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By Nimi Princewill, Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday. Armed bandits kidnapped 303 children and 12 teachers from the St. Mary’s Private Catholic

By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Armed with shovels and wheelbarrows, municipal workers from Tulum, Mexico, were deployed to the resort town’s famed beaches in June, tasked with removing large quantities of sargassum that had piled up to cover the crystal-clear waters. By that point in the year, authorities said they had collected 1,900 tons

By Charbel Mallo and Dana Karni (CNN) — The Israeli military says it killed Hezbollah’s second most senior figure in the first air strikes in months on southern Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s Chief of Staff, “a key operative and veteran in the terrorist organization.” “The strike was intended

By Billy Stockwell, Kit Maher, and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio projected optimism on Sunday after what he described as productive discussions between American and Ukrainian officials in Geneva, Switzerland, aimed at stopping the war in Ukraine. The talks were “probably the most productive and meaningful” so far, Rubio

By Sophie Tanno, and Inke Kappeler, CNN (CNN) — This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country whose military has undergone years of neglect. The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s

By Sophie Tanno, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — World leaders on Saturday expressed concern over a US peace plan for Ukraine seen as favoring Russia, saying it needs “additional work” as they scramble a coordinated response to the proposal. European powers have been caught off guard by the plan which contains major concessions to Russia

By Tim Lister, Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s drone strikes against boats allegedly bringing illicit drugs to the US come amid an explosion in the amount of cocaine being produced in Colombia and Peru. But there is a new – and lethal – factor that is turbo-charging production – especially in Peru:

By Tim Lister, Kostya Gak, CNN (CNN) — A top-secret Russian unit based in Moscow has changed the landscape of drone warfare, turning what was an advantage for the Ukrainians into a vulnerability. The unit is known as Rubicon and has expanded rapidly under Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov since his appointment in June last

By Billy Stockwell, Max Saltman, Marcelo Madeiros, CNN (CNN) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested on Saturday over concerns he was plotting to escape house arrest after he took a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet, authorities said. The arrest at his home in Brasília, just days before he was due to begin

Story by Reuters Washington (Reuters) — The US Federal Aviation Administration warned major airlines on Friday of a “potentially hazardous situation” when flying over Venezuela and urged them to exercise caution. The FAA notice cited the “worsening security situation and heightened military activity in or around Venezuela” and said threats could pose risks for aircraft

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s defined her political ascent. But Sheikh Hasina’s rise to the top of Bangladesh’s politics preceded a stunning fall from power to self-exile in India. A death sentence delivered in

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A one-time leading figure in Britain’s right-wing populist Reform UK party has been jailed for accepting cash bribes in exchange for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, was sentenced to ten and a half years at London’s Central Criminal Court on Friday after he admitted

By Svitlana Vlasova, Catherine Nicholls and Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept his plan – widely seen as favoring Russia – to end the war, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country faced “one of the most difficult moments” in its history. “I’ve

By Nimi Princewill, Hira Humayun, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Armed bandits kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have drawn the attention of the Trump administration. Despite some students managing to get to

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than 1.2 million Canadian dollars he had stored in bizarre locations around his home. On December 1, 2009, police visited Marcel Breton’s rural property on the outskirts of Thunder Bay, a city in northwest Ontario, looking

CNN By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Larry Madowo, Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only rocks and sticks, a CNN investigation has found. Geolocated videos from the scenes,

By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Larry Madowo, Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN (CNN) — In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only rocks and sticks, a CNN investigation has found. Geolocated videos from the scenes, audio

By Karina Tsui, Matthew Rehbein, CNN (CNN) — When JD Vance told a stadium of thousands he hoped his wife would one day be moved “by the Christian gospel” the same way he was, he inadvertently stepped into a contentious dialogue in India and among the diaspora about religious freedom and, for some, evoked memories

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive information to China if Beijing were to get to them first. The aircraft – an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an MH-60 helicopter –

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Colombia has recovered gold and bronze coins, a porcelain cup and a cannon from a sunken Spanish warship dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks.” The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British