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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life Friedrich Merz, chancellor of Germany. Personal Birth date: November 11, 1955 Birth place: Brilon, Germany Birth name: Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz Father: Joachim Merz, judge Mother: Paula Sauvigny Marriage: Charlotte Gass (1981-present) Children: Three Education: Studied law at the University of Bonn and the

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris that killed 132 people, including two survivors who later died by suicide, and wounded 494 people. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six locations across the city. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks. Timeline and

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A billboard stretching across one of Egypt’s biggest highways was hacked on Thursday to broadcast pornographic footage, according to the government and local media. The advertisement billboard, which sits on the bustling 26th of July Axis in Cairo, made waves on social media as many people stopped their cars

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Farmers dumped manure on the streets of Turin on Friday as mass demonstrations unfurled across more than 50 cities in Italy. Fired up by a wave of similar protests elsewhere in Europe, tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets to protest soaring living costs

By Christopher Lamb Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has submitted a mail-in ballot for the US midterms, becoming the first pope to vote in a US election and likely the first to vote in a secular democratic election. The first American pope “has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago,” the Vatican said in a

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scottish police are investigating the time convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spent with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Balmoral, a private royal estate in Scotland which is a favored retreat for the monarchy. “We have received information and active enquiries are ongoing but these are at a very early stage,” a

By Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people from an occupied town in southern Ukraine who survived months without basic supplies were evacuated on Friday under a ceasefire agreement negotiated by first lady Melania Trump. “In just a few hours, all Ukrainian citizens evacuated from Oleshky, along with the Ukrainian

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A 13-year-old girl who was critically wounded in the deadly February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, has been released from hospital after 262 days, her father said Thursday. “There was never a day I stopped believing we would get here. The road ahead is still long, but this

By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond, CNN Taibeh, Israel (CNN) — For decades, many Palestinian citizens of Israel stayed away from the polls, refusing to legitimize a system they say has oppressed their people, sidelined their concerns, and failed to represent them. But this time felt different: after four years under the most right-wing

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — Lucas Petit was just 11 when hundreds of thousands of men and women wearing yellow vests poured onto the streets and occupied roundabouts across France in November 2018. His memories are hazy, though stories of clashes with police left a lasting impression. If he ever joined a demonstration, he

By Tal Shalev, Kara Fox, Andrew Carey, Henrik Pettersson, Soph Warnes, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel faces weeks, possibly months, of political limbo after final results show there’s no clear winner in its elections. Neither of the two main blocs – one led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, the other led by

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An attempt by murderer Erin Patterson, who killed three people with a meal of toxic mushrooms, to overturn her conviction has failed, with an appeals court finding that her original sentence was too light for her “cold and calculated” crimes. Patterson, now 52, was found guilty last

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she returned to the country from exile this past week to mobilize society as she pushes for new elections next year. “I have returned to finish a task and to fulfill a mandate,” she said Thursday in her first news conference since

By Lauren Kent, Vasco Cotovio, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — The deadly train crash in Spain’s Toledo province has sparked fresh criticism of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government and raised questions about the country’s investment in public infrastructure – just weeks before national elections in November. Wednesday’s crash marks the third deadly train disaster

By the Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Parts of a large volcanic rock formation crashed down in Turkey’s popular tourism destination of Cappadocia on Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring five others, officials said. A section of the rock formation — known as a fairy chimney — tumbled in Cappadocia’s Goreme region,

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. Personal Birth date: January 1, 1956 Birth place: Paris, France Birth name: Christine Madeleine Odette Lallouette Father: Robert Lallouette, a professor of English literature Mother: Nicole Lallouette, a professor of French, Latin and ancient Greek

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former president of Mexico. Personal Birth date: November 13, 1953 Birth place: Tepetitán, Mexico Birth name: Andrés Manuel López Obrador Father: Andrés López Ramón, a store owner Mother: Manuela Obrador González, a store owner Marriages: Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller

By Amarachi Orie, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — An 8-year-old girl has been hospitalized after sustaining serious injuries in a wolf attack inside a German zoo’s enclosure. The girl was with two other children and a staff member when at least one wolf attacked her on Wednesday morning at Johannismühle Wildlife Park, south of Berlin,

By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A Russian drone struck the main railway station in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro as people waited to board a train on Thursday morning, killing 15 people. Another 10 people were wounded in the strike, the latest in a series of Russian attacks on transport and

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration and the Kremlin are discussing the possible lifting of US sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, Russian state media quoted a Kremlin aide as saying, in what would be another US concession to Moscow in negotiations to end its war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir