CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Beslan School Siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children…

By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN As news broke that the Taliban had captured Kabul, some images of uncovered women adorning…

By Anita Patrick, CNN It is one of the most anticipated Nollywood films of all time and the trailer for King Of Boys: The Return Of The King was…

By Rob Picheta, Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Anna Coren and Nic Robertson, CNN Hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac at Kabul’s…

By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s…

By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Flash floods across Turkey’s Black Sea coast have killed 58 people, officials said Sunday. The country’s Natural…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group.…

By Katharina Krebs, Zahra Ullah and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A BBC journalist working in Moscow said Saturday that she felt shocked she was being…

By Gul Tuysuz and Zahra Ullah, CNN A Russian aircraft deployed to Turkey to fight wildfires crashed on Saturday, killing all eight people on board,…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Cameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong, who was arrested earlier this week, says that the charges against her have…

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the forests…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Rebecca Enonchong, a Cameroonian tech entrepreneur, has been arrested and brought before a court in Douala, in…

By Samantha Tapfumaneyi, Lauren Kent and Tim Lister, CNN Social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter,…

By Rob Picheta, Niamh Kennedy and Anna Chernova, CNN A Russian millionaire and politician has confessed to shooting a man he says he mistook for a…

By Nima Elbagir and Lauren Kent, CNN Troops and militias aligned with the Ethiopian government have subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual…

By Monica Garrett and Angela Dewan, CNN Authorities in Italy say the island of Sicily may have set an all-time heat record for Europe, hitting a…

By Mostafa Salem and Francesco Pitzalis, CNN Forest fires in Algeria killed 65 people on Tuesday, including 28 soldiers deployed to help put out the…

By Hannah Ritchie, Nadine Schmidt and Jack Guy, CNN A nurse is being investigated by police in Germany for allegedly replacing Covid-19 vaccines with…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the abduction of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured and imprisoned by the military wing of Hamas from…

By Nima Elbagir, Hamdi Alkhshali and Yassir Abdullah, CNN The Sudanese government will hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court…

By Nadine Schmidt and Lindsay Isaac, CNN A British embassy employee suspected of spying for Russia has been arrested in the German city of Potsdam,…

By Stephanie Busari, CNN A patient with the rare, but highly infectious Marburg virus disease has died in Guinea, according to a World Health…

By Chris Liakos, Elinda Labropoulou and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Greece is facing a “natural disaster of unprecedented proportions,” as 586…

By Zahra Ullah, Jennifer Hansler and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko denied Monday that state repression exists in…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. Personal Birth date: August 20, 1966 Birth place:…

By David McKenzie, CNN Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation, the…

By Richard Roth, Michael Conte and Sarah Dean, CNN Fighters from Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region have seized control of a UN World Heritage…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi. Personal Birth date: December 14, 1960 Birth place:…

By Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is warning that Israelis over 60 are at risk unless they go get their third booster shot…

By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated as Iran’s next president on Thursday, signaling the…

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Three layers of electrified fence. New security cameras. A military guard and a sign saying “Entry forbidden.”…

Words by Sasha Fairhead, video by Gisella Deputato, CNN Hidden amongst lush Welsh woods and fields of wildflowers, grows an assortment of rare…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan. Personal Birth date: August 11, 1943 Birth…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of the Duchess of Sussex, the former actress Meghan Markle. Personal Birth date: August 4, 1981…

By Chris Liakos, Laura Smith-Spark and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Extreme heat and wildfires continued to plague parts of southern Europe on Wednesday, a day…

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN It’s been a year since one of the world’s largest ever non-nuclear explosions ripped through Lebanon’s…

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was set to compete in the women’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics on…

Story by Reuters At least 30 corpses have washed up on the Sudanese banks of a river that abuts Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, according…

By Tim Lister and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister in Kabul on Tuesday evening,…

By Radina Gigova, Denis Lapin, Jessie Yeung and Tara John, CNN A Belarusian dissident who helped his countrymen flee persecution was found dead in a…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq. Personal Birth date: August…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda since 1986. Personal Birth date: August 15,1944 Birth…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy. Personal Birth date: August 9, 1939 Birth…

By Tim Lister, CNN Heavy fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces has continued in the capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah. The…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Cars and houses submerged in water, commuters wading through buses knee-high in floods, and homeowners counting the cost of…

By Elaine Ly and Luke McGee, CNN Carrie Johnson, the wife of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has announced the couple are expecting their second…

By Nyasha Chingono, for CNN Pauline Chinyandura adjusts her face mask as she rushes to serve lunch to a group of men visiting her makeshift canteen…

By Jonny Hallam, Kareem El Damanhoury, Barbara Starr and Sheena McKenzie, CNN Maritime tensions are escalating in the Middle East following the…

By Rob Picheta, Jonny Hallam, Barbara Starr and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Two crewmembers died when a tanker connected to an Israeli billionaire was…

By Rob Picheta, James Briggs and Larry Madowo, CNN The UN World Food Programme said it expected to run out of food in the war-torn Ethiopian region…

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN A high-ranking Nigerian police officer is being investigated by the FBI for allegedly making an arrest…

By Andrew Carey and Kareem Khadder, CNN A Palestinian man has died after being shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian…

By Amir Tal, Jacqueline Howard and Andrew Carey, CNN Israel’s Prime Minister has announced a program to roll out a third dose of the…

By Rob Picheta, Sharon Braithwaite and Sarah Dean, CNN Malta’s government must bear responsibility for creating an “atmosphere of…

By Andrew Carey and Kareem Khadder, CNN A 12-year old Palestinian boy has died after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, the Palestinian…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN A Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, known as “Hushpuppi” has admitted his involvement in a conspiracy to…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the London Underground, also known as “The Tube,” the oldest subway…

By Larry Madowo, CNN Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday launched the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign after receiving…

By Duarte Mendonca, Nina Avramova, Chris Liakos, Hada Messia and Rob Picheta, CNN Devastating wildfires have spread across parts of southern Europe,…

By John Allen, CNN In what many are calling the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” a Vatican court on Tuesday opened proceedings…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament, located on the Thames River in…

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Cars stranded in streets turned to rivers. Bus passengers rescued by raft. Train stations submerged, sparking travel chaos.…

By Tara John, CNN As the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Europe shows signs of a slowdown, leaders are racing to find answers to a key dilemma of…

By Ramin Mostaghim and Jonny Hallam, CNN At least three people have been killed during violent protests over water shortages in Iran, according to…

By Saskya Vandoorne, Melissa Bell and Kara Fox, CNN Some 30,000 people have joined the annual Pride celebrations in Budapest on Saturday, organizers…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. Personal Birth date: February 5, 1985 Birth…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of soccer player Lionel “Leo” Messi, who plays for Argentina’s national team and…

By Ghazi Balkiz, Ben Wedeman and Kareem Khadder, CNN Lebanon‘s water supply system is on the verge of total collapse, according to the United…

By Nadine Schmidt, Frederik Pleitgen, Barbara Wojazer and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A week after severe flooding hit western Europe, devastating Germany,…

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN The daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotelier who inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda,”…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, which killed 224 people.…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Francois Hollande, former president of France. Personal Birth date: August 12, 1954 Birth place:…

By Rob Picheta, CNN Chimpanzees‘ lethal attacks on gorillas in the wild have been observed for the first time, a team of researchers has said.…

By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Ten years ago, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, in a bomb…