CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Josh Pennington, Olga Voitovych, Helen Regan, Vasco Cotovio and Anna Chernova, CNN Russia unleashed its worst attacks on Kyiv in a year, Ukraine’s military said, as for the third time in four days missiles and drones hit the city. The barrage came after Moscow accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Nigeria’s food and drug regulator says it is investigating the popular Indomie brand of instant noodles following recalls in Malaysia and Taiwan where health authorities say they detected a potentially cancer-causing substance. Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said in a statement Tuesday it was “taking

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN For days now, the blasts have echoed the condition each country’s military is in. Ukraine is apparently striking at fuel depots in Russian-occupied areas and inside Russia itself — seemingly precise attacks but ones to which Kyiv is making no overt claim. Russia has been lashing out at what often

By Duarte Mendonca and Nimi Princewill, CNN Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides on Tuesday in Rwanda killing at least 127 people in the Western, Northern and Southern Provinces, the president’s office said. “Rescue interventions are ongoing in the most affected districts … in order to secure endangered citizens,” a statement by the presidency said

By Rob Picheta, Josh Pennington, Radina Gigova and Amy Croffey, CNN A teenage boy opened fire in a school in the Serbian capital of Belgrade just after lessons began on Wednesday morning, killing eight children and a security guard and seriously injuring several others, officials said. The boy — a 13-year-old student at the school

By Niamh Kennedy, Chris Stern and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Police arrested more than 100 people across in multiple European countries on Wednesday as part of a major operation against Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia, described by authorities as the “largest ever” coordinated hit against Italian organized crime. Authorities took into custody 132 suspected members of the

By Hadas Gold, Richard Allen Greene and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Israel conducted strikes on the Gaza Strip late Tuesday and militants there fired rockets toward Israel following the death of a prominent Palestinian hunger striker in an Israeli prison. The exchange of fire came after former Islamic Jihad spokesman Khader Adnan died in Israeli custody

By Nimi Princewill and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, the leader of a religious group linked to dozens of deaths in eastern Kenya, could face “possible terrorism charges,” according to his lawyer George Kariuki. Mackenzie appeared in court on Tuesday, where “he was released unconditionally and then rearrested … on possible terrorism charges,” Kariuki

By Catherine Nicholls and Nimi Princewill, CNN Uganda’s parliament has passed an amended version of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 on Tuesday. Under the new proposed bill, homosexual conduct will still be illegal, but identifying as homosexual without conducting in homosexual acts will not be outlawed. The bill, however, retains its more extreme elements, including the death penalty for

By Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and David McKenzie, CNN The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — the two warring factions in Sudan — have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire, the foreign ministry of South Sudan said in a statement Tuesday. The two sides also said they would send representatives

CNN By Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and David McKenzie, CNN The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — the two warring factions in Sudan — have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire, the foreign ministry of South Sudan said in a statement Tuesday. The two sides also said they would send

CNN By Fred Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Laura Paddison, CNN Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said. Caudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been

By Fred Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Laura Paddison, CNN Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said. Caudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been hit

By Abeer Salman, Hadas Gold, Richard Allen Greene and Helen Regan, CNN Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, an Islamic Jihad former spokesman who became a symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli detention policies, died Tuesday after 87 days of hunger strike, authorities said. Adnan, 45, had been on hunger strike since his arrest on February 5,