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By Billy Stockwell, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A fresh round of peace talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia are set to begin Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, as the Trump administration renews its drive to end the nearly five-year conflict even after it announced significant concessions to Moscow. Russia has made clear it wants

By Issy Ronald, Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — France is blaming Iran for last month’s supermarket refrigerator cyberattack, which spoiled produce at around 700 retailers, and is vowing to slap sanctions on Tehran in response. “This was an attack of unprecedented scale and unprecedented aggressiveness,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told reporters Monday. He described

By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — President Donald Trump said a “great dislike” for Israel was one of the reasons the Republicans lost in the midterm elections, along with the Iran war and the subsequent rise in gasoline prices. “I think if I was on the ballot, it would’ve been a much different situation

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — A gunman who killed at least six people during a deadly rampage in the Polish city of Kraków on Saturday has died in a hospital, police said Monday. The country was horrified by the rare mass shooting in the historic main square of the city in the country’s south,

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump is offering his clearest indication yet that intensified diplomacy could avert another major round of fighting with Iran, in the wake of his party’s disastrous midterm election results. Trump told CNN on Sunday that renewed US military attacks are “highly unlikely” if Tehran makes progress

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — At least seven people were killed and 112 people injured after two trains collided in Egypt on Sunday, the country’s health ministry said. Several carriages were derailed after one train collided with the rear of another between Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations in Giza, near the capital Cairo, the

By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — The judge presiding over Russell Brand’s criminal court case says the comedian will be handed down a lengthy prison sentence Monday after he was found guilty in a London court of raping a young fan and sexually assaulting three women. While that much is certain, other questions remain,

CNN By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — Russell Brand, the disgraced British comedian and actor, was handed a lengthy prison sentence on Monday after being found guilty in a London court of raping a young fan and sexually assaulting three women. In addition to his convictions and prison sentence, Brand’s name will be on

By Avery Schmitz, Osmary Hernández, Alfredo Meza, Lisa Wong, CNN (CNN) — The day after massive dual earthquakes shattered Venezuela, Ailin Quiroz made her way toward the coast to search for her sister. She found only a mountain of rubble where her apartment building had once stood. Quiroz climbed through the ruins for hours but

By Tim Lister (CNN) — A building belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco in the financial district of the capital Riyadh has been damaged in a missile attack. The strike in King Abdullah Financial District has been claimed by the Iran-allied Houthis and came after Saudi Civil Defense issued ‌an early-warning ⁠alert of a potential

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — As Russia struggles to advance on the ground in eastern Ukraine, it is pouring more resources into the war in the skies. Russian missiles and drones are hitting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure harder and earlier in the year than in previous years, analysts say, and the Kremlin has broadened its

By Merlín Delcid, Elvin Sandoval, CNN (CNN) — Two days after Democrats routed Republicans in the US midterm elections, the American Embassy in El Salvador posted a stern reminder on social media. “U.S. immigration laws remain in effect,” the Spanish-language post read. “The midterm election results do not represent changes to current immigration policies.” Nevertheless,

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — In a setback to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his main rival has been tasked with forming the next Israeli government, placing him one step closer to ousting Israel’s longest-serving leader, even as the path remains complicated. Gadi Eisenkot, a retired military chief who led the centrist Yashar party in

By Laura Sharman, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — The United States is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information about Iran’s nuclear program, despite US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims to have obliterated Tehran’s capabilities. Rewards for Justice (RFJ), a State Department program, is seeking tips on Iran’s nuclear facilities, equipment and

By Todd Symons, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand voters face weeks of political limbo after a knife-edge election left the country’s conservative coalition government at risk of losing its majority following just a single term in office. Saturday’s preliminary results show Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s National-led coalition with a paper-thin majority. But the margin is

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Iranian hardliners who believe Tehran has already emerged victorious in its war with the United States are seizing on President Donald Trump’s midterm losses to demand that he pay a steeper price for an exit from the conflict: a “new world order” that favors the Islamic Republic. The influential

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has said he was proud to exercise his right to vote as an American in the recent US midterm elections. Speaking on board the papal plane to South America, the first US-born pope responded to a question from CNN about the significance of him voting. The

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — More than 40 pilot whales have died on a New Zealand beach following a mass stranding that rescuers described as “difficult and distressing.” The pod of pilot whales was found stranded on the Ngawi coast near the village of Cape Palliser on the southern tip of New Zealand’s North

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A Kenyan cult leader has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children, in a campaign of abuse and forced fasting. Paul Mackenzie, founder of the Good News International Church, was sentenced Friday alongside more than two dozen