CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Amir Tal and Pauline Lockwood, CNN Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed key ally Aryeh Deri from all ministerial posts on Sunday, complying with an Israeli High Court ruling that it was unreasonable to appoint the Shas party leader to positions in government. The court had said Deri’s appointment “cannot stand” due to his

By Tim Lister and Fred Pleitgen and Matthias Somm, CNN A few kilometers from the Belarus border, Ukrainian forces are training for what they expect to be a brutal spring. Ageing T-72 tanks — some twice the age of their crews — fire off rounds into the mist, while ground troops practise storming abandoned buildings.

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has expressed frustration in an interview with CNN over Germany’s indecision over whether to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Speaking to CNN’s Isa Soares on Friday, Melnyk called Germany’s lack of action a “disappointment,” after first praising the United Kingdom for moving forward

By Rob Picheta, CNN Pressure is growing on Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, with Kyiv stepping up its pleas and a spat brewing between Berlin and some of its NATO allies. On Friday, Germany failed to reach agreement with its key Western partners on sending the vehicles, ahead of a potential Russian

By Molly Stazicker and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will remain in police custody until February 27 after a Romanian court on Friday extended their detention, Tate’s lawyers told CNN affiliate Antena 3. The brothers are being investigated on allegations of human trafficking and rape. Authorities in Romania said police

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN The arrest of Cosa Nostra mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro at a private health clinic in Palermo on Monday stunned many around the world due to the extraordinary length of time he’d been on the run — but came as little surprise for some who watched the

By Uliana Pavlova, CNN Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council and key ally of President Vladimir Putin, warned on Thursday that defeat for Russia in Ukraine could lead to nuclear conflict. The former Russian president made the threat in a Telegram post ahead of a key meeting of NATO allies and other

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Hande Atay Alam, Jonny Hallam and Mostafa Salem, CNN An Iranian man who beheaded his 17-year-old wife in February 2022 was sentenced to just eight years and two months in prison on Wednesday, according to the country’s semi-official Khabar Online website, sparking criticism over the leniency of the prison term. Following the

By Celine Alkhaldi, Mostafa Salem and Aqeel Najim, CNN A Gulf Cup final match between Iraq and Oman will take place in Basra on Thursday as scheduled, Iraqi soccer officials said, despite a deadly stampede outside the stadium just hours earlier. “The match between the Iraqi and Omani national teams will take place as scheduled,”

By Rachel Ramirez, Laura Paddison, Inke Kappeler, Lindsay Isaac and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was released by German police on Tuesday evening after being detained earlier in the day at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine in the western village of Lützerath, police confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.

By Maria Kostenko, Sophie Tanno, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A helicopter carrying the leadership team of Ukraine’s interior ministry crashed near a kindergarten and residential block in the Kyiv region on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people, including all nine people on board, according to officials. A further 25 people were injured following

By Saskya Vandoorne, Marguerite Lacroix and Allegra Goodwin, CNN A group of women and girls foraging for wild fruits were abducted by armed men in separate incidents in Burkina Faso, the government said Monday. Around 50 women and girls were taken in the incidents which happened on January 12 and 13 respectively, according to a