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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

By Rocio Muñoz Ledo, CNN San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico (CNN) — As night falls over the cemetery in San Andrés Mixquic, a historic village on the outskirts of Mexico City, the family of Ángel Jiménez del Águila huddles around his grave. “Salucita for our dead,” says Jesús, one of Ángel’s sons, raising a toast to

By Valeria León, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — On the shores of Lake Chapala, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, lies one of the country’s most popular communities for American retirees. Between 8,000 and 10,000 foreign residents live in the lakeside town of Ajijic, and US politics remains part of everyday conversations, especially as the

By Mostafa Salem, Tala Alrajjal, and Tamara Almoayed, CNN (CNN) — With little transparency from Washington and warmongering from Tehran, people across the Middle East have been left anxious and confused, scanning for signals on whether the conflict between Iran and the United States will reignite. “The mood has definitely shifted,” a 36-year-old American living

By Pierre P Bairin, Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Cost-of-living protests that began in France have spread to Germany where demonstrations to coincide with Halloween took place on Saturday, with tens of thousands of people turning out across the country. The new German youth-led movement dubbed “Gen Z has got this!” protested against the high

By Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Kosta Gak, CNN Ukraine’s border with Belarus (CNN) — Dmytro had not seen his wife Larisa for 1,711 days. He had been counting. Waiting near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, his nervous eyes were fixed on the horizon, looking for the bus carrying Larisa and others fleeing the occupied

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — What do French soccer star Kylian Mbappé and the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty have in common? Before this week, very little. Now, they share the unenviable position of having angered Chinese fans and consumers – then having to quickly apologize and do damage control, with big earnings on

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Russia is seeking allies and expanding its influence abroad as its war in Ukraine drags on. African governments, meanwhile, are cozying up to the Kremlin for reasons of their own. As he hosted the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow this week, President Vladimir Putin portrayed Russia as a better

By Christopher Lamb Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has submitted a mail-in ballot for the US midterms, becoming the first pope to vote in a US election and likely the first to vote in a secular democratic election. The first American pope “has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago,” the Vatican said in a

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A billboard stretching across one of Egypt’s biggest highways was hacked on Thursday to broadcast pornographic footage, according to the government and local media. The advertisement billboard, which sits on the bustling 26th of July Axis in Cairo, made waves on social media as many people stopped their cars

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Farmers dumped manure on the streets of Turin on Friday as mass demonstrations unfurled across more than 50 cities in Italy. Fired up by a wave of similar protests elsewhere in Europe, tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets to protest soaring living costs

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scottish police are investigating the time convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spent with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Balmoral, a private royal estate in Scotland which is a favored retreat for the monarchy. “We have received information and active enquiries are ongoing but these are at a very early stage,” a

By Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people from an occupied town in southern Ukraine who survived months without basic supplies were evacuated on Friday under a ceasefire agreement negotiated by first lady Melania Trump. “In just a few hours, all Ukrainian citizens evacuated from Oleshky, along with the Ukrainian

By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — Lucas Petit was just 11 when hundreds of thousands of men and women wearing yellow vests poured onto the streets and occupied roundabouts across France in November 2018. His memories are hazy, though stories of clashes with police left a lasting impression. If he ever joined a demonstration, he

By Tal Shalev, Kara Fox, Andrew Carey, Henrik Pettersson, Soph Warnes, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel faces weeks, possibly months, of political limbo after final results show there’s no clear winner in its elections. Neither of the two main blocs – one led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, the other led by

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A 13-year-old girl who was critically wounded in the deadly February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, has been released from hospital after 262 days, her father said Thursday. “There was never a day I stopped believing we would get here. The road ahead is still long, but this

By Zeena Saifi, Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond, CNN Taibeh, Israel (CNN) — For decades, many Palestinian citizens of Israel stayed away from the polls, refusing to legitimize a system they say has oppressed their people, sidelined their concerns, and failed to represent them. But this time felt different: after four years under the most right-wing

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration and the Kremlin are discussing the possible lifting of US sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, Russian state media quoted a Kremlin aide as saying, in what would be another US concession to Moscow in negotiations to end its war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — An attempt by murderer Erin Patterson, who killed three people with a meal of toxic mushrooms, to overturn her conviction has failed, with an appeals court finding that her original sentence was too light for her “cold and calculated” crimes. Patterson, now 52, was found guilty last

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she returned to the country from exile this past week to mobilize society as she pushes for new elections next year. “I have returned to finish a task and to fulfill a mandate,” she said Thursday in her first news conference since