North Korea has opened new luxury hotels near the Chinese border. But with foreign tourism still tightly restricted, questions remain over who is actually staying in them. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
North Korea has opened new luxury hotels near the Chinese border. But with foreign tourism still tightly restricted, questions remain over who is actually staying in them. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
Political and climate activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for protesting in support of hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom.
China is developing a controversial hydropower system in a remote region of the Himalayas. Beijing has been tight-lipped on details of what it has called a "project of the century.” CNN's Simone McCarthy breaks down how the plan might take shape.
The Vatican’s Christmas Nativity scenes go beyond tradition, aiming to convey a present-day message of Christmas. The main display in St. Peter’s Square is joined by more than 100 Nativity scenes from countries around the world, as the Vatican prepares for Pope Leo’s first Christmas since his election. CNN's Christopher Lamb reports.
Protests erupted in Albania after weeks of tensions over corruption allegations against the deputy of the country's Prime Minister Belinda Balluku and other officials. This comes after opposition lawmakers scuffled with police inside the Albanian parliament on Thursday, Reuters reports.
Former neighbors paint a mixed portrait of Claudio Neves Valente, whose motives remain a mystery more than a week after police say the suspected shooter killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor, portraying a “very bright” but reclusive young man who was estranged from his family. CNN's Duarte Mendonça reports.
In the frigid forests of the Arctic Circle, not far from the border with Russia, CNN's Isobel Yeung sees how Finnish border guards are training for the threat of war. Stream the full story on the CNN app.
A new mural by elusive British street artist Banksy appeared Monday in London, depicting two children in winter hats lying on the ground.
Russian Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who ran the armed forces operational training department, died after an explosive device installed under the chassis of a car exploded on Monday, Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement.
