(CNN) John Aylward, a veteran film and television actor for more than three decades, has died, according to his longtime agent and friend, Mitchell K. Stubbs. Aylward died Monday of natural causes, Stubbs told CNN. Alyward, a Seattle native, was best known...
US first lady Jill Biden, right, walks with Ecuadorian first lady María de Lourdes Alcívar de Lasso at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador, on May 19, 2022. Quito, Ecuador CNN —First lady Jill Biden spent her first full day of a trip through South and C...
(CNN) Israel's fragile government lost its parliamentary majority on Thursday after an Arab-Israeli lawmaker resigned from the ruling coalition, accusing its leaders of fueling tensions between Israelis and Palestinians and condemning the violent interventi...
London (CNN Business) Indonesia will lift a ban on exports of palm oil starting next week, a move that could ease a tight global market and relieve some of the pressure on food prices. President Joko Widodo said in a statement on Thursday that he had made t...
London (CNN) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face no further action over breaches of lockdown regulations after the Metropolitan Police concluded its investigation of the "Partygate" scandal, Downing Street said Thursday. Johnson is said to be "pl...
He has worked alongside North Korean doctors during more than 20 visits to North Korea and is a member of the National Committee on North Korea, which facilitates principled engagement between the US and North Korea. But now I fear for the safety of the doc...
(CNN) Human rights group Amnesty International has urged FIFA to earmark at least $440 million to compensate migrant workers who it says have suffered labor abuses in the preparations for the men's 2022 World Cup in Qatar. In an open letter sent to FIFA Pre...
In doing so, he is the youngest player to beat Carlsen since the superstar became world champion in 2013. Pragg moving a chess piece at a match between Ian Nepomniachtchi (left) and Magnus Carlsen (right) at the FIDE World Chess Championship at the EXPO 202...
Guwahati, India More than half a million people have fled their homes in India's northeastern state of Assam to escape heavy floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains that drowned seven, authorities said on Wednesday, as they warned the situation could worsen....
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...
(CNN) — Travelers have been waiting more than two years to get Down Under and now, at last, Australia is open to the world again. To help plan your journey, we've compiled a list of some of the country's most incredible experiences. World Expeditions/Great...
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...