CNN By Amarachi Orie, Isil Sariyuce, Eyad Kourdi and Chris Liakos, CNN More than 33,000 people have died across Turkey and Syria since a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday, as hopes of rescuing more survivors dwindle amid freezing conditions. The latest figures show that 33,181 have died across both countries. The death toll
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie and Nadine Schmidt, CNN The remains of more than 200 German soldiers who were buried alive in a tunnel in northeastern France during the World War I will not be recovered. The German government has instead decided to declare the burial site a war memorial and put it under state protection. Germany’s
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Five days after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria the number of dead is staggering. Drone footage and satellite imagery have conveyed the stark reality of widespread destruction in an area that straddles two very different nations. The scale of the disaster is enormous. “We’ve
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Continue ReadingBy Jonny Hallam, Artemis Moshtaghian and Niamh Kennedy, CNN An Iranian doctor and rights activist has been released from Tehran’s infamous Evin prison one week after photographs of his severely emaciated condition emerged on social media. Farhad Meysami was released from prison on Friday, according to the Iranian pro-reform outlet Shargh Daily. News of his
Continue ReadingBy Pau Mosquera, Florencia Trucco, Stefano Pozzebon and Tara John, CNN Spain will offer a path to citizenship for 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners who were recently released from prison and many of whom were sent to the United States on Thursday, a spokesman for Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN. The spokesman did not
Continue ReadingBy Isil Sariyuce, Celine Alkhaldi, Eyad Kourdi and Amy Woodyatt, CNN In the days since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Syria and Turkey, the death toll, now at more than 23,000, is climbing, and stories of survival are becoming few and far between. A lucky few are still being pulled alive from the rubble: two
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN A car drove into several people at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Friday, killing a man and a young child in what Israeli police described as a “ramming terror attack.” A second child died of his injuries Saturday. Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 6, and Alter Shlomo Lederman, 20,
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN Europe has experienced an exceptionally warm January, with average temperatures 2.2 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1990 to 2020 average, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The month started with a record-breaking heatwave, as New Year’s Day saw an alarming number of heat records fall across
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN Private military contractor Wagner will have to look for new fighters beyond Russia’s prison system, a fertile recruiting ground for the past nine months, according to its boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin said on his company’s Telegram channel Thursday: “We have completely discontinued the recruitment of prisoners into Wagner PMC. To those
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Radina Gigova, Jack Guy and Nic Robertson, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a heartfelt appeal to lawmakers in Brussels on Thursday to allow his country to become part of the European Union, insisting that Europe is Ukraine’s “home.” During an address to the European Parliament, Zelensky said his country and the
Continue ReadingCNN By Brad Lendon, CNN Russia has potentially lost up to half of all its operational tank fleet since the start of the Ukraine war, according to information collected by a monitoring group, as its military struggles to meet the goals of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Oryx, an open source intelligence website, has been collecting visual
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Josh Pennington, CNN A former Chechen commander wanted by Ukraine for alleged war crimes committed last year is leading the Russian earthquake relief effort in Turkey. Daniil Martynov was in several locations in Ukraine last year in the early weeks of the Russian invasion. He is thought to be
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Survivors of Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria could face “a secondary disaster” as cold and snow lead to “worsening and horrific conditions,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, WHO incident response manager Robert Holden warned
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Russia has potentially lost up to half of all its operational tank fleet since the start of the Ukraine war, according to information collected by a monitoring group, as its military struggles to meet the goals of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Oryx, an open source intelligence website, has been collecting visual evidence
Continue ReadingCNN By 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
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has told CNN that while a brutal state crackdown has succeeded in quieting the demonstrations that gripped the country for months, many Iranians still want regime change. In an exclusive interview Wednesday from her home in Tehran, Nasrin Sotoudeh told CNN’s Chief International Anchor
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Isil Sariyuce, Zeena Saifi and Reyhan Baysan, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted to his government’s “shortcomings” amid growing anger over the state’s response to the massive earthquake earlier this week, which is now known to have killed more than 21,000 people. Days after the quake hit Turkey’s Gaziantep province
Continue ReadingCNN By Raja Razek, Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Survivors of Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria could face “a secondary disaster” as cold and snow lead to “worsening and horrific conditions,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, WHO incident response manager Robert Holden
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands of others were injured by the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Rescue teams are still desperately searching for signs of life beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings amid grim conditions,
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