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By Jack Guy, Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN Ugandan authorities have officially declared the end of a recent Ebola outbreak after 42 consecutive days with no new cases. A formal declaration was made during a televised ceremony held in the central Mubende district, the epicenter of the outbreak, on Wednesday. According to the World

By Zahid Mahmood and Amarachi Orie, CNN The former King of Greece, Constantine II, has died at the age of 82, CNN affiliate CNN Greece reported on Tuesday. According to CNN Greece, the former King had experienced serious health problems in the past few months and recently contracted coronavirus for the second time, which appeared

By Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh and Joseph Ataman and Dalal Mawad, CNN At least six people were injured in an attack at Paris’ Gare Du Nord train station early Wednesday, restricting access to one of the French capital’s major rail hubs. An individual began attacking people at 6:42 a.m. local time and was neutralized a

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN The Vatican has opened a new investigation into the disappearance of a 15-year-old daughter of one of its employees in 1983. The case of Emanuela Orlandi has come under intense scrutiny in recent months following the release of an investigative docuseries from Netflix titled “Vatican Girl.” Orlandi,

By Celine Alkhaldi, CNN The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said Tuesday. The verdict against Faezeh Hashemi, who is a known Iranian activist, is “not final,” the lawyer, Neda Shams, said in a tweet. “The client is still in prison and there

By Uliana Pavlova, Olga Voitovych and Ben Wedeman, CNN Ukrainian officials on Sunday dismissed Moscow’s claim that a large number of Kyiv’s soldiers were killed in a Russian attack last week in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. “This is nonsense,” Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesman for Eastern Group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told CNN, in response to

By Xiaofei Xu At least 40 people were killed Sunday and many others seriously injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, according to the country’s president. “I am deeply saddened by today’s tragic road accident in Gniby, where 40 people died and many were seriously injured. I send my heartfelt condolences to the families

By Pierre Meilhan, CNN German police have detained an Iranian national on suspicion of planning a terror attack, authorities in the country said Sunday. Police in the western city of Munster said the 32-year-old man is believed to have procured unspecified amounts of the toxins cyanide and ricin in preparation for an “Islamist-motivated attack.” The

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Sahar Akbarzai, Tara Subramaniam, Jomana Karadsheh and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The executions on Saturday of two young men in Iran, one a karate champion, the other a volunteer children’s coach, in connection with nationwide protests have sparked outrage around the world. The total number of people now known to have been executed

By Laura Paddison, CNN Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion is best known for its attention-grabbing tactics. Activists have blocked roads and bridges, glued themselves to trains, smashed bank windows and sprayed fake blood over buildings. But in two words headlining a New Year’s Eve statement, the group signaled a radical change. “We Quit,” it announced.

By Katie Hunt, CNN Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned for their fur some 300,000 years ago. The discovery in Schöningen, northern Germany, is exciting because — despite the depictions

By Brad Lendon and Anna Chernova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has dispatched one of his country’s most modern warships armed with advanced hypersonic missiles on a long voyage through the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and into the Indian Ocean, Russian state media reported Wednesday. The frigate Admiral Gorshkov set off from an

By Angus Watson, Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Britain’s Prince Harry has launched a series of incendiary accusations against members of his family in his new memoir, which reveals a number of private confrontations between him and other senior royals and details his split from the family, media outlets who obtained early copies of

By Sana Noor Haq, Sharon Braithwaite, Valentina Di Donato and Delia Gallagher, CNN Pope Francis paid tribute to his predecessor former Pope Benedict XVI Thursday, in a funeral attended by tens of thousands of mourners at St. Peter’s Square. The event marked the first occasion in modern times that a pontiff had presided over the

By Christian Edwards, CNN The year has only just started but already Europe has broken an alarming number of weather records as extreme heat spread across the continent. On New Year’s Day, at least eight European countries recorded their warmest January day ever: Liechtenstein, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Belarus, Lithuania, Denmark and Latvia,

By Abeer Salman, Irene Nasser and Elliott Gotkine, CNN Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Tuesday visited the Jerusalem compound known as the Temple Mount by Jews and the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary by Muslims, in a move that drew international condemnation. Videos published on Israeli media showed Ben Gvir walking

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By Mariya Knight and Tim Lister, CNN Kateryna and her husband Oleg endure what every citizen of Kyiv must — long blackouts, hours without any internet connection and constant apprehension about the next missile barrage. But as they begin 2023, they are also preparing for the arrival of twin boys. Kateryna, who is 34, is

By Delia Gallagher, Valentina Di Donato and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The lying-in-state of former Pope Benedict XVI, who died Saturday at the age of 95, began Monday in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City ahead of his funeral later this week. Benedict, who was the first pontiff in almost 600 years to resign his

By Olga Voitovych, Yulia Kesaieva, Gul Tuysuz, Denis Lapin and Mariya Knight, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of “following the devil” and waging a war to ensure that its President Vladimir Putin remains in power “until the end of his life.” Zelensky switched to speaking Russian in his nightly address on Saturday to

By Daniel Burke and Hada Messia, CNN Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, whose death at 95 was announced Saturday, was a powerful intellectual force who shaped the Catholic Church’s theology for more than a quarter century before shocking the world by resigning in 2013. While not quite unprecedented, Benedict’s resignation was highly unusual. Popes typically hold

By Jack Guy, Valentina Di Donato, Sugam Pokharel, Sharon Braithwaite, James Frater and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Pope Francis led tributes to his predecessor on Saturday, after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95. “We are moved as we recall him as such a noble person, so

By Delia Gallagher and Rob Picheta, CNN Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday. “I want to ask you all for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who sustains

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN For Andrei Soldatov and his friends, February 24 marked the end of Russia as they knew it. In the early hours of that day, President Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered Russian troops into Ukraine. “And all of a sudden, everything we still believed in got completely compromised,” Soldatov, a

By Gul Tuysuz, Pierre Bairin, Svitlana Vlasova and Will Ripley, CNN For Olena Isayenko, the beeping sound her oxygen machine makes when disconnected from power is far scarier than the screeching of the air raid sirens now commonly heard throughout Kyiv. She suffers from respiratory failure, meaning she can’t breathe adequately on her own and

By Josh Pennington, Olga Voitovych and Jessie Yeung, CNN Three Russian servicemen were killed Monday after a Ukrainian drone was shot down by air defenses as it approached a military airfield in Saratov Oblast, deep inside Russian territory, according to Russian state news agencies, citing the defense ministry. The incident took place in the western

By Mariya Knight and Josh Pennington, CNN Russia is prepared to resume gas supplies to Europe via the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, which was previously stopped for political reasons, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Russian state news agency TASS on Sunday. “The European market remains relevant, as the gas shortage persists, and we have

By Sahar Akbarzai and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN All of the people feared missing after an avalanche Sunday near the mountainous villages of Lech and Zurs in Austria have been found alive, according to the Austrian Press Agency (APA). Four have been injured, including one seriously, it reported. A final sweep of the area will be done on

By Sophie Tanno, Svitlana Vlasova and Dennis Lapin, CNN President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukrainians to have “patience and faith” in a defiant Christmas address after a deadly wave of Russian strikes pounded the southern city of Kherson. Ten months into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Zelensky spoke of endurance and pushing through to the end,

By Sahar Akbarzai and Shafi Kakar, CNN A group of women took to the streets in the city of Herat in Afghanistan on Saturday, protesting against a Taliban order this week suspending all female students from attending university in the country. Video footage circulating on social media showed Taliban officials using a water cannon to

By Delia Gallagher Pope Francis asked people this Christmas to “do something good,” during his homily at Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Saturday. “God does not want appearances, but concreteness,” the Pope said. “May we not let this Christmas pass without doing something good.” Earlier this month, Francis had asked

By Xiaofei Xu, CNN Clashes between protesters and police have broken out in central Paris on Saturday, as members of the local Kurdish community took to the streets to call for justice following Friday’s deadly shooting at a Kurdish cultural center. Live images from CNN’s affiliate BFMTV, as well as news agencies Reuters and AFP

By Xiaofei Xu, Niamh Kennedy, Joseph Ataman and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN French police on Friday fired teargas amid clashes with agitated protesters outside a Kurdish community center in the heart of Paris, where a gunman earlier killed three people and injured four others in an attack with possible racist underpinnings. All three people killed inside

By Celine Alkhaldi, Nima Elbagir, Artemis Moshtaghian and Zahid Mahmood, CNN Shahid Alikhani square is a nondescript part of the historic Iranian city of Isfahan. Its sole claim to prominence is the grand entrance to one of the city’s main metro stations. But now it has become a place of pilgrimage for supporters of the

By Radina Gigova and Rhea Mogul, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday used the word “war” to refer to the conflict in Ukraine, the first known time he has publicly deviated from his carefully crafted description of Moscow’s invasion as a “special military operation” 10 months after it began. “Our goal is not to

By Inke Kappeler, CNN A German citizen who worked for the country’s foreign intelligence service was arrested Wednesday on charges of spying for Russia, according to the office of the German Federal Prosecutor General. “The defendant is urgently suspected of treason,” a news release by the German Prosecutor General said of the defendant, named Carsten

By Jack Guy, Svitlana Vlasova and Olga Voitovych, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s speech at the US Capitol on Wednesday, where he expressed gratitude for US support, was a historic moment, and one which resonated with people in his home country. CNN spoke to members of the public in Ukraine to gauge their reaction to

By Anna Chernova, Niamh Kennedy, Haley Britzky and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Kyiv and its Western allies are “set for a long confrontation with Russia” following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s momentous visit to Washington, Moscow said as the war in Ukraine approaches 10 months. Russia’s foreign ministry condemned what it called the “monstrous crimes” of the

By Nick Paton Walsh and Sarah Dean, CNN Russia has continued expanding its military bases in the Arctic region despite significant losses in its war on Ukraine, according to a new series of satellite images obtained by CNN. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also told CNN in an exclusive interview on Friday there is now

By Will Ripley, Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Kostantyn Hak, CNN Snake Island has a special place in Ukraine’s folklore, now more than ever. Its defiant defense — when a Russian warship was famously told to “go f*** yourself” — and then reconquest rallied a nation in the early months of the conflict with Russia,

By Uliana Pavlova One person was reported dead and eight people were injured in the Russian region of Belgorod on Sunday following shelling by Ukrainian forces, according to the regional governor. “One person died. It is known that the man came to us from Tambov and worked as a contractor on the construction of a

By Delia Gallagher, CNN Pope Francis has revealed in a new interview that he has already signed his resignation letter to be used in the event of him becoming “impaired.” Francis made the comment in an interview with Spanish news outlet ABC, published Sunday, when asked what would happen if a pope is suddenly rendered

By Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN Boniface Barasa worked for three years as a construction worker in Qatar, but the life-long football fan now says he was so traumatized by the experience that he was torn about watching matches during the World Cup. Barasa, 38, says he witnessed a co-worker die after collapsing from

By Larry Madowo, Sophie Jeong and Heather Chen, CNN As the 2022 World Cup comes to a close, global rights organizations have renewed criticism of Qatar and FIFA over the treatment of thousands of migrant workers who built stadiums and tournament infrastructure. The World Cup final on Sunday coincides with both International Migrants Day and

By Uliana Pavlova, CNN Propaganda videos have begun circulating on Russian social media in recent days to encourage Russians to enlist in the armed forces and fight in Ukraine, despite the Kremlin having denied needing more recruits. In an attempt to attract more volunteers to the front, the videos posted on social networks in the

By Olga Voitovych and Sophie Tanno, CNN Water supply and metro services have been restored in Kyiv but officials continued to work Saturday to return heating to all the Ukrainian capital’s residents, a day after a barrage of Russian missiles targeted the city. “Water supply has been restored to all residents of the capital. Half