National-World

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s Princess Beatrice has given birth to a daughter named Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday. Beatrice’s second daughter was born at 12.57 p.m. local time on January 22, weighing four pounds and five ounces, the palace said in a statement. She was born at Chelsea

By Nimi Princewill, Joshua Replogle, Stephanie Halasz and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as gunshots continue to ring out around their homes, days after rebel forces claimed they had taken over. Several people,

By Sophie Tanno and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australian authorities say they’ve foiled a potential “mass casualty” attack with the discovery of a trailer packed with explosives in northwest Sydney, and “some indications” it was to be used against targets in the Jewish community following a spate of antisemitic incidents. “This is

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s government has backed a tortured effort to build a third runway at Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, throwing its weight behind a decades-old proposal that has been beset by political, legal and environmental challenges. The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister), Rachel Reeves, gave a green light

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who died after they withheld insulin needed to treat her diabetes because of their unwavering belief that God would heal her. Instead of seeking medical help as

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — “Do you know who the next president is? The fun is over for you here, the music has changed … you’ve got to go back.” Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on January 20. Eight days

By Manveena Suri, Helen Regan, Aishwarya S Iyer and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of millions of devotees went to bathe in a river on one of the most sacred days of a Hindu

By Michael Rios, CNN, and Verónica Calderón and Fidel Gutierrez, CNN en Español (CNN) — When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh. At her daily press briefing

By Sebastian Shukla and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Berlin (CNN) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took an opportunity on the campaign trail Tuesday to criticize Elon Musk, telling CNN that the US billionaire “is intervening in favor of right-wing politicians all over Europe. And this is really disgusting”. Ahead of Germany’s February election, Musk has been

By Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — A freed Israeli hostage says she drew “hope and strength” from other captives while she was being held by Hamas in Gaza. Naama Levy, 20, who was kidnapped by the Palestinian militant group during the October 7, 2023, attacks, was freed alongside three other female Israeli soldiers on Saturday,

Story by Associated Press Rome, Italy (AP) — Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and two government ministers for repatriating a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Italian premier announced on Tuesday. Meloni revealed the investigation over allegedly aiding and abetting Ossama Anjiem, also

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region this week, pushing back against resistance from government troops backed by regional and UN intervention forces. The takeover of Goma is yet another territorial gain for the Alliance Fleuve Congo