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Russia acknowledged Thursday that it has military personnel in Venezuela, which is facing political turmoil and a humanitarian crisis, saying the deployment is legal and does not alter the delicate balance of power in the region.

On your 18th birthday, immigration officials will come for you, a lawyer explained. You will be shackled, you will be placed in an orange jumpsuit, and you will be taken to jail. "But I need you to know you are not a criminal."

Wednesday was always going to be historic.

Malta says its navy has seized control of a tanker ship hijacked by migrants in the Mediterranean, according to a government statement.

Taiwan wants to buy advanced new weaponry from the United States, the island's President Tsai Ing-wen said Wednesday.

It's the dawning of the age of ... something.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India has successfully conducted an anti-satellite missile test that put the country in a league of global "space powers."

An Ethiopian Airlines chief pilot takes CNN's Robyn Kriel on a tour of facilities, including simulators used for training pilots and working out safety measures.

Nissan has laid out sweeping allegations against Carlos Ghosn, blasting the "personality cult" surrounding the ousted chief and the corporate culture in which he was "deified within Nissan as a savior."

Even if you call yourself a "little monster," you probably don't know everything about Lady Gaga.

The ill feeling between Former FBI Director James Comey and the President who fired him burst back into the open in dueling interviews on Wednesday that followed the end of the Robert Mueller investigation.

Monica Lewinsky said Wednesday she wishes President Bill Clinton's attorney general treated the independent counsel's investigation into the Democrat's administration the same way Attorney General William Barr treated special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Top negotiators from the US and China will meet yet again in Beijing on Thursday and Friday, in the latest attempt by the world's two largest economies to hammer out a trade deal.

None of the eight options that British lawmakers voted on previously got majority support from MPs. Conservative lawmaker Oliver Letwin, the architect of the plan to hold the votes, immediately proposed further voting on April 1, 2019.

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says she's capable of winning the White House in 2020. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to "get out" of Venezuela following recent reports of Russian planes arriving in the country.

Facebook announced Wednesday that it would ban all "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism."

The trial of 11 female Saudi activists resumed in Riyadh on Wednesday, in a case that has been criticized by rights groups and drawn international condemnation.

France is famed for the historic chateaus that dot its countryside, but when one man built his very own Renaissance-style mansion in a beautiful corner of the south coast, he caused something of a stir.

A Spanish judge has named a Mexican activist and vocal critic of Kim Jong Un as the leader of the audacious raid on the North Korean Embassy in Madrid in February.

The gunman accused of carrying out Christchurch's deadly attacks had financial links to Austria's far-right movement, officials told CNN Wednesday as Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he was looking into dissolving the nationalist group.

A shadowy North Korean dissident group claimed responsibility for last month's raid on Pyongyang's embassy in the Spanish capital, Madrid on Tuesday but disputed allegations that what occurred at the diplomatic compound was an "attack" involving armed intruders.

A law professor at a prestigious Chinese university in Beijing has been suspended and put under investigation for writing a rare essay critical of President Xi Jinping.

Pro-democracy parties battling to block the military's return to power after Thailand's first election since a 2014 coup said Wednesday they have secured enough seats to form a government.

A huge mural in downtown Hodeidah shows a cow with the horned head of King Salman of Saudi Arabia. At the other end of the beast, US President Donald Trump tugs on its udders -- filling golden pails.

European Union leaders sat down last week for what was supposed to be a summit meeting to discuss China, perhaps the biggest external economic and diplomatic challenge currently facing the EU.

President Donald Trump's vague platitudes about "beautiful" and "very special" health care for everybody are not going to cut it in his 2020 re-election race -- after he was left exposed on the most urgent issue in American politics.

President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, just 36 hours removed from one of the best moments of his presidency: Attorney General Bill Barr announcing -- via a letter to Congress -- that special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish any conspiracy or coordination between the President's 2016 campaign and the Russian government.

All charges against Jussie Smollett -- the actor who'd been accused of staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago -- were dropped Tuesday, a development that his attorneys hailed as vindication but angered top city officials who still are calling his victimhood claim a hoax.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and called on Russia "to cease its unconstructive behavior" in Venezuela, State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said in a statement. CNN's Paula Newton reports.

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Yale University has rescinded the admission of a student who was admitted as part of the ongoing college admissions scandal, the first instance of a school doing so since the scheme became public two weeks ago. CNN's Brynn Gingras reports.

Europe has approved a sweeping overhaul of copyright rules, dealing a blow to major tech companies that argued the changes will be costly and limit free expression.

Algeria's army chief has demanded the country's ailing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, step down following months of mass protest calling for his removal.

Flight simulations recreating the problems suspected to be responsible for the crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane last year gave pilots under 40 seconds to override a malfunctioning system, according to a report in the New York Times.

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has announced his retirement from the sport, posting the news on Twitter.