CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Kathleen Magramo, Aditi Sangal, Meg Wagner, Sana Noor Haq and Hannah Strange, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.

By David McKenzie and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN A photograph of Fadi’s smiling face is emblazoned on his mother’s t-shirt. The then-20-year-old is pictured standing near the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Tunisia. Above her son’s image, 53-year-old Samia Jabloun has written the words “Dove Sei?” — “Where are you?” in Italian — in permanent

By Yusuf Gezer, Jomana Karadsheh, Richard Roth and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Turkey says a deal is close to being agreed upon to resume crucial global grain exports from Ukrainian ports, which have been blocked by Russia as its war on Ukraine continues. Details of the emerging deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey

By Kara Fox, Barbie Latza Nadeau Nicola Ruotolo, Sharon Braithwaite and Livia Borghese, CNN Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella dissolved parliament on Thursday, triggering a snap election following the resignation of the country’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi earlier in the day. The national election will take place on September 25. Mattarella branded the developments as “inevitable”

By Angus Watson, Ivan Watson, Olha Konovalova and Dan Hodge, CNN Soldiers toting guns and grenades while drunk, looting private property, and squabbling with fellow fighters to the point of armed stand-offs: Civilians who have escaped the Russian-controlled city of Kherson in Ukraine’s south say their home has become unrecognizable since Moscow’s troops began their

By Kathleen Magramo, Aditi Sangal, Meg Wagner and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.

By Zahra Ullah, Matthew Chance and Katharina Krebs, CNN On a sweltering summer day in July, hundreds of Ukrainians try to rest on metal beds lined up in a basketball court-turned-shelter. Their tales of horror and hardship along with a few belongings are all they have left. But with this safe haven being inside Russia,

By Sharon Braithwaite, Livia Borghese, Tara John and Jack Guy, CNN Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi won a confidence vote in the country’s Senate on Wednesday, but emerged badly bruised. Despite his calls for unity, lawmakers from three parties boycotted the vote: the powerful 5-Star movement, which is the largest party in the country’s coalition

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN One image distributed by Iranian media on Tuesday of Russia and Iran’s leaders meeting stood out. Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown clasping palms with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the two rulers — both heads of oil-rich countries grappling with grueling Western sanctions — boast about their tight

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Police in Malawi have charged a Chinese man with child trafficking after a BBC documentary accused him of filming children chanting racist phrases mocking themselves in Chinese, according to authorities in the southeast African country. Deputy spokesperson for the Malawi Police Service, Harry Namwaza, told CNN the man, identified as Lu

By Rob Picheta, CNN Hundreds of millions of people around the world were sweltering in extreme heat on Wednesday, as record-breaking heat waves set swathes of Europe’s countryside on fire, scorched the US and put dozens of Chinese cities under alert. Five separate high-pressure weather systems across the northern hemisphere, which are linked by atmospheric

By Jessie Yeung, Aditi Sangal, Sana Noor Haq and Hannah Strange, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.