Landmark Vatican fraud trial begins as cardinal faces charges over London property deal
By John Allen, CNN In what many are calling the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” a Vatican court on Tuesday opened proceedings…
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Floods in London are the latest sign big cities aren’t ready for climate change
Scientist and author Katharine Wilkinson says that to cut through all the politics around climate change, we need to address hearts and…
Continue Reading Floods in London are the latest sign big cities aren’t ready for climate change
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Cars stranded in streets turned to rivers. Bus passengers rescued by raft. Train stations submerged, sparking travel chaos.…
Continue Reading Europe tried to boost Covid-19 vaccine takeup with carrots. Now some leaders are breaking out the sticks
By Tara John, CNN As the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Europe shows signs of a slowdown, leaders are racing to find answers to a key dilemma of…
Continue Reading At least three people killed in protests over water shortages in Iran
By Ramin Mostaghim and Jonny Hallam, CNN At least three people have been killed during violent protests over water shortages in Iran, according to…
Continue Reading Thousands join Pride event in Hungary as LGBTQ people face growing hostility
By Saskya Vandoorne, Melissa Bell and Kara Fox, CNN Some 30,000 people have joined the annual Pride celebrations in Budapest on Saturday, organizers…
Continue Reading Frustration in Lebanon as residents search for essential items
CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports from Lebanon where residents grow increasingly frustrated at politicians while they search for medicine, gasoline, food and…
Continue Reading Lebanon’s water system on brink of total collapse, says UN
By Ghazi Balkiz, Ben Wedeman and Kareem Khadder, CNN Lebanon‘s water supply system is on the verge of total collapse, according to the United…
Continue Reading More than 150 people still missing in German floods unlikely to be found, officials fear
CNN’s Sam Kiley takes a walk in Schuld, Germany, where the scale of destruction from the deadly flash flooding is revealed after the floodwater has…
Continue Reading More than 150 people still missing in German floods unlikely to be found, officials fear
By Nadine Schmidt, Frederik Pleitgen, Barbara Wojazer and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A week after severe flooding hit western Europe, devastating Germany,…
Continue Reading Daughter of detained man behind ‘Hotel Rwanda’ says she was spied on by Israeli software
By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN The daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotelier who inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda,”…
Continue Reading Chimpanzees have been spotted attacking and killing gorillas in the wild for the first time
By Rob Picheta, CNN Chimpanzees‘ lethal attacks on gorillas in the wild have been observed for the first time, a team of researchers has said.…
Continue Reading A far-right extremist killed 77 people in Norway. A decade on, ‘the hatred is still out there’ but attacker’s influence is seen as low
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Ten years ago, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, in a bomb…
Continue Reading Men have a bigger carbon footprint than women, thanks to their appetite for cars and meat
By Hannah Ryan, CNN Gender stereotypes are alive and well and harming our planet, a new study from Sweden shows, as men’s passion for meat and…
Continue Reading Hungary’s FM: We don’t want LGBTQI ‘activists’ in schools
Speaking to Bianna Golodryga, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó defends the country’s new law that bans content which “promotes”…
Continue Reading Hungary plans referendum on law criticized by EU as homophobic
By Luke McGee, Amy Cassidy and Boglarka Kosztolanyi CNN Hungary’s right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed a referendum on…
Continue Reading Around 100 kidnapped women and children rescued in Nigeria
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Around 100 women and children abducted in early June by gunmen known locally as “bandits” have been rescued,…
Continue Reading Pfizer-BioNTech to start producing Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa in 2022
By David McKenzie and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech will start to manufacture their Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa, they announced…
Continue Reading His brother was tortured and killed by Russian mercenaries. Now this Syrian refugee wants justice
Russian mercenaries have been accused of grave human rights abuses that experts say could, in some cases, amount to war crimes. CNN has reported…
Continue Reading His brother was tortured and killed by Russian mercenaries. Now this Syrian refugee wants justice
By Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN In the central Syrian desert, an oil field has become a makeshift torture chamber. An unarmed man…
Continue Reading Rockets land near Afghanistan’s presidential palace during Eid prayers
By Kara Fox and Nic Robertson, CNN Three rockets landed in two different areas near the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning,…
Continue Reading Russia unveils new ‘Checkmate’ fighter jet
By Anna Chernova and Zahra Ullah, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin got a sneak peek of a new fifth-generation lightweight single-engine fighter…
Continue Reading ISIS claims responsibility for Iraq suicide attack that left dozens dead
At least 27 people were killed and 32 others wounded when an explosion ripped through a busy market in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, health and…
Continue Reading ISIS claims responsibility for Iraq suicide attack that left dozens dead
By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Aqeel Najm, CNN ISIS have claimed responsibility for an suicide attack that ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital…
Continue Reading Kurt Westergaard, cartoonist whose depiction of Mohammed sparked outrage, dead at 86
By Jack Guy and James Frater, CNN Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose depiction of the prophet Mohammed wearing a turban made out of a bomb…
Continue Reading Austria investigating reports of ‘Havana syndrome’ among US diplomats
Austrian authorities are investigating reports that US diplomats in Vienna have experienced symptoms of a mystery illness known as Havana Syndrome.…
Continue Reading Enormous scale of destruction is revealed as water subsides after historic western Europe flooding
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN At least 189 people are dead and hundreds more remain missing after catastrophic flooding hit large swaths of western…
Continue Reading Austria probes reports of Havana Syndrome among US diplomats in Vienna
By Denise Hruby and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Austrian authorities said they are investigating reports that US diplomats in Vienna have experienced…
Continue Reading Picturesque German town now choked with mud and debris
The streets of Altenahr, Germany, or what remains of them, are buried under mud, with cars wedged between collapsed buildings and piles of debris.…
Continue Reading CNN correspondent reports from ground as Belgium sees extreme flooding
More than 100 people have died in Germany and Belgium following severe flooding in the area, caused by what experts described as the heaviest…
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