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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Sexual violence against women and girls in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amount to war crimes, Amnesty says
By Nima Elbagir and Lauren Kent, CNN Troops and militias aligned with the Ethiopian government have subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual…
Continue Reading Italy may have hit Europe’s hottest day on record as anticyclone ‘Lucifer’ sweeps in
IPCC Vice-Chair Ko Barrett says certain changes to the planet can’t be reversed, “but with immediate, large-scale and sustained reductions in…
Continue Reading Italy may have hit Europe’s hottest day on record as anticyclone ‘Lucifer’ sweeps in
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…
Continue Reading Wildfire rips through Algeria, killing 65 people including soldiers
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…
Continue Reading German nurse accused of swapping Covid vaccines for saline solution
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…
Continue Reading German nurse accused of swapping Covid vaccines for saline solution
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…
Continue Reading Sudan to hand ex-President Omar al-Bashir to ICC
By Nima Elbagir and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN The Sudanese government will hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) along with…
Continue Reading Germany arrests British embassy worker accused of spying for Russia
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,…
Continue Reading Guinea confirms West Africa’s first case of rare, Ebola-like Marburg virus disease
By Stephanie Busari, CNN A patient with the rare, but highly infectious Marburg virus disease has died in Guinea, according to a World Health…
Continue Reading Greece faces ‘disaster of unprecedented proportions’ as wildfires ravage the country
IPCC: Humans are unequivocally warming the planet. Darryl Forges…
Continue Reading Greece faces ‘disaster of unprecedented proportions’ as wildfires ravage the country
By Chris Liakos, Elinda Labropoulou and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Greece is facing a “natural disaster of unprecedented proportions,” as 586…
Continue Reading Belarus president denies repression, accuses US of ‘lawlessness’
By Zahra Ullah, Jennifer Hansler and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko denied Monday that state repression exists in…
Continue Reading Jailed former South African President Zuma admitted to hospital for medical observation
By David McKenzie, CNN Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation, the…
Continue Reading Tigrayan fighters reportedly seize control of UN World Heritage Site in Ethiopia
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…
Continue Reading Israelis told to ‘stop embracing’, elderly urged to get booster as Covid-19 cases spike
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…
Continue Reading Israelis told to ‘stop embracing’, elderly urged to get booster as Covid-19 cases spike
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…
Continue Reading Iran’s hardline new president sworn in amid stalled nuclear talks and hopes of Saudi detente
By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated as Iran’s next president on Thursday, signaling the…
Continue Reading Belarusian dissidents fear the regime will put them into detention camps. It may have already built one
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports on a recently renovated possible prison camp in Belarus for dissenters against President Alexander…
Continue Reading Belarusian dissidents fear the regime will put them into detention camps. It may have already built one
By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Three layers of electrified fence. New security cameras. A military guard and a sign saying “Entry forbidden.”…
Continue Reading Meet the ‘seed detective’ on a mission to save our rarest vegetables
British horticulturalist Adam Alexander collects, grows and saves endangered vegetable varieties, in an effort to preserve the genetic diversity of…
Continue Reading Meet the ‘seed detective’ on a mission to save our rarest vegetables
Words by Sasha Fairhead, video by Gisella Deputato, CNN Hidden amongst lush Welsh woods and fields of wildflowers, grows an assortment of rare…
Continue Reading Giraffes have been misunderstood and are just as socially complex as elephants, study says
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.…
Continue Reading Brutal heat wave scorches southern Europe as continent’s summer of extreme weather rages on
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…
Continue Reading Hezbollah threatened top judge probing Beirut port blast, source says
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…
Continue Reading What we still don’t know about Beirut’s port explosion
By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN It’s been a year since one of the world’s largest ever non-nuclear explosions ripped through Lebanon’s…
Continue Reading Kabul residents shout in support of Afghan security following attack
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…
Continue Reading ‘They took away my dream’: Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya on a life-changing week
By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was set to compete in the women’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics on…
Continue Reading At least 30 bodies float down river between Ethiopia’s Tigray and Sudan
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…
Continue Reading Powerful blast rocks Kabul after Afghan army urges civilians to leave Taliban-controlled areas of major city
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,…
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