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Sexual violence against women and girls in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amount to war crimes, Amnesty says

August 12, 2021 3:47 AM CNN Newsource

By Nima Elbagir and Lauren Kent, CNN Troops and militias aligned with the Ethiopian government have subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual…

Italy may have hit Europe’s hottest day on record as anticyclone ‘Lucifer’ sweeps in

August 12, 2021 2:49 AM CNN

IPCC Vice-Chair Ko Barrett says certain changes to the planet can’t be reversed, “but with immediate, large-scale and sustained reductions in…

Italy may have hit Europe’s hottest day on record as anticyclone ‘Lucifer’ sweeps in

August 12, 2021 1:51 AM CNN Newsource

By Monica Garrett and Angela Dewan, CNN Authorities in Italy say the island of Sicily may have set an all-time heat record for Europe, hitting a…

Wildfire rips through Algeria, killing 65 people including soldiers

August 11, 2021 11:49 AM CNN Newsource

By Mostafa Salem and Francesco Pitzalis, CNN Forest fires in Algeria killed 65 people on Tuesday, including 28 soldiers deployed to help put out the…

German nurse accused of swapping Covid vaccines for saline solution

August 11, 2021 7:32 AM CNN

Top US health officials continue to say getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself and others from Covid-19 and the highly contagious…

German nurse accused of swapping Covid vaccines for saline solution

August 11, 2021 7:32 AM CNN Newsource

By Hannah Ritchie, Nadine Schmidt and Jack Guy, CNN A nurse is being investigated by police in Germany for allegedly replacing Covid-19 vaccines with…

Sudan to hand ex-President Omar al-Bashir to ICC

August 11, 2021 5:54 AM CNN Newsource

By Nima Elbagir and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN The Sudanese government will hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) along with…

Germany arrests British embassy worker accused of spying for Russia

August 11, 2021 4:51 AM CNN Newsource

By Nadine Schmidt and Lindsay Isaac, CNN A British embassy employee suspected of spying for Russia has been arrested in the German city of Potsdam,…

Guinea confirms West Africa’s first case of rare, Ebola-like Marburg virus disease

August 10, 2021 5:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Stephanie Busari, CNN A patient with the rare, but highly infectious Marburg virus disease has died in Guinea, according to a World Health…

Greece faces ‘disaster of unprecedented proportions’ as wildfires ravage the country

August 10, 2021 4:45 AM CNN

IPCC: Humans are unequivocally warming the planet. Darryl Forges…

Greece faces ‘disaster of unprecedented proportions’ as wildfires ravage the country

August 9, 2021 2:24 PM CNN Newsource

By Chris Liakos, Elinda Labropoulou and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Greece is facing a “natural disaster of unprecedented proportions,” as 586…

Belarus president denies repression, accuses US of ‘lawlessness’

August 9, 2021 11:54 AM CNN Newsource

By Zahra Ullah, Jennifer Hansler and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko denied Monday that state repression exists in…

Jailed former South African President Zuma admitted to hospital for medical observation

August 6, 2021 5:45 AM CNN Newsource

By David McKenzie, CNN Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation, the…

Tigrayan fighters reportedly seize control of UN World Heritage Site in Ethiopia

August 6, 2021 5:06 AM CNN Newsource

By Richard Roth, Michael Conte and Sarah Dean, CNN Fighters from Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region have seized control of a UN World Heritage…

Israelis told to ‘stop embracing’, elderly urged to get booster as Covid-19 cases spike

August 5, 2021 7:51 AM CNN

New data from Pfizer shows a third dose of its Covid-19 vaccine can “strongly” boost protection against the Delta variant, but the US Surgeon General…

Israelis told to ‘stop embracing’, elderly urged to get booster as Covid-19 cases spike

August 5, 2021 7:51 AM CNN Newsource

By Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is warning that Israelis over 60 are at risk unless they go get their third booster shot…

Iran’s hardline new president sworn in amid stalled nuclear talks and hopes of Saudi detente

August 5, 2021 11:32 AM CNN Newsource

By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated as Iran’s next president on Thursday, signaling the…

Belarusian dissidents fear the regime will put them into detention camps. It may have already built one

August 5, 2021 8:28 AM CNN

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports on a recently renovated possible prison camp in Belarus for dissenters against President Alexander…

Belarusian dissidents fear the regime will put them into detention camps. It may have already built one

August 5, 2021 8:28 AM CNN Newsource

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Three layers of electrified fence. New security cameras. A military guard and a sign saying “Entry forbidden.”…

Meet the ‘seed detective’ on a mission to save our rarest vegetables

August 4, 2021 1:25 PM CNN

British horticulturalist Adam Alexander collects, grows and saves endangered vegetable varieties, in an effort to preserve the genetic diversity of…

Meet the ‘seed detective’ on a mission to save our rarest vegetables

August 4, 2021 1:25 PM CNN Newsource

Words by Sasha Fairhead, video by Gisella Deputato, CNN Hidden amongst lush Welsh woods and fields of wildflowers, grows an assortment of rare…

Giraffes have been misunderstood and are just as socially complex as elephants, study says

August 4, 2021 7:18 AM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN With their crane-like necks, spindle legs and knobbly knees, giraffes are among the best loved and most recognizable of animals.…

Brutal heat wave scorches southern Europe as continent’s summer of extreme weather rages on

August 4, 2021 2:48 PM CNN Newsource

By Chris Liakos, Laura Smith-Spark and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Extreme heat and wildfires continued to plague parts of southern Europe on Wednesday, a day…

Hezbollah threatened top judge probing Beirut port blast, source says

August 4, 2021 3:05 AM CNN

On August 4, 2020, an explosion in Beirut Port killed more than 200 people, injured 6,000 others, displaced over 300,000 people and destroyed most of…

What we still don’t know about Beirut’s port explosion

August 4, 2021 3:05 AM CNN Newsource

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN It’s been a year since one of the world’s largest ever non-nuclear explosions ripped through Lebanon’s…

Kabul residents shout in support of Afghan security following attack

August 3, 2021 11:32 PM CNN

A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister in Kabul and residents in the area responded by chanting in support of…

‘They took away my dream’: Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya on a life-changing week

August 4, 2021 2:21 PM CNN Newsource

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was set to compete in the women’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics on…

At least 30 bodies float down river between Ethiopia’s Tigray and Sudan

August 3, 2021 6:39 PM CNN Newsource

Story by Reuters At least 30 corpses have washed up on the Sudanese banks of a river that abuts Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, according…

Powerful blast rocks Kabul after Afghan army urges civilians to leave Taliban-controlled areas of major city

August 4, 2021 4:40 AM CNN Newsource

By Tim Lister and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister in Kabul on Tuesday evening,…

Delta variant has spiked Covid-19 deaths in Africa by 80% in one month, WHO says

August 3, 2021 6:12 AM CNN

The World Health Organization’s Africa director Dr. Matshidiso Moeti and epidemiologist Jeremy Farrar discuss vaccine inequity and the latest Covid…

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