Germany’s deadly floods were up to 9 times more likely because of climate change, study estimates
A historic 20-year megadrought, fueled by the climate crisis, is reducing the supply of water for some Arizona…
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Kenya’s coffin makers say Covid means they’re busier than ever. Some still won’t get vaccinated
By Scott McLean and Idris Mukhtar, CNN Inside a hospital in a leafy campus in the shadow of Mount Kenya, workers dressed head-to-toe in pale green…
Continue Reading Kenya’s coffin makers say Covid means they’re busier than ever. Some still won’t get vaccinated
A fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit Kenya so hard that hospitals across the country are turning away new patients. But many Kenyans are…
Continue Reading Germany’s deadly floods were up to 9 times more likely because of climate change, study estimates
By Angela Dewan, CNN Record rainfall that triggered deadly floods in Western Europe in July was made between 1.2 and 9 times more likely by…
Continue Reading A new king was crowned in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region and young Nigerians are inspired
By Anita Patrick, CNN The coronation of a dashing monarch in the oil-rich Delta region has sparked a resurgence in royalty, tradition and ancestry…
Continue Reading President Buhari’s son marries royal bride in glitzy and glamorous ceremony
By Nimi Princewill, CNN It was a roll call of Nigeria’s most powerful political elites during the wedding of Yusuf Buhari, son of…
Continue Reading ‘Expecting the worst, hoping for the best’: Nurse recalls delivering baby on Afghanistan evacuation aircraft
Thousands of evacuees that were airlifted out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover are now safe at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Atika…
Continue Reading ‘Expecting the worst, hoping for the best’: Nurse recalls delivering baby on Afghanistan evacuation aircraft
By Atika Shubert, James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN A nurse who delivered a baby girl on board an aircraft evacuating people from Afghanistan has said…
Continue Reading The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable
By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto, Angela Dewan and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN The ferries that once shuttled tourists to and from the little islets in…
Continue Reading The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable
One of the largest saltwater lakes in the world has now been reduced to a fraction of its former…
Continue Reading Greece finishes wall on border with Turkey, amid fears of Afghan migrant crisis
By Rob Picheta and Chris Liakos, CNN Greece has finished building a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wall along its border with Turkey, amid concerns in parts…
Continue Reading Calm and fear on the streets of Kabul as jubilant Taliban celebrate their victory
By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN As news broke that the Taliban had captured Kabul, some images of uncovered women adorning…
Continue Reading Chaos in Kabul as Taliban take power and thousands try to flee
Gunfire can be heard going off at the Kabul International Airport in a new video that shows people running toward the terminal. Another video shows…
Continue Reading Who are the Taliban and how did they take control of Afghanistan so swiftly?
CNN’s Clarissa Ward describes life inside Afghanistan’s capital Kabul as Taliban fighters swarm the streets after entering the city’s presidential…
Continue Reading Netflix first original series from Nigeria drops highly anticipated trailer
By Anita Patrick, CNN It is one of the most anticipated Nollywood films of all time and the trailer for King Of Boys: The Return Of The King was…
Continue Reading Chaos in Kabul as Taliban take power and thousands try to flee
By Rob Picheta, CNN Hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac at Kabul’s international airport desperately seeking a route out of Afghanistan…
Continue Reading Who are the Taliban and how did they take control of Afghanistan so swiftly?
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denies that the withdrawal from Kabul is similar to the one in Saigon at the close of the Vietnam War because…
Continue Reading Who are the Taliban and how did they take control of Afghanistan so swiftly?
Afghan journalists are “absolutely petrified, particularly women journalists,” as the Taliban regains control of Afghanistan, CNN’s Clarissa Ward…
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Kristen Rouse, a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, describes the messages she and other veterans have received from Afghan interpreters who…
Continue Reading Who are the Taliban and how did they take control of Afghanistan so swiftly?
By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s…
Continue Reading Death toll from Turkey floods rises to 58
In Southern Turkey, villagers are facing apocalyptic scenes as wildfires continue to sweep the country. CNN’s Arwa Damon…
Continue Reading Death toll from Turkey floods rises to 58
By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Flash floods across Turkey’s Black Sea coast have killed 58 people, officials said Sunday. The country’s Natural…
Continue Reading BBC Russia correspondent calls her imminent expulsion ‘shocking’ and says she can never go back
By Katharina Krebs, Zahra Ullah and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A BBC journalist working in Moscow said Saturday that she felt shocked she was being…
Continue Reading Russian plane fighting wildfires crashes in Turkey, killing all 8 crew members on board
By Gul Tuysuz and Zahra Ullah, CNN A Russian aircraft deployed to Turkey to fight wildfires crashed on Saturday, killing all eight people on board,…
Continue Reading Cameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong says charges have been dropped
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Cameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong, who was arrested earlier this week, says that the charges against her have…
Continue Reading Belarus floods the European Union with migrants, taking a page out of Putin’s playbook
EU countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Poland have accused Belarus of organizing “state-sponsored” illegal migration in retaliation to state…
Continue Reading Belarus floods the European Union with migrants, taking a page out of Putin’s playbook
By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the forests…
Continue Reading Influential tech CEO Rebecca Enonchong detained in Cameroon
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Rebecca Enonchong, a Cameroonian tech entrepreneur, has been arrested and brought before a court in Douala, in…
Continue Reading Social media and messaging apps appear to be shutdown in Zambia on election day, Facebook says
By Samantha Tapfumaneyi, Lauren Kent and Tim Lister, CNN Social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter,…
Continue Reading Millionaire Russian politician shoots and kills man he says he mistook for bear
By Rob Picheta, Niamh Kennedy and Anna Chernova, CNN A Russian millionaire and politician has confessed to shooting a man he says he mistook for a…
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