New Delhi (CNN) India's top court on Wednesday granted the release of a man convicted of killing former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after his imprisonment. The Supreme Court invoked extraordinary powers to release A. G. Perarivalan, his att...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) In uniting Western democracies against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, United States President Joe Biden managed something his critics thought was impossible. The problem for Biden? They have a historically bitter and fractious relati...

Kabul CNN —A senior Taliban official has repeated the group’s as-yet-unfulfilled pledge to allow girls back into high school, saying there would be “good news soon,” but suggested that women who protested the regime’s restrictions on women rights should sta...

(CNN) US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration's tariffs on China and voiced support for lifting the levies, in part to ease very high inflation pressuring the US economy. "Some of the tariffs that were imposed by...

Written by Lianne Kolirin, CNN LondonBritain's Royal Mint has issued a commemorative 50 pence coin to mark the 50th anniversary of Pride UK. The coin, which will not enter circulation, was designed by London artist, writer and LGBTQ+ activist Dominique Holm...

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) Iran-backed Hezbollah lost its parliamentary edge in a high-stakes election last weekend. When Hezbollah's bloc lost a majority that underpinned the last four years of Lebanese politics, it was an unusual setback. In 2000, it drove Isr...

(CNN) Tuesday proved to be an eventful day for Biniam Girmay, who made cycling history at the Giro d'Italia but later had to go to the hospital with an eye injury sustained during his podium celebrations. Eritrean Girmay became the first Black African to wi...

Ougadougou Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber deep inside a flooded zinc mine in Burkina Faso, the government and the mine owner said on Tuesday, all but extinguishing hope that eight missing miners could still be alive after a month...

The U.S. and Afghan governments share in the blame," the inspector general wrote. In essence, U.S. and Afghan efforts to cultivate an effective and sustainable security sector were likely to fail from the beginning. The Doha agreement, signed between the Tr...

Woodburn, Australia (CNN) Ken Morrison has twice been up to his neck in water during climate disasters . Even the Business Council of Australia, which represents companies including mining interests, supports a higher target. The water was high enough for K...

(CNN) Hunger and food insecurity have reached catastrophic levels in Afghanistan. The World Food Program reports that almost 20 million people -- about half the country's population -- are in desperate need of food. Drought conditions, the pandemic and the...

(CNN) Despite a renewed commitment on civilian casualties, the Pentagon has decided to hold no one accountable for a 2019 strike in Baghouz, Syria, that killed four civilians and wounded 15. Following the conclusion of a four-star review of the incident dur...

(CNN) North Korea appears to be preparing for a possible intercontinental ballistic missile test within the next 48 to 96 hours, just as President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to Asia, according to a US official familiar with the latest intelligence ass...

Four people lost their lives in a gas explosion that occurred near a school in the Sabon Gari area of Nigeria's Kano State, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Nigeria CNN —The death toll in an explosion that rocked the city of Kano in northwest Nigeria has risen to...

(CNN) Mexico has officially registered more than 100,000 people as missing or disappeared, according to data from the Interior Ministry's National Registry of Missing People. From 1964 to the present day, the country has registered more than 100,023 people...

REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinCNN —First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday departs Washington for a six-day Latin American tour, with scheduled stops in Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica, according to a White House release obtained first by CNN. Biden will be joined on t...

Whether giving motivational speeches, campaigning for mental health or life-coaching on hit makeover show " Queer Eye ," he has built a career on his seemingly infectious sense of confidence. In his early 20s, Brown had realized that his hairline was "about...

The monarch, walking with a stick, wore a bright yellow outfit and hat at Paddington station, in west London, to open the Elizabeth line , which is named in her honor. She was given a pre-paid Oyster travel card at the event on Tuesday, but did not use the...

(CNN) A deadly cholera outbreak linked to contaminated drinking water has infected thousands of people in central Pakistan as the country grapples with a water crisis exacerbated by a brutal heat wave in South Asia. The outbreak comes as Pakistan faces a se...

However, while the tough measures have fueled discontent among residents , they also appear to have brought infections down. Officials said the city's reopening will come in three phases, with the goal of restoring life to normal and fully restarting factor...