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By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — With their home city Hong Kong unable to honor their wish to get married, Dino Wong and his boyfriend Geoffrey Yu flew more than 2,000 miles across the ocean to Guam to tie the knot in 2019. The trip wasn’t cheap – $5,000 just for the return

By Pau Mosquera, Jonny Hallam, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Madrid, Spain (CNN) — The final stage of the Vuelta a Espana was suspended on Sunday after several large pro-Palestinian protests disrupted the premier cycling event in the Spanish capital Madrid, according to organizers. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the final distance of the race route on

By Ibrahim Dahman, Eugenia Yosef, Tim Lister, Eyad Kourdi, Oren Liebermann, Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military struck multiple high-rise buildings in Gaza City on Sunday, after warning people to leave several neighborhoods, in the latest round of destruction since Israel ordered a complete evacuation of the city. Israel’s assault on Gaza City

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Cristiana Moisescu and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Romania has condemned Moscow’s “irresponsible actions” after alleging that a Russian drone breached Romanian airspace during an attack on neighboring Ukraine, prompting Bucharest to scramble fighter jets. The Russian drone used in attacks on Ukraine entered Romanian airspace at 6.05 p.m. local time on

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said that the United Kingdom needs “revolutionary government change,” speaking virtually at a far-right anti-immigration protest in London. The comments from the world’s richest man, a former adviser to Donald Trump, came days before the US president’s upcoming state visit to Britain, which

By Sofía Benavides, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro – who was this week convicted of plotting to overturn his country’s 2022 election and sentenced to more than 27 years in jail – is far from being the first Latin American leader to run into legal trouble. In Peru, no fewer than four

Story by Reuters Sydney (Reuters) — Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday that the United States would be able to use planned defense facilities in Western Australia to help deliver submarines under the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. The government on Saturday said it would spend A$12 billion ($8 billion) to upgrade facilities at

By Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who was snatched from him and sent back to the country they fled eight years ago; a country where their community officially does not exist. Mohammad and his daughter Asma ran from their village

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Police officers were “attacked with projectiles” and “assaulted” during far-right anti-immigration protests in London on Saturday, the British capital’s force said, as more than 110,000 people took to the city’s streets. The Unite the Kingdom protest was organized by far-right political activist Tommy Robinson. Counter-protesters also flocked to the

By Max Saltman, Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, a group of settlers

By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — The Vatican has brought together an eclectic mix of thinkers and music artists as it seeks to influence both the development of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. A summit held Friday and Saturday on “human fraternity” convened Nobel prize winners to discuss everything from

By Max Saltman, Isa Cardona, Abel Alvarado, Isabel Rosales, Ana Melgar, CNN San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) — It was a “mind blowing” idea, Jorge Perez remembers, two years after he first heard it: Bad Bunny wasn’t going to tour the US. In August 2023, Perez – a tourism official who manages the island’s biggest

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally. The full extent of the budget cuts related to US-funded HIV/AIDS relief work is highly

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — For decades, wealthy Gulf Arab states cast themselves as oases of stability in a region mired in conflict, building gleaming capitals with fast-growing economies powered by millions of foreign workers drawn to economic opportunity and a tax-free lifestyle. But this year, their sense of safety was shattered when two

By Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For Chinese students, a degree from a US university was once considered a “golden ticket” to coveted jobs back home. But many are now finding that geopolitics is blunting their ambitions. The Trump administration’s threat of visa cancellations – later shelved after a trade-truce phone call between

By Mitchell McCluskey and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — NATO has launched an initiative to reinforce the defense of Europe’s eastern flank after a Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace this week, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced on Friday. The “Eastern Sentry” operation will commence in the coming days and will involve assets from

By Rhea Mogul, Sugam Pokharel, and Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Nepal’s first female prime minister was sworn in Friday as interim leader, capping a tumultuous week that saw massive and deadly youth-led protests against corruption and nepotism topple the country’s leader and plunge the nation into political turmoil. Former chief justice Sushila Karki,

By Joseph Ataman, Pierre Bairin and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — Severed pigs’ heads dumped outside mosques, red hands daubed on a Holocaust memorial, Stars of David sprayed in Paris neighborhoods: French authorities suspect foreign – and plausibly Russian – interference in a chain of acts looking to stoke internal tensions in France. The

By Lauren Kent, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Russia-Ukraine peace talks are “more on pause” than they are active, the Kremlin said Friday, in an acknowledgement that confirms what Ukraine has been warning for months – negotiations are faltering despite a push from US President Donald Trump. “The channels of communication exist and are established;

By Zeena Saifi, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — In the weeks since Israel announced plans to take over Gaza City, the Israeli military has destroyed or damaged more than 1,800 buildings in and around the city, CNN analysis has found. Satellite imagery taken by Planet Labs on September 5 shows large-scale demolitions, mostly of residential