CNN By Hannah Ritchie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A British police officer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a case that sparked outrage and a national debate about violence against women. Prosecutors said Everard was walking to her London home on March 3
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Nadine Schmidt and Alex Carey A 96-year-old German woman who fled on Thursday before standing trial on charges of aiding and abetting murder in a Nazi concentration camp has been found by local authorities and will be brought before the court. “The woman has been located by German police,” Frederike Milhoffer, spokesperson at
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A British police officer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a case that sparked outrage and a national debate about violence against women. Prosecutors said Everard was walking to her London home on March 3 when
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, making him the first French head of state in modern times to receive two jail terms. It is unlikely that Sarkozy will serve his
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, CNN Tunisian President Kais Saied has appointed Najla Bouden Romdhan as the first female prime minister in Tunisia and the Arab world, two months after he sacked the previous government and seized wide-ranging executive powers. “This is the first time in the history of Tunisia that a woman has led a government,”
Continue ReadingBy Manveena Suri, CNN Police in the Netherlands have arrested and released a former member of a far-right political party after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s security detail suspected him of behaving suspiciously, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Hague. Arnoud Van Doorn, who once served as a senior political adviser for populist Freedom
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters More than 80 aid workers including some employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) were involved in incidents of sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an independent commission said on Tuesday. The probe was prompted by an investigation last year by the Thomson Reuters
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie, CNN Sixteen people have been injured — including four critically — after an explosion led to a large fire in an apartment building in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, emergency services told CNN Monday. The blast happened at 4:45 a.m. local time, according to Swedish police who are investigating the cause of
Continue ReadingBy Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Public urination at Glastonbury Festival led to illegal drugs entering a river running through the famous Somerset site in southwestern England, potentially harming wildlife, according to a new study. Researchers at Bangor University in Wales discovered high levels of cocaine and MDMA in the Whitelake River, which runs through Worthy Farm,
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, CNN Russia reported its highest Covid-19 death toll in a single day on Tuesday with 852 coronavirus-related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the country’s coronavirus response center. The previous all-time high was recorded four days ago, on September 24, when 828 deaths were registered. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Isaacs, Ivana Kottasová and Kara Fox, CNN A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of school teacher Sabina Nessa in southeast London, London’s Metropolitan police said Monday. The suspect was arrested over the weekend and will appear in court on Tuesday, police said in a statement. Nessa, 28, was killed last
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Nadine Schmidt, Stephanie Halasz and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Germany’s left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) won the largest share of the vote in Sunday’s federal election, putting them in pole position to form the country’s next coalition government — but they could be in for some tricky negotiations. Angela Merkel, one of the
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Olaf Scholz has some big shoes to fill. The German Finance Minister will be sworn in as German chancellor next month, barring any 11th-hour setbacks — weeks after he led his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to a narrow victory in September’s parliamentary elections. Under the agreement announced in Berlin on
Continue ReadingBy Simone Bouvier and Tara John, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron was hit by an egg while taking part in a food event in Lyon on Monday. The egg “bounced off Macron’s shoulder and burst on the floor right in front of me,” Florence Lago, a journalist for French publication Lyon Mag, told CNN. Lyon
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Olaf Scholz has some big shoes to fill. The German Finance Minister will be sworn in as German chancellor next month, barring any 11th-hour setbacks — weeks after he led his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to a narrow victory in September’s parliamentary elections. Under the agreement announced in Berlin on Wednesday,
Continue ReadingBy Al Goodman and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Residents along the eastern shore of Spain’s La Palma island were ordered into lockdown Monday as lava flowing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano nears the sea. The 1,250 Celsius degree lava may touch the Atlantic Ocean in the hours ahead, likely causing explosions and sending clouds of toxic
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu and Sharif Paget, CNN The tiny landlocked republic of San Marino voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to legalize abortion under certain circumstances, according to official results published by the country’s state secretariat of internal affairs. Around 77.30% of voters approved the measure which would make abortion legal in the first 12 weeks of
Continue ReadingCNN By Frederik Pleitgen, Salma Abdelaziz, Nadine Schmidt, Stephanie Halasz and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Germany’s left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the most seats in the country’s federal election, preliminary results show, but it will be some time before the makeup of the new government is known. The SPD claimed a narrow victory over
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos, Hannah Ritchie and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN One man has died and nine people have been injured following a strong earthquake that shook the Greek island of Crete on Monday, Greece’s General Secretariat for Civil Protection confirmed to CNN. The earthquake, which hit at 9.17 a.m. local time, had a magnitude of 5.8,
Continue ReadingBy Sugam Pokharel, Jennifer Deaton, Helen Regan, Frederik Pleitgen and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Germany’s left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) will begin negotiations to form a ruling coalition after preliminary results showed the party narrowly winning the largest share of parliamentary seats following Sunday’s federal election. With all 299 of Germany’s electoral districts reporting, the SPD
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