By Nadine Schmidt and Caolán Magee, CNN A Swiss village has been ordered to evacuate amid warnings a large mass of rock looming overhead could come tumbling down in the coming days. Leaders in Brienz held a town hall event on Tuesday evening and told residents they would have to leave by 6 p.m. local
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Uliana Pavlova and Christian Edwards, CNN The boss of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused a Russian brigade of abandoning its position in front-line Bakhmut, allowing Ukraine to seize territory. The remarks are the latest in a series of public criticisms from him of Moscow’s Ministry of Defense for the faltering
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN At least fifteen people have died after a boat capsized in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto State on Tuesday, authorities told CNN. A police spokesman, Sanusi Abubakar, told CNN on Wednesday that 21 out of 36 people on board were rescued after the boat overturned in the Dandeji River in Sokoto’s Shagari district.
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her husband, Markus Räikkönen, are to divorce after 19 years together, Marin announced on Instagram on Wednesday. “We have filed for divorce together. We are grateful for 19 years together and our beloved daughter,” Marin wrote in an Instagram story. “We are still best friends,
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, CNN Authorities are trying to identify 22 women murdered in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands over the last few decades. Most of the murders are considered cold cases involving women who died 10, 20, 30 or even 40 years ago, according to Interpol, which launched a public campaign on Wednesday to name
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene, Ibrahim Dahman, Hadas Gold, Abeer Salman and Elliott Gotkine, CNN Israel’s army and Palestinian militants exchanged heavy cross-border fire on Wednesday, with hundreds of rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out deadly strikes on what it says are Islamic Jihad organization targets along the
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN A French journalist working for the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) was killed by rocket fire near the embattled city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday. Arman Soldin, 32, was AFP’s video coordinator in Ukraine and was killed in a rocket attack on the outskirts of the town of
Continue ReadingBy Eyad Kourdi and Hande Atay Alam, CNN At least five people were killed in a shooting attack near a synagogue in Tunisia, Tunisian state news agency TAP reported on Wednesday, citing the country’s interior ministry. The attack, which took place in Djerba, killed three security officers, one of whom died in hospital after sustaining
Continue ReadingBy Eyad Kourdi and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Saudi Arabia and Syria have resumed the work of diplomatic missions in both countries, according to state media, more than a decade after Riyadh cut ties over the Syrian government’s brutal handling of its civil war. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia decided to resume the work of
Continue ReadingBy Al Goodman, CNN Spanish police have arrested 26 people in recent months for an alleged scheme to use water from illegal wells to grow subtropical fruit, as the country grapples with damaging heat and drought. A Spanish Civil Guard statement said a four-year investigation had uncovered 250 illegal wells and ponds in the in
Continue ReadingBy Antonia Mortensen, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Catherine Nicholls, CNN A Polish mayor died after falling from a fourth-floor window of a hotel in Sardinia, Italy, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Tuesday. The mayor, named by his municipality as Radosław Grzegorz Ostakiewicz, was visiting the Sardinian village of Cagliari with the Polish delegation,
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Kosta Gak, and Peter Rudden, CNN In this vacant and damaged village, news of Russia’s evacuation of occupied towns along the southern front cannot come soon enough. Ukrainian-held Mala Tokmachka, just over a mile (2 kilometers) from Russian-held territory in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been left ghostly and
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, Matthew Chance, Anna Chernova, Vasco Cotovio and Radina Gigova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin led a pared-down Victory Day parade in Moscow on Tuesday as he repeated his false assertion that the West had launched a “true war” against Russia, despite the Kremlin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Thousands of people lined
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin and Richard Allen Greene, CNN A damning new report from a leading press freedom watchdog says it has found no accountability was taken by the Israeli military over its killings of at least 20 journalists over the past two decades. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published the report on Tuesday, just
Continue ReadingBy Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene and Hadas Gold, CNN Three Islamic Jihad commanders and multiple family members were among the 13 Palestinians killed as Israeli jets and helicopters struck multiple targets in Gaza overnight in what Israel described as an operation targeting “kingpin terrorists,” leading to threats of retaliation. One of the
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, CNN Iran hanged two people on Monday who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy, according to the judiciary news agency Mizan. Yusef Mehrdad and Sadrullah Fazeli Zare were arrested in May 2020 and sentenced to death in April 2021 for running online “anti-Islam groups and channels,” Mizan said. Authorities convicted both
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Kosta Gak, and Peter Rudden, CNN In this vacant and damaged village, news of Russia’s evacuation of occupied towns along the southern front cannot come soon enough. Ukrainian-held Mala Tokmachka, just over a mile (2 kilometers) from Russian-held territory in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been left ghostly and
Continue ReadingBy Amir Tal, Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN The European Union canceled a diplomatic reception to celebrate Europe Day in Tel Aviv due to take place on Tuesday to avoid giving a platform to Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the EU delegation to Israel said Monday. “Regrettably, this year we
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Kosta Gak, and Peter Rudden, CNN In this vacant and damaged village, news of Russia’s evacuation of occupied towns along the southern front cannot come soon enough. Ukrainian-held Mala Tokmachka, just over a mile (2 kilometers) from Russian-held territory in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been left ghostly and battered
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN At the height of election campaigning and just three weeks before polls were set to open, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated Turkey’s first nuclear plant in a virtual ceremony, in a move that further tethered the two Black Sea neighbors. The event last month saw
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