CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Katie Polglase and Livvy Doherty, CNN David Carrick, a serial sex offender, served in one of Britain’s most elite armed police units for years. He is now behind bars, but his ability to evade justice has only fueled a growing distrust and anger toward police in the United Kingdom. CNN has investigated how failures

By Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN Half a million Israelis took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judicial system, organizers claimed. Israel has a population of just over 9 million, so if organizers’ estimates are correct, about 5%

By Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN A group of Russian wives and mothers have called on President Vladimir Putin to stop sending their husbands and sons “to the slaughter” by forcing them to join assault groups without adequate training or supplies. In a video shared by the independent Russian Telegram channel SOTA, the women

By Heather Chen and Jennifer Hauser, CNN One of Scotland’s oldest fox hunts has come to an end after 252 years following the introduction of new law on hunting. The Hunting with Dogs bill, which went into effect earlier this week after being passed in January, outlaws hunting and killing wild mammals using packs of

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Two weeks after a boat packed with migrants sank off the coast of southern Italy, there is still no peace for the living or the dead, and the missing — mostly children — continue to wash up on the beaches. The latest — a girl aged five or six —

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN The City of Lights has a garbage problem. Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash pickup services in the French capital, with piles of waste sitting on many of the city’s normally picturesque streets, including those just steps from monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the

By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Fourteen-year-old Philasande Dayimani carries a burden that no child should carry. Last year, she started getting sores in her mouth and struggled to breathe. She says a clinic doctor told her to test for HIV. “It wasn’t easy for me to accept. Many people cry when they hear

By Joseph Ataman, CNN The United Kingdom said on Friday it would pay $576 million over the next three years as part of a deal with France to combat illegal immigration across the English Channel. The deal was announced during a joint summit between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron

By Rob Picheta, CNN Russia’s overnight missile attack on Thursday showered Ukraine with an array of missiles, in one of Moscow’s biggest aerial assaults for months. Nearly half a million people are without power in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, following the latest barrage of strikes, according to the regional governor. And there are concerns about

By Mostafa Salem, Adam Pourahmadi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Saudi Arabia and Iran announced on Friday that they had agreed to reestablish diplomatic ties after seven years of hostility, in a deal between the regional archrivals that could have wide-ranging implications for the Middle East. Riyadh and Tehran plan to reopen their embassies within two

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN As Russian missiles rained down on Ukraine in February last year, another grim tale was unfolding on the sidelines: Foreign students, mostly African and Asian, seeking to flee to bordering nations recounted an ordeal of segregation and racism at Ukraine’s borders. One African medical student told CNN at

By Nadine Schmidt, Jessie Gretener, Tara John and Chris Lau, CNN Germany was in shock on Friday after a gunman killed six people as well as an unborn child at a Jehovah’s Witnesses center in Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself as police stormed the building. The attacker, a 35-year old German national, was

By Katya Krebs and Jorge Engels, CNN Georgia’s parliament on Friday formally revoked a controversial “foreign influence” bill that sparked major protests amid concerns that it resembled Russian laws used to stifle political dissent. Georgian lawmakers voted against the bill in its second reading by a margin of 35 to one, according to Georgia’s public

By Celine Alkhaldi, Ehsan Popalzai and Kathleen Magramo, CNN A Taliban governor in northern Afghanistan has been killed by an explosion in his office, police officials have told CNN. Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh province, died along with two others in the blast on Thursday, said the provincial police force’s spokesman Asif Waziri.

By Nadine Schmidt, Jessie Gretener, Tara John and Chris Lau, CNN Seven people were killed during a mass shooting on Thursday at a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in the German city of Hamburg in what the country’s leader denounced a “brutal act of violence.” ”Eight people are dead – including the alleged perpetrator,” Hamburg police