By Oren Liebermann, CNN Russian pilots tried to “dogfight” US jets over Syria, according to a spokesman for US Central Command, part of a recent pattern of more aggressive behavior. The attempts have happened in several of the most recent instances of aggressive behavior from Russian pilots, Col. Joe Buccino said. The Russian pilots do
Continue ReadingCNN By Nic Robertson, AnneClaire Stapleton and Maria Avdeeva, CNN Russia unleashed what is believed to have been the deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians in months on Friday, killing at least 23 people in an early-morning missile strike on an apartment block in the city of Uman. The attack, which drew international condemnation, came around
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson, AnneClaire Stapleton and Maria Avdeeva, CNN Russia unleashed what is believed to have been the deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians in months on Friday, killing at least 23 people in an early-morning missile strike on an apartment block in the city of Uman. The attack, which drew international condemnation, came around 4
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq and Noon Salih, CNN A growing number of people say they are stranded in Sudan because Western embassy workers fled the conflict-ridden country without returning passports that were surrendered during visa applications. Diplomats from at least three Western missions have been unable to grant access to travel documents belonging to Sudanese
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jessie Yeung, CNN By the time word arrived of a potential evacuation, Deana Welker was already tired and scared from days of moving around the Sudanese capital Khartoum in search of safe shelter as gun battles raged across the city. The American teacher had fled her home soon after intense fighting
Continue ReadingBy Celine Alkhaldi, Ingrid Formanek, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Helen Regan, CNN Fighting between Sudan’s military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued Friday, hours into the latest ceasefire, eyewitnesses in the country said, as officials warned that scores have been killed in “deadly ethnic clashes” in West Darfur’s capital city El Geneina since the beginning
Continue ReadingBy Sarah El Sirgany, Ghazi Balkiz and David McKenzie, CNN In the deluge of gunshot wounds and war injuries at the small Alban Gedid hospital in Khartoum, Dr Howida AlHassand distinctly remembers the family killed in their house. “The kids were playing when a mortar hit their house,” she says over the phone after she
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN Kenyan authorities on Thursday arrested another prominent televangelist, to face criminal charges “related to mass killing of his followers.” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said Ezekiel Ombok Odero, who pastors the New Life Prayer Church in Mavueni, Kilifi County, announced the arrest on Twitter, but did not give further detail on the
Continue ReadingBy Hamdi Alkhshali Iran’s Navy has seized an “offending Marshall Islands-flagged” ship in the Gulf of Oman, after it allegedly collided with an Iranian boat and attempted to flee the scene, according to Iranian state news agency IRNA. “The seizure came after an unknown ship collided with an Iranian vessel last night on Wednesday in
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt, CNN A German landlord has won the right to sunbathe naked in the courtyard of his Frankfurt building, in spite of complaints from his tenants. The landlord, who has not been named, resorted to taking legal action after a human resources company that rented premises in the building withheld payments because of
Continue ReadingBy Al Goodman and Laura Paddison, CNN A mass of hot and dry air blowing north from Africa has led to “exceptionally high” temperatures that are more “typical of summer” this week in central and southern Spain, the national weather service AEMET reported. Temperatures this week are expected to be 15 to 20 degrees Celsius
Continue ReadingBy Delia Gallagher and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Pope Francis will allow women to participate and vote for the first time at an upcoming meeting of Catholic bishops in October. The meeting, known as a synod, normally only allows bishops to vote. Pope Francis on Wednesday approved guidelines that will expand participation and voting to include
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN The unrelenting drought that has devastated the Horn of Africa and left more than 20 million people facing acute food insecurity would not have been possible without climate change, a new analysis has found. Since October 2020, this part of East Africa, one of the world’s most impoverished regions, has been
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Authorities in Sweden have retrieved the payload of a research rocket launched from the country’s Esrange Space Center that landed by error in neighboring Norway. After lifting off Monday morning at 7:20 a.m. local time, the rocket entered a “non-nominal flight path,” taking a longer and more westerly trajectory than calculated,
Continue ReadingBy Steven Jiang, Nectar Gan, Simone McCarthy and Radina Gigova, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone Wednesday, in their first known conversation since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Beijing ramps up efforts to position itself as a potential peacemaker in the grinding conflict. Zelensky, who has long
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, Clare Sebastian, Hande Atay Alam and Radina Gigova, CNN Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny said he faces a new “terrorist case,” in what could mean decades more in prison for the outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In comments posted on Twitter, Navalny said that despite his jail term he
Continue ReadingBy Nima Elbagir, Tamara Qiblawi and Amarachi Orie, CNN Fierce fighting across Sudan has left hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule in tatters. Forces loyal to two rival generals are vying for control, and as is so often the case, civilians have suffered the most. At least 459 people have been killed and
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN For years, the people in the villages around Chingola in Zambia endured frequent health challenges and dead fish floating around in their water source, but that was just the beginning of their nightmare. In 2006, their once-clear river water suddenly turned a vivid blue, tainted by waste from the copper mine
Continue ReadingBy Chris Stern, CNN German and British fighter jets intercepted three Russian aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the German Armed Forces said on Wednesday. Two Su-27 military aircraft and one Il-20 were “again flying without transponder signal,” the German Armed Forces tweeted. Since NATO countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania don’t have their
Continue ReadingCNN By Eliza Mackintosh and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The violence that has exploded in Sudan as the country’s two top generals grapple for power has unfolded at a terrifying, breakneck speed. But, by many accounts, the clash was long in the making — the culmination of years spent by the international community legitimizing the two
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