National-World

By Kocha Olarn and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Thailand’s House of Representatives voted to legalize same-sex marriage on Wednesday, bringing the Southeast Asian nation a step closer to becoming the third territory in Asia to guarantee equal marital rights. The lower house of parliament passed the bill following a third and final reading, with 400

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — “Peggy and Molly” were a match made for the internet. Peggy is a stout and muscular Staffordshire bull terrier, and Molly is a magpie, an Australian bird best known for swooping on humans during breeding season, not for befriending dogs. In the four years since their unlikely

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A deadly bridge collapse in Baltimore. A bridge in southern China sliced in half. Parts of a bridge cutting through the hull of a massive ship in Argentina. These events all happened within the first three months of this year – and all after collisions with large

By Sophia Saifi and Nectar Gan, CNN Islamabad (CNN) — Five Chinese workers and their local driver were killed in a suicide bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of terror attacks that the South Asian country’s military and government say aims to disrupt Islamabad’s close ties with Beijing. Senior

By Andy Carey and Olga Voitovych, CNN Sumy region, Ukraine (CNN) — “Evacuation! Of civilians from the village of Luhivka.” Out of breath, police officer Dmytro Piddubnyi is recording the scene on his phone and providing a commentary. But he’s working, too, and the old lady in front is not moving fast enough. “Grandma, come

By Lauren Izso, Jeremy Diamond and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Amit Soussana has become the first Israeli woman to speak publicly about enduring what she says was a sexual assault and other forms of violence during her 55 days in captivity following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, according to reporting by

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko appears to have cast doubt on Russia’s claims that Ukraine was involved in the brutal attack at a Moscow concert hall last week. ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre, which killed at least 139 people, and released graphic footage of the incident, but Russian President

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Picture a dolphin. Now imagine one that’s twice the size of a person. Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon. And

By AbdelQadder Sabbah, Kareem Khadder, Jomana Karadsheh, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — At least 12 Palestinians drowned off the northern Gaza coast near Beit Lahia on Monday while trying to reach airdropped parcels that had landed in the sea, according to local paramedics. Footage obtained by CNN shows hundreds of Palestinians

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Following several failed attempts over five months of Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. The United States, which had been the only remaining hurdle to such a call, decided not

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — ISIS claimed responsibly for Friday’s deadly assault on a concert venue in Moscow, releasing graphic footage purporting to show its gunmen carrying out what was Russia’s worst terror attack in decades. Russian authorities have accused four men from the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan of being behind the

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Claudia Rebaza and Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has fended off the threat of immediate extradition to the United States after the High Court in London asked the US for more assurances. US authorities say Assange, 52, put lives at risk by publishing secret military documents and