The United States has determined that Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the African nation's 1994 genocide, has been "wrongfully detained," the State Department said on Thursday. Rusesabagina, 67, w...
Kigali, Rwanda Rwanda expects the first group of 50 asylum seekers to be transferred from Britain by the end of May, a government spokesperson has said . In April the British government announced plans to send people seeking asylum to the East African count...
(CNN) The global toll of sudden and unexplained hepatitis in children has risen to 621 cases from 34 countries, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in an update on Thursday. About half of those cases come from just two countries—the...
Hong Kong (CNN Business) China is buying record amounts of cheap Russian coal, even as Western nations slam Moscow with sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. China's coal imports from Russia nearly doubled between March and April, reaching 4.42 million me...
Gold Coast, Australia (CNN) Faye sits on a couch, her long hair twisted into a gray braid that comes down to her waist. At 72, the great-grandmother never thought she'd be here -- in a bare-walled flat in emergency accommodation on the Gold Coast of Austral...
(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...
The staff was told the day before that the Taliban have ordered female presenters to cover their faces on air. In the newsroom, headquartered in central Kabul, two presenters break down in tears in conversation with CNN. They are afraid of an educated woman...
(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...
The results of her extensive research on the community of 360 dolphins were published on Thursday. By observing the dolphins and studying the properties of the coral, Ziltener and her colleagues discovered that the dolphins appear to use the reef as a medic...
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...