CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Mayria Knight and Jonny Hallam, CNN Poland and Hungary have banned imports of grain and other food products from Ukraine following a surge in cheap goods. The Polish prime minister’s office said the move was “to protect the Polish agricultural market against destabilization.” Ukraine responded by saying it “regrets the decision of its Polish

By Sana Noor Haq, Caolán Magee and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for

CNN journalists in Sudan Fierce fighting across Sudan entered a second day as months of tensions between a paramilitary group and the country’s army erupted into violence. Clashes around the army headquarters and presidential palace in capital Khartoum involved heavy weapons. There have also been reports of battles hundreds of miles away in the eastern

By Saskya Vandoorne and Joseph Ataman, CNN France’s pension reforms have come into law, a day after the country’s top court approved the government’s unpopular plans to raise the age of retirement by two years to 64. The decision marked a huge win for President Emmanuel Macron in the face of mass protests across the

By Laura Paddison, Nadine Schmidt and Inke Kappeler, CNN Germany’s final three nuclear power plants close their doors on Saturday, marking the end of the country’s nuclear era that has spanned more than six decades. Nuclear power has long been contentious in Germany. There are those who want to end reliance on a technology they

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Yemen’s Houthi rebels are not interested in spreading tyranny in the country and are willing to share power with other political factions if a permanent ceasefire with Saudi Arabia is reached, a top Houthi official has said. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, member of the Supreme Political

By Barbie Nadeau and Toyin Owoseje CNN A female bear that was sentenced to death for the fatal mauling of jogger in Italy has been given a stay of execution until May 11, officials in Trento have said. Andrea Papi, 26, was attacked and killed last week while jogging in a public nature reserve in

By Saskya Vandoorne and Sophie Tanno, CNN Heightened security is in place in the French capital Paris as the country braces for a crucial ruling on the constitutionality of divisive changes to France’s pension system. The Constitutional Council in Paris, France’s equivalent of the US supreme court, has been barricaded ahead of the decision, which

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Joseph Ataman, CNN Iran executed at least 582 people last year, a 75% increase on the previous year, according to human rights groups who say the rise reflects an effort by Tehran to “instill fear” among anti-regime protesters. It was the highest number of executions in the Islamic republic since

By Sarah Dean and Anna Chernova, CNN A fresh leak of classified US intelligence documents suggests broad infighting between Russian officials, including some within the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Defense Ministry, the New York Times reported Thursday. CNN has not independently verified the documents. The NYT said it had shown the new 27-pages of

By Xiaofei Xu, Oliver Briscoe and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Hundreds of thousands of people took part in a fresh round of demonstrations across France on Thursday over government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, a day before a crucial court ruling on the constitutionality of the divisive law. Protesters in Paris

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN An elephant’s trunk is a remarkable organ: a fusion of nose and upper lip, capable of movement via a dense network of muscles. It’s strong enough to lift a log, and sensitive enough to perform delicate tasks like picking up a single tortilla chip without breaking it. Now a team of