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CNN — Estonia’s parliament passed on Tuesday a law legalizing same-sex marriage, becoming the first ex-Soviet country to do so. Two adults will be able to marry “regardless of their gender,” after the parliament approved amendments to the country’s Family Law Act, according to a press statement. The amended act…
CNN — Online influencer Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian citizens were indicted Tuesday on charges of human trafficking, rape and setting up a criminal gang, according to a statement from Romanian prosecutors. The Tate brothers and two Romanian female suspects are under house arrest pending a criminal…
Russian servicemen stand guard at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on June 15. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images/File Russia appears to be transferring its personnel and heavy military equipment from other parts of Ukraine to support its front line in the Zaporizhzhia area, Ukrainian and UK officials say.…
CNN — The US Coast Guard launched a search and rescue operation Monday to locate a submarine that went missing during an expedition taking tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic, CNN partner CTV News reported. The group conducting the trip, Oceangate Expeditions, said it is “exploring and mobilizing all…
CNN — The climate crisis is taking an enormous toll on Europe, which was ravaged by extreme heat, drought, wildfires and glacier melt last year, a new analysis has concluded. A joint report by the World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last summer…
CNN — Jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny appeared before a Russian court Monday to defend himself against fresh charges of extremism, in a trial that could extend his prison term by decades. Navalny, already serving sentences totaling 11-and-a-half years in a maximum security facility, was charged in 2021 with the…
CNN — Swiss voters have approved a new law to cut the use of fossil fuels and significantly reduce levels of planet-heating pollution, as the country faces alarming levels of glacier melt. The law, which was approved by just over 59% of voters during a referendum held on Sunday, requires…
CNN — Russia’s Ministry of Defense has claimed that a Ukrainian stronghold was destroyed by a remotely-controlled tank packed with a huge amount of explosives, in what appears to be a new battlefield tactic. In a post on its Telegram channel at the weekend, the ministry said that “about 3.5…
Ukrainian shelling on the Kursk region in western Russia wounded two people and damaged buildings, including a sugar factory, regional Gov. Roman Starovoyt said Sunday. The shelling targeted three settlements in the border district of Glushkovsky, the governor said, estimating that Ukraine launched more than two dozen strikes at various areas. Two residents…
Paris CNN — A dozen police officers and several protesters were injured Saturday in clashes at the construction site of an Alpine railway tunnel connecting France and Italy. Around 2,000 police were mobilized to the site to face more than 3,000 people protesting the 57-kilometer tunnel project that will connect…
CNN — Police in Austria say they foiled an attack on Vienna’s annual Pride parade Saturday after arresting three suspects with alleged links to Islamic extremism. The three – aged 14, 17 and 20 – are Austrian nationals of Bosnian and Chechen origin, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner from Austria’s State Protection and…
The Ukrainian Air Forces claims to have hit a Russian ammunition dump in the occupied Kherson region early Sunday. Air forces spokesman Yurii Ihnat said Ukraine had hit the ammunition depot in Rykov village in the Henichesk area of Kherson. “The less ammunition is there, the more of it on…
London CNN — Holly Reeves has a medical condition where she struggles to swallow food, so doctors fitted the five-year old from Devon with a feeding tube. But Holly has asthma and if she has a serious coughing episode the tube falls out – leading to her “starving to the…
CNN — At least 16 people are dead and 31 are missing in flooding from the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse, Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Saturday. The dam in southern Ukraine collapsed on June 6, destroying villages, flooding farmland and cutting power and clean water supplies to tens…
CNN — African leaders hoping to mediate in the Ukraine war met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg Saturday. The delegation aims to bring the warring sides to the negotiating table despite both of them playing down the possibility. Many African countries have been impacted by the Ukraine war,…
CNN — Tens of thousands marched through the streets of Warsaw on Saturday to demand equality for LGBTQ people, as the community eyes upcoming Polish elections in which gay rights could play a prominent role. The country’s ruling conservative nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party has focused on opposing what…
President Joe Biden speaks at the League of Conservation Voters annual capital dinner in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2023. Susan Walsh/AP US President Joe Biden is comfortable with removing one of the hurdles for Ukraine to join NATO, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. According to the source,…
CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a “serious danger” of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if members of the alliance continue to supply military weaponry to Kyiv. “NATO, of course, is being drawn into the war in Ukraine, what are we talking here,”…
CNN — Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces has not yet gained the momentum that some overly optimistic observers anticipated. So far it feels like the prelude to a more expansive act. Offensive operations so far have yielded modest gains in the southern regions like Zaporizhzhia with multi-layered Russian defenses proving…
Kalamata, Greece CNN — Nine crew members have been arrested for people smuggling after a packed vessel sank in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, as human rights campaigners accused Greek authorities of neglecting those on board. The Greek coastguard said nine Egyptian nationals aged between 20 and…
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine CNN — In a deserted shell of a building, a Ukrainian drone pilot blocks off his surroundings and focuses solely on the controller in his hands. The wall-less room gives him and his unit some cover in the moonless night. The small screen on the soldier’s remote control,…
Rome, Italy CNN — Pope Francis was discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital Friday where the 86-year-old was recovering from abdominal surgery. Hospital staff had gathered by the hospital entrance to say goodbye and people lined the walkway outside the facility in a bid to see the pope, as seen by…
Parts of a Kh-47 Kinzhal Russian hypersonic missile, shot down by a Ukrainian Air Defence unit are seen at a compound of the Scientific Research Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 12. Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters A Ukrainian military commander has detailed how he says his brigade shot down one of Russia’s most modern ballistic…
CNN — Till Lindemann, the lead singer of German industrial metal band Rammstein is under investigation on allegations relating to sexual offenses and the distribution of narcotics on the basis of “several criminal complaints,” according to a spokeswoman for the Berlin’s Public Prosecutor’s office. The announcement comes in the middle…
CNN — A 21-year-old American woman died after being assaulted and pushed down a slope by an American man near one of Germany’s most popular tourist sights, Neuschwanstein Castle, in Bavaria, according to local police. The woman died overnight after sustaining serious injuries, police in Bavaria said in a statement…
Kalamata, Greece CNN — A boat that sank killing dozens of people was caused by a “sudden” shift in weight, Greek authorities said Thursday, in one of the largest-scale migrant vessel disasters in southern Europe this year. At least 78 people died after the vessel went down on Wednesday, with…
CNN — Two-time Oscar-winning actress and former UK politician Glenda Jackson “died peacefully” after a brief illness at the age of 87, her agent confirmed, according to PA Media. Born in the western town of Birkenhead in England in 1936, Jackson joined an amateur theater group as a teenager before…
CNN — Ukrainian forces spared the life of a Russian soldier when he surrendered to a drone on the battlefield just moments before its operators were about to open fire, a Ukrainian commander has confirmed to CNN. Drone footage from a unit of Ukraine’s 92nd mechanized brigade, published by the…
Eastern Ukraine CNN — His forearms bulged with the effort of holding onto the straining leash of a slobbering dog. The creature’s muffled grunts could be felt as much as heard – like the growls of a souped-up truck. Which was fitting, given that his owner’s call sign is Brabus…
His forearms bulged with the effort of holding onto the straining leash of a slobbering dog. The creature’s muffled grunts could be felt as much as heard — like the growls of a souped-up truck. Which was fitting, given that his owner’s call sign is Brabus — after the German…
