National/World

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

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 national

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 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 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