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‘I won’t leave’: Civilians struggle on with daily life despite battle for Bakhmut

January 17, 2023 10:05 AM CNN Newsource

By Ben Wedeman, Kosta Gak and Kareem Khadder, CNN An excavator gouges huge chunks of rich brown earth by the roadside, depositing the dirt at the…

‘I won’t leave’: Civilians struggle on with daily life despite battle for Bakhmut

January 17, 2023 10:05 AM CNN

CNN By Ben Wedeman, Kosta Gak and Kareem Khadder, CNN An excavator gouges huge chunks of rich brown earth by the roadside, depositing the dirt at the…

Former Wagner commander flees to Norway and seeks asylum

January 16, 2023 3:06 PM CNN Newsource

By Mick Krever and Katharina Krebs, CNN A former commander in Russia’s Wagner private military company has fled to Norway and is seeking asylum…

UK government blocks Scotland’s new gender recognition law

January 16, 2023 11:52 AM CNN Newsource

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The UK government has blocked a new law intended to allow trans people in Scotland to change their legal gender without a…

Armed men kidnap 50 women and girls foraging for food in Burkina Faso

January 16, 2023 11:02 AM CNN Newsource

By Saskya Vandoorne, Marguerite Lacroix and Allegra Goodwin, CNN A group of women and girls foraging for wild fruits were abducted by armed men in…

In parts of Ancient Greece, first-cousin marriage was not only allowed but encouraged, DNA shows

January 16, 2023 10:02 AM CNN Newsource

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN If you wanted to hang on to your land in Bronze Age Greece, you could do worse than marry your cousin. A team of international…

‘Russia’s Rambo,’ once a Putin favorite, says he’d now fight for Ukraine and feels ‘nothing but hatred’ for his home country

January 16, 2023 2:47 AM CNN

CNN By Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Russian actor Artur Smolyaninov was the star of one of President Vladimir Putin’s favorite films…

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted man, arrested in Sicily

January 16, 2023 2:40 AM CNN Newsource

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen and Valentina Di Donato, CNN Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily…

Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada shot dead at her home in Kabul

January 16, 2023 1:25 AM CNN Newsource

By Ehsan Popalzai and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada and her security guard were shot dead her home in Kabul early…

‘Russia’s Rambo,’ once a Putin favorite, says he’d now fight for Ukraine and feels ‘nothing but hatred’ for his home country

January 15, 2023 10:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Russian actor Artur Smolyaninov was the star of one of President Vladimir Putin’s favorite films —…

‘The closer I got, the more it looked like hell’: Dnipro reels from deadly Russian missile strike

January 15, 2023 9:07 PM CNN Newsource

By Tim Lister, Fred Pleitgen and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN In Dnipro, there is grief, exhaustion and anger. Early on Saturday afternoon, as families…

Russian missile strike on apartment building in Dnipro kills 29 people, Ukraine officials say

January 15, 2023 5:52 AM CNN

CNN By Denis Lapin, Olga Voitovych, Tim Lister, Hannah Ritchie and Mariya Knight, CNN The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment…

Former Moscow-linked Church claims religious persecution as security raids heat up

January 14, 2023 10:29 PM CNN Newsource

By Scott McLean, Svitlana Vlasova and Matthias Somm, CNN The vertically shot video published last November shows no weapons, battlefield atrocities…

Russian missile strike on apartment building in Dnipro kills 40 people, Ukraine officials say

January 14, 2023 1:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Denis Lapin, Olga Voitovych, Tim Lister, Hannah Ritchie and Mariya Knight, CNN The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block…

Europe gears up to send Western tanks to Ukraine

January 13, 2023 11:09 PM CNN Newsource

By Luke McGee, Saskya Vandoorne, Sebastian Shukla and Lindsay Isaac, CNN The Western alliance’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

UK condemns Iran’s execution of dual British-Iranian citizen Alireza Akbari

January 13, 2023 10:57 PM CNN Newsource

By Sahar Akbarzai, Artemis Moshtaghian and Niamh Kennedy, CNN A dual British-Iranian citizen was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and…

Germany plans to destroy this village for a coal mine. Thousands are gathering to stop it

January 13, 2023 10:37 PM CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN It’s a stark image in 2023: Police in riot gear flooding a village, pulling people out of houses and tearing down…

Greece drops some espionage charges against aid workers who rescued migrants from the sea

January 13, 2023 7:52 PM CNN Newsource

By Alex Hardie and Niamh Kennedy, CNN A Greek court dropped espionage charges against a group of aid workers who rescued migrants from the sea, in a…

Ostrich eggs up to 7,500 years old found next to ancient fire pit in Israel

January 13, 2023 9:24 AM CNN

CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN A well-known riddle compares an egg to treasure, asking: A box without hinges, key or a lid, yet inside golden treasure is…

Why an Arab nation has opted to teach the Holocaust in its schools

January 13, 2023 7:37 AM CNN Newsource

By Mohammed Abdelbary, CNN The United Arab Emirates will soon become the first Arab nation to teach the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in its schools,…

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