CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Zayn Nabbi, CNN The body of Ghana soccer star Christian Atsu arrived in Accra, Ghana on Sunday evening after it was flown from Turkey, Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MFA) said. “The mortal remains of the former Ghana Black Stars player, the late Christian Atsu, whose demise occurred during the recent

By Sara Sidner, Jo Shelley and Bilge Han Deniz, CNN First there are screams … then piercing cries … and then “father, father” is heard over and over again. A 4-year-old girl, Gada Ayyan, and her father, Ahmet Ayyan, are being reunited after being buried in a pile of rubble that was once their home

By Sophie Tanno, CNN One video shows a single blue glove, found in the field where missing British mother Nicola Bulley was last seen before she vanished over three weeks ago. Another urges police to investigate a derelict house on the riverbank, opposite where Bulley disappeared while walking with her dog Willow. Yet another simply

By Zahid Mahmood, Tim Lister, Duarte Mendonca and Alex Hardie, CNN A leading investigative journalist with a track record of uncovering stories that make uncomfortable reading for the Kremlin has been told he can’t attend this year’s British Academy (BAFTA) film awards, on the advice of British police. Christo Grozev is the lead Russia investigator

By Talia Kayali and Kathleen Magramo, CNN “How is my mother and everyone?” the man on the stretcher asks, speaking calmly into a cell phone. Crying in disbelief, his friend replies: “Everyone is well… they are all waiting for you… I am coming to you.” This was the emotional exchange that followed the rescue of

By Hande Atay Alam, Isil Sariyuce and Sana Noor Haq, CNN At least three more people, including two minors, have been incredibly pulled alive from the rubble of a devastating earthquake, 10 days after it struck parts of Turkey and Syria. A 17-year-old Aleyna Ölmez was dubbed the “miracle girl” when she was pulled alive

By Frederik Pleitgen, Zahra Ullah, Claudia Otto and Rob Picheta, CNN Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed there is “no way” his country would send troops into Ukraine unless it is attacked, amid fears Russia’s close ally will help to facilitate a spring offensive by Moscow. “We are peaceful people. We know what war is

By Mick Krever, CNN Read Maria Lvova-Belova’s social media, and one might think Russia is selflessly delivering Ukrainian children from evil into the care of Russian families desperate to share their love. But according to American and European governments — and a new report by Yale investigators, backed by the US State Department — she

By Zahra Ullah and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Tensions are mounting at the border between Ukraine and Moscow-allied Belarus, as officials in Kyiv warn of a Russian spring offensive amid ramped-up military attacks from the Kremlin. In rare access since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a CNN team visited Belarus’s southwest border near northwest Ukraine,