CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Hadas Gold, CNN Despite its name, the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is actually a freshwater lake, and it’s one that has sustained life for millennia. Even today, the lake irrigates vineyards and local farms that grow everything from green vegetables to wheat and tangerines. Its archeology, hot springs and hiking trails bring

By Paul P. Murphy, Tim Lister and Rob Picheta, CNN New video has emerged online showing Russian military vehicles inside a turbine hall connected to a nuclear reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where intensified shelling has fueled fears of a nuclear disaster. CNN has geolocated and confirmed the authenticity of the video, which

By Rob Picheta and Pierre Meilhan, CNN Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has acknowledged partying “in a boisterous way” after the release of private videos — but said she is angry that the footage, which prompted criticism from political opponents, was leaked to the media. Videos showed Marin, Finland’s 36-year-old leader, dancing with friends in

By Uliana Pavlova and Jack Guy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday that revived the Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award for women with 10 children or more, in an apparent attempt to alleviate a demographic crisis in the country. Originally, the honor was introduced by Joseph Stalin after World War II, when

By Joseph Ataman, CNN For well over a century, water has gurgled through a web of gutters and channels on Cécile Messelis’ farm, flowing into an underground reservoir and earthen troughs to nourish crops sown across terraced fields. In 2020, that stream began to falter. This year, it stopped altogether: Messelis’ fields now crackle in

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By Katie Hunt, CNN An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth’s surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc with the planet. No, it’s not that asteroid, the one that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously unknown crater 248 miles off the coast of West

By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Saudi women’s rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison on Monday for her activity on Twitter, according to court documents viewed by CNN. Al-Shehab, 33, was also banned from traveling outside of Saudi Arabia for another 34 years. The PhD student at Leeds University in the United

By Ehsan Popalzai and Rob Picheta, CNN An explosion that erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Afghanistan‘s capital on Wednesday killed 21 people and injured 33 others, according to a spokesperson for the Kabul police chief. Security forces were investigating the incident in the city’s police district 17, the spokesperson added. Health care

By Vasco Cotovio and Tara John, CNN Ukraine was behind three explosions rocked Russian military facilities in the annexed province of Crimea this past week, including an explosion at a Russian air base on the peninsula’s west coast that wrecked several airplanes, according to a Ukrainian government report circulated internally and shared with CNN by

By Mostafa Salem, Adam Pourahmadi and Joshua Berlinger, CNN The Syrian government on Wednesday denied it is holding or has any information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist who vanished a decade ago while reporting on the Middle Eastern nation’s civil war. Syria’s foreign ministry said in a rare statement that the

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By Eliza Mackintosh and Yuliia Presniakova, CNN Before the war broke out, Igor Kurayan, a 55-year-old from the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, shared frequent gardening updates on social media. His feeds were full of palms, pomegranate trees, marigolds, bamboo and avocados, grown at his home and small business near the Black Sea. He

By Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken for the first time since he lost the election saying his coalition “totally and without reservations reject the presidential results” in a televised address on Tuesday. “In our view, there is neither a legally and validly declared winner nor a president-elect,”

By Uliana Pavlova, Alex Stambaugh, Fred Pleitgen, Vasco Cotovio and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A blast at an ammunition depot in the village of Maiskoye in Crimea injured at least two people, local authorities said Tuesday, in the second incident in a week to rock the Russian-controlled peninsula. Russia’s ministry of defense has blamed sabotage for

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By Mostafa Salem, Frederik Pleitgen and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN As attempts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal heat up, Tehran is seeking guarantees that it will be compensated if a future US president pulls out of the pact, a regional diplomat told CNN on Tuesday. Last week European Union officials sent the US and

By Tamara Qiblawi and Zeena Saifi, CNN Nearly 10 years after he was driven underground, Salman Rushdie believed he was free. The author had been living under heavy security and highest secrecy in London. But in 1998, the Iranian government of President Mohammad Khatami publicly distanced itself from the religious fatwa calling for his murder.

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group. Personal Birth date: August 31, 1960 Birth place: Beirut, Lebanon Father: Abd al-Karim, who worked as a grocer Marriage: Fatima Yassin Children: Muhammad Hadi (died in 1997), Muhammad Jawad, Zeinab, Muhammad Ali and Muhammad

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Beslan School Siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at approximately 9 a.m. local time. The siege ended on September 3, 2004, with more than 330 killed, including 186 children, and