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EXPRESSEN By Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — A Swedish court has fined environmental activist Greta Thunberg after finding her guilty of disobeying law enforcement, a Malmö City Court spokesperson told CNN Monday. Thunberg was charged with “the crime of disobedience to law and order” earlier this month after participating in a protest on June 19

By Ivana Kottasová, Richard Allen Greene, Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli parliament on Monday passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of its power to block government decisions, the first part of a planned judicial overhaul that has sharply divided Israeli society and drawn fierce criticism from the White House.

CNN By Richard Allen Greene, Amir Tal, Hadas Gold and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli lawmakers are set to vote on the first part of the government’s sweeping plan to weaken the power of the country’s courts on Monday, despite six months of street protests, parliamentary maneuvering, compromise talks and increasingly urgent warnings

CNN By Josh Pennington, Simone McCarthy, Sophie Jeong and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces carried out the drone strikes in Moscow early on Monday, a Kyiv official has told CNN. The official from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, an arm of its Ministry of Defense, said the agency was responsible for the operation that Russia

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — There is a “gravity hole” in the Indian Ocean — a spot where Earth’s gravitational pull is weaker, its mass is lower than normal, and the sea level dips by over 328 feet (100 meters). This anomaly has puzzled geologists for a long time, but now researchers from the

By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A “conversation has commenced” with North Korea over US Army Pvt. Travis King, who crossed the border between North and South Korea last week in the demilitarized zone separating the two nations, the deputy commander of the United Nations Command (UNC) said Monday.

By Stefano Pozzebon Cajibio (CNN) — On a recent Friday morning, about 200 coca and marijuana farmers gathered in the small town of Cajibio, southwestern Colombia, to hear the government out. Colombian’s government was still licking its wounds after an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana had sunk in Congress less than 10 days before. At

By Jessie Yeung, Gene Norman and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A powerful storm sweeping across the Pacific Ocean in the direction of the Philippines has intensified into a super typhoon, with forecasters warning it could hit the northern part of the country before hitting mainland China later this week. Super typhoon Doksuri

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least eleven people are dead after the roof of a school gymnasium collapsed during a student volleyball team practice in northeastern China Sunday afternoon, according to local officials. Nineteen people were at the middle school gymnasium in Heilongjiang province’s Qiqihar city when the accident happened, including

By Josh Pennington, Simone McCarthy, Sophie Jeong and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces carried out the drone strikes in Moscow early on Monday, a Kyiv official has told CNN. The official from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, an arm of its Ministry of Defense, said the agency was responsible for the operation that Russia described

By Jack Guy and Al Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Spain appears destined for painful political negotiations after Sunday’s elections, when no single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Prospects for coalition-building now remain uncertain. With over 99% of the vote counted, the center-right Partido Popular (PP) is set to come in first,