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By Max Saltman, Jennifer Hansler, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Talks between US and Ukrainian negotiators over a proposed peace deal with Russia ended in Miami this weekend, with few new developments and lingering questions over security guarantees and territorial issues, according to Ukrainian officials. As the talks concluded, the Kremlin welcomed US President Donald

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — Buckingham Palace released King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s official 2025 Christmas card on Saturday, featuring a photo taken to mark the couple’s 20th wedding anniversary earlier this year. The photograph was snapped by royal photographer Chris Jackson in the sunny grounds of Villa Wolkonsky – the British

By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The New Safe Confinement (NSC) at Chernobyl, which was

By Tim Lister and Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Investigations are underway in Ireland and France after two more incidents this week involving unidentified drones flying close to the coastlines of each country. On Monday night, several drones were seen flying off the coast of Dublin, just as the plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

By Tim Lister, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has accused Israel of exporting crises to other countries and “fighting ghosts,” amid persistent incursions and air strikes by Israeli forces into southern Syria. Al-Sharaa was speaking at the Doha Forum in Qatar on Saturday, in a conversation with CNN’s Chief International Anchor

By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — A second burial area for infants has been found at the site of a former so-called Mother and Baby home in western Ireland in what forensic experts said Friday marks a “significant” discovery in the ongoing excavation of the institution’s grounds. Nearly 800 infants and children died at the

Story by Reuters (Reuters) — Crowds at Indian airports eased on Saturday but hundreds of passengers were still gathering outside Bengaluru and Mumbai airports as 385 IndiGo flights were canceled, in the fifth day of a crisis that has hit the country’s biggest airline. Air travel across India has been in turmoil this week after

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three tropical storms forming simultaneously across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” The film, in which three massive storms plunge the earth into a new ice

By Issy Ronald, Stephanie Halasz, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s Bundestag voted for a bill on Friday that allows the country to move towards conscription, as tensions with Russia spur calls for Europe to gain more independence from the US security umbrella. The controversial bill passed with a relatively solid majority in the end,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Family ties may become strained for former South African President Jacob Zuma after his eldest daughter accused her half-sister of deceiving 17 men – half of whom are reportedly relatives – into fighting for Russia in Ukraine. The controversy highlights the growing recruitment of Africans into Russian military forces