By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The husband of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh will be forced to serve the rest of a five-year prison sentence, Sotoudeh told CNN on Tuesday. Reza Khandan was summoned to report to the judiciary within 30 days to begin serving out the sentence, which was initially handed down in
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, CNN A Russian court has sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to six years in prison for a Telegram post that the court said spread “false information,” state news agency TASS said on Wednesday. Ponomarenko was detained last April and charged with publishing “false information” on her Telegram channel about a Russian airstrike on
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Eight days after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, a relief plane touched down in the Syrian city of Aleppo, marking one of the biggest diplomatic feats for the country’s isolated regime in over a decade. The plane came from Saudi Arabia, one of the staunchest opponents of Syrian President
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn, Chris Liakos and Sophie Tanno, CNN Duangphet Phromthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave after a weekslong operation that drew global attention in 2018, has died in the UK, British and Thai officials announced Wednesday. Phromthep, who was enrolled in a soccer academy in Leicestershire, England, died
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Two schoolchildren have been charged with murder following the death of a 16-year-old transgender girl in an English village. A boy and a girl, both aged 15, have been charged with the murder of Brianna Ghey, who was found dead in a park in Warrington in the country’s northwest on Saturday
Continue Reading By Talia Kayali, Rhea Mogul and Hande Atay Alam, CNN A confused woman asked her rescuers “What day is it?” when pulled alive from the rubble of last week’s earthquake after 228 hours, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday, as another woman aged 77 was also rescued from the debris. More than nine days
Continue Reading By Tara John and Hande Atay Alam, CNN A verdant olive grove was cleaved into two during last week’s devastating earthquake in Turkey, creating a valley 984 feet long (about 300 meters) that now divides the area. Remarkable footage of the split olive grove has emerged from Turkey’s south-east Altınozu district, which borders Syria, showing
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Vadym Khodak beams and leans forward. He’s almost bouncing on his feet. “My soldiers like it a lot,” he says with a nod to the line of Polish Leopard 2 version 4 tanks behind him. “This machine is good quality.” His smile speaks volumes, revealing deep furrows that
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Vadym Khodak beams and leans forward. He’s almost bouncing on his feet. “My soldiers like it a lot,” he says with a nod to the line of Polish Leopard 2 version 4 tanks behind him. “This machine is good quality.” His smile speaks volumes, revealing deep furrows that
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By Eve Brennan, Stephanie Busari and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles has docked in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of joint military drills with South Africa, Russia and China, Cape town’s Russian Consulate said on Monday. “The battleship arrived in the Mother City on its way to Durban
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN In the 12 months since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine, one of the biggest surprises has been the willingness with which Western countries, especially in Europe, have handed over increasingly sophisticated military equipment for Ukrainian use. At times the debates around sending certain types of weapons, most
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Anna Chernova, CNN Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military company Wagner, admitted on Tuesday to founding the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious troll farm that the US government has sanctioned for interfering in American elections. A Wagner Telegram channel on Tuesday published a statement from Prigozhin, asking him
Continue Reading By Talia Kayali, Aliza Kassim Khalidi, Rhea Mogul and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Rescue teams in southern Turkey say they are still hearing voices from under the rubble more than a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, offering a glimmer of hope of finding more survivors. Live images broadcast on CNN affiliate CNN Turk
Continue Reading By Talia Kayali, Aliza Kassim Khalidi, Rhea Mogul and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Rescue teams in southern Turkey say they are still hearing voices from under the rubble more than a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, offering a glimmer of hope of finding more survivors. Live images broadcast on CNN affiliate CNN Turk
Continue Reading By CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, Darya Tarasova and Jo Shelley Video by Oscar Featherstone The audio is garbled at times, but the emotions are unmistakable. “I am being taken to be shot. I lost a lot of people there. Remember this: do not send more people here. It’s enough, they want to kill us all.”
Continue Reading By CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, Darya Tarasova and Jo Shelley Video by Oscar Featherstone The audio is garbled at times, but the emotions are unmistakable. “I am being taken to be shot. I lost a lot of people there. Remember this: do not send more people here. It’s enough, they want to kill us all.”
Continue Reading By Sarah Dean, CNN Regaining consciousness in a cloud of smoke, Simon Johnsen heard a loud whistling in his ears. He checked to see if he still had all his body parts. Next to him, fellow medic Pete Reed was dead. So was the civilian Ukrainian woman whose injuries they had come to treat. It
Continue Reading By Kareem El Damanhoury, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN A Palestinian man was killed and 13 were injured in an Israeli raid in Nablus early Monday, Palestinian health officials said, in what Israeli authorities said was an operation to arrest suspects in the fatal shooting of an Israeli soldier last year. The Palestinian Ministry
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic earthquake soared past 36,000. The 7.8-magnitude quake that struck southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria last Monday has now caused 31,643 deaths in Turkey, according to the Turkish Emergency Coordination Center
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic earthquake soared past 36,000. The 7.8-magnitude quake that struck southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria last Monday has now caused 31,643 deaths in Turkey, according to the Turkish Emergency Coordination Center
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