By Ivana Kottasová, CNN

(CNN) — Finland has detained a ship after a critical undersea telecommunication cable running between the country and Estonia was damaged Wednesday, Finnish authorities said.

Finnish police said in a statement that the vessel suspected of causing the damage was found with its anchor chain lowered into the sea in Finland’s waters, while the damage site itself was in Estonia’s waters.

Incidents like this have become more frequent in recent years, raising suspicions they are the result of sabotage and prompting NATO to launch a project earlier this year specifically aimed at strengthening the protection of critical undersea infrastructure.

Finnish police did not identify the vessel publicly, but said that Finnish authorities have instructed it to stop and raise the anchor, and then took control of it.

The cable runs between the Finnish capital Helsinki and the Estonian capital Talinn. While the extend of the damage was not immediately clear, the incident was serious enough to cause faults that were detected by the Finnish telecommunications provider Elisa, which operates the link.

The police said they were investigating the incident as aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage, and aggravated interference with telecommunications.

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Por Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español

América Latina termina otro año convulso que incluyó —entre otras cosas— elecciones, cambios de gobierno, juicios a expresidentes, numerosas protestas sociales y tensiones entre países. Pero frente a todo esto, la región también tuvo figuras y momentos que la hicieron sonreír, así como recordar lo que sus habitantes son capaces de lograr.

Esta es una selección de algunas alegrías que nos dejó 2025.

El 8 de mayo, Robert Prevost fue elegido como nuevo papa tras la muerte del argentino Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francisco, quien había encabezado la Iglesia católica desde 2013.

Prevost tomó el nombre de León XIV y, aunque nació en Estados Unidos, también tiene nacionalidad peruana. El pontífice vivió durante más de 20 años en Perú, donde trabajó en Trujillo y Chiclayo. De hecho, fue obispo de esta última ciudad, a la cual dedicó unas palabras en español durante su primer mensaje en el Vaticano.

“Y si me permiten también una palabra, un saludo a todos aquellos y en modo particular a mi querida Diócesis de Chiclayo en el Perú, donde un pueblo fiel ha acompañado a su obispo, ha compartido su fe y ha dado tanto, tanto para seguir siendo Iglesia fiel de Jesucristo”, dijo.

La elección de Prevost como nuevo papa generó alegría en Chiclayo, donde algunos de sus habitantes dijeron a CNN que tuvieron una grata sorpresa con el nombramiento y recordaron que, durante su período como obispo, el pontífice buscó ser alguien cercano a la gente.

El cantante puertorriqueño Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, mejor conocido como Bad Bunny, tuvo un 2025 redondo.

Martínez lanzó su más reciente disco, “Debí tirar más fotos”, con el que en julio inició una residencia en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico que se extendió por una treintena de conciertos. Después, comenzó una gira mundial que ya lo llevó a República Dominicana, Costa Rica y México, y que para 2026 lo llevará a otros países de América Latina, así como a Europa, Japón y Australia. Además, en noviembre ganó cinco Latin Grammy, incluido el de álbum del año.

A todo esto se suma el campanazo que dio en septiembre, cuando se dio a conocer que encabezará el espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Bowl, uno de los espectáculos de mayor audiencia en Estados Unidos. Para algunos analistas consultados por CNN, que Bad Bunny esté en ese foro será una estampa significativa en momentos en que los latinos enfrentan duras políticas migratorias y discriminación por parte del Gobierno de Donald Trump.

“Tener una voz orgullosa en español, una voz que representa a todos los latinos, es tan importante, es tan poderoso. Le da a toda la comunidad el sentimiento de que todos tenemos un momento para sentir que ganamos. En un momento en que muchos se sienten muy abajo, esto se siente como un logro colectivo”, dijo Vanessa Díaz, profesora de Estudios Latinos en la Universidad Loyola Marymount, en una entrevista realizada en octubre.

El 19 de septiembre, la astrónoma mexicana Julieta Fierro murió a los 77 años. Su muerte causó tristeza, pero también numerosos mensajes que reconocieron su constante labor como investigadora y divulgadora de la ciencia en salones de clase, conferencias y espacios en medios de comunicación.

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Happy New Year's Eve! We begin the morning with light showers for most of the area and some breezy winds. Have a jacket and umbrella ready as the heavier showers appear into the afternoon. The low pressure system associated with this storm will meander into the coverage zone after lunch bringing stronger winds and moderate rain. A Wind Advisory goes into effect for the entire area from 4pm through Thursday. Gusts will near 45mph and may knock down palm fronds and decorations. A Flood Watch is in effect for the entire area starting this evening and lasting through Thursday. Some areas are at risk for mudslides, rockslides and localized flooding. The strongest set of showers move through overnight, right in time for your New Year's Eve plans. Rainfall rates will be high and areas most impacts will be Santa Barbara South Coast and Ventura. Highs rise into the 60s and 70s.

Heavy rain and intense showers end by Thursday morning. The first day of 2026 will start out strange as one system dissipates and the next moves into the area. Expect some on and off lingering showers, overcast skies and it may feel a little muggy. Expect a slight cooling trend from the days prior, most areas rising into the 60s.

The next strom arrives Friday. This is an entirely different set of showers and you may notice a sharp difference. Where the first storm was rather warm and brought lighter to moderate rain this system will be cold and less impactful. Our temperatures will drop dramatically and winds will be additionally strong. This system falls apart by the time it digs to the south and will bring some scattered showers and thunderstorms. Rain chances hold through the first weekend of the new year.

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By Billy Stockwell, CNN

London (CNN) — Britain’s Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about how she had to “fight back” after being assaulted by a stranger on a train when she was a teenager.

“When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train,” Camilla told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program, aired Wednesday. “I’d sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time being so angry.”

“(It was) somebody I didn’t know. I was reading my book, and this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back,” she said.

After getting off the train, Camilla revealed how her mother had asked why her hair was “standing on end” and why a button was missing from her coat, pointing to the assault’s physical nature.

The identity of the attacker is not known, but Camilla said he was “probably not a great deal older than me,” even though at the time she thought he was an “old man.”

She said the memory of the attack has been “lurking in the back of my brain for a very long time.”

The Queen disclosed the incident in a radio discussion about violence against women, alongside BBC commentator John Hunt, whose wife, Carol, and two daughters, Louise and Hannah, were killed by Louise’s ex-partner. The couple’s surviving daughter, Amy, also joined the discussion.

Details of the train attack were previously included in an excerpt from the book “Power and the Palace,” released earlier this year by Valentine Low, a former royal correspondent for The Times of London newspaper.

The book included additional details about the incident, as told to Low by Guto Harri, who was communications director for former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his time as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.

“She was on a train going to Paddington – she was about 16, 17 – and some guy was moving his hand further and further,” Harri told Low in the book, recounting a story Camilla had reportedly told Johnson at Clarence House.

At that point, Johnson asked what happened next, Harri told Low. According to Harri, Camilla replied: “I did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.”

“She was self-possessed enough when they arrived at Paddington to jump off the train, find a guy in uniform and say, ‘That man just attacked me’, and he was arrested,” Harri continued.

Buckingham Palace did not release an official statement at the time of the book’s release.

Camilla, who became Queen in 2022, has made it her mission to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. Last year, she teamed up with an all-female production crew in a powerful documentary in which she vowed to keep on working to eradicate domestic abuse.

CNN’s Jack Guy contributed to this report.

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By Jeff Winter, CNN

(CNN) — When Greg Pryer served in the Marine Corps three decades ago and then worked as a New York City police officer who experienced the trauma of September 11, alcohol was his go-to coping mechanism.

After retiring from the NYPD in 2015, his drinking habit only worsened, he said. Without the job, he had no structure or direction, just time, memories and the bottle.

“I went from being a veteran and being in law enforcement, over 20 years of really having an obvious purpose, and retirement somewhat stripped me of my identity,” said Pryer, who retired as a sergeant. “All I had, in a way, was my alcohol to deal with it.”

With liquor running his life, Pryer was arrested in 2019 on weapons and driving while intoxicated charges, and again in 2022 on similar weapons charges, in New York’s Suffolk County, on Long Island. He had been in courtrooms plenty of times as a cop. Being in one as a defendant was a difficult reality to accept.

Because of his military service, Pryer was eligible to have his cases transferred to the Suffolk County Veterans Treatment Court. A specialized part of the local court system, vets court helps troubled service members get into drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs and mental health counseling in lieu of doing jail time. Veterans who complete their court-monitored treatments can have their sentences reduced, or charges dropped.

“Yes, it’ll help out your legal situation, but it’s also a chance to work on yourself, whatever that underlying issue that brought you into the legal system to begin with,” Pryer said. “It’s really a blessing that the court picked me up.”

For 15 years, hundreds of struggling vets like Pryer have received a lifeline through Suffolk’s veterans treatment court, run by those who served just like they did. Today, nearly 750 similar programs are found in 49 states, according to Department of Veterans Affairs data.

Like so many fellow veterans, Pryer was not aware of the treatment court’s existence until he wound up in the criminal justice system.

“I had to learn the hard way,” Pryer said.

The judge doesn’t wear a robe

The country’s first specialized court for vets started in 2008 in Buffalo, New York. Two years later, Judge John Toomey, a Vietnam War combat veteran, worked with the Suffolk district attorney’s office, the local VA health care system and a small group of volunteers known as the Green Jackets to create the Suffolk County Veterans Treatment Court.

The idea was so new it had no set guidelines or rules, providing Toomey and company freedom to develop their operation from scratch. Toomey, a two-time recipient of the Bronze Star, set a casual tone: He didn’t wear a robe on the bench, knew veteran defendants by name, and talked with their families about life at home. He even gave out his phone number.

“You had to put your trust that this is going to work out, and that this (person) is going to do the right thing,” Toomey said.

It worked because the veterans in the program wanted to get better. Toomey said they could have gone through the regular court system, served a few months of jail time and gone right back to what they were doing before their arrest.

The court accepts vets arrested for a gamut of crimes, including driving while intoxicated, misdemeanor and felony drug charges, robbery and criminal possession of weapons.

“They made the decision they want to turn their lives around. They’re sick of what’s going on,” Toomey said. “It gives you an advantage in helping them.”

To ensure accountability, the DA’s office developed a screening process to evaluate eligibl