By Hande Atay Alam, Isil Sariyuce and Sana Noor Haq, CNN At least three more people, including two minors, have been incredibly pulled alive from the rubble of a devastating earthquake, 10 days after it struck parts of Turkey and Syria. A 17-year-old Aleyna Ölmez was dubbed the “miracle girl” when she was pulled alive
Continue ReadingBy Frederik Pleitgen, Zahra Ullah, Claudia Otto and Rob Picheta, CNN Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed there is “no way” his country would send troops into Ukraine unless it is attacked, amid fears Russia’s close ally will help to facilitate a spring offensive by Moscow. “We are peaceful people. We know what war is
Continue ReadingCNN By Frederik Pleitgen, Zahra Ullah, Claudia Otto and Rob Picheta, CNN Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed there is “no way” his country would send troops into Ukraine unless it is attacked, amid fears Russia’s close ally will help to facilitate a spring offensive by Moscow. “We are peaceful people. We know what war
Continue ReadingCNN By Mick Krever, CNN Read Maria Lvova-Belova’s social media, and one might think Russia is selflessly delivering Ukrainian children from evil into the care of Russian families desperate to share their love. But according to American and European governments — and a new report by Yale investigators, backed by the US State Department —
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, CNN Read Maria Lvova-Belova’s social media, and one might think Russia is selflessly delivering Ukrainian children from evil into the care of Russian families desperate to share their love. But according to American and European governments — and a new report by Yale investigators, backed by the US State Department — she
Continue ReadingBy Zahra Ullah and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Tensions are mounting at the border between Ukraine and Moscow-allied Belarus, as officials in Kyiv warn of a Russian spring offensive amid ramped-up military attacks from the Kremlin. In rare access since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a CNN team visited Belarus’s southwest border near northwest Ukraine,
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The husband of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh will be forced to serve the rest of a five-year prison sentence, Sotoudeh told CNN on Tuesday. Reza Khandan was summoned to report to the judiciary within 30 days to begin serving out the sentence, which was initially handed down in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, CNN A Russian court has sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to six years in prison for a Telegram post that the court said spread “false information,” state news agency TASS said on Wednesday. Ponomarenko was detained last April and charged with publishing “false information” on her Telegram channel about a Russian airstrike on
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Eight days after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, a relief plane touched down in the Syrian city of Aleppo, marking one of the biggest diplomatic feats for the country’s isolated regime in over a decade. The plane came from Saudi Arabia, one of the staunchest opponents of Syrian President
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn, Chris Liakos and Sophie Tanno, CNN Duangphet Phromthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave after a weekslong operation that drew global attention in 2018, has died in the UK, British and Thai officials announced Wednesday. Phromthep, who was enrolled in a soccer academy in Leicestershire, England, died
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN Two schoolchildren have been charged with murder following the death of a 16-year-old transgender girl in an English village. A boy and a girl, both aged 15, have been charged with the murder of Brianna Ghey, who was found dead in a park in Warrington in the country’s northwest on Saturday
Continue ReadingBy Talia Kayali, Rhea Mogul and Hande Atay Alam, CNN A confused woman asked her rescuers “What day is it?” when pulled alive from the rubble of last week’s earthquake after 228 hours, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday, as another woman aged 77 was also rescued from the debris. More than nine days
Continue ReadingBy Tara John and Hande Atay Alam, CNN A verdant olive grove was cleaved into two during last week’s devastating earthquake in Turkey, creating a valley 984 feet long (about 300 meters) that now divides the area. Remarkable footage of the split olive grove has emerged from Turkey’s south-east Altınozu district, which borders Syria, showing
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Vadym Khodak beams and leans forward. He’s almost bouncing on his feet. “My soldiers like it a lot,” he says with a nod to the line of Polish Leopard 2 version 4 tanks behind him. “This machine is good quality.” His smile speaks volumes, revealing deep furrows that
Continue ReadingCNN By Nic Robertson and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Vadym Khodak beams and leans forward. He’s almost bouncing on his feet. “My soldiers like it a lot,” he says with a nod to the line of Polish Leopard 2 version 4 tanks behind him. “This machine is good quality.” His smile speaks volumes, revealing deep furrows
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By Eve Brennan, Stephanie Busari and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles has docked in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of joint military drills with South Africa, Russia and China, Cape town’s Russian Consulate said on Monday. “The battleship arrived in the Mother City on its way to Durban
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN In the 12 months since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine, one of the biggest surprises has been the willingness with which Western countries, especially in Europe, have handed over increasingly sophisticated military equipment for Ukrainian use. At times the debates around sending certain types of weapons, most
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever and Anna Chernova, CNN Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military company Wagner, admitted on Tuesday to founding the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious troll farm that the US government has sanctioned for interfering in American elections. A Wagner Telegram channel on Tuesday published a statement from Prigozhin, asking him
Continue ReadingBy Talia Kayali, Aliza Kassim Khalidi, Rhea Mogul and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Rescue teams in southern Turkey say they are still hearing voices from under the rubble more than a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, offering a glimmer of hope of finding more survivors. Live images broadcast on CNN affiliate CNN Turk
Continue ReadingCNN By Talia Kayali, Aliza Kassim Khalidi, Rhea Mogul and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Rescue teams in southern Turkey say they are still hearing voices from under the rubble more than a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, offering a glimmer of hope of finding more survivors. Live images broadcast on CNN affiliate CNN
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