CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN With the Duchess of Sussex’s photograph plastered across many UK newspapers this week, you’d have been forgiven for thinking you’d somehow time-traveled back to 2019. Reminiscent of the peak media frenzy that engulfed Meghan, this week saw the latest bout in her two-year legal battle against the publisher

By Kara Fox, CNN Thousands of people have been stranded at the border between Poland and Belarus for months, trapped at the center of an intensifying geopolitical dispute. The migrants — most of whom are from the Middle East and Asia, and who are hoping to travel on from Poland deeper into Europe — have

By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN As the crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland escalates, harrowing stories are emerging of the brutal conditions migrants have endured on their journeys, with some going without food or water for days and others surviving vicious beatings along the way. Hundreds of migrants have

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a quick look at the life of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, FW de Klerk. Personal Birth date: March 18, 1936 Death date: November 11, 2021 Birth place: Johannesburg, South Africa Birth name: Frederik Willem de Klerk Father: Johannes de Klerk, politician Mother: Corrie (Coetzer) de Klerk

By Rob Picheta and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Germany’s capital Berlin will ban unvaccinated people from restaurants, bars, cinemas and other entertainment venues from Monday, as the country grapples with its highest surge in Covid-19 cases to date. Health officials reported 50,196 new cases on Thursday, the fourth day in a row in which Germany has

By Rob Picheta, CNN FW de Klerk, the last leader of apartheid-era South Africa who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela after working to end racial segregation in the country, has died at 85, his foundation said on Thursday. De Klerk released Mandela, his subsequent successor, from prison and laboriously negotiated with him

By Katharina Krebs, CNN The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained the alleged head of an illegal prison who is accused of involvement in the murder and torture of Ukrainian citizens, the agency said in a statement. Denis Kulikovsky, who is also known as “Palych” or “Pershiy,” was detained in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev,

By Mostafa Salem, CNN A pregnant Yemeni journalist was killed in a car explosion in the coastal city of Aden Tuesday, Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalek of the Saudi-backed internationally recognized government said, according to Yemen News Agency. Journalist Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi was in a car with her husband, Mahmoud Ameen al-Atmy, also a reporter, when

By Katie Polglase, Noon Salih and Zeena Saifi, CNN Fighters from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been accused of gang rape and physical assault by 16 women in the neighboring Amhara region, according to a report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday. Women from the Amhara town of Nifas Mewcha told Amnesty that fighters associated

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Oscar Pistorius, double-amputee and former Olympic sprinter convicted in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Personal Birth date: November 22, 1986 Birth place: Johannesburg, South Africa Birth name: Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius Father: Henke Pistorius Mother: Sheila Pistorius Education: Attended the University

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Antonia Mortensen and Magda Chodownik, CNN Migrants trapped on the border between Poland and Belarus have made hundreds of attempts to breach the frontier, but were repelled by 15,000 Polish soldiers deployed to stop them, according to Polish authorities. The thousands of stranded people are caught at the center of an intensifying