By Sheena McKenzie, CNN Two months ago, Denmark was riding high. The European nation lifted all remaining domestic coronavirus restrictions as the government declared Covid-19 was no longer “an illness which is a critical threat to society.” With a successful vaccine rollout in their back pocket, Danes essentially returned to pre-pandemic daily life. They visited
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Amir Tal Phones belonging to six people working for Palestinian NGOs were hacked with Israeli technology firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, rights groups say. Dublin-based rights group Front Line Defenders (FLD) said it began investigating the devices — all iPhones — last month after it was contacted by Ramallah-based
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy, CNN A policeman survived a knife attack in the French Riviera city of Cannes on Monday, according to the country’s interior minister. The incident took place early Monday morning as four police officers outside Cannes police station were preparing to go on patrol, Gerald Darmanin told reporters. The assailant approached the officers
Continue ReadingBy Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The detentions follow a dramatic escalation in the war last week, when the federal government declared a state
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN When the Czech Republic’s 200 newly-elected deputies gathered for the inaugural session of its new parliament on Monday, there wasn’t a single Communist party member there — for the first time in 76 years. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), the direct successor of the totalitarian Communist Party of
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN Sitting next to the Israeli Foreign Minister in Washington this October, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was clear: The Americans want to re-open their consulate in Jerusalem to serve Palestinians. “We’ll be moving forward with the process of opening a consulate as part of deepening of those ties with the Palestinians,”
Continue ReadingBy Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday after an explosive-laden drone targeted his residence in Baghdad, the country’s military said. Al-Kadhimi went on to Twitter moments after the attack and called for “calm and restraint from everyone.” “Thank God, I am fine and among my people,” he
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie, CNN Ethiopia’s military is calling on veterans to rejoin the army as two aligned rebel groups threaten the capital, marking the latest sign the government is marshaling its power to defend Addis Ababa. It comes as a new state of emergency allows broad powers of arrest and conscription for Ethiopians over the
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The detentions follow a dramatic escalation in the war last week, when the federal government declared a
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ryan, CNN Spanish police had an unusual encounter on Friday night when a number of camels and a llama escaped from a circus and wandered onto the Madrid streets. The animals were from the Gran Circo Quiros in the Spanish capital, and were located at around 5 a.m. local time and guided back
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane and Yong Xiong, CNN At least 98 people died on Friday after a fuel tanker exploded in a suburb of Sierra Leone‘s capital, Freetown, according to authorities in the West African country. Mohamed Lamrane Bah, director of communications for Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), told CNN that several people were
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová and Rob Picheta, CNN Young climate activists have poured into Glasgow and surrounded the site of the COP26 summit to demand action from global leaders, as the focus of the event turns toward the impact of climate change on future generations. Thousands of demonstrators covered the streets of the Scottish city
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Nadine Schmidt and Zahra Ullah, CNN A Russian diplomat found dead on the sidewalk outside the embassy in Berlin last month is believed by German authorities to have been a secret agent for a Russian intelligence agency, Der Spiegel magazine reported Friday. The body of the 35-year-old diplomat was found on the
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Rob Picheta, CNN Greta Thunberg criticized world leaders and called the COP26 summit a “failure” on Friday, as she led a huge youth protest outside the venue of the climate summit in Glasgow. Young activists poured into the Scottish city to demand action from leaders, as the focus of the official
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Armed groups fighting Ethiopia’s central government are swelling in numbers as they advance on the capital, Addis Ababa, posing the biggest threat to embattled Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s rule since a bloody year-long conflict began in the country’s northern Tigray region a year ago. Nine groups opposing the government — a
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Nadine Schmidt, CNN German health officials have warned the country is in the grips of a “very worrying” spike in Covid-19 cases and expanded its booster vaccine program to all adults, after a new record in daily infections was registered for the second day running. More than 37,000 new infections were
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi and Stephanie Busari CNN Families of the victims of Monday’s high-rise building collapse in Lagos have accused the Nigerian government of organizing a shambolic rescue effort. Several victims were believed to have been alive in the immediate aftermath of the collapse. On Tuesday, rescue workers said they spoke to several people trapped
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Europe is facing a potentially devastating winter that could see half a million people die with Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday, as it sounded the alarm over a surge in cases and bemoaned stuttering vaccination rollouts on parts of the continent. Much of Europe
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite, Stephanie Halasz and Tara John, CNN Germany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn said the country was experiencing a “massive” pandemic of the unvaccinated as authorities raised the alarm on rising infections and increased pressure on hospitals due to Covid-19 admissions. “The number of infections is increasing, as well as the number of deaths
Continue ReadingCNN By Sharon Braithwaite, Stephanie Halasz and Tara John, CNN Germany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn said the country was experiencing a “massive” pandemic of the unvaccinated as authorities raised the alarm on rising infections and increased pressure on hospitals due to Covid-19 admissions. “The number of infections is increasing, as well as the number of
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