CNN, WDIV, WXYZ, CTV NETWORK, POOL By Xiaofei Xu and Lauren Kent, CNN Protesters in a so-called “Freedom Convoy” made it past police checkpoints in central Paris on Saturday, with demonstrators completely blocking traffic in the French capital before they were met with tear gas fired by officers. The rallies against France’s Covid-19 vaccine pass
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Henrik Pettersson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Russia has amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine’s border in recent weeks, according to US estimates, raising fears from Western and Ukrainian intelligence officials that an invasion could be imminent. As frantic diplomatic efforts are made to avert war, Russia announced Tuesday that some of
Continue ReadingBy Elle Pickston, CNN A 12-year-old boy has died after the car he was driving collided with a truck in County Limerick, Ireland, early Friday morning, CNN affiliate Virgin Media News reported. The boy was the sole occupant of the car and died after a collision with the truck just before 2 a.m. local time
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN African countries are on course to control the coronavirus and its emerging variants this year, the World Health Organization’s regional head for the continent has said. African countries have faced a number of challenges since the first outbreak of the Covid-19 virus in February 2020, including the impact of lockdowns on
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin, CNN The President of North Macedonia walked an 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome to school after he heard she was being bullied. President Stevo Pendarovski held Embla Ademi’s hand as he walked her to her elementary school in the city of Gostivar on Monday. Embla has experienced bullying at school due as
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Joseph Ataman, Xiaofei Xu and Anna Chernova, CNN There’s socially distanced, and then there’s French President Emmanuel Macron sitting on the opposite end of an enormous table during talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Monday. There is now insight as to why: The French leader declined the
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN New satellite images released by a US-based technology company appear to show continuing Russian military buildup in Crimea, western Russia and Belarus, as pressure continues to mount on Ukraine from three directions, underscoring fears that the Kremlin is planning an incursion into Ukrainian territory. In Crimea, a large
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim and Eoin McSweeney, CNN He’s arguably Iraq’s best-known face abroad. Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, was the country’s longest-serving foreign minister, often hobnobbing with Western diplomats and journalists, but also cultivating strong ties with neighboring Arab states to make his country’s case. But a bid to crown his political career with a run
Continue ReadingBy Joseph Ataman, Lianne Kolirin, Mick Krever and Aliza Kassim Khalidi, CNN Authorities in both Paris and Brussels have announced a ban on protests linked to the so-called “Freedom Convoy” that is scheduled to arrive in the French capital from Friday. Following the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada — which has seen truckers protesting against vaccine
Continue ReadingBy Nathan Hodge, Tara John and Anna Chernova, CNN Russia and Belarus began 10 days of joint military drills Thursday amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over fears that the Kremlin is planning an incursion into Ukrainian territory. The military drills, called “Allied Resolve-2022,” began in Belarus and will end February 20, the
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Henrik Pettersson, CNN The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has placed heightened importance on the United States’ and NATO’s defenses across eastern Europe, which for decades have acted as a buffer between Russia and the West. NATO has four multinational battalion-size battlegroups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, which
Continue ReadingCNN By Rob Picheta, Henrik Pettersson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Russia has amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine’s border in recent weeks, according to US estimates, raising fears from Western and Ukrainian intelligence officials that an invasion could be imminent. As frantic diplomatic efforts are made to avert war, Russia announced Tuesday that some
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin and Richard Allen Greene, CNN More incidents of anti-Semitism were recorded in the United Kingdom in 2021 than at any point since it began recording such incidents in 1984, UK charity Community Security Trust (CST) said in report released Thursday. The charity, which according to its website works to protect British Jews
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN The beheading of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly by her husband, in western Iran’s Khuzestan province last week has once again raised concern over the country’s laws around murder and gender-based violence. Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) referred to the alleged murder as an “honor killing.” A
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans — Homo sapiens — living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in the Rhône Valley in southern France, along with hundreds of stone tools dating back about 54,000 years
Continue ReadingBy Hada Messia, Sharon Braithwaite and Hannah Ryan, CNN The body of a 70-year-old woman has been found in her house in northern Italy, two years after her death. Marinella Beretta lived alone near Lake Como in Lombardy. Her decomposed body was discovered on Friday by the Como fire brigade following complaints that a tree
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN The German government has appointed Jennifer Morgan, the long-time boss of Greenpeace International, as its new special envoy for climate, the country’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock announced on Wednesday, giving a boost to the green credentials of the country’s coalition government. The new appointment comes as the German government faces intense
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN As world leaders scramble to find a diplomatic solution over the ongoing Russia-Ukraine tensions, talk has turned to the 2015 Minsk Agreement as a possible way out of the crisis. The agreement, the second of its kind (and the one that matters), was hammered out in the Belarusian capital in a
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister, CNN As world leaders scramble to find a diplomatic solution over the ongoing Russia-Ukraine tensions, talk has turned to the 2015 Minsk Agreement as a possible way out of the crisis. The agreement, the second of its kind (and the one that matters), was hammered out in the Belarusian capital in
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh and Nathan Hodge, CNN As French President Emmanuel Macron visited his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday for diplomatic talks on the country’s crisis with Russia, Moscow indicated there were “points of convergence” laid out by Macron during his five-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier. But
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