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CNN By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey. Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities or missing persons, officials said. Various homes, roads, hotels, government buildings, businesses and churches have

By Eyad Kourdi, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The alleged Flydubai hijacker had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and was inspired by the 9/11 attacks, a preliminary investigation has found. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on board last week’s flight from Dubai to

By Issy Ronald, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark trial of Nazi leaders almost 80 years ago laid the foundations for modern international law. As her colleagues in

By Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — In a damning interview, a former senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the Israeli leader was warned internally of the potential for war ahead of the October 7 attacks and that there remain “enormous gaps” between what the public knows and what really happened.

By Kathleen Magramo, Barbie Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Masked thieves broke into a warehouse in Cortona, Italy and made off with around 30,000 bottles of wine from the prestigious Marchesi Antinori vineyard worth more than $5 million, in what the company says could rank among the largest wine thefts ever reported. The thieves disarmed the

By Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russian pro-Kremlin military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Rybar Telegram channel, was detained in Montenegro on Friday along with several associates, Montenegrin authorities said, before being ordered to leave the country. Rybar, which British and US authorities have accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, has

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Singapore, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, has become the most polluted on the planet as it chokes under a blanket of thick, toxic smog caused by fires in neighboring Indonesia. Pollution has cast a pall on the city-state as it gets ready to host a packed

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a new survey on one of the African nation’s most remote islands. The survey, led by the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter in the UK,

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — China’s military has opened a new outpost on a site in northwestern Laos which was once a Vietnam-era CIA airfield. The base, about 40 miles north of the capital Vientiane and just 25 miles from the nearest border with Thailand, comprises the China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center at