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The Associated Press Beijing (AP) — The Chinese military’s top general is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and law the Defense Ministry said Saturday. Zhang Youxia, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, is the latest figure to fall in a long-running purge of military officials.

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — “It’s very disrespectful.” That’s how Danish veteran Gerth Sloth Berthelsen, who grew up in Greenland, said he feels about the United States’ recent behavior. Berthelsen served alongside American forces in a peacekeeping mission to North Macedonia in 1996 and 1997. Now, he is one of several veterans saying they

By Jessie Yeung, Kosta Gak, Victoria Butenko, Sophie Tanno, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The first trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States concluded in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, as all sides struck an optimistic tone following two days of discussions. US officials described the talks — which saw officials from all three

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The sun was still low on the horizon when 19-year-old Piper James walked toward the Pacific Ocean for a morning swim on an island whose name in the local language means “paradise.” Within two hours, she was found dead, her body surrounded by dingoes, wild Australian native

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Avery Schmitz, Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — A US-Mexican influencer who disappeared in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Tuesday has been found alive and in good health, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s office said Saturday. In a post on social media, the prosecutor’s office thanked the public

By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — A British man pleaded guilty in a UK court on Friday to drugging and raping his now former wife over a 13-year period. Philip Young admitted 48 of the 56 charges against him, pleading guilty to 14 counts of voyeurism, 11 of rape, and 11 of administering a

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United States, Russia and Ukraine rarely agree on anything. But as their delegations meet in Abu Dhabi for their first trilateral meeting since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the three parties seem to have come to the same conclusion: Only one issue remains to be resolved.

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the front lines in Afghanistan. “I’ve always said, ‘Will they be there, if we ever needed them?’

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — Usama Ghanem learned the stifling censorship that shrouded public spaces in Egypt early in life, and still recalls criticizing the “stupid” regime under former President Hosni Mubarak in elementary school. Immediately, his teacher hushed him. “Nobody was allowed to say anything,” Ghanem, now a 22-year-old student in

By Helen Regan, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian, United States and Russian negotiators began talks in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, marking the first known meeting to be attended by all three countries since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed Russia would join representatives from Ukraine and the US

By Sol Amaya, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday backed a plan that would make it easier for foreign companies to participate in the country’s oil industry, in the latest move by Caracas to meet the demands of US President Donald Trump. For almost two decades, much of the country’s oil industry

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people,

By Issy Ronald, Nick Paton Walsh, Clare Sebastian, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s posturing over Greenland has irrevocably changed the transatlantic relationship, even after he backed away Wednesday from his threats of a US takeover of the Danish autonomous territory, European officials told CNN. One European diplomat, speaking anonymously, described the last

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Barron Trump, son of the US president, contacted police in London last year after witnessing an alleged assault on a female friend while he and the woman were on a video call, a British court has been told. A transcript of Trump’s emergency call was shown during the

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Just a few days ago, European leaders were scrambling to respond to US President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric about taking control of Greenland, and bracing for an avalanche of insults as he arrived to speak on their home turf. As expected, Trump slammed European officials on a variety

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Just a few days ago, European leaders were scrambling to respond to US President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric about taking control of Greenland, and bracing for an avalanche of insults as he arrived to speak on their home turf. As expected, Trump slammed European officials on a

By Helen Regan, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump is struggling to attract Western allies to his “Board of Peace,” but so far he has garnered the support of Middle Eastern monarchs, the man known as Europe’s last dictator and at least one leader wanted for alleged war crimes. Trump has invited

CNN By Helen Regan, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump is struggling to attract Western allies to his “Board of Peace,” but so far he has garnered the support of Middle Eastern monarchs, the man known as Europe’s last dictator and at least one leader wanted for alleged war crimes. Trump has

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The man who killed Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported. The ruling concludes a trial over an assassination that shocked Japan – where gun violence is rare – and put the spotlight on an

By Pau Mosquera and Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Córdoba, Spain (CNN) — A commuter passenger train derailed in Gelida, near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Tuesday, killing the driver and injuring 37 people, a spokesperson for the regional government of Catalonia told CNN. The incident occurred just two ⁠days after another deadly rail crash in