August 18, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Kabul mosque explosion kills 21, injures dozens, police say
CNN By Ehsan Popalzai and Rob Picheta, CNN An explosion that erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Afghanistan‘s capital on Wednesday killed 21 people and injured 33 others, according to a spokesperson for the Kabul police chief. Security forces were investigating the incident in the city’s police district 17, the spokesperson added. Health
Continue ReadingScientists discover a 5-mile wide undersea crater created as the dinosaurs disappeared
By Katie Hunt, CNN An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth’s surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc with the planet. No, it’s not that asteroid, the one that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously unknown crater 248 miles off the coast of West
Continue ReadingSaudi activist sentenced to 34 years in prison for Twitter activity
By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Saudi women’s rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison on Monday for her activity on Twitter, according to court documents viewed by CNN. Al-Shehab, 33, was also banned from traveling outside of Saudi Arabia for another 34 years. The PhD student at Leeds University in the United
Continue ReadingKabul mosque explosion kills 21, injures dozens, police say
By Ehsan Popalzai and Rob Picheta, CNN An explosion that erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Afghanistan‘s capital on Wednesday killed 21 people and injured 33 others, according to a spokesperson for the Kabul police chief. Security forces were investigating the incident in the city’s police district 17, the spokesperson added. Health care
Continue ReadingOutrage over Palestinian leader’s ’50 Holocausts’ remark
By Hadas Gold and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas struck a deep nerve on Tuesday when he said Israel has caused “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians, triggering outrage from world leaders and a social media storm. “From 1947 to the present day, Israel has committed 50 massacres in Palestinian villages and cities,” Abbas
Continue ReadingUkraine admits it was behind three explosions in Crimea. Here’s what we know
By Vasco Cotovio and Tara John, CNN Ukraine was behind three explosions rocked Russian military facilities in the annexed province of Crimea this past week, including an explosion at a Russian air base on the peninsula’s west coast that wrecked several airplanes, according to a Ukrainian government report circulated internally and shared with CNN by
Continue ReadingWho is Kenya’s new President-elect William Ruto?
CNN By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN William Ruto has emerged the winner of a tense and fiercely fought contest for Kenya’s presidency, but who is the man who will lead east Africa’s largest economy? As a boy, Ruto grew up on his family’s farm in a quiet village in the Rift Valley, selling
Continue ReadingSyria denies holding Austin Tice, journalist missing for 10 years, after White House claims otherwise
By Mostafa Salem, Adam Pourahmadi and Joshua Berlinger, CNN The Syrian government on Wednesday denied it is holding or has any information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist who vanished a decade ago while reporting on the Middle Eastern nation’s civil war. Syria’s foreign ministry said in a rare statement that the
Continue ReadingAugust 17, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Continue ReadingHe was abducted and tortured by Russian soldiers. Then they started using his Instagram to push pro-Kremlin propaganda
By Eliza Mackintosh and Yuliia Presniakova, CNN Before the war broke out, Igor Kurayan, a 55-year-old from the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, shared frequent gardening updates on social media. His feeds were full of palms, pomegranate trees, marigolds, bamboo and avocados, grown at his home and small business near the Black Sea. He
Continue ReadingWho is Kenya’s new President-elect William Ruto?
By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN William Ruto has emerged the winner of a tense and fiercely fought contest for Kenya’s presidency, but who is the man who will lead east Africa’s largest economy? As a boy, Ruto grew up on his family’s farm in a quiet village in the Rift Valley, selling chickens
Continue ReadingKenya election presidential candidate Odinga rejects results, vows court challenge
By Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken for the first time since he lost the election saying his coalition “totally and without reservations reject the presidential results” in a televised address on Tuesday. “In our view, there is neither a legally and validly declared winner nor a president-elect,”
Continue ReadingRussia blames sabotage as blasts rock another military facility in Crimea
By Uliana Pavlova, Alex Stambaugh, Fred Pleitgen, Vasco Cotovio and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A blast at an ammunition depot in the village of Maiskoye in Crimea injured at least two people, local authorities said Tuesday, in the second incident in a week to rock the Russian-controlled peninsula. Russia’s ministry of defense has blamed sabotage for
Continue ReadingIAEA says it will not close probe into Iran’s unexplained traces of uranium without answers
CNN By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has again called on Iran to explain why traces of enriched uranium were found at previously undeclared nuclear research sites three years ago. “Give us the necessary answers, people and places so we can clarify the many things needed for clarification,”
Continue ReadingAugust 16, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Continue ReadingIran wants compensation if US pulls out of nuclear deal again, diplomatic source says
By Mostafa Salem, Frederik Pleitgen and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN As attempts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal heat up, Tehran is seeking guarantees that it will be compensated if a future US president pulls out of the pact, a regional diplomat told CNN on Tuesday. Last week European Union officials sent the US and
Continue ReadingHow Iran exploited Rushdie’s Satanic Verses
By Tamara Qiblawi and Zeena Saifi, CNN Nearly 10 years after he was driven underground, Salman Rushdie believed he was free. The author had been living under heavy security and highest secrecy in London. But in 1998, the Iranian government of President Mohammad Khatami publicly distanced itself from the religious fatwa calling for his murder.
Continue ReadingWilliam Ruto declared winner of Kenyan presidential vote amid chaos at election center
By Bethlehem Feleke, Larry Madowo, Nimi Princewill, and Stephanie Busari, CNN Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has been elected as the country’s next President, the electoral commission announced Monday. Ruto won with 50.49% of the vote, narrowly defeating veteran opposition leader and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was contesting his fifth election. He will
Continue Reading50 killed and many displaced in northern Nigeria flooding
By Idris Mukhtar, Alex Stambaugh, Mike Saenz and Nimi Princewill, CNN At least 50 people have died and “many” displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) for Jigawa State said. “When you go around [Jigawa State], we lost about 50 people
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