CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

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 Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in what would mark the latest development in the eastern Mediterranean country’s slide into chaos. More than 71% of the country’s population — over 4 million people

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN The daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotelier who inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” has hit out at Rwandan authorities after a report emerged that she was on a list of people targeted by Pegasus, a military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli company to governments. Carine Kanimba’s phone number was

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. Experts observing dozens of chimps at Loango National Park in Gabon had expected them to be relaxed around gorillas. But while the two species were usually playful, the researchers were

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 attack and gun rampage. The July 22 attacks left Norway, a small, close-knit Nordic country, stunned and grieving. Just over a year later, Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the

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 cars is making them bigger contributors to greenhouse gases than women. The study, carried out by research company Ecoloop and published on Monday in the Journal for Industrial Ecology,

By Luke McGee, Amy Cassidy and Boglarka Kosztolanyi CNN Hungary’s right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed a referendum on the country’s controversial new LGBTQ law. The move is in response to the European Union which lambasted the new measure by the member state. In a Facebook video on Wednesday, the hardline leader outlined

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Around 100 women and children abducted in early June by gunmen known locally as “bandits” have been rescued, police authorities in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara State said. Zamfara police spokesman, Mohammed Shehu, told CNN on Wednesday that the victims — most of whom are nursing mothers — were released Monday after being

By David McKenzie and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech will start to manufacture their Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa, they announced jointly on Wednesday, in a move that could significantly increase the availability of doses across the continent next year. When fully operational, the companies said annual vaccine production would exceed 100 million doses,

By Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN In the central Syrian desert, an oil field has become a makeshift torture chamber. An unarmed man writhes in the dust, howling in pain. Four men in military fatigues pin him down and smash his hands and feet with a sledgehammer. As he cries out for help, they

By Kara Fox and Nic Robertson, CNN Three rockets landed in two different areas near the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, as President Ashraf Ghani joined other high ranking officials for prayers to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Images shown on national broadcaster Tolo TV showed Ghani and the group

By Anna Chernova and Zahra Ullah, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin got a sneak peek of a new fifth-generation lightweight single-engine fighter jet at an air show just outside of Moscow on Tuesday. Russian aircraft makers unveiled a prototype of the stealth fighter dubbed “Checkmate” for the 68-year-old leader at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and

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 on Monday, killing 30 people and wounding 50. Children and women were among the dead and wounded, according to health and security officials. The attacker detonated his explosive vest in

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 sparked a wave of violence in 2006, has died at the age of 86. Danish newspaper Berlingske reported Westergaard’s death on Sunday, citing information from his family. The cartoonist died

By Denise Hruby and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Austrian authorities said they are investigating reports that US diplomats in Vienna have experienced symptoms of a mystery illness known as Havana Syndrome. “We take these reports very seriously and, according to our role as the host state, are working with the US authorities on a joint solution,”

By Vasco Cotovio, Atika Shubert and Ivana Kottasová, CNN In Altenahr in western Germany, even the dead were not spared in this week’s devastating flood. The village cemetery was swept away, headstones damaged and toppled by the force of the muddy water. Antoinnette Steinhoff stands at the edge of the flooded graveyard, crushed by the

By Andrew Carey and Abeer Salman, CNN A small boy sits on a hillside in the occupied West Bank. Like the adults around him, he trains a green laser beam on a group of prefabricated housing units on a hilltop a few hundred meters away. It is an act of defiance. The buildings had been

By Angela Dewan, Nadine Schmidt and Ulrike Dehmel, CNN European officials have said climate change contributed to this week’s extreme flooding, which has left entire towns submerged and more than 120 people dead. Scientists have for decades warned that climate change will make extreme weather events, including heavy rain and deadly flooding, more likely. Around

By Mostafa Salem, CNN The Middle East and North Africa is witnessing a surge in Covid-19 cases aggravated by the Delta variant of the virus — and it may get worse over coming weeks — according to the World Health Organization (WHO). An increase in coronavirus cases has been reported in Libya, Iran, Iraq and

By Tamara Qiblawi, Ghazi Balkiz and Ben Wedeman, CNN Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has stepped down nearly nine months after he was tasked with forming the crisis-ridden country‘s next government. On Thursday, Hariri told reporters that President Michel Aoun had not accepted his latest Cabinet lineup less than 24 hours after the three-time prime