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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Gerry Adams, former president of Sinn Fein, the leading republican political party in Northern Ireland. Personal Birth date: October 6, 1948 Birth place: Belfast, Northern Ireland Birth name: Gerard Adams Father: Gerry Adams, laborer and republican activist Mother: Annie (Hannaway) Adams, mill worker

By Eve Brennan and Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will meet the national army and police chiefs on Friday to combat a surge in gang violence, as the country reels from record shooting deaths this month. “Tomorrow I will meet the national police chief and the commander in

CNN By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Helen Regan, Kathleen Magramo and Yasmin Coles, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippine defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he warned his nation, and the wider world, had to stand up to Beijing’s

By Asim Khan and Sophia Saifi, CNN Quetta, Pakistan (CNN) — At least 60 people are dead following suicide blasts in the southwestern Pakistan city of Mastung on Friday, the Media Coordinator of the Health Department of Pakistan’s Balochistan province confirmed on Saturday night local time. A further 50 were wounded by the explosion at

By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Helen Regan, Kathleen Magramo and Yasmin Coles, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippine defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he warned his nation, and the wider world, had to stand up to Beijing’s territorial

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarizes disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their competing claims in the strategically important and resource-rich waterway. Bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations, parts

By Heather Chen and Akanksha Sharma, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has condemned the jailing of one of Vietnam’s most prominent environmental activists for tax fraud in a ruling human rights activists claimed was a “total sham.” Hoang Thi Minh Hong, 51, who has led environmental campaigns in the communist country for at

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s anti-terror agency has raided 53 sites across seven states and union territories in a crackdown on what it says are “terrorists” and “gangsters,” some of whom it alleges have links to Sikh separatist groups. The National Investigative Agency (NIA) said Wednesday it had seized pistols, ammunition and a

CNN By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (CNN) — A couple of dozen people pile into a van meant for 13. They’ve crossed a river on a makeshift raft and hope to ride 20 or so miles to get to their next stop. But after a short while, the

By Martin Goillandeau and Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — A 32-year-old student has been arrested after a “targeted” shooting rampage in the Dutch city of Rotterdam left three people dead on Thursday, according to local authorities. According to police spokesman Fred Westerbeke, the shooting first erupted in a private home on the city’s Heiman Dullaert

CNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate models of the distant future, scientists from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom predicted how climate extremes would

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate models of the distant future, scientists from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom predicted how climate extremes would intensify

By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (CNN) — A couple of dozen people pile into a van meant for 13. They’ve crossed a river on a makeshift raft and hope to ride 20 or so miles to get to their next stop. But after a short while, the van

CNN By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (CNN) — A couple of dozen people pile into a van meant for 13. They’ve crossed a river on a makeshift raft and hope to ride 20 or so miles to get to their next stop. But after a short while, the

By Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — Four army officers were arrested in Burkina Faso, a military prosecutor said, a day after the country’s ruling military junta announced it had thwarted a coup attempt. Two other officers were “on the run,” according to a statement from the public prosecutor’s office at the military court in Ouagadougou,

By Steven Jiang and Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China has declined to comment on its defense minister’s whereabouts as questions swirl over his status a month after he was last seen in public. Gen. Li Shangfu’s absence since late August has fueled rumors about his fate, but during a regular press briefing Thursday,

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The phenomenon’s mysterious origins have intrigued scientists for decades — and they may be far more widespread than once thought. Fairy circles were previously spotted only

By Christian Edwards and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — The self-declared republic of Nagorno-Karabakh will cease to exist from next year after its president signed a decree dissolving state institutions following its defeat by Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani victory last week triggered a a huge exodus of ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh and marked the end

By Tara Subramaniam and Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — Storm Elias dumped several months-worth of rain in less than a day as it swept across Greece on Wednesday, just weeks after Storm Daniel killed 17 people in the southern European nation. Villages were flooded, roads inundated and schools forced to close in several municipalities as

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN London (CNN) — Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was four to five times higher than that of 14th-century London or York, said researchers from the University