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By Anna Chernova and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial International, one of the country’s most respected human rights organizations, wiping out three decades of work to expose the abuses and atrocities of the Stalinist era. The court ruled that Memorial International had fallen afoul of Russia’s “foreign

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The southern French port city of Marseille has made headlines in recent months over the deaths of several young people in drug-related shootouts, in what is often referred to as a “settling of scores.” A spate of killings this summer, including that of a 14-year-old boy named Rayanne in mid-August, prompted

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN On Monday, cathedral bells tolled at midday in Cape Town as South Africa began a week of mourning for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday. As his country marks Tutu’s life and death, people around the world are doing the same, including many from groups

Story by Reuters and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN A suicide bomber struck a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Saturday, killing at least eight people as well as himself, officials said. The explosion took place at INBOX bar where people were celebrating Christmas, according to a security official in Beni.

By Todd Leopold, Larry Madowo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has died. He was 90. In a statement

By Tim Lister and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Sixteen European governments have issued a statement to “firmly condemn the deployment of mercenary troops” in the west African state of Mali. The 16 governments, including France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany, said they were aware of “the involvement of the Russian Federation government in providing material

By Nima Elbagir and Arnaud Siad, CNN The White House will eject Ethiopia from a trade program between sub-Saharan African countries and the United States over human rights violations, according to a statement Thursday. Ethiopia was found to be in violation of section 506a of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the statement added.

By Luke McGee and Anna Chernova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the ball is in NATO’s court when asked about increasing fears of war in Ukraine during his annual press conference on Thursday morning. In response to a blunt question on whether Russia will invade Ukraine, Putin said: “How would the Americans

By Katie Hunt, CNN Thousands of years before Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, tiny beads helped humans make social connections. A decade-long study of more than 1,500 beads made from ostrich eggshells and found across Africa has revealed a 50,000-year-old social network, archaeologists say. The donut-shaped beads are among the earliest kinds of personal adornment found