CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova and Allegra Goodwin, CNN The tight ring of security that surrounds the seat of the Russian presidency was punctured in dramatic fashion by what appeared to be two attempted drone strikes in the early hours of Wednesday morning. But until the Kremlin chose to publicize the incident around 12 hours

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Eight people have died in the city of Brno, the Czech Republic, after a large fire broke out early on Thursday in a structure thought to be used as a shelter by homeless people, Czech police said. Six men and two women were killed after the fire engulfed several mobile cabins

By Abeer Salman and Elliott Gotkine, CNN Israeli forces killed the suspected gunmen who shot dead a British-Israeli mother and two of her daughters last month, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Richard Hecht told CNN Thursday. They were among at least three Palestinian men killed in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on

By Josh Pennington, Olga Voitovych, Helen Regan, Vasco Cotovio and Anna Chernova, CNN Russia unleashed its worst attacks on Kyiv in a year, Ukraine’s military said, as for the third time in four days missiles and drones hit the city. The barrage came after Moscow accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN For days now, the blasts have echoed the condition each country’s military is in. Ukraine is apparently striking at fuel depots in Russian-occupied areas and inside Russia itself — seemingly precise attacks but ones to which Kyiv is making no overt claim. Russia has been lashing out at what often

By Rob Picheta, CNN A 13-year-old boy opened fire on his classmates at a school in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Wednesday, rocking the Balkan country. The shooting left at least eight children dead, along with a security guard. While Serbia is awash with guns, mass shootings like these are rare. Here’s what we know.

By Duarte Mendonca and Nimi Princewill, CNN Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides on Tuesday in Rwanda killing at least 127 people in the Western, Northern and Southern Provinces, the president’s office said. “Rescue interventions are ongoing in the most affected districts … in order to secure endangered citizens,” a statement by the presidency said

By Rob Picheta, Josh Pennington, Radina Gigova and Amy Croffey, CNN A teenage boy opened fire in a school in the Serbian capital of Belgrade just after lessons began on Wednesday morning, killing eight children and a security guard and seriously injuring several others, officials said. The boy — a 13-year-old student at the school

By Niamh Kennedy, Chris Stern and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Police arrested more than 100 people across in multiple European countries on Wednesday as part of a major operation against Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia, described by authorities as the “largest ever” coordinated hit against Italian organized crime. Authorities took into custody 132 suspected members of the

By Hadas Gold, Richard Allen Greene and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Israel conducted strikes on the Gaza Strip late Tuesday and militants there fired rockets toward Israel following the death of a prominent Palestinian hunger striker in an Israeli prison. The exchange of fire came after former Islamic Jihad spokesman Khader Adnan died in Israeli custody

By Nimi Princewill and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, the leader of a religious group linked to dozens of deaths in eastern Kenya, could face “possible terrorism charges,” according to his lawyer George Kariuki. Mackenzie appeared in court on Tuesday, where “he was released unconditionally and then rearrested … on possible terrorism charges,” Kariuki