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Military police conduct checks on vehicles near the border on Monday night.

EU accuses Belarus of acting like ‘gangster regime’ as thousands of freezing migrants camp on Polish border

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Mayumi Maruyama, Antonia Mortensen, Katharina Krebs and Magda Chodownik, CNN Thousands of migrants have set up makeshift camps in freezing conditions near the border between Poland and Belarus, as condemnation of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko intensified Tuesday. Poland has accused Lukashenko of attempting to orchestrate a crisis on the European Union’s eastern

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Denmark ditched its Covid rules two months ago. Now it’s joined other EU nations in mulling new restrictions

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN Two months ago, Denmark was riding high. The European nation lifted all remaining domestic coronavirus restrictions as the government declared Covid-19 was no longer “an illness which is a critical threat to society.” With a successful vaccine rollout in their back pocket, Danes essentially returned to pre-pandemic daily life. They visited

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Denmark ditched its Covid rules two months ago. Now it’s joined other EU nations in mulling new restrictions

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN Two months ago, Denmark was riding high. The European nation lifted all remaining domestic coronavirus restrictions as the government declared Covid-19 was no longer “an illness which is a critical threat to society.” With a successful vaccine rollout in their back pocket, Danes essentially returned to pre-pandemic daily life. They visited

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Varying numbers of People's Liberation Army Navy surface combatants are visible over time in the floodable basin at Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai.

China’s new high-tech aircraft carrier could launch in early 2022, satellite imagery analysis shows

By Ben Westcott, CNN A new Chinese aircraft carrier with technology nearly equaling the capabilities of its US counterparts could be launched as soon as February next year, according to an analysis of satellite imagery by a Washington-based think tank. In images provided by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the carrier — known

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