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By Helen Regan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Declaring martial law in a stable and boisterous democracy was an audacious gamble – and one that appears to have backfired spectacularly for South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol. Now, the former prosecutor and conservative firebrand’s political career hangs by a thread, with an impeachment motion

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing more delays. The mission was previously set to launch in 2026 but will now take place no earlier than mid-2027. Here’s what else you need

By Yoonjung Seo, Ivan Watson, Ava Ko, Alex Stambaugh and Nectar Gan, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The leader of South Korea’s ruling party said Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeoul needs to be immediately suspended from duty to protect the country from “grave danger,” in a dramatic reversal of opinion that compounds the

By Angus Watson and Jennifer Hauser, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Police are searching for two masked suspects after a synagogue was set on fire in southeastern Australia early Friday in an attack condemned by the prime minister as an act of antisemitism. Worshippers fled from the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne when the blaze

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexico hopes to strike a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to limit the number of third-country deportees it could receive from the US, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday. A similar deal to send deportees directly to their country of origin is already in place with the current

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped to appoint a new prime minister in the coming days, in a combative televised address on Thursday that will do little to ease a deepening political crisis. Macron was speaking one day after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted by lawmakers

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Catholic nun with the Sisters of Charity Institute in Milan was among 25 people arrested early Thursday morning for a litany of mafia-related crimes, including aiding and abetting extortion, drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, usury, tax crimes and money laundering. Sister Anna Donelli, 57, was known

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — The world is at the brink of a third nuclear age, the head of the United Kingdom’s armed forces warned. “The world has changed,” Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said in a lecture on Wednesday at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute. “Global power is shifting, and a third

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Messing up pronunciations can be a source of both annoyance and amusement, but language learning platform Babbel has put together a handy guide to stop you putting your foot in it. The company published a list of the most mispronounced words of the year in the United States and

CNN By Helen Regan, Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — A South Korean politician who grappled with an armed soldier in a show of defiance outside the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday night said she felt like the “last line” of defense in preventing security forces from entering parliament. One

By Helen Regan, Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — A South Korean politician who grappled with an armed soldier in a show of defiance outside the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday night said she felt like the “last line” of defense in preventing security forces from entering parliament. One of

By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Mick Krever and Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces dressed in civilian clothes raided a hospital in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday night and detained an alleged Palestinian militant who had days earlier been injured in an Israeli airstrike that killed two Hamas members. “Around 20 undercover

By Mostafa Salem and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Syrian rebels have driven government forces from Hama, a major city that the country’s regime had held over more than a decade of civil war, further weakening President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on the nation. The Syrian military said on Thursday that it had to withdraw from

By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The leader of South Korea’s main opposition party thought the president’s late night martial law announcement was a deepfake when he first saw it, he told CNN on Thursday as his party now seeks to impeach the country’s leader.

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama countryside, where the government forces of Bashar al-Assad are involved in fierce fighting with an advancing rebel opposition group. DPA, or Deutsche Presse-Agentur, said its photographer Anas Alkharboutli was killed

By Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of his Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun amid growing criticism over the leader’s short-lived declaration of martial law. The defense ministry said South Korea’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia Choi Byung-hyuk has been nominated as the new minister. Kim had submitted

By Nada Bashir, CNN (CNN) — Amnesty International on Wednesday said that it had gathered “sufficient evidence to believe” that Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza amounts to genocide against the Palestinian people – a charge the Israeli government has vehemently denied. The 296-page report details evidence gathered over nine months, outlining numerous instances

By Mick Krever, Jeremy Diamond, Eugenia Yosef and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military on Wednesday said that a February strike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza may have led Hamas militants to execute six hostages. The bodies of those six male hostages were recovered in late August. Two days later, the Israel

CNN By Rob Picheta, Joseph Atama, Sophie Tanno and Pierre Bairin, CNN Paris (CNN) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier submitted his resignation Thursday after losing a vote of no confidence, that triggered the collapse of the government and deepened the country’s political turmoil. Barnier formally handed in his resignation to President Emanuel Macron, who

By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican authorities have announced what they say is the largest fentanyl bust in the country’s history, with over a ton of the synthetic opioid seized in two raids in the cartel-ridden northern state of Sinaloa. “It is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills that has ever been made,” Mexican