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By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday. “The existing order of world peace is

By Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — A stolen private plane caused a temporary shutdown of the airspace over Vancouver International Airport, one the busiest in Canada, on Tuesday. The Cessna 172 took off from Victoria International Airport, where it is used for flight training, and flew north about 40 miles to Vancouver and started circling.

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1947 Birth place: Bombay (now Mumbai), India Birth name: Ahmed Salman Rushdie Father: Anis Ahmed Rushdie, businessman Mother: Negin Rushdie, teacher Marriages: Rachel Eliza Griffiths (2021-Present); Padma Lakshmi (2004-2007, divorced); Elizabeth West (1997-2004,

By Caitlin Danaher and James Frater, CNN (CNN) — Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were both found guilty of two counts of criminal damage in May, one relating to the

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A 46-year-old American man accused of the murders of a 29-year-old woman and her baby has faced a preliminary legal hearing in Rome after being extradited to Italy. The California native, named in an international arrest warrant and by Italian police as Francis Kaufmann, was extradited from

By Mostafa Salem, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria which began with clashes between members of the Druze minority group and Bedouin tribes and drew a military intervention from Syria. The Syrian government has declared a ceasefire in the area

By Elinda Labropoulou and Lauren Kent, CNN Athens (CNN) — Police in Greece are searching for the killer of a University of California Berkeley professor who was shot dead on July 4 while visiting Athens to see his children and attend a family custody hearing. Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, an economist and professor of marketing at

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, who was still competing after turning 100 more than a decade ago, died in a hit-and-run on Monday, according to India police. He was 114. Born in rural India in 1911 before later moving to London, Singh earned the nickname the “Turbaned

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Ukraine will receive Patriot missile systems as part of a new package of US weaponry has been warmly welcomed in Kyiv as it reels under nightly Russian bombardments. President Volodymyr Zelensky has made repeated requests for Patriots in recent weeks as Moscow sends

By Aishwarya S Iyer and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A Russian woman and her two young daughters were found living in a cave deep in the forests of southern India years after her travel documents expired, according to local authorities. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four,

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Relatives of an Indian nurse on death row in war-torn Yemen are racing against time to commute her death sentence, in a case that has gripped India’s media. Nimisha Priya was sentenced to death for the murder of her former business partner, a Yemeni national, whose body was discovered

CNN By Chris Lau and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Sporting his signature blue suit and red tie, the figure of US President Donald Trump steps into the spotlight on a Hong Kong stage, sparring with a man dressed as Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. The two quarrel over the Ukrainian leader’s outfit

By Chris Lau and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Sporting his signature blue suit and red tie, the figure of US President Donald Trump steps into the spotlight on a Hong Kong stage, sparring with a man dressed as Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. The two quarrel over the Ukrainian leader’s outfit before

CNN By Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, CNN Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, West Bank (CNN) — Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family here, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage. “I think it’s time for me to get married,” Musallet told his father, Kamel,

By Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, CNN Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, West Bank (CNN) — Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family here, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage. “I think it’s time for me to get married,” Musallet told his father, Kamel, during

By Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned. Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week he had told the military to advance plans for the zone,

By Lauren Kent and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to the United Kingdom in September for an “unprecedented” second state visit at the invitation of King Charles, which is unlikely to have any public-facing events. The visit is scheduled for September 17-19, the

Story by the Associated Press Pannonhalma, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is

By Mitchell McCluskey and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military general who campaigned on rooting out government corruption, has died at age 82, the presidential press office said in a statement on Sunday. He died in London at about 4:30 p.m. after a “prolonged illness,” according to the

By Anna Cooban and Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — A man has escaped from a prison in France by hiding in a laundry bag belonging to his cellmate who was being released after finishing his sentence, an official told local media. Sébastien Cauwel, director of France’s prison administration, told CNN affiliate BFMTV Sunday that