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President Donald Trump signed a short-term spending bill into law Friday night that does not include his requested $5.7 billion for a border wall.

In a plaza in Caracas, surrounded by supporters carrying flags and chanting for democracy, Juan Guaidó, a 35 year-old legislator from a coastal town in Venezuela swore to "to assume all the powers of the presidency to secure an end to the usurpation." The event was widely reported as "Guaidó declares himself President of Venezuela." This language, the idea that he "declared himself," suggests images of banana republics and of misguided attempts to claim foreign pieces of land for oneself or one's children a la Jeremiah Heaton and Princess Emily. This language misrepresents what happened in Venezuela on Wednesday. Guaidó did not "declare himself" president of the South American country. He assumed the presidency of Venezuela as constitutionally mandated.

The man who proclaimed himself acting Venezuelan president -- in open rebellion to President Nicolas Maduro's regime -- called on the nation's military Friday to work with him.

The men passed the link between them, sharing it over email and instant messages. It was to a public Dropbox folder, containing hundreds of nude and intimate images of women, mostly students at the Fiji campus of the University of the South Pacific.

At least 200 people were said to be missing Friday by firefighters after a dam burst at a Brazilian mine and caused severe flooding in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

"This used to be the greatest country on Earth, but we've lost the plot."

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has urged people to respect different points of view and seek "common ground," in comments widely interpreted as a reference to divisions over Brexit.

Air traffic is delayed at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Philadelphia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to staffing issues at a Federal Aviation Administration regional air traffic control center, according to the FAA status website.

In what may be the most significant diplomatic step in the Balkans since the end of the Bosnian war, a bitter, decades-long bilateral dispute has been put to rest in Europe Friday. After 27 years of mutual mistrust, a name deal has been sealed between Athens and Skopje.

The FBI has arrested longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone, his lawyer tells CNN.

Plastic straws and bags have received widespread attention as pollutants. But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar -- cigarette filters.

The indictment and arrest of longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone Friday morning in Florida fills in a big missing piece of the emerging picture that special counsel Robert Mueller is painting: The Trump campaign actively sought to communicate and coordinate with WikiLeaks in regard to stolen emails aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton's campaign.

I's h-a-r-d to survive very long in the Trump White House. The President is a hugely judgmental man who also happens to be incredibly mercurial; people he loves today may be people he hates -- or at least distrusts -- tomorrow. Like, literally.

It took three harrowing days for a search team to find Casey Hathaway alive.

CNN has exclusive footage showing FBI arrive at Roger Stone's Florida home to arrest him.

Combining the very best thoroughbreds horses with a touch of glitz and glamor, the Pegasus World Cup is an event like no other.

Picture the scene: rows of identikit, palatial turreted buildings, surrounded by rolling hills and woodland.

From colorful Parga and the stunning beaches of Sivota to the low-key port of Preveza, the Epirotic coast is dazzling.

The most expensive home in the country sold in New York for $238 million. Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin closed on the Manhattan property at 220 Central Park South on Wednesday his spokesperson said.

The setting for the Queen's comments were as homespun and genteel as could be imagined: Centenary celebrations of the Women's Institute, a quintessentially English organization whose branches share recipes for jam and baking. Yet what she said was of huge significance -- both for British politics and the Queen's constitutional role as monarch.

The sister of Emiliano Sala has pleaded with authorities to restart their search for the Argentine soccer player after it was abandoned Thursday.

There are times when working as a journalist provides a front-row seat to some of the most important events taking place on Earth. On the downhill slope to Brexit, Derry -- also known as Londonderry -- certainly fits the bill.

Indonesians this week got a taste of how far their outwardly secular President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, would go to buttress his reelection campaign against attacks from Islamic hardliners who don't see him as Muslim enough to lead.

Japan has upheld a law effectively requiring trans people seeking to legally change their gender to be sterilized.

The remains of Matthew Flinders, the British explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate Australia, have been found under a London train station, according to the company developing a major rail link.

If you have anything left on your bucket list, do it now, because the world is close to annihilation.

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was subpoenaed Thursday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-February, according to a source close to Cohen.

Italy has been ordered to pay compensation to Amanda Knox, an American former student who spent years under the cloud of a murder she didn't commit.

Alex Salmond, for years the leading face of the Scottish independence campaign, has been arrested and could appear in court later Thursday.

A 21-year-old allegedly shot five people dead Wednesday in a SunTrust bank in Sebring, Florida, then barricaded himself inside in what one official described as a "senseless criminal doing a senseless crime."

The search for a missing airplane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala was called off Thursday with police conceding that "the chances of survival at this stage are extremely remote."

His lower arms scarred from where he repeatedly cut himself, 23-year old Mahmoud recalls his daily drug habit.

Drug-resistant superbugs are as big a threat to the world as climate change or wars, Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned during a speech at Davos in which he unveiled a five-year action plan for the UK, and a 20-year vision, to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance by 2040.

The family of a woman who died in a speedboat accident in London while on a first date have spoken of their relief that the man responsible has been arrested.

Carlos Ghosn has quit as chairman and CEO of Renault, according to the French government.

Three years ago last week, the Iran nuclear deal came into effect, limiting the country's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. But in the wake of the Trump administration's withdrawal from the agreement, and with relations between the European Union and Iran declining sharply, there is growing doubt it will see its fourth birthday.

Microsoft's Bing search engine has run into trouble in China.

The first time 22-year-old Akiko Hirayama stepped on board a navy ship, she was transfixed by the hardware.

CNN's Ed Lavandera takes you inside underground tunnels that connect the US and Mexico, where drugs are smuggled beneath a border town working to root out and seal off the tunnels.

The US Navy sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, according to the US Pacific Fleet, which oversees operations in the area.

Remarks made by US President Donald Trump may have strengthened China's hand in fighting a US extradition request for detained Chinese telecoms executive Meng Wanzhou, according to Canada's top diplomat in Beijing.

Bring Back our Girls activist and former Nigerian minister Oby Ezekwesili has withdrawn her candidacy from next month's presidential elections, a statement on her website confirmed Thursday morning.

It had been hours since terrorists burst into a hotel complex in Kenya, and you could feel the desperation in the air.

Highlands County Commissioner Don Elwell said that multiple people have been shot in a "hostage situation" at a SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Florida.