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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A Nigerian court has freed on bail more than 60 people arrested last month during a police raid on a suspected gay wedding, their lawyer told CNN after a bail hearing Tuesday. More than 200 people were arrested at the alleged wedding party in the southern Delta State on

By Caitlin Hu, CNN United Nations (CNN) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a looming “Great Fracture” in the world, describing existing global governance structures as failing to serve a changing world. Speaking before world leaders in the United Nations Assembly Hall on Tuesday, Guterres called for sweeping changes to multilateral institutions,

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The deadly rainfall which caused catastrophic flooding and destruction in Libya, as well as other parts of the Mediterranean, this month was made much more likely and worse by the human-caused climate crisis, in addition to other human factors, according to a new scientific analysis. The World Weather Attribution

By Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Christian Edwards, Anna Chernova and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — At least 200 people have been killed and over 400 others wounded in a military operation by Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to an official in Armenian-controlled territory there. Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said Tuesday it had begun

By Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain behind bars after a Moscow court refused to hear an appeal against his pre-trial detention on Tuesday. The Moscow City Court said in a statement it was sending the motion back to a lower court – effectively quashing it for the

By Simone McCarthy and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday declined to address a report its former foreign minister Qin Gang was ousted from his position over an alleged extramarital affair. Earlier that day, the Wall Street Journal reported that Qin, who was abruptly removed from his position this

CTV NETWORK By Paula Newton and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Canada’s accusation that India may have been involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist on its soil has triggered a growing spat with Ottawa and New Delhi both expelling senior diplomats, sending relations between the two countries plunging. The tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions came

CNN By Nectar Gan and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas. German Foreign Minister

By Nectar Gan and Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas. German Foreign Minister Annalena

By Simone McCarthy, Katharina Krebs, Darya Tarasova and Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — Russia and China’s top diplomats discussed strengthening their international cooperation during a meeting in Moscow on Monday ahead of an expected landmark visit from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing in the coming weeks. The two countries would continue “well-coordinated work” at

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Santa Clara, Cuba (CNN) — For months, hundreds of Cubans have quietly left the island to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine, chasing promises of money and Russian citizenship from shadowy online recruiters, family members told CNN. Across much of Cuba, the economy has ground to a standstill as the communist-run

CNN By Sarah Sirgany and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Derna, Libya (CNN) — It’s quiet at the Martoba cemetery outside the Libyan city of Derna, despite the presence of dozens of volunteers. Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves. Cement bricks jutting out of the heaps of dirt