In that lawsuit, a woman identified as "F" alleges she was touched against her will by Cardinal Marc Ouellet and forced to perform sex acts on another priest, Father Leopold Manirabarusha. "F" said she met Ouellet during dinner in 2008 while serving as an i...
(CNN) — Climbers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their ascents in real-time on Instagram, following a recent move by Tanzanian authorities to install high-speed internet around the mountain's slopes. Mount Kilimanjaro is in northern Tanzania an...
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) Nigeria's aviation ministry says it is "working hard" to release trapped funds to the Emirates airline after the carrier suspended flights to Nigeria beginning from next month. Emirates announced in a statement Thursday that it has put...
Hong Kong (CNN Business) The United States and Taiwan have officially agreed to launch negotiations on a new trade and investment pact, according to statements released by Washington and Taipei. The two unveiled the US-Taiwan Initiative of 21st Century Trad...
CNN —The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has suggested that racism is behind a lack of international attention being paid to the plight of civilians in Ethiopia’s war-shattered Tigray region. Calling it the “worst hum...
New Delhi CNN —A judge in southern India has ruled a woman wore “provocative” clothing, effectively dismissing her sexual assault complaint, causing public outcry in the country, where violence against women and girls make frequent headlines. The district c...
Currently, 1,000 Russians can apply for Finnish visas each day, but as of September 1 that number will drop to 500. The move comes after Estonia, another European Union nation that borders Russia, banned even Russians who already had visas from entering the...
Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the crisis-hit island nation last month amid mass protests, is expected to return to the country next week, according to a senior minister. Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told CN...
Thailand's health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that have largely decriminalized the drug. "We don't welcome those kinds of tourists," Anutin Charnvirakul...
CNN —Until a year ago, crossing the Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia was a slow and congested affair. Trucks cross the Kazungula Bridge. Traffic across the Zambezi River has increased significantly since it opened in 2021. Gertrude Kitongo/CNNThe b...
(CNN) An explosion erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others. Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief, told CNN that the blast did cause casua...
(CNN) Saudi women's rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison on Monday for her activity on Twitter, according to court documents viewed by CNN. Al-Shehab, 33, was also banned from traveling outside of Saudi Arabia for another 34...
New York (CNN Business) A spacewalk was cut short just a few hours into what was intended to be a nearly seven-hour spacewalk after a Russian cosmonaut was repeatedly ordered to drop what he was working on and return to the International Space Station's air...
(CNN) Local authorities in Scotland have come in for criticism after they appointed a man to the role of period dignity officer, responsible for coordinating the region's response to a new law that makes menstrual products free to access in the country. A g...
Berlin and Jerusalem (CNN) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas struck a deep nerve on Tuesday when he said Israel has caused "50 Holocausts" against Palestinians, triggering outrage from world leaders and a social media storm. "From 1947 to the pr...
(CNN) A US airstrike in Somalia over the weekend killed 13 members of the al-Shabaab terror group, US Africa Command said in a statement. The US carried out the strike on Sunday in support of the Somali military, which was under attack near Teedaan, Somalia...
CNN —The Syrian government on Wednesday denied it is holding or has any information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist who vanished a decade ago while reporting on the Middle Eastern nation’s civil war. The Syrian government has denie...
Hong Kong China's Tencent reported on Wednesday its first ever quarterly sales fall, hurt by a lack of game approvals and regulations that limit playing time, as well as Covid-19 lockdowns and a weak economy that squeezed ad sales. The contraction marks a n...
Annual consumer price inflation hit 10.1% in July, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday, up from 9.4% in June. Soaring food prices — up 12.7% since July 2021 — were the largest single contributor to the acceleration...
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) North Korea fired two cruise missiles early Wednesday morning from the coastal town of Onchon into waters off its west coast, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official. Military officials from South Korea and the United...