CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN The sudden ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room as a Ukrainian soldier walks in. This is where Russian soldiers were living at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and radiation levels are now higher than normal. There’s no visible presence of the

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Yemen’s exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ceded power to a presidential council on Thursday in a shock move supported by Hadi’s main backer Saudi Arabia. Both the president, who had been in power for a decade, and his vice president, who was also removed, were fiercely opposed by the Iran-backed Houthi

By Uliana Pavlova, Anna Chernova and Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Nobel Peace Prize-winning newspaper editor says he was attacked with red paint while traveling on a train in Russia. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, said he was attacked on Thursday during a train ride from Moscow to the city

By Olga Voitovych and Nathan Hodge, CNN At least 50 people, including five children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used by civilians trying to flee the fighting, Ukrainian officials said Friday. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the regional military

By Amir Tal, CNN Two people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in a shooting at a bar in a busy area of Tel Aviv late on Thursday, Israeli officials said. The suspected gunman was killed by security forces following a manhunt, according to a statement from Israel’s General Security Service on

By Luke McGee, Nathan Hodge, Lauren Kent, Claudia Otto and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Germany’s foreign intelligence service told a parliamentary committee Wednesday that it has intercepted radio communications where Russian soldiers talked about shooting soldiers and civilians in Ukraine, a source with knowledge of the meeting said. The briefing was the top item at the

By Nathan Hodge, Eoin McSweeney and Niamh Kennedy, CNN CNN has geolocated a recent video that appears to show the execution of a Russian prisoner by Ukrainian forces following recent fighting in the Kyiv region. The video — first verified by the New York Times — shows a group of soldiers with Ukrainian patches and

By Mostafa Salem and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Yemen‘s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has been replaced by a newly formed presidential council in a bid to support UN efforts to end the country’s seven-year civil war. Analysts have called the announcement a “big deal” in the bitter conflict which has been described as the world’s worst