National-World

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Conor McGregor will run for the Irish presidency in elections later this year, the controversial former fighter said on Thursday, as he announced his candidacy for the largely ceremonial role on an anti-immigration stance. McGregor, who in recent years has emerged as a figurehead for the far-right in Ireland,

By Todd Symons, Alex Stambaugh, Jessie Yeung and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The chief executive of London’s Heathrow Airport expects it to be running as normal by Saturday after a “significant power outage” brought one of the world’s busiest transit hubs to a complete standstill, setting off waves of global travel chaos. “Tomorrow

By Eugenia Yosef, Lauren Izso, Tim Lister and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Supreme Court has frozen the government’s dismissal of Ronen Bar, head of the country’s internal security service Shin Bet, sparking anger from senior officials including the prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel “is a state of law and according

By Paula Newton and Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to ask the country’s governor general to dissolve parliament and call for federal elections on Sunday, according to two government sources. If that happens, Canadians will likely head to the polls on April 28, both sources told CNN. Unlike

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — Competing narratives have emerged between Washington and Paris over why a researcher was recently denied entry to the United States, in the latest example of an immigration refusal under the Trump administration testing international relations. France on Thursday said the unnamed researcher was blocked from entering the US earlier

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the war, could be restored and protected by US ownership – at least according to the Americans. But it’s unclear how the operation would work in practice, experts say, especially as the plant is on

By Dana Karni, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Jo Shelley and Mahmoud Atef, CNN (CNN) — Hamas fired rockets at Israel from Gaza Thursday, the militant group’s first response to Israel’s renewed offensive in the Strip that shattered a fragile two-month ceasefire. Israel resumed its offensive on Gaza on Tuesday, first bombarding the Strip with airstrikes

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — For the mayor of London, it’s clear that the rush of Americans applying for British citizenship is connected to the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Sadiq Khan has told CNN in an exclusive interview that there is “clearly a link between (that and) the results

By Mauricio Torres and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela’s leader has described the deportation of more than 200 mostly Venezuelan migrants sent by the United States to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador as a “kidnapping,” and denied they are criminals while backing calls for their return. “Nayib Bukele should not be an accomplice

By Allegra Goodwin, Nada Bashir and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Bardala, West Bank (CNN) — Jihad Suleiman Al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala his entire life. But when Israeli settlers showed up in December, Al-Sawafta said his land, and his livelihood, shrank to a fraction of its

By Lauren Izso, Kareem El Damanhoury and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s military intercepted a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Thursday, the second to target Israel since the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire, as the United States’ intensifies airstrikes against the Iran-backed militant group. The Houthis claimed responsibility for what it said