By Isil Sariyuce, Celine Alkhaldi, Eyad Kourdi and Amy Woodyatt, CNN In the days since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Syria and Turkey, the death toll, now at more than 23,000, is climbing, and stories of survival are becoming few and far between. A lucky few are still being pulled alive from the rubble: two
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold and Amir Tal, CNN A car drove into several people at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Friday, killing a man and a young child in what Israeli police described as a “ramming terror attack.” A second child died of his injuries Saturday. Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 6, and Alter Shlomo Lederman, 20,
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN Europe has experienced an exceptionally warm January, with average temperatures 2.2 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1990 to 2020 average, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The month started with a record-breaking heatwave, as New Year’s Day saw an alarming number of heat records fall across
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, CNN Private military contractor Wagner will have to look for new fighters beyond Russia’s prison system, a fertile recruiting ground for the past nine months, according to its boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin said on his company’s Telegram channel Thursday: “We have completely discontinued the recruitment of prisoners into Wagner PMC. To those
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, Radina Gigova, Jack Guy and Nic Robertson, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a heartfelt appeal to lawmakers in Brussels on Thursday to allow his country to become part of the European Union, insisting that Europe is Ukraine’s “home.” During an address to the European Parliament, Zelensky said his country and the
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Russia has potentially lost up to half of all its operational tank fleet since the start of the Ukraine war, according to information collected by a monitoring group, as its military struggles to meet the goals of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Oryx, an open source intelligence website, has been collecting visual evidence
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Josh Pennington, CNN A former Chechen commander wanted by Ukraine for alleged war crimes committed last year is leading the Russian earthquake relief effort in Turkey. Daniil Martynov was in several locations in Ukraine last year in the early weeks of the Russian invasion. He is thought to be
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Survivors of Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria could face “a secondary disaster” as cold and snow lead to “worsening and horrific conditions,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, WHO incident response manager Robert Holden warned
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Russia has potentially lost up to half of all its operational tank fleet since the start of the Ukraine war, according to information collected by a monitoring group, as its military struggles to meet the goals of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Oryx, an open source intelligence website, has been collecting visual evidence
Continue Reading 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 Sana Noor Haq, CNN A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has told CNN that while a brutal state crackdown has succeeded in quieting the demonstrations that gripped the country for months, many Iranians still want regime change. In an exclusive interview Wednesday from her home in Tehran, Nasrin Sotoudeh told CNN’s Chief International Anchor
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Isil Sariyuce, Zeena Saifi and Reyhan Baysan, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted to his government’s “shortcomings” amid growing anger over the state’s response to the massive earthquake earlier this week, which is now known to have killed more than 21,000 people. Days after the quake hit Turkey’s Gaziantep province
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, Rhea Mogul, Teele Rebane and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Survivors of Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria could face “a secondary disaster” as cold and snow lead to “worsening and horrific conditions,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, WHO incident response manager Robert Holden warned
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 Nick Paton Walsh and Gul Tuysuz, CNN The body of a 4-year-old girl wrapped in a pink blanket was brought out Wednesday from the wreckage of a building in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras. She’s one of the latest young victims of Monday’s massive quake. Elsewhere, excavators dug out the body of man believed
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, CNN There are “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved the decision to provide separatists in Ukraine with the missile that shot down the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, Dutch investigators said Wednesday. Citing intercepted telephone conversations by Russian government officials, the Public Prosecution Service’s Joint Investigation Team said
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, Mick Krever, Radina Gigova, Yulia Kesaieva and Lauren Kent, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise visit to the UK on Wednesday, sweeping in to London on the first stage of an unannounced diplomatic tour of European capitals with a powerful message for British lawmakers. In only his second foreign trip
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands of others were injured by the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Rescue teams are still desperately searching for signs of life beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings amid grim conditions, but
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Two children wedged between concrete in the remains of their home in northern Syria have been rescued more than 36 hours after Monday’s quake trapped their family as they slept. “Get me out of here, I’ll do anything for you,” the older child whispers to rescuers who are
Continue Reading By Zeena Saifi and Becky Anderson, CNN Standing in front of the flattened remains of a 10-story building in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, a man anxiously waits for news about his friend Mustafa, who is trapped beneath the rubble. Alptekin Talanci worries that this week’s bitter weather, which has seen temperatures drop below 30
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