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By Stephanie Yang, CNN (CNN) — The fallout of the US and Israel’s war with Iran is poised to cost the Asia-Pacific economy hundreds of billions of dollars and plunge millions into poverty, a United Nations report said Tuesday. Military escalation in the Middle East could cause output losses of between $97 billion and $299

By Michael Rios, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s fugitive former intelligence chief and lawmaker Alexandre Ramagem has been released from custody after being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his associates said Wednesday. Ramagem, who faces a 16-year prison sentence in Brazil for his alleged involvement in a coup plot with far-right ex-President

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — There’s no escape from the tax collector. At least that’s what Benjamin Brière must have felt after his return from three and half years as a hostage in Iran when he got that message that we all dread: he hadn’t filed his taxes. The return of two French

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Six weeks after the beginning of the war with Iran, President Donald Trump is giving the United States Navy its most difficult jobs of the conflict: blockading Iran’s ports and clearing the strategic Strait of Hormuz of any Iranian mines. The blockade order would apply to all Iranian ports,

By Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — South Korea’s president has angered the Israeli government by sharing video on social media from 2024 that shows Israeli soldiers pushing a body off a building in the occupied West Bank. “We need to check if this is true, and if it is, we should find out what

By Christian Edwards, CNN Budapest, Hungary (CNN) — When Péter Magyar was growing up during Hungary’s democratic transition, he had a poster of Viktor Orbán pinned to his bedroom wall. At the time, Orbán was a liberal anti-communist who had famously demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. Now, Magyar is projected to end

By Christian Edwards, CNN Budapest, Hungary (CNN) — Viktor Orbán is seeking a fifth consecutive term as Hungary’s prime minister. During 16 years in office, he has transformed his small central European country from a burgeoning Western democracy into an illiberal one, providing a model of right-wing populist governance that has won praise from abroad.

Story by Associated Press Paris (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has been rescued after living locked in his father’s utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father detained. Police were alerted by a neighbor to the “sounds of a child” coming from a

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The UK has been forced to pause its plan to hand over the Chagos Islands, on which the US air base in Diego Garcia resides, after US President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the deal. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his government are not completely scrapping the plan to

By Christian Edwards, CNN Zalaegerszeg, Hungary (CNN) — The sign proudly announces that the roundabout near Zalaegerszeg in western Hungary was built with 500 million forints (about $1.5 million) of funds from the European Union. The roundabout was built to service a container terminal on a new railway line that would help provide this landlocked

By Victoria Butenko and Daria Tarasova-Markina (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a 32-hour ceasefire with Ukraine for the Orthodox Easter holiday, following an earlier offer from Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky for a pause in hostilities. Putin’s decree orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire from 4 p.m. Saturday (9 a.m ET) until

By Stephanie Yang, CNN (CNN) — The US has negotiated a fragile ceasefire that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Asian allies that depend on the waterway are already being forced to rely on others for energy security– to the benefit of America’s top adversaries. After the initial airstrikes by the US and Israel

By Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping invoked ongoing global conflicts and the need for peace during a landmark meeting with the leader of Taiwan’s opposition on Friday and reiterated Beijing’s opposition to the independence of the self-ruled island. The visit to Beijing by Cheng Li-wun, the leader of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT), was the

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — The lives of millions of people across the Middle East – and the fate of the global economy – will hinge on the outcome of make-or-break talks between the United States and Iran, which began this weekend in Pakistan. The two sides are talking directly to each other, Iranian

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja (CNN) — In northern Malawi, Suteny Williams Nsamba is struggling to buy fertilizer for his small farm, where he grows corn, groundnuts and tobacco. The war in Iran sent living costs soaring, and he warns if shipping disruption continues into Malawi’s crop-growing season in November, a “devastating low yield” is

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Sarah Tamimi, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s massive attacks in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon this week are threatening to derail a fragile ceasefire with the US and Iran. Tehran argues that the strikes violate the truce, which it says included Lebanon — a position echoed by mediator Pakistan. Israel and the

By Saskya Vandoorne, Niamh Kennedy, Kara Fox, Anna Odzeniak, CNN (CNN) — Polish authorities have arrested a man in connection with the alleged rape of an “unknowing victim” that was recorded and shared online, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin said Thursday. The arrest follows an undercover investigation by CNN into online networks of men

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli security cabinet secretly approved the legalization of over 30 new settler outposts and farms in the occupied West Bank last month, according to three Israeli sources familiar with the decision. Unlike similar decisions in the past, the approval was not publicly announced by Israeli Defense Minister Israel

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — After a month and a half of spiraling conflict in the Middle East, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday – less than two hours before US President Donald Trump’s deadline, after which he had promised to wipe out a “whole civilization.” That

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — After a month and a half of spiraling conflict in the Middle East, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday – less than two hours before US President Donald Trump’s deadline, after which he had promised to wipe out a “whole civilization.” That threat,