CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Hada Messia and Radina Gigova, CNN Pope Francis has said that the war in Ukraine “was perhaps in some way either provoked or not prevented” in remarks published by Italian newspaper La Stampa on Tuesday. “What we are seeing is the brutality and ferocity with which this war is waged by the troops, generally

By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn’t a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali’s Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide for

CNN By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn’t a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali’s Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide

By Salma Abdelaziz, CNN Men in hard hats enter a child’s bedroom decorated with pink wallpaper that features two bejeweled elephants, a little one and big one. The workers quickly shovel mounds of rubble off the beige carpet and into wheelbarrows, then dump it down a makeshift chute. They leave only a dusty pile of

CNN By Zahra Ullah and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Viktoria Shishkina clutches her husband’s hand as she recounts what they lost in Ukraine and all the horrors they now carry with them. Four months ago, they were preparing for the birth of their first child. Now, they sit in an unassuming apartment turned hostel in the

By Xiaofei Xu, CNN Just weeks after his own re-election, French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance Ensemble risks losing its absolute majority in parliament, after early results in Sunday’s legislative elections showed it neck and neck with leftist coalition New Ecologic and Social People’s Union (NUPES). Based on 90 percent of the total votes counted

By Natalie Gallón, Nick Paton Walsh and Brice Laine, CNN Driving down bumpy, dirt roads, local police escort us into a wooded area where they say a unit of foreign fighters is based. It’s a village like so many in this part of Ukraine — homes destroyed and visible signs of shelling. The distant rumble

CNN By Natalie Gallón, Nick Paton Walsh and Brice Laine, CNN Driving down bumpy, dirt roads, local police escort us into a wooded area where they say a unit of foreign fighters is based. It’s a village like so many in this part of Ukraine — homes destroyed and visible signs of shelling. The distant

By Ben Wedeman, CNN At first glance Bakhmut doesn’t look like a city at war. As we drove into the city in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on a warm sunny morning, men in orange vests tend to the roses. The tall trees shading the streets are thick with leaves. Traffic is light because

CNN By Ben Wedeman, CNN At first glance Bakhmut doesn’t look like a city at war. As we drove into the city in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on a warm sunny morning, men in orange vests tend to the roses. The tall trees shading the streets are thick with leaves. Traffic is light

CNN By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Long-running tensions over Iran’s nuclear capabilities may have reached a point of no return this week, thrusting the Middle East into uncharted waters. Tehran has ramped up uranium enrichment at a pace not seen since the 2015 signing of a landmark deal, which saw Iran curb uranium enrichment in exchange

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Long-running tensions over Iran’s nuclear capabilities may have reached a point of no return this week, thrusting the Middle East into uncharted waters. Tehran has ramped up uranium enrichment at a pace not seen since the 2015 signing of a landmark deal, which saw Iran curb uranium enrichment in exchange for

By Sharon Braithwaite and Jorge Engels, CNN Relatives of a British man sentenced to death by a court in the pro-Russian, self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have said they are “devastated” and that he “should be accorded all the rights of a prisoner of war” according to the Geneva Conventions. “Firstly, our whole family is

By Josh Pennington, Irene Nasser and Jorge Engels, CNN Russian forces are now in control of most of Severodonetsk, the epicenter of the bloody battle for Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Street fighting continued to rage on Saturday in the eastern city, where Russian soldiers and Ukrainian troops are still locked in battle. “The situation remains

By CNN’s Jorge Engels, Jake Kwon, Jeevan Ravindran and Reuters France’s defense minister said Saturday that the country aimed to rebuild its relationship with Australia, following a failed submarine deal that led to a breakdown of relations between the two countries. The comments by Sebastien Lecornu come after Australia said they will pay French defense

By CNN’s Benjamin Brown Students overpowered a man suspected of stabbing several people at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences in the northwestern German city of Hamm, police said Friday. Four people were injured in the incident, three women and one man, some of them seriously, said police. A 34-year-old male suspect was detained. “Hamm Police