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By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Footage of a gunman shooting at panicked tourists lying atop Mexico’s historic Pyramid of the Moon has renewed concerns about security in the country as it prepares to co-host millions of soccer fans for the World Cup this summer. At least one person, a Canadian woman, was killed in

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — More than six weeks after he was announced as their new supreme leader following the assassination of his father, Iranians have still not seen or heard Mojtaba Khamenei. In the midst of a conflict seen as posing an existential threat to the regime that has ruled their country for

By Dana Karni, Zeena Saifi, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli soldiers who damaged a figure of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon and photographed the incident will be removed from combat duty and sentenced to 30 days of military detention, according to the Israeli military. Six additional soldiers who witnessed the incident but did

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — The location of the ceremony was kept secret until the last moment. Additional screening sites were disclosed only to registered participants, for fear of violence and harassment. It was, organizers said, the only way to hold the event at all. In a region riven by decades

By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — British counterterrorism police arrested eight more people in connection with an investigation into suspected arson attacks in London, including seven arrests related to a foiled plot to potentially target a venue related to the Jewish community, police said Tuesday. The seven arrests in relation to the foiled plot

By Reuters Tokyo (Reuters) — Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defense export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons. The move aimed at strengthening Japan’s defense industrial base marks another step away from pacifist restraints that have shaped

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — For more than a decade, leader Xi Jinping has overseen a transformation within the Chinese economy with one aim: making it energy-secure. Under that vision, China has unleashed a renewable energy revolution of wind, solar and hydropower, drilled ever deeper into oilfields offshore and on, and forged pacts

By Issy Ronald, Max Foster, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s royal family marked what would have been the late Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday by unveiling comprehensive plans for a new charity and memorial in central London. Senior members of the family also attended several events on Tuesday to honor Britain’s longest-serving monarch, who died nearly

By Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — A Canadian woman was killed and six Americans were among the more than a dozen wounded after a gunman opened fire at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids, a popular tourist hotspot, on Monday, authorities said. According to preliminary information, a man fired shots at the archaelogical site near Mexico

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Infantry officer Oleksiy just spent 343 days without leaving the front line, in what his battalion believes is one of the longest combat deployments for an officer in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. His lengthy deployment, in the woodlands between settlements in the eastern Zaporizhzhia region, underscores Ukraine’s