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By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain will accelerate an increase to its defense spending, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday, on the eve of a crucial visit to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington that is set to be dominated by the future of the war in Ukraine. Starmer said he will

By Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN (CNN) — Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa rely on money sent to them by relatives living abroad. But it costs more to send this money — known as remittances — to sub-Saharan Africa than any other region in the world, according to the World Bank. In recent years, a

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s coast guard detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew on Tuesday and said it was investigating whether the vessel had deliberately cut an undersea internet cable, in the latest possible damage to the island’s communication lines. The Togo-flagged vessel suspected of damaging the cable –

By Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — At least four construction workers were killed and six others injured when a highway overpass collapsed on Tuesday morning in South Korea, an official told CNN. Two Chinese nationals are among those dead. Five of those injured in the accident were seriously wounded

By Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Australia learned about Chinese live-fire naval drills off the country’s coast that forced dozens of flights to be diverted via an alert from a commercial pilot, authorities said on Monday. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s unprecedented show of firepower in waters between Australia and New

By Saskya Vandoorne, Martin Goillandeau, Jerome Taylor and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Paris (CNN) — A US teenager has been detained in Paris after her newborn baby was allegedly thrown out of a hotel window and died, prosecutors and French media say. The young woman, who was not named, was taken to hospital to undergo an

By Mike Valerio, Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a string of legal battles as the suspended leader fights to save his political career – and avoid prison – following his brief imposition of martial law last year. Yoon’s December 3 decree threw

By Max Saltman, Katharina Krebs and Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN) — Russia says it is open for economic cooperation with the United States, including on energy and mining rare earth minerals. Moscow’s comments came after US President Donald Trump said Monday he was in “serious discussions” with Russia about ending its war with Ukraine and

By Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military this weekend deployed tanks to the occupied West Bank for the first time in two decades. In the background of a Gaza ceasefire, Israel has steadily escalated an intense military operation in Palestinian cities in the West Bank, killing dozens and displacing tens of thousands of

By Simone McCarthy and Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Early on October 18, 2024, Wales police received a phone call from a member of the public. It was the start of a mystery that remains unsolved four months later. There was a body in the water of the Claerwen Reservoir, the caller said, according to a statement released