Xi Jinping's unprecedented third term as China's president was officially rubber stamped by the country's political elite on Friday, solidifying his control and making him the longest-serving head of state of Communist China since its founding in 1949.

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Chinese state-owned defense firms have maintained trade relationships with sanctioned Russian defense companies during the past year, even as many of the world's leading economies cut ties with Moscow and the companies driving its continued assault on Ukraine.

Cheryl Orange traveled with her friends from South Carolina to Texas, but didn't cross the border into Mexico with them because she didn't have her ID. She recounts the moments that lead to their disappearance with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

A Taliban governor in northern Afghanistan has been killed by an explosion in his office, police officials have told CNN.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private Russian army Wagner Group, says he and his fighters have been pleading for more ammunition, but they have been "cut off" by Putin.

Jenna Ellis was censured by a disciplinary judge in Colorado Wednesday, in the latest effort to hold accountable attorneys who boosted former President Donald Trump's 2020 election reversal gambits.