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President Joe Biden said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday of consequences if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were to die in prison, though he declined to specify which actions he would take."I made it clear to him…
ABC News reporter Rachel Scott on Wednesday confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about his crackdown on political opponents."The list of your political opponents who are dead, imprisoned, or jailed is long ... and you have now prevented anyone who supports…
A physical altercation broke out Wednesday at the start of President Joe Biden's first summit with his Russian counterpart as reporters from each country shoved each other, and security, in their attempts to access the sole joint photo-op of the…
A rocket carrying three veteran astronauts bound for China's orbiting space station module will launch from the Gobi Desert in the country's north in just over 24 hours, China's space agency announced Wednesday.The three men, Nie Haisheng, 56, Liu Boming,…
The United Kingdom's first new trade deal since Brexit is a sobering reminder of the mammoth task it faces as it seeks to compensate for losing the economic benefits of EU membership.The deal announced Tuesday with Australia is the first…
Fatouma was at home with her children in the town of Bambari when the firing began, on the afternoon of February 15.Terrified, she gathered them up and fled to the nearby mosque, thinking it would be a safe refuge in…
There is a mystique that surrounds any meeting between the Queen of England and a President of the United States.She may be a descendant of King George III, the principal raison d'etre for America's creation, and he the living embodiment…
President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a bilateral meeting on Monday following a meeting of NATO leaders in Brussels. The meeting, which took place at the NATO headquarters in Belgium, was expected to be contentious. Biden…
Nicaragua's already fragile democracy is quickly backsliding into a dictatorship.President Daniel Ortega has spent the last week using the undisputed power of the country's police and courts to crack down on his political opposition with brutal efficiency.At least 13 opposition…
The US government has spent the past week assessing a report of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company that part owns and helps operate it warned of an "imminent radiological threat," according to US…
Public awareness campaigns launched by governments are usually anodyne affairs. Not in Germany, where officials have managed to spark a number of controversies during the pandemic in their push to keep the public safe.From spending millions on videos deemed insensitive,…
Dr. Satyendra Kumar Tiwary thinks of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as superhuman. A leader like Modi comes along "once in 2,500 years," he says, and should be remembered among the greats in India's history, like Mahatma Gandhi, and even…
The mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin has asked residents in the Russian capital to stay home in the coming week, declaring it a "non-working" week, to try and curb the spread of Covid-19."Over the past week, the situation with the…
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first formal in-person meeting on Saturday.The two leaders discussed a number of issues, ranging from global health security efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic across the globe, inequities stemming…
The things that fascinate us most tend to be wonders we have never seen up close.It's our natural response to be curious, to question what it must be like to fly by Jupiter and its moons or live among dinosaurs.Dinosaur…
The Copa America, South America's premier football competition, due to kick off June 13 in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, is triggering a wave of strong reactions for a sporting event.The tournament was originally to be joint-hosted by Argentina and…
US Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that the United States needed to fight back against the "extraterritorial reach" of the Chinese government to better protect Uyghurs around the world, citing a CNN investigation into the alleged deportation of Uyghurs from…
A version of this story appeared in the June 11 edition of CNN's Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on the royal family, what they are up to in public and what's happening behind palace walls.…
Three men wearing white hazmat suits carry a dark blue body bag into the back of an ambulance parked next to a soccer field in Uganda's main stadium -- the latest victim of the virulent second wave of Covid-19 that…
Carrie Johnson, the new wife of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has taken her first step onto the global stage as she welcomed United States President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to Cornwall, southwest England.Her debut as Britain's…
