CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Katie Hunt, CNN Our Stone Age ancestors didn’t just share stories by the side of a fire — they may have watched them too. Early humans living in what’s now France carved art on rock tablets and placed them by the flickering light of a fire to give the illusion of movement — an

By Sandi Sidhu, Phil Black, Daria Markina and Victoria Butenkow, CNN Dmitry Nekazakov was walking his dog before he went to work when the Russian shelling started on Hostomel, a city on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv. The sky buzzed with low-flying helicopters from which Russian troops jumped, while rockets rained down. It was

By Hadas Gold, CNN The 10-month-old Israeli coalition government is facing its deepest political crisis to date, after weeks of high-profile attacks across Israel, military action in the West Bank, and after Israeli police entered and arrested hundreds at one of Jerusalem’s holiest sites. From its inception, the coalition government had a razor thin margin,

By Hannah Ritchie, Masha Angelova and Rob Picheta, CNN A brigade accused of committing war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha has been awarded an honorary title by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Troops in the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade were named by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense as war criminals earlier this

By Jonny Hallam, Brad Lendon, Uliana Pavlova and Ivana Kottasová, CNN New photos and a short video clip emerged early Monday on social media showing Russia’s guided-missile cruiser, the Moskva, badly damaged and on fire in the hours before the ship sank in the Black Sea on Thursday. The sinking of the Black Sea fleet

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The fate of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is hanging on an unknown number of defenders making their last stand at an iron and steel plant. An ultimatum given by the Russian Defense Ministry to the last remaining Ukrainian troops still fighting in the port city has come and gone. The

By Amy Cassidy, Mostafa Salem, Caroline Faraj, Obayda Nafaa and Jack Bantock, CNN Forty people have been injured in riots that broke out over Easter weekend in southern Sweden following a far-right anti-Muslim rally. Some 26 police and 14 members of the public were injured, the spokesperson said, adding that police had arrested 26 individuals,

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati is due to visit Saudi Arabia in the next two weeks, a first trip by a Lebanese premier to the Arab powerhouse in almost four years following an unprecedented rupture in relations. The last visit was in 2018 by then-Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who in 2021

By Phil Black, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Before Russia’s war on Ukraine began, Kira Obedinsky was a joyful, loved 12-year-old girl. Now orphaned, injured and alone in a Russian-controlled hospital in eastern Ukraine, she has become an unwitting pawn in Moscow’s information war. Obedinsky’s mother died when she was a baby.