CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Tara John and Angela Dewan, CNN As the Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday with the first shipment of grain since the early days of Russia’s war in Ukraine, there were sighs of relief from Somalia to Turkey, Indonesia and China, given how reliant these countries have been on Ukrainian grain

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By Rob Picheta, Josh Pennington and Vasco Cotovio, CNN The US and Russia have indicated they are ready to hold talks over a prisoner swap, a day after basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to nine years in prison for carrying less than a gram of cannabis oil through a

By Mostafa Salem, Ehsan Popalzai, Paul P. Murphy and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Taliban have claimed they were not aware that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was residing in the Afghan capital of Kabul where the US said he was killed in a drone strike over the weekend. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has no

By Nadine Schmidt, CNN A large fire broke out on Thursday morning in one of Berlin’s biggest city forests — the Grunewald — following several explosions at a police-run munitions disposal site inside the forest. The blaze spread across 15,000 square meters (3.7 acres), according to Berlin’s fire brigade. Big explosions could be heard from

By Ben Wedeman, CNN As he walked up the steps to greet former President Donald Trump at Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban seemed to be modeling himself on his host. He wore a similar dark suit, white shirt and plain tie, albeit orange rather than Trump’s trademark red.

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By Anna Chernova, Zahra Ullah, Masha Angelova, Chris Liakos and Eric Levenson, CNN American women’s basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted of deliberately smuggling drugs into Russia and sentenced to nine years of jail time Thursday in a case that has raised concerns she is being used as a political pawn in Russia’s war against

By Tara John, CNN An ordinary red-brick library in the southern English town of Reading is an unlikely backdrop for the latest front in the battle for equality for the LGBTQ+ community. But last week — in scenes later repeated across the country– Covid-19 conspiracists and far-right supporters lobbed homophobic and transphobic slurs at parents

By Rob Picheta, Vasco Cotovio and Olga Voitovych, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has opened the door to legalizing same-sex civil partnerships in the country, in response to a petition that called for equal marriage to be introduced in the war-ravaged nation. In a written reply online, Zelensky explained that it would be impossible to

By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Clocks stopped when one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history ripped through Beirut. Inside wrecked homes and shops, the force of the shockwaves froze the dials of timepieces, some vintage, others sleek and modern. It was 6:07 pm. Thousands of lives were upended and the Lebanese capital — no stranger

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