
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.

A blast at the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb mosque in Homs, Syria, killed at least eight people, injuring more than a dozen, according to the country's health ministry. A group called Ansar al-Sunnah claimed responsibility for the attack, but Syrian officials have not publicly confirmed their claim.

An Israeli reservist soldier ran over a Palestinian man while he was praying in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Israeli military and CNN’s review of the footage, hours after the soldier fired gunshots in the area.

Ukraine has developed an armored ground drone that helped save an injured Ukrainian soldier who had spent 33 days in hiding in no man’s land.

Pope Leo called for peace during his first Christmas celebration since becoming pontiff, encouraging the crowds in Vatican City to remember those suffering in Gaza whilst also calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine and other global conflicts. CNN Vatican Correspondent Christopher Lamb reports.

The city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank is buzzing with Christmas festivities for the first time in three years as Palestinians express cautious optimism amid the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.

As Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25, Ukrainian men are fleeing the fighting. CNN's chief international correspondent travels to Romania, where many of the men risk their lives in the rugged hills of the Carpathian mountains to escape the country.

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.


