By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Tim Lister and Scott McWhinnie, CNN The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had no doubt that it was from her son, Dima. The 23-year-old biotech graduate was taken by Russian forces from their front yard in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel along with Olena
Continue Reading By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Tim Lister and Scott McWhinnie, CNN The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had no doubt that it was from her son, Dima. The 23-year-old biotech graduate was taken by Russian forces from their front yard in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel along with Olena
Continue Reading By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Tim Lister and Scott McWhinnie, CNN The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had no doubt that it was from her son, Dima. The 23-year-old biotech graduate was taken by Russian forces from their front yard in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel along with Olena
Continue Reading By Pierre Meilhan and Richard Roth, CNN The Ukrainian military said it used anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups to destroy Russian cruise missiles during a string of attacks on energy infrastructure across the country Saturday morning. “18 enemy cruise missiles were destroyed by aviation, anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups,” a post
Continue Reading By Celine Alkhaldi and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A teachers’ union in Iran called for a nationwide teacher strike in protest over the recent deaths and detention of students in the country, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA) said in a statement on Telegram on Thursday. The council announced a period of public
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Valentina Di Donato, Sharon Braithwaite and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Populist firebrand Giorgia Meloni has been named as Italy’s first female prime minister, becoming the country’s most far-right leader since Benito Mussolini. She received the mandate to form a government from Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella on Friday afternoon after two days of official
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, CNN The people of this isolated, poverty-stricken island of refugees from the wars of 1948 and 1967 have never had it easy. But in the past two weeks, conditions at the Shuafat camp in East Jerusalem have become even more unbearable. Israel has made life more difficult for the residents of the
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN Four more bodies of suspected illegal migrants from Ethiopia have been found near the site of a mass grave in northern Malawi that contained the remains of 25 Ethiopian nationals, according to police in the southern African country. Malawi police spokesman Peter Kalaya said the Ethiopians were suspected victims of human
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Continue Reading By Valentina Di Donato, Antonia Mortensen, Sugam Pokharel and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sparked controversy this week when audio released by Italian news agency LaPresse revealed the 86-year-old speaking about his “re-established” relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Berlusconi says in the audio that Putin sent him 20 bottles of
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Continue Reading By Hannah Ritchie and Teele Rebane, CNN Arman doesn’t sleep much anymore. “In my nightmare, I see someone is following me in the dark, ” he said. “I’m alone and no one is helping me.” He says his life was forever altered in early October, when he was arrested on the streets of Tehran for
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN As Russia faces growing setbacks in Ukraine, it appears to be increasingly turning to Iran for help, in a development that has sparked concern from the West and Tehran’s regional adversaries. Sources familiar with US intelligence have told CNN that Iran has sent military trainers to Crimea to train and advise
Continue Reading By Hannah Ritchie and Teele Rebane, CNN Arman doesn’t sleep much anymore. “In my nightmare, I see someone is following me in the dark, ” he said. “I’m alone and no one is helping me.” He says his life was forever altered in early October, when he was arrested on the streets of Tehran for
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Continue Reading By Sebastian Shukla, Frederik Pleitgen and Rich Harlow, CNN The weather in Bakhmut deceives the senses, sunny and warm — almost peaceful. But a deafening boom of outgoing artillery from the critical eastern Ukrainian town shook that notion out of the system, as Ukrainian soldiers on Wednesday launched offensives to try to reclaim positions from
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Meet the Neanderthals of Chagyrskaya Cave. The riverside hunting camp in the foothills of the Altai mountains in Siberia was home to a tight community of about 20 inhabitants about 54,000 years ago, including a father and his teenage daughter, a young male who might have been a nephew or a
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has opened up about the loss of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the “legacy” she has left behind, describing her husband’s grandmother as “the most shining example” of female leadership. In an interview published Wednesday by Variety, Meghan spoke of the “deep gratitude” she felt to have
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN The “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens to fight in the country’s war on Ukraine has been beset by errors, caused angry protests and prompted a mass exodus when it was announced last month. Now, as Russian officials suggest that the scheme will wind up soon, questions linger over whether the turmoil
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, CNN The Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine’s Kherson region on Wednesday began massively ramping up the relocation of up to 60,000 people amid warnings over Russia’s ability to withstand a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of generating “hysteria” to compel people to leave. Residents in the city of Kherson began to
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