The UK government has insisted a controversial plan aimed at blocking undocumented migrants from entering the country on small boats is legal, despite criticism from the United Nations and other global bodies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invites House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine to see the situation on the ground firsthand -- an invitation that comes as the Republican Party faces a divide over whether the United States should continue to provide aid to the country under attack from ...

Ukraine has denied any involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines following a media report citing new intelligence that a "pro-Ukrainian group" may have been behind last year's attack targeting Russia's gas deliveries to Europe.

Protests erupted in Tbilisi on Tuesday after Georgia's parliament passed the first reading of a controversial draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents." Rights groups have criticized the law as curtailing basic freedoms in the country.

The US is planning to relax Covid-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday, a source familiar told CNN Tuesday, citing a decline in Covid cases, hospitalizations, and deaths and more data surrounding the variants that were circulating in China.

China's new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that "conflict and confrontation" with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role.

China's leader Xi Jinping hit out at the United States with unusually direct comments as he called on the country's private companies to "fight" alongside the Communist Party at a time of mounting challenges at home and abroad.

Parts of Asia's largest cities could be under water by 2100 thanks to rising sea levels, according to a new study that combines both the impact of climate change with natural oceanic fluctuations.

New video purportedly shows a Russian soldier saying he is refusing to obey orders after his unit suffered heavy casualties on the front lines in Ukraine.

The two Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico and found dead have been identified as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, a US official familiar with the ongoing investigation tells CNN. The two survivors have been identified as Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams, according to ...

CNN's Selina Wang discusses the restrictions that journalists face at China's annual parliamentary meeting.

Two of the four Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico have been found dead, according to Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal Anaya. One of the two survivors has injuries, he said.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports on the standoff between Yevgeny Prigozhin of Wagner and the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Young Afghan women gathered outside Kabul University on Monday to protest the ruling Taliban's ban on female education as their male peers returned to school for a new academic year and the United Nations heard the restriction may amount to a crime against humanity.