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Facebook Tweet Email Link When Bosnia’s electoral authorities stripped Milorad Dodik of his post as president of the tiny Serb-majority statelet Republika Srpska, he did his best to appear unfazed. Instead, the divisive, genocide-denying nationalist laid down his own challenge to the institutions trying to topple him. “What if I refuse?” he asked. Bosnia may be about to find out. Dodik, a key Balkan ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been in and around power in Bosnia since 2006, picking at the seams of the country’s patchwork multiethnic state. That state was birthed in 1995 by the Dayton Peace…

A CDC employee told CNN he was driving home from work when he saw a man approach the steps of a building at the agency’s campus, put a backpack down and shoot at the building. The shooting was “certainly targeted” at the CDC, the employee said. The gunman seemed to be shooting at CDC’s Building 21, according to the employee, who said he first thought the man was pulling fishing gear from his backpack. The employee said he thinks he saw the shooter pull two rifles from the bag. He heard at least six or seven shots and called 911…

Welcome to our coverage of developments in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated Kyiv’s opposition to any proposal that would demand it give up territory to Russia, ahead of a summit in Alaska next week between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. In a video statement distributed by the Ukrainian presidency Saturday, Zelensky said the meeting between the US and Russian presidents a on Friday would be “very far from this war which is continuing on our land, against our people and which can’t end without us, without Ukraine.” According to US officials, Putin has offered to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Even though President Donald Trump often argues the US economy is booming under his watch, he warned Friday of a 1929-style crash if courts strike down his use of emergency powers to justify sweeping tariffs. “If a Radical Left Court ruled against us at this late date, in an attempt to bring down or disturb the largest amount of money, wealth creation and influence the U.S.A. has ever seen, it would be impossible to ever recover, or pay back, these massive sums of money and honor,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “It would be…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. In our roundup of travel news this week: the secret tunnel city underneath Rome, China’s “8D city” where trains pass through walls, plus a new report reveals the world’s busiest flight routes, biggest aviation markets and most popular planes. Isn’t data just delicious? The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 2024 World Air Transport Statistics report, and it’s filled with fascinating nuggets. Here are a few to wow…

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  The global gold market has been thrown into fresh turmoil after a US government agency indicated that bullion would not be exempt from tariffs. Imports of one kilo and 100-ounce gold bars are subject to reciprocal tariffs, according to a July 31 Customs and Border Protection letter reviewed by CNN. The revelation perplexed Wall Street traders, who had expected bullion to be exempt from duties. A tariff on gold would hike the cost of importing the metal into the United States, throwing a costly wrench into a global supply chain that flows between…

CNN  —  When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with intelligent robots and holograms. But there’s a more mundane side of Japan that you won’t find anywhere in these cyberpunk films. It involves fax machines, floppy disks and personalized ink stamps – relics that have long died out in other advanced nations but have stubbornly persisted in Japan. For everyday residents, the lag in digital technology and the ensuing bureaucracy is at best inconvenient, and…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Employees at the top US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were winding down their Friday when bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over their cubicle walls. Across the street from the CDC campus, a gunman — possibly motivated by a hatred of vaccines — had opened fire on the agency’s buildings, bringing panic to the upscale Atlanta neighborhood and the sprawling, open-access campus of Emory University that is adjacent to it. “Active shooter on Emory Atlanta Campus at Emory Point CVS. RUN, HIDE, FIGHT. Avoid the area. Continue shelter…

Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE:  Watch the three-part CNN Original Series “American Prince: JFK Jr.” premiering August 9 at 9 p.m, ET/PT and running the following two Saturday nights. John F. Kennedy Jr. was born into the Kennedy political dynasty in the early 1960’s just after his father was elected president of the United States of America. Now 26 years after his death, his life is embedded into politics and culture. “JFK Jr. was harnessing his celebrity into something meaningful, and most people don’t bother to do that,” Tabitha Soren, a former MTV News correspondent, said. Here are five…

When Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Alaska next week to meet with President Donald Trump, he will be able do so with confidence that he won’t be arrested. That’s because while Putin is subject to an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued in 2023, neither Russia nor the US are signatories to the Rome Statute, which set up the court in 2002. The ICC charged that the Russian leader was “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of (children)” from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. The Kremlin labeled the court’s actions as “outrageous…