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A US destroyer sailed near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Wednesday, the US Navy's 7th Fleet announced, days after China imposed new maritime identification rules that include the disputed body of water.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy about withdrawal from Afghanistan and what he thinks America's role in the world should be.

A trial of unprecedented scale starts under high security on Wednesday to judge 20 men suspected of involvement in a jihadist rampage across Paris on November 13, 2015, the deadliest attack in peacetime France.

A pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort to exploit divisions over the Covid-19 pandemic and "physically mobilize protestors in the US in response," according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant and experts at Google.

Tennessee parent Michael Miller, who was harassed outside of a school board meeting after supporting a temporary order that requires children to wear masks, says his son has tested positive for Covid-19 after sending his child back to school in person.

Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died in an accident during training exercises in the Arctic, Russian state media RIA Novosti reported Wednesday, citing the ministry.

A turtle heading into the sea, a volcanic eruption and a spectacular sunset feature among the winners of the Drone Photo Awards 2021.

El Salvador's "Bitcoin Day" did not go especially well.

President Joe Biden has a new and aggressive sales pitch for the ambitious domestic agenda that would define his place in history.

A powerful earthquake has struck the southwest of Mexico late Tuesday.

The president of the UN climate change conference insisted Tuesday that the event scheduled for November in Glasgow "must go ahead in person," after a network of 1,500 civil society groups called for the negotiations to be postponed.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday slammed Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's "deep ignorance" on abortion after he defended the state's new six-week abortion ban earlier in the day.

Even for a powerful authoritarian state, the speed and extent to which the Communist Party is expanding its reach into private lives in China has caught many off guard.

Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick as Norway cruised past Gibraltar 5-1 in the side's FIFA World Cup qualifier, while Memphis Depay also scored three in the Netherlands' 6-1 thrashing of Turkey.

The 30,000 aluminum tins were supposed to show up in a 20-foot shipping container in July. Months later, they haven't arrived — and SJ Hunt, the co-founder of Lavolio, a boutique confectionery in London, is starting to panic.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- the only person in California history to win a gubernatorial race in a recall election -- is aggressively neutral on the one coming up on September 14.

It's Spain's Mediterranean escape, a place that for decades has been the go-to spot for jet setters, party lovers and package vacationers keen to let their hair down and enjoy sun, sea and sand in abundance.

Security forces shattered the early morning calm of the lakeside Soviet-era resort outside the Belarusian capital of Minsk, bursting in to arrest 32 Russian mercenaries.

Former high-ranking Ukrainian military intelligence officials described exclusively to CNN how they orchestrated the operation aimed at luring suspected war criminals out of Russia to face prosecution for atrocities allegedly committed in eastern Ukraine where separatists backed by Moscow have been fighting for years. CNN's Matthew Chance reports on how the mission was foiled.

Unseeded teenager Leylah Fernandez continued her stunning run at the US Open with victory over Elina Svitolina to reach the semifinals.

Four activists from the Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organizes the city's annual Tiananmen Square vigil were arrested early Wednesday morning, after the group refused to comply with a police order to submit information on national security grounds.

Two Royal Navy patrol ships left the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a five-year deployment that will see them act as "the eyes and ears" of Britain from the west coast of Africa, to the west coast of the United States, according to a British Defense Ministry statement.

Britney Spears' fight to end her court-ordered conservatorship took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when her father and the conservator of her estate, Jamie Spears, filed a petition to end the arrangement.

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for advocates of women's health and human rights in the majority Roman Catholic nation.

Former high-ranking Ukrainian military intelligence officials described exclusively to CNN how they orchestrated the operation aimed at luring suspected war criminals out of Russia to face prosecution for atrocities committed in eastern Ukraine where separatists backed by Moscow have been fighting for years. CNN's Matthew Chance reports on how the mission was foiled.

Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, said he was briefly detained and questioned by Brazilian authorities in the country's capital on Tuesday.

It's a volatile day for bitcoin, which briefly fell by about 10% Tuesday — below the $43,000 mark.

Police in Louisiana say a man pretended to get hit by a Tesla before calling the cops and claiming he was injured. But the car caught the incident on camera.

Two tropical islands half a world apart and popular with tourists -- Jamaica in the Caribbean and Sri Lanka in South Asia -- are now among the highest-risk destinations for travelers.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill that bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots and empowers partisan poll watchers.

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pushed through police barriers to advance towards Congress in Brasilia on Monday night, the eve of a day of planned demonstrations to back the far-right leader in his dispute with the judiciary.

At a time when many investors are content to follow the crowd and buy top techs like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, Cathie Wood is looking for the next big innovators in buzzy fields like robotics, fintech and space exploration.

​​"Abiy, Abiy," the crowd chanted, waving Ethiopia's tricolor flag and cheering as the country's new prime minister, dressed in a white blazer with gold trim and smiling broadly, waved to a packed basketball arena at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, part of a whirlwind three-city tour of the United States to woo the diaspora.

Shelby Rogers said she was expecting to receive "nine million death threats" on social media following her fourth round US Open defeat to Great Britain's Emma Raducanu.

President Joe Biden must define the politics of this fall before they define him, as he seeks to re-establish the authority of an administration that often appeared overtaken by a relentless summer of challenges.

Singapore has warned it may need to reimpose Covid-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is not contained, putting at risk the city's shift towards living with the virus.

The media company behind the now-shuttered Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily is shutting down after its entire board resigned, citing "a climate of fear" over the city's controversial national security law.

Afghan Air Force pilots and their aircraft flee Afghanistan in advance of the Taliban. CNN's Alex Marquardt reports on their harrowing escape.

El Salvador's highest court has ruled that the country's president can serve two consecutive terms in office, paving the way for current president Nayib Bukele to run for re-election in 2024.

A statue of Christopher Columbus that was removed last year from its position along Mexico City's main thoroughfare won't be returned to its former spot, city officials said.

Brazilian football hero Pelé underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his right colon last Saturday, he announced on social media on Monday.

The Taliban murdered a pregnant policewoman in front of her family on Saturday night, according to her son. Her death, in the central Afghanistan province of Ghor, adds to mounting concerns about the repression of women under the Taliban's rule.

CNN's David Culver reports on China's new effort to promote conspiracy theories falsely claiming Covid-19 originated in the US.

The German Ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died suddenly at 54, after only a few weeks in his position, according to a statement posted on the German Embassy to China's website on Monday.