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By Billy Stockwell, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A slimmed-down Iranian delegation arrived in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, as President Donald Trump touted the possibility of “very big things” ahead amid the war in the Middle East. A founding member of the UN, Iran has maintained a presence at

By Tim Lister (CNN) — In the last month, Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have joined the Middle East conflict in dramatic fashion — capturing a swath of the Red Sea coastline, launching missiles and drones at Saudi energy infrastructure and even targeting the Saudi capital, Riyadh, over the weekend. Now their campaign appears to

By Max Saltman, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Fear not, world leaders — the UN’s notorious escalator has been fixed in time for diplomacy’s biggest event of the year. That’s what outgoing United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters at his last press conference ahead of this week’s General Assembly, which will bring hundreds of

By Laura Sharman, Hanna Park, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — A police officer was shot and wounded near a synagogue in Ontario, Canada, on Sunday evening during an exchange of gunfire with a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun as congregants gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, officials said. The

By Sebastian Shukla, CNN Berlin (CNN) — “It is a disaster.” Those were the words of a forlorn-looking German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as he addressed his party in the seconds after regional elections handed his center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) their second and third electoral drubbings in a month. The results of Sunday’s elections in the

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — It was a necklace that helped Denise Cosco identify her mother after she was murdered by her father and boyfriend. Cosco, her father Carlo, and mother Lea Garofalo went on holiday together in November 2009 on what she thought was a chance for them to reconcile

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Days after Hong Kong socialite and influencer Abby Choi was reported missing in 2023, some of her remains turned up in a rural village house far from the glitzy skyscrapers and magnificent wealth that were her world. The death of Choi, who rubbed shoulders with Hong Kong’s

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — As world leaders prepare to gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, a growing number of flashpoints across the Middle East are raising concerns about a wider regional escalation, from renewed fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United Russia party is easily on track to win Sunday’s tightly controlled Russian parliamentary elections, with President Vladimir Putin once again set to cement his dominance over domestic politics. Final election results will not be tallied before September 25, but according to initial data from the Central Election

By Sebastian Shukla, Sophie Tanno, Thom Poole, CNN Berlin (CNN) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is facing a dire set of results in state elections, exit polls show, and is set to be squeezed both by the surging far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and parties on the left. The AfD

By Oren Liebermann, Dana Karni, CNN (CNN) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardoned a soldier who shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the occupied West Bank in 2016, despite opposition from the military’s chief of staff. Announcing the move on Saturday, Herzog said the decision would allow Elor Azaria, who was in his

CNN By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine carried out its largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital and the surrounding area as voting in parliamentary elections entered the final day. The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday that more than 1,900 drones, eight