CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Jomana Karadsheh and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in Jeddah on Thursday, marking his first visit to the country since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Erdogan is seeking to mend ties with Saudi

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Isa Soares, Madalena Araujo and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN Lviv, Ukraine — Few beyond the metals industry had heard of Mariupol’s Azovstal Steel and Iron Works before it became the scene of a desperate last stand against Russia’s invading forces. Until recently Azovstal was a major player on the global stage, producing 4

By Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, CNN When 12-year-old Kira Obedinsky, orphaned by war, was whisked from her hometown of Mariupol to a hospital in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine earlier in March, she was unsure if she would ever be reunited with her remaining family members. Now in Kyiv, against all

CNN By Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, CNN When 12-year-old Kira Obedinsky, orphaned by war, was whisked from her hometown of Mariupol to a hospital in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine earlier in March, she was unsure if she would ever be reunited with her remaining family members. Now in Kyiv, against

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Maryna Marukhnych, and Brice Laine, CNN When Dasha and the other children emerged from their basement and into their newly occupied village it was for food. They were hiding from the Russians, who had fired shots into the air, at cars — and at people. But when the

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Maryna Marukhnych, and Brice Laine, CNN When Dasha and the other children emerged from their basement and into their newly occupied village it was for food. They were hiding from the Russians, who had fired shots into the air, at cars — and at people. But when the children

By Brad Lendon, CNN Russian tanks with their tops blown off are just the latest sign that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t going to plan. Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been destroyed since Moscow launched its offensive, with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on Monday estimating it had lost as many as

By Rob Picheta, CNN A series of unexplained explosions have occurred in parts of Transnistria, a breakaway territory within Moldova that has housed Russian troops for decades, sparking fears that Moscow’s war could soon stretch beyond Ukraine and create a new theater of conflict in eastern Europe. Two radio towers in the territory were damaged

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN At least six different Kremlin-linked hacking groups have conducted nearly 240 cyber operations against Ukrainian targets, Microsoft said Wednesday, in data reveal a broader scope of alleged Russian cyberattacks during the war on Ukraine than previously documented. “Russia’s use of cyberattacks appears to be strongly correlated and sometimes directly timed with

By Zeena Saifi, CNN A recent spike in violence at some of Jerusalem’s key holy sites has left Jordan in a difficult position vis-a-vis its nearly century-old custodial obligations in the city. Israeli police have clashed with Palestinians on the al-Aqsa mosque compound in recent days in unrest that has left more than 200 wounded,

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Maryna Marukhnych and Brice Laine, CNN A steady flow of people make their way across fields and rivers dotting southern Ukraine’s countryside through the day. As night falls, the crowds swell. They travel on foot, by bicycle, or wheelbarrow. They are desperate to leave behind the Russian occupation of

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Maryna Marukhnych and Brice Laine, CNN A steady flow of people make their way across fields and rivers dotting southern Ukraine’s countryside through the day. As night falls, the crowds swell. They travel on foot, by bicycle, or wheelbarrow. They are desperate to leave behind the Russian occupation

By Simon Bouvier, Xiaofei Xu, Camille Knight and Elias Lemercier, CNN A 118-year-old nun living in a nursing home in southern France has become the world’s oldest living person, according to the Guinness World Records. Sister André is also the oldest nun ever, according to a statement released by Guinness on Monday. Born as Lucile

By Nimi Princewill and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are scrambling to contain an Ebola outbreak after a second person died from the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. The country declared a new outbreak of the disease last week after the death of a 31-year-old man,

By Ivana Kottasová, Stephanie Halasz and Ulrike Heil, CNN Germany has agreed to deliver anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine, the German Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday, a move that underscores a major shift in its approach to providing military help to Ukraine. The commitment to deliver the Gepard anti-aircraft systems was announced by defense minister Christine