CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Scott McLean, Livvy Doherty and Lauren Kent, CNN Denmark has lifted all Covid-19 restrictions within the country, with coronavirus no longer considered a “socially critical sickness,” according to the government. This means that an indoor mask mandate, the use of a “Covid pass” for bars, restaurants and other indoor venues, and the legal obligation

By Tamara Qiblawi, Eoin McSweeney and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Qatar is on its way to becoming a major non-NATO ally of the United States, a sign of its growing relevance to Washington’s global agenda. Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani became the first Gulf Arab leader to visit the Biden White House on

By Andrew Carey, CNN Amnesty International has become the latest human rights organization to accuse Israel of apartheid for its treatment of Palestinians, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has denounced the report as anti-Semitic. Amnesty’s nearly 300-page report, released Tuesday, details “inhuman or inhumane acts of forcible transfer, administrative detention, torture, unlawful killings

A stripped-back report into gatherings held at the heart of the UK’s government while the country was under strict Covid-19 restrictions has now been published. In her findings, senior civil servant Sue Gray highlights “failures of leadership,” poor judgment and heavy alcohol consumption in Johnson’s administration during the pandemic. Read the full text here: The-CNN-Wire™

By Donie O’Sullivan and Jo Shelley, CNN A fishing community on the southern tip of Ireland breathed a sigh of relief this weekend after the Russian government gave in to appeals from local fishermen who said naval drills ordered by Moscow off the Irish coast could endanger their livelihoods. “I’m shocked, really,” Patrick Murphy, head

By Gianluca Mezzofiore and Katie Polglase, CNN Yohannes and Gebremeskel knew it would be freezing cold inside the bulk cargo area of the Airbus A350 plane on the long flight from Ethiopia’s capital to Belgium. But the two ground technicians with Ethiopian Airlines, both of Tigrayan origin, said they felt a threat from the Ethiopian

By Tamara Qiblawi, Sahar Akbarzai, Andrew Carey and Jessie Yeung, CNN The United States joined the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday to intercept and destroy a ballistic missile as the Israeli President was in the country on a historic visit, according to authorities. The attack marks the third such incident in January. The attack

By Vasco Cotovio, CNN Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has questioned the framing of NATO as a “defensive” alliance, complaining that the bloc’s “line of defense” continues to move east towards Russia, as fears mount that the Kremlin is planning an invasion of Ukraine. “Let them console themselves with saying that it is ‘defensive.’ It

By Kareem El Damanhoury, Wayne Chang and Mia Alberti, CNN A military court has sentenced 49 people to death — while one officer will receive 10 years in prison — following an investigation into the 2017 murders of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to Human Rights Watch. One of the

By Vasco Cotovio, CNN Portuguese citizens are heading to the polls this Sunday for a snap parliamentary election in which proposals to boost the country’s sluggish economy have been the dominant theme throughout the campaign. Covid-19 has also played a key role in campaign focuses — particularly as over a tenth of the country is

By Livia Borghese, CNN Italy’s current president Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected for a second mandate, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Robert Fico, announced Saturday. Mattarella received 759 out of a possible 1009 votes from “great electors” — the members of parliament and regional representatives charged with electing the president in a process that

By Rob Picheta, CNN The prospect of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine has heightened alarm in the region, threatening to plunge the country’s 44 million inhabitants further into the grips of conflict. But a move by the Kremlin would also ripple far beyond the two nations’ shared border. Experts fear it could usher in

By Al Goodman, CNN An off-duty police officer went into a supermarket near Barcelona, Spain to buy groceries and ended up tackling a suspected armed robber. The Catalan police, who patrol the region of Catalonia around Barcelona, in northeastern Spain, tweeted a video of the incident on Thursday and it has since been seen more