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By Jomana Karadsheh, Tamara Qiblawi and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Nearly a month after the start of nationwide protests, parts of Iran now bear the hallmarks of battle zones, with flares lighting up skies, gunfire ringing out and bloody scenes recorded in video footage. “I am recording this video about the situation in Sanandaj,” said one

By Olga Voitovych and Alex Hardie, CNN Ukraine’s government has appealed to people to reduce their electricity consumption to avoid blackouts as Russian missiles target the country’s energy infrastructure, saying peak demand needs to be reduced by 25%. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal called on citizens and businesses to reduce electricity consumption from 5 p.m. to

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Amid decades of hostility, Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday reached a historic maritime border deal, finally demarcating a disputed area in the Mediterranean Sea that is believed to be rich in oil and gas. The deal opens doors to exploration and drilling when gas prices are skyrocketing amid a global supply

By Josh Pennington and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Eight people have been detained over Saturday’s blast that damaged the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea with Russia, marking a critical juncture in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed the main intelligence department of the Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, its head Kyrylo Budanov, and

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By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN The mother of Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old protester who was found dead in Tehran last month, says her daughter was killed by Iranian security forces at a protest. In interviews with Iranian newspaper Etemad and BBC Persian and a video message published by US-funded Radio Farda, Shahkarami’s mother, Nasrin Shahkarami, rejected

By Joshua Berlinger and Tim Lister, CNN As deadly Russian airstrikes continued into a second day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday asked the Group of 7 nations to help his country establish an “air shield” against aerial attacks. Zelensky’s plea comes amid one of the fiercest bombing campaigns that Russia has waged against Ukraine

By Mia Alberti, Hadas Gold, Lianne Kolirin and Mostafa Salem, CNN Israel and Lebanon have reached a historic agreement, leaders on each side said separately on Tuesday, settling a years-long maritime border dispute involving major oil and gas fields in the Mediterranean. The United States has been trying to broker a deal between the neighboring

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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Personal Birth date: October 28, 1956 Birth place: Aradan, Iran Birth name: Mahmoud Saborjhian Father: Ahmad Saborjhian, a blacksmith. Ahmadinejad’s father changed the family name from Saborjhian to Ahmadinejad after the family moved to Tehran. Mother: Seiyed Khano Marriage:

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN After a rare six months of relative calm, Yemen’s warring sides last week failed to renew a truce deal, with calls from the United Nations for an extension falling on deaf ears. With one side backed by Iran and the other by Saudi Arabia, it remains to be seen whether the

CNN Editorial Research Iran is a republic in Asia, sharing a border with seven countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey and Turkmenistan. It has been officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran since the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. About Iran (from the CIA World Factbook)Area: 1,648,195 sq km, slightly smaller than

By Rob Picheta, CNN Multiple explosions rocked Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities reported blasts and power outages on Monday morning, as Russia lashed out with a massive wave of violent airstrikes that carried echoes of the initial days of its invasion. At least 11 people were killed in the strikes, while 64 were wounded,

David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Asmani Dadi had heard rumors about the insurgents. Then, one day, they came true. It was July 2020 and Dadi was a student in the town of Mocímboa da Praia, northern Mozambique. “They came … from the forest and began to kill people. When they found children, … they

By Tara Subramaniam, Sana Noor Haq, Ed Upright and Aditi Sangal, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.