CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Ehsan Popalzai and Rob Picheta, CNN An explosion that erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Afghanistan‘s capital on Wednesday killed 21 people and injured 33 others, according to a spokesperson for the Kabul police chief. Security forces were investigating the incident in the city’s police district 17, the spokesperson added. Health care

By Vasco Cotovio and Tara John, CNN Ukraine was behind three explosions rocked Russian military facilities in the annexed province of Crimea this past week, including an explosion at a Russian air base on the peninsula’s west coast that wrecked several airplanes, according to a Ukrainian government report circulated internally and shared with CNN by

By Mostafa Salem, Adam Pourahmadi and Joshua Berlinger, CNN The Syrian government on Wednesday denied it is holding or has any information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist who vanished a decade ago while reporting on the Middle Eastern nation’s civil war. Syria’s foreign ministry said in a rare statement that the

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By Eliza Mackintosh and Yuliia Presniakova, CNN Before the war broke out, Igor Kurayan, a 55-year-old from the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, shared frequent gardening updates on social media. His feeds were full of palms, pomegranate trees, marigolds, bamboo and avocados, grown at his home and small business near the Black Sea. He

By Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken for the first time since he lost the election saying his coalition “totally and without reservations reject the presidential results” in a televised address on Tuesday. “In our view, there is neither a legally and validly declared winner nor a president-elect,”

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By Mostafa Salem, Frederik Pleitgen and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN As attempts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal heat up, Tehran is seeking guarantees that it will be compensated if a future US president pulls out of the pact, a regional diplomat told CNN on Tuesday. Last week European Union officials sent the US and

By Bethlehem Feleke, Larry Madowo, Nimi Princewill, and Stephanie Busari, CNN Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has been elected as the country’s next President, the electoral commission announced Monday. Ruto won with 50.49% of the vote, narrowly defeating veteran opposition leader and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was contesting his fifth election. He will

By Idris Mukhtar, Alex Stambaugh, Mike Saenz and Nimi Princewill, CNN At least 50 people have died and “many” displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) for Jigawa State said. “When you go around [Jigawa State], we lost about 50 people

By Kara Fox, CNN The United Kingdom has become the first country to approve an updated version of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine booster that targets two coronavirus variants: the Omicron strain and the original virus from 2020. “An updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna that targets two coronavirus variants (known as a “bivalent”

By Adam Pourahmadi, Alex Stambaugh and Kara Fox, CNN Iran denied any link to the stabbing of Salman Rushdie and cast the blame on the author and his supporters for the attack that left him with life-changing injuries. “Regarding the attack on Salman Rushdie, we do not consider anyone other than [Rushdie] and his supporters

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