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Jun 12, 2021
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari acknowledged Saturday the increased violence by armed groups in the northeast of the country and vowed to "soon bring some of these culprits to justice."
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Jun 11, 2021
US Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that the United States needed to fight back against the "extraterritorial reach" of the Chinese government to better protect Uyghurs around the world, citing a CNN investigation into the alleged deportation of Uyghurs from several major Arab countries at Beijing's request.
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Jun 11, 2021
US Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that the United States needed to fight back against the "extraterritorial reach" of the Chinese government to better protect Uyghurs around the world, citing a CNN investigation into the alleged deportation of Uyghurs from several major Arab countries at Beijing's request.
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Jun 11, 2021
• Biden and Putin not expected to hold joint news conference following meeting next week
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Jun 11, 2021
A group of international scientists has called on Norway to halt plans for acoustic experiments on minke whales.
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Jun 11, 2021
A group of international scientists has called on Norway to halt plans for acoustic experiments on minke whales.
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Jun 11, 2021
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are not currently expected to hold a joint press conference following their high-stakes summit in Geneva, Switzerland, next week, two US officials familiar with the matter said.
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Jun 11, 2021
President Joe Biden will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House next month, the White House says.
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Jun 11, 2021
It was supposed to be an exciting trip home to surprise his parents in the United States, his family said.
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Jun 11, 2021
Peru's presidential election is going to the wire with authorities in the Latin American country yet to declare a winner in a tightly contested battle between a political newcomer and his conservative opponent.
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Jun 10, 2021
The lead prosecutor in an ongoing Peruvian corruption case urged a judge Thursday to send presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori back to preventive prison in connection with an ongoing corruption case, even as votes continue to be tallied.
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Jun 10, 2021
Over 350,000 people in Ethiopia's conflict-ravaged Tigray region are experiencing dire hunger, finds a new report by the United Nations and other aid groups.
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Jun 10, 2021
France is to end its years-long anti-terror mission targeting Islamists in the Sahel region of West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday.
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Jun 10, 2021
A coronavirus variant first detected in India in February has now gone global, popping up in dozens of countries and raising fears that the strain may spearhead a wave of infection that could overwhelm health care systems, reverse reopening plans and even potentially undermine the rollout of vaccines.
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Jun 10, 2021
The Mount Rushmore-style sculpture, made from discarded electronics, aims to highlight the growing e-waste on our planet.
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Jun 10, 2021
President Joe Biden plans to address the strained US-Russia diplomatic relationship when he meets President Vladimir Putin next week with the hope that the two leaders can agree to send their ambassadors back to Washington and Moscow after months with no senior diplomat being present in either country, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
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Jun 10, 2021
Following recent moves by European museums to return African art treasures to Nigeria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Wednesday that it is sending three objects back to the country.
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Jun 10, 2021
CNN's Matt Rivers reports on the poor conditions in Honduras forcing citizens to attempt to cross the US border in larger numbers.
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Jun 10, 2021
Boris Johnson's star turn on the world stage has already been undermined by his previous greatest accomplishment: Brexit.
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Jun 10, 2021
An Afghani ISIS affiliate, known as IS-K, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on international demining charity, the Halo Trust, that left 10 people dead and 16 others wounded, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday.
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Jun 09, 2021
It's been called "the night of the long knives in the tropics."
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Jun 09, 2021
A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled that two organizations linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny are "extremist" groups -- forcing them to shut down and rendering their members ineligible to run in upcoming elections.
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Jun 09, 2021
On Sunday afternoon, Benjamin Netanyahu went full Donald Trump. Facing a new coalition, led by his former protégé Naftali Bennett, with the seats needed to replace him as Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu went on the attack.
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Jun 09, 2021
Boasting ocean views and a 5,000 sq ft interior, this $22.5M Miami penthouse could be the most expensive US real estate purchase ever made using cryptocurrency.
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Jun 09, 2021
The United States, in coordination with allies, will impose new sanctions on Belarus "soon," US Ambassador to Belarus Julie Fisher said Tuesday.
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Jun 09, 2021
President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson are expected on Thursday to agree to a new Atlantic Charter modeled on the historic declaration made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced Wednesday.
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Jun 09, 2021
It's been called "the night of the long knives in the tropics."
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Jun 09, 2021
A Serbian volleyball player has been suspended for two matches after she was caught on camera stretching her eyelids -- a racist gesture used to mock people with Asian heritage -- during an international competition between Serbia and Thailand.
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Jun 09, 2021
New Yorkers have a surprise gift to look forward to for this Independence Day: a second Statue of Liberty sent by France. This new bronze statue, nicknamed the "little sister," is one-sixteenth the size of the world-famous one that stands on Liberty Island. On Monday, during a special ceremony, the smaller sibling was lifted and loaded into a special container at the National Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) in central Paris, where it has been installed since 2011 in the museum's garden. It will be erected on Ellis Island, just across the water from the original, from July 1 to July 5.
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Jun 09, 2021
A sinkhole that opened up in the parking lot outside a hospital in Jerusalem has swallowed up several parked cars. No injuries were reported after police investigated the site.
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Jun 09, 2021
It's been called "the night of the long knives in the tropics."
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Jun 09, 2021
El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
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Jun 09, 2021
How travel will look in the near future is the question on everyone's lips, and as Europe begins to reopen its borders to travelers from outside the continent, the European Union has announced the launch of its EU Digital Covid Certificate -- set to allow freedom of movement around the bloc.
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Jun 08, 2021
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Health Minister Zweli Mkhize "on special leave" Tuesday pending an investigation into the awarding of Department of Health contracts to a communications company staffed by former aides.
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Jun 08, 2021
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Health Minister Zweli Mkhize "on special leave" Tuesday pending an investigation into the awarding of Department of Health contracts to a communications company staffed by former aides.
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Jun 08, 2021
Humans have explored the infinite abyss beyond Earth's atmosphere for over half a century.
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Jun 08, 2021
Humans have explored the infinite abyss beyond Earth's atmosphere for over half a century.
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Jun 08, 2021
• Analysis: Now we know how far Giuliani went for Trump
• How federal prosecutors are pursuing Giuliani
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Jun 08, 2021
The Mastercard Foundation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will deploy $1.3 billion over the next three years as part of a new initiative to acquire and deliver vaccines across the continent.
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Jun 08, 2021
Former Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia," will have to serve his life sentence after an appeal against his war crimes convictions was rejected on Tuesday.
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Jun 08, 2021
• Analysis: Can China still lead the world in tech without a new Jack Ma?
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Jun 08, 2021
A London Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard, a 33-year old woman who disappeared while walking in south London in March, according to PA Media.
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Jun 08, 2021
A Salvadoran woman who had served nearly a third of her 30-year prison sentence on charges of terminating her pregnancy and violating El Salvador's harsh abortion ban was released on Monday, activists said.
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Jun 07, 2021
China has cut its global tech champions down to size, cracking down on antitrust abuses and undue risk taking. But the heavy-handed approach could backfire on Beijing by stifling an entrepreneurial spirit that has proven vital to the country's rapid economic rise.
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Jun 07, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the Biden administration is looking "at every possible contingency" to help thousands of Afghans who may be at risk of retaliation from the Taliban after US forces withdraw but his answers left lawmakers and advocates frustrated.
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Jun 07, 2021
The morning after his country's largest election in history, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held his daily press conference, where he usually talks about his policies and answers questions from the media.
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Jun 07, 2021
Jeff Bezos has announced that he and his brother will be on board his company Blue Origin's first crewed mission to space. The capsule known as New Shepard is set to launch on July 20th.
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Jun 07, 2021
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies are dragging out the political process, seeking to undermine a new government set to remove him from power, as the head of the Israel Security Agency warned of incitement to violence in the charged environment.
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Jun 07, 2021
Batteries are heavy. That's why, generally, electric cars weigh considerably more than otherwise similar gasoline-powered vehicles. Take the GMC Hummer EV, for instance. The Edition 1 version, which has lots of batteries for additional driving range and power, weighs over 9,000 pounds. That's roughly three times the weight of a Honda Civic.
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Jun 07, 2021
Batteries are heavy. That's why, generally, electric cars weigh considerably more than otherwise similar gasoline-powered vehicles. Take the GMC Hummer EV, for instance. The Edition 1 version, which has lots of batteries for additional driving range and power, weighs over 9,000 pounds. That's roughly three times the weight of a Honda Civic.
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Jun 07, 2021
The body of a toddler that washed up on Karmøy Island earlier this year has been identified by Norwegian police as that of Artin Irannezhad from Iran, who was previously listed as missing after his family attempted to cross the English Channel by boat in October 2020.
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Jun 07, 2021
David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who helped liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau, died on Saturday at the age of 98, the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said in a statement on its website.
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Jun 07, 2021
The first official results from Peru's presidential elections gave a small lead to right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, but the election was too close to call as of early Monday.
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Jun 07, 2021
Mexico's ruling political coalition is projected to lose its qualified majority in the lower house of Congress after a poor showing in midterm elections Sunday, according to initial figures released by the government.
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Jun 07, 2021
India's brutal second wave has impacted children across the country. According to India's Child Rights Commission over 1700 children have been orphaned since the beginning of the pandemic. 577 lost their parents between April 1 and May 25 this year. CNN's Vedika Sud speaks to the eldest sister-- now the primary caretaker of a family of seven siblings who lost their mother and then their father to the brutal second wave.
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Jun 06, 2021
Revamped MacBooks. Updated iMessage features. An overhaul of the iPad operating system.
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Jun 06, 2021
Hope has returned to the small city of Serrana, Brazil, after researchers vaccinated almost its entire adult population in a city-wide medical experiment this spring.
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Jun 06, 2021
El Salvador will become the first county to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announced in a video recording shown during the Bitcoin 2021 conference held in Miami.
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Jun 06, 2021
Attackers killed 88 people in Nigeria's Kebbi state on Thursday, spurring its governor to pledge a bigger deployment of security forces on Sunday as insecurity spreads largely unchecked through the country's northwest.
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Jun 06, 2021
Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez experienced wildly different emotions in a dramatic Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday.
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Jun 06, 2021
Looking to fund big spending projects at home, the United States has an ambitious pitch for countries around the world: It's time to overhaul the global tax system.
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Jun 06, 2021
Kamala Harris leaves for Latin America on Sunday under intense political pressure to stem the flow of migrants to the US, with lots of people asking what she's doing heading out on her first foreign trip as vice president before releasing a comprehensive strategy.
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Jun 06, 2021
Thousands of Hungarians, some of them holding banners declaring "treason," protested on Saturday against a Chinese university's plans to open a campus in Budapest.
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Jun 05, 2021
When Janice Zhang went job hunting in March, at every interview the 33-year-old was asked the same question: Was she married yet?
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Jun 05, 2021
At least 132 civilians were killed in the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years, the government said on Saturday, after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast.
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Jun 05, 2021
One candidate is a former boxer and promises to fight for people as hard as he did it in the ring.
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Jun 05, 2021
The Nigerian government has ordered federal prosecutors to arrest and prosecute users of the Twitter app, after a ban on the social media company took effect on Friday.
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Jun 05, 2021
Brazil might be hosting the Copa America, but whether the Brazilian soccer squad wants to participate in the tournament due to the uncontrolled state of the pandemic in the country remains to be seen.
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Jun 05, 2021
The looting of ancient art in Italy is not a new phenomenon. It is at least as old as the Roman empire, which not only contended with its own tomb raiders -- or "tombaroli," as they are known in Italy -- but also pilfered riches from other nations.
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Jun 05, 2021
The looting of ancient art in Italy is not a new phenomenon. It is at least as old as the Roman empire, which not only contended with its own tomb raiders -- or "tombaroli," as they are known in Italy -- but also pilfered riches from other nations.
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Jun 05, 2021
The looting of ancient art in Italy is not a new phenomenon. It is at least as old as the Roman empire, which not only contended with its own tomb raiders -- or "tombaroli," as they are known in Italy -- but also pilfered riches from other nations.
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Jun 05, 2021
The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low last year, the health ministry said on Friday, as more couples put off marriage and starting a family amid a global pandemic.
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Jun 05, 2021
Two candidates with drastically different visions for Peru's future face off in a presidential run-off vote on Sunday, polarizing an electorate battered by the pandemic.
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Jun 05, 2021
A lot is at stake in Mexico's midterm elections on Sunday. With more than 21,000 seats up for grabs, this is the country's largest poll ever.
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Jun 04, 2021
Vanessa Bryant, widow of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, has accused Nike of releasing sneakers honoring the pair's late daughter, Gianna, without her blessing.
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Jun 04, 2021
The head of the Catholic Church in Germany has written to Pope Francis to offer his resignation over what he described as his shared "responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse" by church officials, a letter published Friday reveals.
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Jun 04, 2021
A statue of colonial slave trader Edward Colston has gone on public display in Bristol, England, almost a year after it was toppled during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the city.
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Jun 04, 2021
David McMahon hated the design of his classroom.
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Jun 04, 2021
Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova was arrested in Paris on Thursday evening for sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, two French law enforcement sources have told CNN.
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Jun 04, 2021
After the 2019 elections, Naftali Bennett's right-wing party failed to cross the electoral threshold and had no seats in Israel's parliament.
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Jun 04, 2021
Detained journalist Roman Protasevich has again appeared on Belarusian state media, to the concern of government critics who fear the young dissident is being forced to address the nation under duress.
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Jun 04, 2021
Police excavations at a cafe in the quiet English city of Gloucester revived a half-century-old puzzle: What happened to Mary Bastholm, a carefree 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1968.
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Jun 03, 2021
A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter.
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Jun 03, 2021
Art and science can seem two opposites on a spectrum. One is creative and interpretive, the other exact and empirical. But an emerging technology known as Pure Structural Colour -- dubbed the "boldest, brightest color on Earth" in a new exhibition -- shows how interplay between the two may be revolutionary for both.
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Jun 03, 2021
"Could it be that New Zealand is turning into ... New Xi Land?" questioned an ominous voice over.
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Jun 03, 2021
Nicaraguan presidential challenger Cristiana Chamorro has been placed under house arrest and could now be disqualified from running for office, according to local officials.
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Jun 03, 2021
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has officially declared the onset of the monsoon over the state of Kerala. The monsoon, which usually starts on June 1, is a few days late. But while the onset date is important, the overall forecast is much more crucial.
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Jun 03, 2021
The Government of Ethiopia has defended its actions in the northern province of Tigray, saying that it "condemns all acts that put the life and dignity of civilians in danger."
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Jun 03, 2021
Before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Chef Q. Ibraheem ran an upscale catering business and underground supper club in Evanston, Illinois. She was able to charge $250 per person for ambitious, farm-to-table, multicourse meals served in an intimate setting. After years of working to launch her business, it was finally taking off.
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