Russia’s war in Ukraine
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‘It was a warzone.’ Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of elite Tehran university, witnesses say, as crackdown escalates
By Teele Rebane, Hannah Ritchie, Jomana Karadsheh and Kara Fox, CNN When Farid’s friend called crying for help on Sunday, he jumped on his bike and quickly rode to Tehran’s Sharif University. “Please come save us. We are stuck here. They are shooting at us,” his friend said. Scenes of violence and “savagery” met him
Continue ReadingRussian Parliament begins process to rubber-stamp annexations as Moscow struggles to define borders
CNN By Olga Voitovych and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Russia’s legislature on Monday began the process of approving President Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex four parts of Ukraine, despite the fact that the Kremlin is not in full control of those regions and has not settled upon the exact boundaries of the territories it is attempting
Continue ReadingRussian Parliament begins process to rubber-stamp annexations as Moscow struggles to define borders
By Olga Voitovych and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Russia’s legislature on Monday began the process of approving President Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex four parts of Ukraine, despite the fact that the Kremlin is not in full control of those regions and has not settled upon the exact boundaries of the territories it is attempting to
Continue ReadingAncient DNA hunter who sequenced first Neanderthal genome wins Nobel Prize for medicine
By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution. The Nobel Committee said Monday that Pääbo “accomplished something seemingly impossible” when he sequenced the first Neanderthal genome and revealed that Homo sapiens interbred
Continue ReadingRussia’s war in Ukraine
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Continue ReadingUkraine is hitting Russia hard in the regions Moscow is trying to seize
CNN By Joshua Berlinger and Olga Voitovych, CNN As Vladimir Putin lost more of the Ukrainian territory he is seeking to annex, his government on Tuesday sought to finalize the formalities of its claim to four Ukrainian regions, none of which are fully controlled by Russia anymore. The upper house of Russia’s rubber-stamp legislature, the
Continue ReadingCNN team visits key city of Lyman, hours after Ukraine regains control from Russian forces
By Nick Paton Walsh and Victoria Butenko, CNN The ghostly emptiness of the streets of Lyman in eastern Ukraine belies this city’s strategic significance. There are no signs of Russian troops at all on Sunday — few damaged Russian tanks, or Russian dead, or Russian prisoners. Members of the Ukrainian National Guard from the Dnipro-1
Continue ReadingCNN team visits key city of Lyman, hours after Ukraine regains control from Russian forces
CNN By Nick Paton Walsh and Victoria Butenko, CNN The ghostly emptiness of the streets of Lyman in eastern Ukraine belies this city’s strategic significance. There are no signs of Russian troops at all on Sunday — few damaged Russian tanks, or Russian dead, or Russian prisoners. Members of the Ukrainian National Guard from the
Continue ReadingRussian officials criticize retreat from key Donetsk city after Putin annexed region
CNN By Katharina Krebs and Kara Fox, CNN Russian officials have criticized their military leadership following the retreat of Russian forces from the strategic eastern city of Lyman, in the Donetsk region, underlining concerns that Moscow could be eyeing nuclear weapons on the battlefield. A Russian lawmaker and former army commander told Soloviev Live, a
Continue ReadingRussian officials criticize retreat from key Donetsk city after Putin annexed region
By Katharina Krebs and Kara Fox, CNN Russian officials have criticized their military leadership following the retreat of Russian forces from the strategic eastern city of Lyman, in the Donetsk region, underlining concerns that Moscow could be eyeing nuclear weapons on the battlefield. A Russian lawmaker and former army commander told Soloviev Live, a digital
Continue ReadingRussian forces retreat from strategic Donetsk city a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region
By Kostan Nechyporenko and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Russian forces retreated from Lyman, a strategic city for its operations in the east, the Russian defense ministry said Saturday, just a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region that’s been declared illegal by the West. “In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied troops
Continue ReadingRussian forces retreat from strategic Donetsk city a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region
CNN By Kostan Nechyporenko and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Russian forces retreated from Lyman, a strategic city for its operations in the east, the Russian defense ministry said Saturday, just a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region that’s been declared illegal by the West. “In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied
Continue ReadingBurkina Faso military officials announce dissolution of government and leader’s removal
From CNN’s Jorge Engels, Karen Smith, and Arnaud Siad, and Reuters A new military takeover has been declared in Burkina Faso, after a day marked by gunfire and confusion in the capital city of Ouagadougou. The country’s land and aerial borders have been closed, and its constitution suspended. In an announcement on state television late
Continue ReadingIranian security forces arrest a woman for eating at restaurant in public without her hijab, family says
By Celine Alkhaldi and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Iranian security forces arrested a woman after a photo of her and another woman eating at a Tehran restaurant without their head scarves was widely circulated online, her family said Friday. The photo emerged Wednesday showing the two women having breakfast at a cafe that, like most coffeehouses
Continue ReadingPutin announces annexation of Ukrainian regions in defiance of international law
CNN By Joshua Berlinger, Anna Chernova and Tim Lister, CNN President Vladimir Putin announced Russia would seize of nearly a fifth of Ukraine on Friday, declaring that the millions of people living there would be Russian citizens “forever.” Under the annexation process, which is illegal under international law, Moscow will recognize four Ukrainian regions as
Continue ReadingJailed dissident Alexey Navalny says Russia must be transformed after war
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Imprisoned Russian dissident Alexey Navalny says the only way for his country to avoid an “endless cycle of imperial authoritarianism” is to become a parliamentary democracy. Writing in the Washington Post, Navalny said while Western nations have rightly asserted the importance of Ukraine’s independence and preventing Russia from winning the war
Continue ReadingThousands attend funeral for 7-year-old who died, Palestinians say, in Israeli troops chase
By Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN Thousands of Palestinians turned out Friday to mourn a seven-year-old Palestinian boy who died, his father said, while being chased by Israeli troops on Thursday — an account rejected by the Israeli army but which prompted the US State Department to call for an investigation. Rayyan Suleiman was
Continue ReadingPutin announces annexation of Ukrainian regions in defiance of international law
By Joshua Berlinger, Anna Chernova and Tim Lister, CNN President Vladimir Putin announced Russia would seize of nearly a fifth of Ukraine on Friday, declaring that the millions of people living there would be Russian citizens “forever.” Under the annexation process, which is illegal under international law, Moscow will recognize four Ukrainian regions as Russian
Continue ReadingBooker prize nominated author convicted for staging solo protest in Zimbabwe
By Nyasha Chingono, for CNN Award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has been found guilty of staging a protest with the intent of inciting public violence, a court in the capital Harare ruled Thursday. Dangarembga, a fierce critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government was arrested in 2020 for marching while holding a placard demanding reforms. She
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