US & World

By Abbas Al Lawati and Mohammed Abdelbary, CNN Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — A flurry of diplomatic activity between Iran and Western nations has…

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — It was dinner time and the restaurant – a popular pizza joint in the center of Kramatorsk – was crammed…

By Lindsay Isaac, CNN (CNN) — Turkey condemned a decision by Swedish authorities to approve a small Quran-burning demonstration outside a…

By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh, Oliver Briscoe, Helen Regan and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — France was bracing for further unrest on…

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court on Wednesday acquitted five activists accused of obstructing the…

By Angus Watson, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage…

By Katharina Krebs, Paul P. Murphy, Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has arrived…

By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — More than 51 million people in South Korea awoke on Wednesday to find…

By Rob Picheta and Katharina Krebs, CNN (CNN) — Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko claims he convinced Russian leader Vladimir Putin not to…

By Mick Krever, Mariya Knight, Ben Wedeman and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Russian missiles struck the busy city center of the east…

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN (CNN) — Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio was sworn into a second term on Tuesday, just hours…

By Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — At least five people, including a child, have died and four others were injured after a building collapsed…

By Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — The destruction of the world’s rainforests ramped up last year, despite global pledges to end deforestation by…

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Nicola Bulley – a British woman whose missing person case triggered feverish conspiracy theories and criticism…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — When Daniel Kriz saw a pair of killer whales underneath his boat while crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in April,…

By Isaac Yee, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has been criticized for bringing a backup plane on his visit…

By Heather Chen and Su Myat Mon, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 5,000 humpback whales have been spotted in Australian waters during a record annual…

By Joe Sutton, Taylor Ward and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Canada has officially marked its worst wildfire season on record, with smoke from the…