Hungary plans referendum on law criticized by EU as homophobic
By Luke McGee, Amy Cassidy and Boglarka Kosztolanyi CNN Hungary’s right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed a referendum on…
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Hungary’s FM: We don’t want LGBTQI ‘activists’ in schools
Speaking to Bianna Golodryga, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó defends the country’s new law that bans content which “promotes”…
Continue ReadingAround 100 kidnapped women and children rescued in Nigeria
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Around 100 women and children abducted in early June by gunmen known locally as “bandits” have been rescued,…
Continue ReadingPfizer-BioNTech to start producing Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa in 2022
By David McKenzie and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech will start to manufacture their Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa, they announced…
Continue ReadingHis brother was tortured and killed by Russian mercenaries. Now this Syrian refugee wants justice
CNN By Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN In the central Syrian desert, an oil field has become a makeshift torture chamber. An unarmed man…
Continue ReadingHis brother was tortured and killed by Russian mercenaries. Now this Syrian refugee wants justice
By Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN In the central Syrian desert, an oil field has become a makeshift torture chamber. An unarmed man…
Continue ReadingRockets land near Afghanistan’s presidential palace during Eid prayers
By Kara Fox and Nic Robertson, CNN Three rockets landed in two different areas near the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning,…
Continue ReadingRussia unveils new ‘Checkmate’ fighter jet
By Anna Chernova and Zahra Ullah, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin got a sneak peek of a new fifth-generation lightweight single-engine fighter…
Continue ReadingISIS claims responsibility for Iraq suicide attack that left dozens dead
CNN By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Aqeel Najm, CNN ISIS have claimed responsibility for an suicide attack that ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi…
Continue ReadingISIS claims responsibility for Iraq suicide attack that left dozens dead
By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Aqeel Najm, CNN ISIS have claimed responsibility for an suicide attack that ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital…
Continue ReadingKurt Westergaard, cartoonist whose depiction of Mohammed sparked outrage, dead at 86
By Jack Guy and James Frater, CNN Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose depiction of the prophet Mohammed wearing a turban made out of a bomb…
Continue ReadingAustria investigating reports of ‘Havana syndrome’ among US diplomats
Austrian authorities are investigating reports that US diplomats in Vienna have experienced symptoms of a mystery illness known as Havana Syndrome.…
Continue ReadingTour de France Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Tour de France. July 1-24, 2022 – The 109th Tour de France takes place. Danish cyclist Jonas…
Continue ReadingGrand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric. Personal Birth…
Continue ReadingLebanon Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country bordering Syria, Israel and the Mediterranean Sea. About Lebanon (from the…
Continue ReadingEnormous scale of destruction is revealed as water subsides after historic western Europe flooding
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN At least 189 people are dead and hundreds more remain missing after catastrophic flooding hit large swaths of western…
Continue ReadingAustria probes reports of Havana Syndrome among US diplomats in Vienna
By Denise Hruby and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Austrian authorities said they are investigating reports that US diplomats in Vienna have experienced…
Continue ReadingPicturesque German town now choked with mud and debris
The streets of Altenahr, Germany, or what remains of them, are buried under mud, with cars wedged between collapsed buildings and piles of debris.…
Continue ReadingDesperate search for survivors as western Europe reels from a ‘catastrophe of historic proportion’
By Vasco Cotovio, Atika Shubert and Ivana Kottasová, CNN In Altenahr in western Germany, even the dead were not spared in this week’s…
Continue ReadingCNN correspondent reports from ground as Belgium sees extreme flooding
More than 100 people have died in Germany and Belgium following severe flooding in the area, caused by what experts described as the heaviest…
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