National-World

By Rob Picheta and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Polish lawmakers backed plans to end the country’s near-total abortion ban on Friday, setting the stage for an eventual showdown on women’s rights between the country’s government and its right-wing president. Lawmakers in Poland’s parliament voted four different proposals to ease restrictions on abortions through to

By Sergey Gudkov, Louis Mian and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A mass evacuation is underway in the Russian city of Orenburg, as severe flooding tears through parts of the country and northern Kazakhstan. “A mass evacuation is underway,” the city’s mayor Sergei Salmin said on Telegram, instructing residents in multiple areas of the city

By David Culver, Norma Galeana, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ejido Jacumé, Baja California, Mexico (CNN) — The rust-colored barrier soars into the cloudless blue sky, a solid and almost impassable marker of the border between Mexico and the United States. But then it stops, when the rough, hilly terrain becomes a mountain, or

CNN By David Culver, Norma Galeana, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ejido Jacumé, Baja California, Mexico (CNN) — The rust-colored barrier soars into the cloudless blue sky, a solid and almost impassable marker of the border between Mexico and the United States. But then it stops, when the rough, hilly terrain becomes a mountain,

CNN By David Culver, Norma Galeana, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN Ejido Jacumé, Baja California, Mexico (CNN) — The rust-colored barrier soars into the cloudless blue sky, a solid and almost impassable marker of the border between Mexico and the United States. But then it stops, when the rough, hilly terrain becomes a mountain,

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN (CNN) — Prince William and Prince George were spotted watching their soccer team Aston Villa together on Thursday evening – their first sighting since the Princess of Wales’ cancer diagnosis. In a quintessentially British father-son bonding moment, the 41-year-old heir to the British throne cheered the side on

By Mariya Knight, Michael Rios, Sharon Braithwaite and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Russia has delivered military equipment to Niger that will provide the African country with the “latest generation of anti-aircraft defense systems,” Nigerien state broadcaster RTN said Thursday. The equipment arrived in Niamey on Wednesday along with 100 Russian military instructors who will

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The smalltooth sawfish, a critically endangered animal, is in even more danger than usual in the Florida seas. Six of the rare creatures washed up dead in the past seven days, officials reported Wednesday – a dramatic increase in mortality amid a mysterious die-off that has baffled scientists for months. These

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia with a growing middle class, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty as a devastating civil war drives tens of millions further into destitution, according to a new United Nations report. Almost half of Myanmar’s population of

By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Jesús Corona Damián, a candidate for mayor in Cuautla, Mexico, was in a car near his home one evening last month when two men on a motorcycle sped past and opened fire. The day before, a local gang had sent him a threat, so that night he drove behind

By Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s memoir will be published posthumously this fall, his widow revealed Thursday. The book, titled “Patriot,” will be released on October 22 in multiple languages, including Russian, Yulia Navalnaya said in a post on social platform X. According to Navalnaya, her husband started writing his

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to expand two national monuments in California – one, a mountainous wilderness area east of Los Angeles, and another with tree-covered rolling hillsides north of Napa – in the coming weeks, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Biden will expand the perimeters of

CNN By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out “HELP” using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach. The mission also unexpectedly turned into a family reunion. The

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting that they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a new study has found. The rock carvings, which archaeologists call petroglyphs, are at a site called Serrote do Letreiro in Paraíba, an agricultural state on

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In an ancient grave in what’s now northwestern Argentina, a person was buried with a canine companion — but this animal friend wasn’t a dog, according to new research. The burial held the skeleton of a type of canid that may have once competed with dogs for human affection: