lab at William & Mary university in Virginia, which

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei (CNN) — Taiwan’s 23 million inhabitants will receive a booklet this week on how to survive natural disasters and emergencies, as well as an invasion by China, the island’s Defense Ministry announced Tuesday. The handbook, unveiled in September, includes guidelines on what supplies to stockpile in households and put in

By Kocha Olarn, Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Thai police have arrested two men after they intercepted a pickup transporting dozens of monkeys inside mesh bags and a quantity of methamphetamine, authorities said, in one of two cases that saw 143 monkeys rescued from suspected wildlife smugglers in a single day. Thailand is an international

By Michael Rios, Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration ramps up the pressure on Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, experts and former government officials have raised concerns about its move to designate Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization. They argue it is not a formally organized cartel

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial intelligence. The term was coined in 1956 by sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, who

By Billy Stockwell, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The UN Security Council passed a US-drafted resolution Monday that aims to move beyond the fragile truce in Gaza to a more sustainable peace and the reconstruction of the devastated enclave. The 15-member council voted 13 to 0 in favor of the resolution, with abstentions by Russia

By Abeer Salman, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023, and the true death toll is likely higher given that a large number of people detained in Gaza are missing, according to a new report from an Israel-based human rights group, citing official Israeli data

By Dana Karni, Abeer Salman, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Dozens of Israeli settlers set Palestinian vehicles and homes on fire in a village in the occupied West Bank on Monday after Israeli forces tore down settlers’ illegal outpost structures in the area. Two videos geolocated by CNN show multiple vehicles and a building

By Muhammad Darwish, CNN (CNN) — For a year, Mohamed Saad’s family had no idea whether he was alive or dead. The 28-year-old Egyptian fisherman had gone out on a routine trip off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and never returned. Relatives searched for months with no word from authorities. When

By Joseph Ataman and Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine will purchase “up to 100” French-made Rafale fighter jets as well as anti-air defenses and drones from France, the Elysee Palace confirmed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Paris on Monday. “We will have the greatest air defense system, one of the greatest in the

By Catherine Nicholls, Antonia Mortensen, Charlotte Reck, and Char Reck, CNN (CNN) — Polish officials have pointed the finger at Russia after a key train track was destroyed in what Warsaw said was an “unprecedented act of sabotage” committed by two Ukrainian citizens who were “collaborating with Russian services.” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said

By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that led to the collapse of her government. A panel of three judges from the International

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — When Sergiy Klimov speaks about wine, his excitement is infectious, even to those with a less than sophisticated palate. Since 2014, Klimov has championed Ukrainian-made wine in numerous ways. He runs a chain of wine bars in the capital city, Kyiv, stocking only Ukrainian-produced wine. He is an ambassador

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — To combat a severe water crisis, Iranian authorities have begun cloud-seeding operations to induce rainfall, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, amid the driest fall in half a century. Iran’s National Weather Forecasting Center of the Meteorological Organizations said Saturday that rainfall across the country has decreased

By Nina Subkhanberdina, Jonny Hallam, CNN (CNN) — India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday said it had arrested a man accused of helping plan last week’s deadly car bombing near Delhi’s Red Fort, which killed at least 10 people and injured more than 30. In a statement posted on social media, the NIA said

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español (CNN) — Wilmer Geovanny Chavarría Barré, known as “Pipo,” the alleged leader of drug trafficking gang Los Lobos – Ecuador’s most powerful and violent criminal organization – has been arrested in Spain, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced on Sunday. “Today we captured ‘Pipo’ Chavarría, the