CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Ivana Kottasová and Ana Sârbu, CNN There was nothing obviously untoward about the woman who approached the Palanca border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova with a 15-year-old boy she said was her nephew. But something about the pair just seemed odd. The boy, in particular, appeared embarrassed and uncomfortable. Suspicious, border officials started asking

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By Nima Elbagir, CNN Sudan’s military authorities have launched a “manhunt” for people suspected of providing information to CNN for an investigation that exposed Russia’s plundering of gold in the African nation, according to multiple former and current officials. Relatives were also threatened in a bid to silence suspected leakers. One source said authorities were

By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovych, Darya Tarasova, Manveena Suri, Kareem Khadder, Josh Pennington and Nic Robertson, CNN A Ukrainian grain mogul and his wife were killed after the southern city of Mykolaiv came under intense shelling on Sunday, according to Ukrainian officials, as Russian President Vladimir Putin used his nation’s Navy Day to issue more

Story by Reuters Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life. “Let’s put an end to this intimidation and fear mongering. Hate and intolerance have no place in our Austria,” President Alexander Van der Bellen said, hailing Lisa-Maria

By Anna Pantelia, for CNN Photographs by Anna Pantelia for CNN Dimitris Mitsaris opens his garage door and the smell of fermenting grapes emerges, as the first morning light bounces off dozens of steel tanks. Mitsaris and his family live here, in Agios Panteleimonas, a mountainous village of just 800 residents in northern Greece, and

By Ivan Watson, CNN On the banks of the Dnieper River, parents sunbathe on the beach as their children splash in the cool, refreshing water. A girl dances, twisting and twirling in the sand as a busker on the boardwalk beats his drum to the rhythm of a pop tune. With bars and cafes humming

By Aqeel Najim, Hamdi Alkhshali, Eyad Kourdi, Obaida Nafaa, Alex Stambaugh and Ivana Kottasová, CNN More than 100 people have been injured in clashes in Baghdad on Saturday after protesters rallying against the nomination of a new prime minister managed to breach the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone for the second time this week.

By Ivana Kottasová, Josh Pennington, Martin Goillandeau and Anna Cooban, CNN Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom said on Saturday it had stopped supplying gas to Latvia, accusing the Baltic country of “violating conditions for gas withdrawal,” without giving any further details. The announcement is the latest escalation in the energy dispute between Russia and the

By Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Across Russia, volunteer battalions are being formed to deploy to the war in Ukraine, joining the so-called “special military operation” declared by President Vladimir Putin in February. From Murmansk in the Arctic Circle to Perm in the Urals and Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East, the call

Story by Reuters Spain reported its first monkeypox-related death on Friday, in what is thought to be Europe’s first fatality from the disease and only the second outside Africa in the current outbreak. Brazil reported earlier on Friday the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the current wave of the disease. According to

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to launch yet another military incursion into northeast Syria. Pledged almost two months ago yet awaiting what analysts say is probably a green light from Moscow, the operation raises questions about Turkey’s ultimate plans for Syria. Erdogan says he wants to initiate his fourth operation