Indonesian police used water cannons and tear gas on Tuesday to disperse protesters rallying against a new jobs law in two cities on the island of Java, according to a police spokesman and media reports.
India says it has successfully tested a missile armed with a torpedo that could in theory strike enemy submarines more than 400 miles (643 kilometers) away.
Instead of celebrating her milestone birthday with friends in a posh Airbnb in Cancun, Mexico, one American woman is hunkering down in a hurricane shelter.
Spectacular feats of water architecture, India's magnificent stepwells are predominantly found in the cities and villages of the country's northern and central states.
The Kremlin dismissed claims that Russian authorities use home searches as a "pressure tactic" against journalists and human rights activists, amid questions around the suicide last week of a local journalist.
The value of the dollar has taken a hit this year as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged America's economy. Conventional wisdom holds that a Biden presidency would drag the US currency down further. But there's nothing conventional about 2020 — some argue a Biden win would actually boost the dollar.
They're pristine, wild and extremely hot -- and not just because of the high temperature and the stunning volcanic landscape with constant little eruptions.
The number of unsafe interceptions between military jets from Russia and the US over the Black Sea has risen in recent months, but the US has vowed to continue operating in the region despite Russian provocations. CNN's Fred Pleitgen gains exclusive access inside one of their surveillance flights.
Russia, France and the United States have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.
Cape Town's reservoirs have topped 100% for the first time in six years, a magnificent change in the "Mother City" compared to its dire situation just two years ago.
For a while it seemed like they were friends. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former KGB spy, had managed to slowly pry away one of NATO's most awkward members -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The pair seemed always on the phone, Turkey was kicked out of the US-led F-35 program for buying Russia's S-400 air defense missile system, and Ankara seemed suddenly closer to Moscow than the Brussels-based alliance.
The brain cells of a young man who died almost 2,000 years ago in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been found intact by a team of researchers in Italy.
The alleged murder of a 19-year-old woman in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh has led to massive protests across the country. CNN's Vedika Sud reports.
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