At least three people have been killed and dozens injured in violent clashes that erupted in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone after Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his withdrawal from political life, medical sources told CNN. CNN's Ben Wedeman shares what happened when protesters took over Iraq's Republican Palace.

French football player Paul Pogba's claim that he is being extorted is being investigated by French police, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed to CNN on Monday.

Things were starting to look up for investors. After stocks got clobbered in the first half of the year, they started to stage a comeback, with all major indexes rising for much of June, July and August.

The power supply from the Russian-controlled nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, is now back online and reconnected to the country's power grid. The plant lost connection on Thursday after fires damaged a key power line. CNN's Sam Kiley has the details.

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Soaring inflation has made almost everything more expensive. And it has significantly increased the cost of one major budget buster -- raising kids.

Pakistan is racing to prevent further loss of life as it reels from one of its worst climate disasters with floodwater threatening to cover up to a third of the country of 220 million people by the end of the monsoon season.

Six months after invading Ukraine, Russia is bogged down in a war of attrition it didn't anticipate but it is having success on another front — its oil-dependent economy is in a deep recession but proving far more resilient than expected.