The new Israeli government suffered its first major setback in the early hours of Tuesday morning when it failed to secure enough votes to extend a regulation that effectively bars Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza married to Israelis…
A passenger plane with 28 people on board crashed into the sea off Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east on Tuesday, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.The plane, a Russian-built Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop, was flying from the regional…
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is in "serious, but stable" condition in hospital with the coronavirus, his government said Monday.Bettel will remain in the hospital for two to four days due to the persistence of Covid-19 symptoms, it added.The 48-year-old…
Hong Kong authorities said they have thwarted an alleged plot to bomb train stations, court buildings and tunnels organized by advocates for the city's independence from China.Steve Li, the senior superintendent of the police's National Security Department, said Tuesday nine…
When Youras Ziankovich, a lawyer with American citizenship, returned to his Moscow hotel after a lunch date with a friend in April, he found four men waiting for him in the street.Ziankovich's wife, Alena Dzenisavets, says that according to the…
Located an hour north of Kabul, Bagram was for nearly 20 years the hub of America's war in Afghanistan. Now it is eerily quiet. The last US combat troops have left and the Afghan government is trying to work out…
A humanitarian ship that rescued over 400 migrants at sea in recent weeks has been seized by Italian authorities, in a move that French medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned would endanger the lives of migrants in the Mediterranean.In…
At least 26 students and a teacher have been rescued after armed men raided a private secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna State early Monday and kidnapped scores of people, said police.Officials from the school in Kaduna's Chikun district told…
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has defended its decision to train female soldiers to march in high heels, following an outcry from local lawmakers.Women from the Ukrainian armed forces will march in a parade to mark the 30th anniversary of independence…
Georgia has launched an investigation into violence against LGBTQ campaigners and journalists, after protesters on Monday stormed offices ahead of a planned pride march in the country's capital Tbilisi.LGBTQ campaigners canceled the "March for Dignity" Pride event after violent protesters…
Editor's note: CNN has launched the Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country's rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here.As China celebrated the success of its first spacewalk…
Japanese rescue workers continued to search for survivors Monday, two days after a devastating "tsunami" of mud swept through a coastal city, killing at least three and leaving more than 100 feared missing.Torrential rains triggered the powerful mudslide in Atami,…
After succeeding in a last-ditch legal effort to delay his arrest for contempt of court, former South African President Jacob Zuma likened his treatment to Apartheid-era detention without trial."Things like detention without trial should never again see the light of…
At least four people have died in Cyprus from an ongoing wildfire ravaging the country, the country's Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Sunday.Four of the known victims of the fire have been identified as Egyptian nationals, Cyprus's Ministry of Foreign…
Pope Francis is undergoing surgery for "colon diverticulitis," Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told CNN on Sunday.It comes just hours after the 84-year-old pontiff, attended the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square.The Holy See press office said in a…
Chinese astronauts on Sunday successfully carried out the country's first spacewalk outside their space station -- a significant milestone in its rapidly expanding space program.The spacewalk is only the second by Chinese astronauts since the Shenzhou 7 manned mission of…
Rescue operations are underway after a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, officials said.The C-130 military plane was transporting troops from Cagayan de Oro, in Mindanao, to Sulu province when it missed the runway on…
The tiny town of Lytton has come to hold a grim record. On Tuesday, it experienced Canada's highest-ever temperature, in an unprecedented heatwave that has over a week killed hundreds of people and triggered more than 150 wildfires across British…
The Vatican has indicted 10 people, including an Italian cardinal, for several alleged financial crimes including extortion, corruption, fraud, forgery, embezzlement and abuse of power.The investigation, which started in July 2019, was carried out by the Vatican in cooperation with…
Jacob Zuma and his lawyers successfully delayed the former South African president's prison sentence for contempt of court on Saturday when the country's top court agreed to hear his application for a review of their decision to sentence him to…
When I was a kid, field trips to the local science museum or planetarium were more appealing than any playground.Disposable camera in hand, I marveled that a dinosaur fossil could tower over me in one room while an Apollo capsule…
Food and fuel is running out in the capital of Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region, a CNN producer on the ground in Mekelle reports.A communications blackout in the region, in place since Ethiopian forces withdrew and announced a unilateral ceasefire…
About 20 people are missing after a mudslide swept across a seaside city southwest of Tokyo, Japanese authorities said Saturday.The mudslide in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, came after the region was hit by torrential rain.Police and firefighters are searching for the…
In Mongolia, hospitals are overwhelmed. In the tiny archipelago of Seychelles, more than 100 new Covid-19 cases are being reported each day. And in Chile, a nationwide lockdown was lifted this week -- but the country is still reporting thousands…
You might think fossilized feces are only full of crap, but new research on one specimen has turned up a hidden treasure: a 230-million-year-old, previously undiscovered beetle species.Named Triamyxa coprolithica, the tiny beetles are also the first insects to be…
