CNN By Rob Picheta, CNN Russian troops will have “open road” to capture key cities in eastern Ukraine if they seize control of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an interview with CNN, as he defended his decision to keep Ukrainian forces in the besieged city. “This is tactical for us,” Zelensky said, insisting that
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Russian troops will have “open road” to capture key cities in eastern Ukraine if they seize control of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an interview with CNN, as he defended his decision to keep Ukrainian forces in the besieged city. “This is tactical for us,” Zelensky said, insisting that Kyiv’s
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Israeli forces staged a daylight raid into Jenin in the occupied West Bank targeting the suspect in the killing of two Jewish settlers, leaving the suspect and at least five other Palestinian men dead, officials on both sides said Tuesday. The violence marks the latest
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Yulia Kesaieva, Olga Voitovych, Darya Tarasova, Victoria Butenko and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Monday to “find the murderers” involved in a video that he said showed the execution of a Ukrainian soldier by Russian troops, as officials in Kyiv roundly condemned the incident as a war crime.
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati, CNN The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6 killed at least 45,000 people, rendered millions homeless across almost a dozen cities and caused immediate damage estimated at $34 billion — or roughly 4% of the country’s annual economic output, according to the World Bank. But the indirect cost of
Continue ReadingCNN By Tamara Qiblawi and Nima Elbagir, CNN A committee of US senators has called on the United Nations to investigate a network of secret torture centers in Iran exposed by a CNN investigation last month. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the CNN report — which revealed a swathe of clandestine detention centers
Continue ReadingBy Nima Elbagir, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Iran has experienced a spike in suspected poisoning attacks at girls’ schools across the country in recent days, according to state and semi-official media, as medical staff and teachers accused government officials of attempting to silence the victims. Iran has seen a wave of suspected poisoning
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi and Nima Elbagir, CNN A committee of US senators has called on the United Nations to investigate a network of secret torture centers in Iran exposed by a CNN investigation last month. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the CNN report — which revealed a swathe of clandestine detention centers used
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN A week after Russia invaded, the family of 15-year-old Arina Yatsiuk decided to flee their home near the Ukrainian capital by car. Less than 10 miles down the road, they encountered a group of Russian troops. The soldiers started shooting, then dragged Arina and her 9-year-old sister
Continue ReadingCNN By Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN A week after Russia invaded, the family of 15-year-old Arina Yatsiuk decided to flee their home near the Ukrainian capital by car. Less than 10 miles down the road, they encountered a group of Russian troops. The soldiers started shooting, then dragged Arina and her 9-year-old sister
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN A week after Russia invaded, the family of 15-year-old Arina Yatsiuk decided to flee their home near the Ukrainian capital by car. Less than 10 miles down the road, they encountered a group of Russian troops. The soldiers started shooting, then dragged Arina and her 9-year-old sister Valeria
Continue ReadingBy Eleni Giokos and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Fresh protests broke out in Greek on Sunday over a deadly train collision, despite an apology from the prime minister. In a statement, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said “we cannot, will not, and must not hide behind human error,” following the crash, which left 57 people dead.
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski was sentenced by a court in Minsk on Friday to 10 years in a maximum-security penal colony, Russia state news agency TASS reports. He was found guilty on the charge of smuggling, according to TASS. Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, Bethlehem Feleke,and Larry Madowo, CNN Nigeria’s third-placed presidential candidate, Peter Obi, strongly rejected the results and vowed to contest them in the courts, in his first public address since Saturday’s election. Obi said he rejected the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress party, who was declared the
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio and Olha Konovalova, CNN Standing outside a Russian detention center in Kherson, days after the city was liberated, 29-year-old Ihor still shivered as he recalled what he endured inside. “I was kept here for 11 days and throughout that time I heard screaming from the basement,” Ihor, who asked CNN not to
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio, Nathan Hodge and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian security officials claimed on Thursday that a small Ukrainian armed group had crossed the Russian border into the southern Bryansk region, allegations dismissed by Kyiv as a “classic deliberate provocation” by the Kremlin. The Security Service of Russia (FSB) said in
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic spy agency, missed an opportunity to prevent the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry into the terror attack has found according to a report in British news agency PA Media. At least 22 people were killed in the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England,
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister, CNN Ukrainian authorities are accusing Russia of trying to export an unlikely phenomenon: teenage gangs inspired by a Japanese anime game who are taking to the streets for mass brawls. These gangs have become known as “Redan PMC,” combining the name of a Japanese anime character with the acronym for Private
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN Ukrainian authorities are accusing Russia of trying to export an unlikely phenomenon: teenage gangs inspired by a Japanese anime game who are taking to the streets for mass brawls. These gangs have become known as “Redan PMC,” combining the name of a Japanese anime character with the acronym for Private Military
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, Chris Liakos, Lindsay Isaac and Eleni Giokos, CNN Anger in Greece over poor railway safety grew on Thursday, as authorities released audio in which a train driver involved in one of the country’s worst train crashes in recent years was told to ignore a red light. Demonstrators poured onto the streets
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