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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — “My name is Rexal Ford,” the man born under the name Charles Francis Kaufmann told an Italian courtroom, in English, at the start of his double-murder trial in February. “I am not a killer. I am a film producer.” The former Kaufmann, a 47-year-old American, did

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — British actor, comedian and media personality Russell Brand faces a lengthy prison sentence after he was found guilty in a London court on Thursday of raping a young fan and sexually assaulting three women. Brand, 51, was convicted of raping the 21-year-old admirer in 2009 after they met

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — They are two of the world’s best-known Bobs from the US Midwest. Now Pope Leo XIV, whose birth name is Robert Prevost, and Bob Dylan, the legendary musician, have met in the Vatican. Leo and Dylan were both seen meeting in the Vatican’s apostolic palace, the pope’s residence,

By Charlotte Reck, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Bomb threats forced the diversion of a series of flights across Europe on Thursday, just two days after at least seven flights received similar threats. There was no claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s alerts and officials did not attribute blame. On Thursday, Aer Lingus said a flight

By Tal Shalev, CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — As Republican losses in the US midterm elections came into focus, President Donald Trump said he would accept the results. The same cannot be said of Benjamin Netanyahu, the man Trump endorsed in Israel. A week after Israel’s October 27 election, Netanyahu, whose bloc lost its majority,

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Joshua Wong, once a teenage figurehead of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, faces the prospect of entering middle age in prison, after a court Thursday meted out a 10-year sentence over a second national security conviction. Wong became a prominent activist when he was a teenager, and entered

By Mostafa Salem, Oren Liebermann, Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — The US midterm elections could have consequences far beyond the country’s borders. President Donald Trump has spent nearly two years overturning decades of American foreign policy, unsettling allies and adversaries alike. Now, both are watching to see how an electoral setback at home will

By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were killed when Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school building in southeastern Ukraine where they had taken shelter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, describing it as “one of the deadliest attacks of this war.” Local authorities said Friday that 53 people

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A former elementary school teacher has been propelled into the ranks of paper billionaires in China after the stock debut of his company selling tape and other adhesive products to tech giants, according to Forbes. Michael Mai, chairman and CEO of Crown New Materials Technology, entered the

By Pau Mosquera, Max Saltman, Vasco Cotovio, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s Minister of Transport Óscar Puente announced his resignation after two deadly train crashes occurred in a single year, including one last week that killed 69 people and injured more than 200. “I made the decision about my future in the first few minutes after

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — “Mogging,” a tongue-in-cheek term jovially used by members of Gen-Z and Gen Alpha to suggest an outperforming or outshining of someone or something, has been crowned 2026’s word of the year by Collins English Dictionary. Staving off tough competition with inimitable rizz, internet slang “mogging” seized the top spot

By Tim Lister and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Russian drones have struck at least a dozen merchant ships in the Black Sea in recent weeks – killing more mariners than have died during the Iran war. Russia’s goal is to throttle trade through Ukrainian ports, which export almost all the country’s grain. But some

By Issy Ronald, Kara Fox, Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Manchester, England (CNN) — Nine men accused of taking part in or helping to facilitate the abuse of a woman, whose husband drugged and sexually assaulted her for more than two decades, appeared in court Monday for the start of their trial in Manchester, England. The accused

By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — On election day in March 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu filmed a controversial 28-second video, warning right-wing voters that Arab citizens were heading to the polls “in droves.” A week later, after he had won against prevailing expectations, he apologized, saying he did not intend to offend the Arab sector as

By Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Emergency warning apps in Russia and Ukraine were hacked overnight Sunday into Monday, according to authorities in both countries. It’s not clear whether the hacking of the apps is linked. The apps warn the public of missile, drone and other threats. But rather than

By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — For three weeks in October, Veridiana Cunha became a so-called “soldier” for a digital army fighting to reelect Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Every few minutes, the 48-year-old would interrupt her day job in São Paulo as a copy editor and check WhatsApp for new instructions.

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — A suspect allegedly planning a terror attack on a major Moscow museum was arrested by Russian authorities after a tip-off from the United States, Russia’s security agency FSB announced on Sunday. The FSB said information shared with Russia by US law enforcement led to the arrest of the Russian

By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Poland is in the throes of a constitutional crisis as a battle over the future of the country’s highest court ignites another confrontation between the country’s president and prime minister. The crisis came to a head on Friday when center-left Prime Minister Donald Tusk moved to remake Poland’s Constitutional

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Cost-of-living protests in Germany turned violent on Saturday evening with police using water cannons to disperse crowds and masked rioters smashed shop windows, as officials warn the day of rallies organized by a youth-led movement was infiltrated by extremist factions. Saturday’s action across Germany, organized by the ‘Gen Z

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Trieste, Italy (CNN) — An expensive floating eyesore has marred views in the port of Trieste, northern Italy, for more than four years, and it is costing Italian taxpayers millions to maintain, the city’s mayor says. Russian oligarch Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko’s “Sailing Yacht A,” one of the world’s largest sailing