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By Rob Picheta and Chris Liakos, CNN Greece has finished building a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wall along its border with Turkey, amid concerns in parts…
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By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s…
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CNN By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before…
Continue ReadingWho are the Taliban and how did they take control of Afghanistan so swiftly?
CNN By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before…
Continue Reading2020 was Europe’s hottest year on record ‘by a considerable amount,’ scientists say
CNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Last year was Europe’s hottest on record, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Meteorological…
Continue ReadingDeath toll from Turkey floods rises to 58
By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Flash floods across Turkey’s Black Sea coast have killed 58 people, officials said Sunday. The country’s Natural…
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Continue ReadingBBC Russia correspondent calls her imminent expulsion ‘shocking’ and says she can never go back
By Katharina Krebs, Zahra Ullah and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A BBC journalist working in Moscow said Saturday that she felt shocked she was being…
Continue ReadingRussian plane fighting wildfires crashes in Turkey, killing all 8 crew members on board
By Gul Tuysuz and Zahra Ullah, CNN A Russian aircraft deployed to Turkey to fight wildfires crashed on Saturday, killing all eight people on board,…
Continue ReadingCameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong says charges have been dropped
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Cameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong, who was arrested earlier this week, says that the charges against her have…
Continue ReadingBelarus floods the European Union with migrants, taking a page out of Putin’s playbook
CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the…
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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the forests…
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