What does Russia’s withdrawal from a grain deal with Ukraine mean for global hunger?
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Russia’s decision to pull out of an agreement that guaranteed safe passage for ships carrying vital grain exports from…
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Five elections in four years: What’s the deal with Israeli politics?
By Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Stop us if you’re heard this one before: On Tuesday, Israelis are going to the polls to elect a new…
Continue ReadingHundreds of Iranian journalists call for the release of two colleagues jailed in Evin prison
By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Hundreds of Iranian journalists are calling for the release of colleagues Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who were…
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Russian missiles bombard cities across Ukraine, hitting power and water infrastructure
By Kostan Nechyporenko, Olga Voitovych, Victoria Butenko and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Russia launched a barrage of missile strikes at Ukrainian cities on…
Continue Reading Russian missiles bombard cities across Ukraine, hitting power and water infrastructure
By Kostan Nechyporenko, Olga Voitovych, Victoria Butenko and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Russia launched a barrage of missile strikes at Ukrainian cities on…
Continue ReadingOctober 31, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
By Heather Chen, Sana Noor Haq, Aditi Sangal, Mike Hayes and Maureen Chowdhury, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a…
Continue ReadingViolent clashes break out between students and security forces across Iran, rights groups say
By Niamh Kennedy and Abdul Nasir, CNN Violent clashes broke out between security forces and student protesters at university campuses across Iran on…
Continue ReadingViolent clashes break out between students and security forces across Iran, rights groups say
By Niamh Kennedy and Abdul Nasir, CNN Violent clashes broke out between security forces and student protesters at university campuses across Iran on…
Continue ReadingExplosions near Somalia’s education ministry kill 100 people
By Idris Mukhtar, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Yamour, CNN At least 100 people were killed after two car bombs exploded near Somalia’s…
Continue Reading Five elections in four years: What’s the deal with Israeli politics?
By Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Stop us if you’re heard this one before: On Tuesday, Israelis are going to the polls to elect a new…
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Russia suspends its participation in UN-brokered grain export deal with Ukraine
By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel, Dennis Lapin and Katharina Krebs, CNN Russia will suspend its participation in the United Nations-brokered grain…
Continue ReadingHead of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warns that Saturday is ‘last day’ of protests
By Niamh Kennedy and Rob Picheta, CNN The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards has told Iranians to end the weeks-long demonstrations that…
Continue ReadingThey fled a Boko Haram massacre. Now, after years in refugee camps, families return to rebuild their lives
By Stephanie Busari, CNN It is a sight Ya Lewa Aji says she can never forget: a baby strapped to her mother’s back, shot dead while the mother…
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What causes armies to lose the will to fight? Here’s what history tells us — and what Putin may soon find out
By John Blake, CNN It was one of the strangest episodes in military history, an event so unusual that it was first treated as a myth. At 8:30 pm on…
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Ukrainians are dreading the ‘darkest winter’ as Russia takes aim at the power grid
By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovych and Nic Robertson, CNN As winter edges ever closer in Ukraine, Alla Melnychuk and her neighbors are racing…
Continue ReadingProtesters in Iran’s Zahedan encounter gunfire following Friday prayers
By Adam Pourahmadi and Richard Roth, CNN Protesters encountered teargas and gunfire following Friday prayers in the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan,…
Continue Reading Ukrainians are dreading the ‘darkest winter’ as Russia takes aim at the power grid
By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovych and Nic Robertson, CNN As winter edges ever closer in Ukraine, Alla Melnychuk and her neighbors are racing…
Continue ReadingWest Bank militants threaten Israel, urge Palestinian leaders to join resistance as tensions rise
Exclusive by Sam Kiley, CNN Four US-made M4 Carbine rifles lean against the back of the sofa. The young men, mostly dressed in black civilian…
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Russia removes bones of 18th-century commander revered by Putin from occupied Ukrainian city
By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Pro-Russian officials say they have removed the bones of famed 18th century Russian commander Grigory Potemkin…
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Body found at Frankfurt airport in undercarriage of airplane on inbound flight from Tehran
By Nadine Schmidt, CNN A body was found in the undercarriage of a Lutfhansa plane that arrived at Frankfurt airport from Tehran on Thursday,…
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US orders families of embassy employees to depart Nigeria due to heightened risk of terrorism
By Michael Conte and Nimi Princewill, CNN The State Department has ordered non-emergency US embassy employees and their family members in Abuja,…
Continue Reading Russia removes bones of 18th-century commander revered by Putin from occupied Ukrainian city
By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Pro-Russian officials say they have removed the bones of famed 18th century Russian commander Grigory Potemkin…
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Continue ReadingOctober 28, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
By Rob Picheta, Tara Subramaniam, Adrienne Vogt and Matt Meyer, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.…
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Putin accuses Western elites of playing ‘dangerous, bloody and dirty game’
By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a…
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Stabbing attack in Italy kills one, injures soccer player Pablo Mari
By Valentina Di Donato and Glen Levy, CNN One person has died and four people, including Spanish soccer player Pablo Mari, were “seriously…
Continue Reading Putin accuses Western elites of playing ‘dangerous, bloody and dirty game’
By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a…
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Dutch foreign ministry investigating reports that China set up two purportedly illegal police stations in Netherlands
By Niamh Kennedy and Rosanne Roobeek, CNN The Dutch foreign ministry is “investigating” reports that China has set up two purportedly…
Continue Reading Putin accuses Western elites of playing ‘dangerous, bloody and dirty game’
By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a…
Continue ReadingIran security forces crack down on mourners at Nika Shahkarami ceremony
By Adam Pourahmadi, Mostafa Salem and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Mourners gathering to commemorate the 40th day since the death of Nika Shahkarami, an…
Continue ReadingGolden State Warriors top Forbes’ most valuable NBA franchise list for first time
Originally Published: 27 OCT 22 11:57 ET By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — The Golden State Warriors are the most…
Continue ReadingRussian lawmakers move to toughen ‘gay propaganda’ law, banning all adults from ‘promoting’ same-sex relationships
By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian lawmakers agreed to toughen the country’s discriminatory law against so-called same-sex…
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Israel and Lebanon finalize Mediterranean border agreement, opening up potentially rich oil and gas fields
By Hadas Gold, Mostafa Salem, Mia Albert, Celine Alkhaldi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Israel and Lebanon finalized an agreement defining their maritime…
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TV host Ksenia Sobchak, a Kremlin critic with ties to Putin, flees Russia after apartment search
By Anna Chernova, CNN Russian TV host and 2018 presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak has fled Russia for Lithuania, Russian state news agency TASS…
Continue ReadingBelarus opposition leader says CNN report is ‘proof’ Lukashenko regime aided Russian aggression in Ukraine
By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN An opposition leader in exile from Belarus has demanded that President Alexsandr Lukashenko be held to account for his…
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Clashes in Iran as thousands gather at Mahsa Amini’s grave, 40 days after her death
By Celine Alkhaldi, Adam Pourahmadi and Tara John, CNN Clashes broke out throughout Iran Wednesday as thousands of people came to the burial site of…
Continue ReadingBody of Joshua Jones, American killed in Ukraine, returned to Ukrainian custody
By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the…
Continue ReadingBody of Joshua Jones, American killed in Ukraine, returned to Ukrainian custody
By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the…
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Continue ReadingWhat really happened to Nika Shahkarami? Witnesses to her final hours cast doubt on Iran’s story
By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A black-clad Iranian girl stands on top of an overturned garbage bin, waving her…
Continue ReadingWhat really happened to Nika Shahkarami? Witnesses to her final hours cast doubt on Iran’s story
By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A black-clad Iranian girl stands on top of an overturned garbage bin, waving her…
Continue Reading15 killed, 40 injured in terrorist attack claimed by ISIS in Iran
By Adam Pourahmadi and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN At least 15 people were killed and 40 others were injured Wednesday in a “terrorist attack”…
Continue Reading Clashes in Iran as thousands gather at Mahsa Amini’s grave, 40 days after her death
By Celine Alkhaldi, Adam Pourahmadi and Tara John, CNN Clashes broke out throughout Iran Wednesday as thousands of people came to the burial site of…
Continue ReadingBody of Joshua Jones, American killed in Ukraine, returned to Ukrainian custody
By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the…
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Displaced by devastating floods, Nigerians are forced to use floodwater despite cholera risk
By Nimi Princewill and Larry Madowo, CNN Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state is officially nicknamed the ‘glory of all lands.’ But…
Continue Reading Displaced by devastating floods, Nigerians are forced to use floodwater despite cholera risk
By Nimi Princewill and Larry Madowo, CNN Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state is officially nicknamed the ‘glory of all lands.’ But…
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Ukraine tells refugees not to return this winter as Russian strikes put energy grid in peril
By Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine has asked refugees who fled the country in the wake of Russia’s invasion not to return home this winter, after…
Continue ReadingOctober 26, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
By Tara Subramaniam, Jack Guy and Adrienne Vogt, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery…
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Norwegian police arrest ‘Brazilian researcher’ on suspicion of spying for Russia
By James Frater and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Police in Norway arrested an academic working at the University of Tromsø in the Arctic Circle on Monday, on…
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