By Nadine Schmidt, CNN A body was found in the undercarriage of a Lutfhansa plane that arrived at Frankfurt airport from Tehran on Thursday, according to German police and Lufthansa. Employees at Frankfurt airport discovered a male body on Thursday morning on a plane that had arrived from the Iranian capital during a routine maintenance
Continue Reading By Michael Conte and Nimi Princewill, CNN The State Department has ordered non-emergency US embassy employees and their family members in Abuja, Nigeria to leave the country “due to the heightened risk of terrorist attacks there.” The department also issued a “Level 3” travel advisory for the entire country, urging: “Reconsider travel to Nigeria due
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Pro-Russian officials say they have removed the bones of famed 18th century Russian commander Grigory Potemkin from the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson. Potemkin’s bones were taken from St. Catherine’s Cathedral and moved across the Dnipro River and further into Russian-held territory, along with a statue of the
Continue Reading Russian state media report the situation in the Kherson region of Ukraine is stabilizing, with less frequent artillery fire and no counterattacks from Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the Russians will be besieged if they stay in the Kherson region. CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen visits the front line to get a first-hand look.
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Continue Reading The head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Agency, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, speaks with CNN’s Nic Robertson about Russia’s accusation that Ukraine is planning to use a so-called “dirty bomb” and military operations in the city of Kherson.
Continue Reading Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a speech, accusing “Western elites” of playing a “dangerous, bloody and dirty game.” CNN’s Matthew Chance reports.
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy and Rosanne Roobeek, CNN The Dutch foreign ministry is “investigating” reports that China has set up two purportedly illegal police stations in the Netherlands. “We are investigating the activities of these so-called police centers,” Ministry for Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maxine Hovenkamp said in a statement to CNN Thursday. Hovenkamp added that the
Continue Reading By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a speech on Thursday, accusing “Western elites” of playing a “dangerous, bloody and dirty game” and seeking to blame them for much of the world’s trouble, including his own invasion of
Continue Reading By Valentina Di Donato and Glen Levy, CNN One person has died and four people, including Spanish soccer player Pablo Mari, were “seriously injured” after a stabbing attack on the outskirts of the Italian city of Milan on Thursday, according to Italian national police. The suspected attacker has been arrested, police said. “A mentally unstable
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Mostafa Salem and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Mourners gathering to commemorate the 40th day since the death of Nika Shahkarami, an Iranian teenager who went missing on September 20 after attending protests in the capital Tehran, were met with gunfire and tear gas by security forces, according to video posted on social media
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian lawmakers agreed to toughen the country’s discriminatory law against so-called same-sex “propaganda,” moving to ban all Russians from promoting or “praising” homosexual relationships or publicly suggesting that they are “normal.” Moscow’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved unanimously amendments to strengthen the law against “propaganda
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, Mostafa Salem, Mia Albert, Celine Alkhaldi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Israel and Lebanon finalized an agreement defining their maritime borders in the Mediterranean on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced on Twitter, inking a United States-brokered deal at the United Nations mission on the land border between the countries. The signing ceremony officially
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, CNN Russian TV host and 2018 presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak has fled Russia for Lithuania, Russian state news agency TASS reported Thursday. Sobchack entered Lithuania using her Israeli passport, according to the country’s State Security Department director Darius Jauniskis. “Yes, I can confirm that Sobchak is in Lithuania,” TASS cited Jauniskis as
Continue Reading By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN An opposition leader in exile from Belarus has demanded that President Alexsandr Lukashenko be held to account for his regime’s complicity in the Ukraine war and for Russian soldiers to withdraw from Belarusian soil, after a CNN investigation revealed new evidence that the country provided medical assistance to injured Russian troops.
Continue Reading Clashes broke out throughout Iran as protesters marked 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini’s death back in September has sparked worldwide upset. CNN’s Nada Bashir reports.
Continue Reading The body of Joshua Jones , an American killed in August while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military, has been returned to Ukrainian custody by the Russian military. CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks with his mother about what led Jones to serve.
Continue Reading In a CNN exclusive, Clarissa Ward travels to the Zaporizhzhia region between Ukrainian and Russian-controlled Ukraine, where Russian officials return the remains of Joshua Jones, an American killed while fighting for Ukraine.
Continue Reading CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour presses Russia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrey Kelin on Vladimir Putin’s veiled threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
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Continue Reading Nika Shahkarami has become one of the most known faces in Iran after she went missing on September 20 after attending protests in Tehran. Iranian authorities claimed she fell from a building later that night in an incident unconnected to the protests. But by analyzing over 50 videos obtained by CNN and speaking to six eyewitnesses, CNN has exclusive evidence that Nika was chased and then detained by police just a few hours before she went missing. CNN’s Katie Polglase reports.
Continue Reading By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A black-clad Iranian girl stands on top of an overturned garbage bin, waving her headscarf as it is engulfed by flames, amid chants of “death to the dictator.” A moment later, video shows, she crouches to collect another scarf, from a friend, which she will also
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN At least 15 people were killed and 40 others were injured Wednesday in a “terrorist attack” at the Shahcheragh Shrine in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran, according to state-run media and Iranian officials. Two children were among the victims, according to state-run Press TV. Iranian security forces
Continue Reading By Celine Alkhaldi, Adam Pourahmadi and Tara John, CNN Clashes broke out throughout Iran Wednesday as thousands of people came to the burial site of Mahsa Amini in Saqqez, a city in the Kurdistan province, to mark 40 days since her death, semi-official Iranian state news agency ISNA said. Protests have swept through the Islamic
Continue Reading By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military has been returned to Ukrainian custody by the Russian military. A CNN team witnessed the transfer in the Zaporizhzhia region on Wednesday. The American is 24-year-old Joshua Jones, who
Continue Reading Nearly a month after Nigeria’s worst flooding in a decade left hundreds dead and more than a million people displaced, communities continue to remain submerged. CNN international correspondent Larry Madowo reports.
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill and Larry Madowo, CNN Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state is officially nicknamed the ‘glory of all lands.’ But much of it is now a river that has driven entire communities away from their homes. Desperate to survive, many locals fleeing raging floods which have wrecked their homes and livelihoods are also forced to
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine has asked refugees who fled the country in the wake of Russia’s invasion not to return home this winter, after Russian drone and missile strikes threatened to overwhelm the country’s fragile power grid. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, advised Ukrainians in a video message on Tuesday “not to come
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Continue Reading By James Frater and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Police in Norway arrested an academic working at the University of Tromsø in the Arctic Circle on Monday, on suspicion of secretly spying for Russia, according to Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. Norway’s police told NRK that the man, a researcher at the university, claims to be a Brazilian
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