CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh and Gul Tuysuz, CNN Turkey’s fiercely contested presidential election appears likely to go to a second round after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure 50% of votes cast to decisively extend his 20-year rule. The high stakes election will ultimately decide the fate of a key NATO ally and

By Rob Picheta, CNN Sweden’s Loreen has won the Eurovision Song Contest for a second time, earning a historic triumph at an extravagant and crowd-pleasing show held in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on behalf of Ukraine. She became just the second performer to win the competition more than once, clinching victory with pop ballad “Tattoo” and

By Richard Allen Greene, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Duarte Mendonca, Hamdi Alkhshali and Heather Chen, CNN Israel and Islamic Jihad agreed to a ceasefire Saturday, after days of violence that have claimed the lives of at least 35 people — almost all of them Palestinians. The ceasefire was scheduled to take effect at 10 p.m.

By Amarachi Orie, CNN Loonkiito, possibly one of the oldest lions in the world, has been killed in Kenya at the age of 19, conservation organization Lion Guardians said. The lion was killed on Wednesday by the owner of a livestock pen, which Loonkiito had entered in the middle of the night looking for prey

By Elizabeth Wells, CNN Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the main opposition candidate in Turkey’s presidential election, is decidedly calm and mild-mannered in his bid to end the two-decade rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Much of his campaign messaging has been delivered from his quintessentially Turkish middle-class home and posted on Twitter, in videos that some observers

CNN By Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh and Gul Tuysuz, CNN Turkey’s fiercely contested presidential election appears likely to go to a second round after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure 50% of votes cast to decisively extend his 20-year rule. The high stakes election will ultimately decide the fate of a key NATO ally

By Eoin McSweeney, CNN The Israel Defense Forces has apologized for the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a year to the day after she was killed by a bullet to the back of the head while covering an Israeli military operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. It is the first

By Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, CNN Two police officers and several firefighters were injured in an explosion at a block of flats in western Germany on Thursday as they attended an emergency call. The blast happened at a high-rise building in the western town of Ratingen, police said. A body was discovered in the

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Two babies have been found alive on the shores of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lake Kivu, days after floods and landslides killed more than 400 people in two villages in the country’s South Kivu province. “Two babies including a boy of one month and two weeks and a girl of

By Isil Sariyuce, Gul Tuysuz and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkish presidential candidate Muharrem Ince has pulled out of the race, in a potential boost to the main opposition candidate’s chances of beating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s vote. Ince had low polling numbers and some opposition figures feared he would split the anti-Erdogan vote,

By Elliott Gotkine, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Amir Tal, Richard Allen Greene and Sana Noor Haq, CNN A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a residential building in Israel on Thursday, causing the first Israeli death after days of violence between the two sides that had already claimed at least 30 Palestinian lives. The

CNN By Julia Kesaieva, Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio and Katharina Krebs, CNN Ukrainian forces says they are conducting “effective counterattacks” in the Bakhmut area, in comments that are in line with claims from the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner that Kyiv has recaptured some territory. Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday accused a

By Julia Kesaieva, Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio and Katharina Krebs, CNN Ukrainian forces says they are conducting “effective counterattacks” in the Bakhmut area, in comments that are in line with claims from the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner that Kyiv has recaptured some territory. Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday accused a Russian