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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections are less than two weeks away, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing unprecedented challenges that could end his two-decade rule. Voters will head to the polls on May 14, deciding the fate of Turkey’s democracy less than three months after a February 6 earthquake killed more

CNN By Larry Madowo, CNN In the dark of night, the nightmare is nearly over for the lucky few gathered on the quayside in Port Sudan. Under floodlights, a tugboat docks and picks up dozens of evacuees from a quiet street near the busy jetty. Saudi soldiers wearing balaclavas check their passports and let them

By Larry Madowo, CNN In the dark of night, the nightmare is nearly over for the lucky few gathered on the quayside in Port Sudan. Under floodlights, a tugboat docks and picks up dozens of evacuees from a quiet street near the busy jetty. Saudi soldiers wearing balaclavas check their passports and let them through,

By Joseph Ataman, Saskya Vandoorne and Oliver Briscoe, CNN Clashes erupted in Paris on Monday marking May 1, a traditional day of union-led marches, in the wake of hugely unpopular changes to France’s pension system that were signed into law last month. A building caught fire at Place de la Nation as the French capital

By Gul Tuysuz, Hande Atay Alam and Jessie Yeung, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Sunday that the country’s intelligence forces had killed the leader of ISIS in Syria as he vowed to continue the country’s fight against terrorism. In a broadcast, Erdogan said Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization had been tracking a man

By Antonia Mortensen, CNN The Vatican is part of a peace mission to end the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said Sunday. “The mission is in the course now, but it is not yet public. When it is public, I will reveal it,” Francis told reporters. The pontiff made the remarks as he returned to

CNN By Sophie Tanno, CNN The artist behind a sculpture of a walrus that was controversially euthanized over public safety concerns says she hopes her creation becomes a “three-dimensional history lesson” after it was unveiled in Norway’s capital Oslo. The life-sized bronze statue shows Freya the walrus curled up on her side close to the

By Sophie Tanno, CNN The artist behind a sculpture of a walrus that was controversially euthanized over public safety concerns says she hopes her creation becomes a “three-dimensional history lesson” after it was unveiled in Norway’s capital Oslo. The life-sized bronze statue shows Freya the walrus curled up on her side close to the water’s

By Xiaofei Xu and Darya Tarasova, CNN Russia says it will retaliate after Polish authorities seized the Russian Embassy school in Warsaw, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Polish police and staff from the Warsaw city hall entered the campus Saturday morning, asking employees to leave the premises, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti

By Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN Ukrainian shelling has killed four civilians in the Russian border region of Bryansk, the local governor says. Alexander Bogomaz said the strikes hit residential buildings in the village of Suzemka, in Syzemsky district. Unverified video posted on Bogomaz’s Telegram channel shows people emerging from a damaged building at

By Mitchell McCluskey and Aqeel Mohamed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decried the presence of the US military in Iraq during a meeting with Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid in Tehran on Saturday. “The presence of even one American in Iraq is too much,” Khamenei said, Iranian state media outlet IRNA reported. “Americans are

By Larry Madowo, Muhammad Darwish and Eleanor Pickston, CNN Hundreds of evacuees arrived in Saudi Arabia from Sudan as fierce fighting in the country between the army and a rival paramilitary group entered its third week, despite another attempt at a ceasefire. Violent clashes broke out the capital Khartoum near the presidential palace in the

By Tim Lister, CNN Ukraine says its preparations for a spring counter-offensive are almost complete. When it’s launched, probably in the south, it will mark a pivotal moment in the conflict. But the Russians have had nearly six months to prepare the ground — and build an elaborate array of defenses. Breaking through will present

By Josh Pennington, Alex Stambaugh, Kostan Nechyporenko, Mariya Knight and Darya Tarasova, CNN A suspected drone strike has sparked a huge fire at a fuel storage facility in the Russian-occupied Crimean port city of Sevastopol. The Russian-backed governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said four fuel tanks were hit but no one was injured. Razvozhaev