CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Sandi Sidhu, CNN Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol, his first visit to territory captured by his forces in the year-long full-scale conflict. The visit was an apparent act of defiance, coming just days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him. It also prompted outrage from

By Duarte Mendonca and Christian Edwards, CNN British Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrived in Rwanda on Saturday to discuss a controversial agreement which will see the UK deport asylum seekers deemed to have arrived illegally to the African nation. The scheme is mired in legal difficulties — no one has yet been deported — and

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Impromptu protests broke out in Paris and across several French cities Thursday evening following a move by the government to force through reforms of the pension system that will push up the retirement age from 62 to 64. While the proposed reforms of France’s cherished pensions system were already controversial, it

By Rob Picheta and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova for an alleged scheme to deport Ukrainian children to Russia. The court said there “are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility” for

By Joseph Ataman, Aurore Laborie and Jack Guy, CNN At least 310 people have been detained across France as the embattled government faces backlash for forcing through pension reforms that will see the country’s retirement age raised by two years. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told French radio RTL that most of the arrests made on

By Charles Pensulo, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN Tropical Cyclone Freddy has killed at least 326 people after it ripped through southern Malawi, the country’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs told CNN Thursday. The resulting devastation has left survivors trapped and fighting for survival. Chilobwe, one of the hardest-hit areas, is a township near

By Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN At least four Palestinians were killed on Thursday and 23 others injured after an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operation in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry. At least five of the injured are in critical condition, the health ministry added. In

By Joseph Ataman, Aurore Laborie and Jack Guy, CNN The French government has forced through controversial plans to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64, a move likely to inflame the country’s weeks-long protest movement. French President Emmanuel Macron will trigger special constitutional powers to enact the proposed pension reform bill, Prime Minister

By Antonia Mortensen, Duarte Mendonca, Luke McGee and Kevin Liptak, CNN Poland on Thursday pledged it would send four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the first NATO member to do so, in a significant move in Kyiv’s battle to resist Russia’s onslaught. President Andrzej Duda said the planes — from about a dozen that it

By Hande Atay Alam, CNN Iranian authorities have used torture methods including sexual violence against imprisoned children as part of a crackdown on recent protests, according to rights group Amnesty International. “Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child

By Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson, Olha Konovalova and Tom Booth, CNN Driving deep into the forest, the hush between the towering pine trees and the clear blue skies was splintered every few seconds by the sound of distant explosions from the frontline battles for eastern Ukraine. Guiding us through the woodland on foot, Ukrainian soldiers

By Rob Picheta, CNN The US has released footage of the moment a Russian plane dumped fuel on a US drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday — a confrontation that has sparked a diplomatic spat and led to a race to recover some highly classified technology. The White House slammed Moscow’s actions Moscow’s actions