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By Paula Hancocks, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Irony in its purest form. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan defected from the Ministry of Justice in 2013 joining the judicial

By Uriel Blanco, CNN (CNN) — Ana María Saavedra Caycedo lay under the rubble for hours reeling from arm injuries and a fractured pelvis. When she was finally pulled out, it was into a harsh new reality: one where she was the sole survivor of her immediate family. When the 7.4 magnitude earthquake shook western

By Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Hernán Flores says he remembers the shock he felt when a sudden blast rocked his fishing boat in the Pacific. “We heard the explosion – boom! It was the kind of blast that left my ears ringing. Right then, I felt blood running down me,” he recounted.

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — The family of Jason Arday, the Cambridge academic found dead on Friday after his resignation amid plagiarism allegations, described him as a “gentle man” who had faced “sustained abuse.” Arday, 41, was Cambridge University’s youngest ever Black professor and a celebrated public figure until last month, when he suffered

By Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — A quiet upheaval is unfolding in homes, schools, churches and workplaces across the United States, as families try to prepare for –– or avoid –– an encounter with immigration authorities. Some have left the United States after decades of building lives here. Others have considered giving up their unborn child

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — When Paul Biya won his first presidential election in Cameroon in 1984, Nformi Bime was 23 and still a student. Bime is now 65 and retired from teaching. Biya is 93 – and still president. Last year, he won a disputed eighth term that could keep him in office

By Lex Harvey, Masrur Jamaluddin, Hira Humayun, CNN Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) — Rescuers are digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Indonesia, searching for bodies and possible survivors following the deadly magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck the country Saturday, killing at least 53 people. More than 1,300 homes were damaged, more than two thirds

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Jason Arday, a former University of Cambridge professor, was found dead in London on Friday, just days after resigning over questions surrounding his career. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told CNN that a 41-year-old man was found unresponsive in Battersea, south London, and was later pronounced dead at

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN London (CNN) — A second train has derailed in southeast England in less than 24 hours, British Transport Police said on Friday, adding that its officers were attending the scene of the incident. The force said that “rear carriages of a train have derailed in an upright position” just after 2

By Pierre P Bairin, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — France’s top court on Friday struck down a bill that would have banned social media for children under 15, ruling that it was too broad and disproportionately infringed upon freedom of expression. The Constitutional Council ruled that the proposed bill could not prohibit minors from social

By Issy Ronald, Reagan Yip, CNN London (CNN) — Nigel Farage has comfortably won a special election that he triggered, meaning he will remain as a member of parliament after a contest that all the other major British parties boycotted, leaving his main opposition as a comedian dressed as a trash can. Farage, leader of

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — A jet engine fan blade on a Boeing 737 broke free and slammed into the side of the passenger cabin, breaking a window and leading to a man being partially sucked outside the aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report on Thursday. The July

By Clare Sebastian, CNN Paris (CNN) — Boris Nadezhdin struck a tired, yet still upbeat figure when we met on a blisteringly hot day in Paris. He’d been in France just over a week, still reeling from his hasty exit from Russia after a sudden summons from Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee on what he assumed

By Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — An oil spill from a stranded tanker off the coast of Oman now covers an estimated 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers), the environmental organization Greenpeace told CNN, prompting fears that a major ecological disaster could be unfolding in the Arabian Sea. The spill has spread to mainland

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Eighteen people were injured, including two seriously, after a passenger train derailed in southern England on Thursday, trapping passengers inside carriages that had toppled onto their sides. South East Coast Ambulance Service said two people “sustained serious injuries,” while a further 16 with “less serious injuries,” were taken

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A bomb attack in Crimea has reportedly killed a former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia in 2014 when Moscow annexed the peninsula. Russian authorities said a Russian military officer had been killed in a targeted attack in Sevastopol, Crimea’s biggest city, and that a woman has subsequently

By Zeena Saifi, Jeremy Diamond, Cyril Theophilos, CNN Qusra, West Bank (CNN) — Loui Ridi began building a home in his native town of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, for his two daughters. The girls grew up in Ohio, but family trips made them fall in love with their father’s Palestinian roots. “Can we

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half a year into the US-Iran war, global oil stockpiles are rapidly diminishing as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively stalled and the two powers at the center of the hostilities argue about who controls the critical waterway. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that

By Gage Goulding and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Two former Chinese military servicemen have been arrested in South Korea in separate cases of apparent espionage, involving alleged attempts to surveil South Korean military operations and US forces stationed in the country, police said. In one case, a man is accused of intercepting flight

By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — Emergency teams in Colombia are searching desperately for survivors of an earthquake that has killed at least 281 people as the crucial window for rescues drew to a close on Thursday, with the government still only accepting help from a handful of countries. Nearly 380 people are still missing,