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CNN — Controversial internet personality Andrew Tate was served with legal papers by UK lawyers Wednesday after Romanian authorities upgraded the severity of the trafficking charge against him and his brother. Tate, a professional fighter-turned media personality from Chicago who has racked up billions of views online for his rants…
CNN — Part of the summit of a mountain in the Austrian state of Tyrol has collapsed, sending more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock crashing into the valley below and triggering mudslides. Rocks started falling Sunday from Fluchthorn, a nearly 3,400 meter (11,155 foot) mountain in the Silvretta Alps…
CNN — Mourners have gathered in Milan for the state funeral of Silvio Berlusconi, the divisive and domineering former premier who remained omnipresent in Italian public life for decades until his death on Monday. Berlusconi’s coffin left Villa San Martino in Arcore, outside Milan, and was transported through the city…
CNN — Two teenage students and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death, and a further three people were injured after a stolen van plowed into them, in a spree of violence across the English city of Nottingham early Tuesday morning. Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar, both 19-year-old…
Velyka Novosilka, Ukraine CNN — Under clear and sunny skies, a Ukrainian soldier speeds down a long, straight road toward forward positions close to the front line. “We have to go fast,” the soldier says, the urgency underlined by the near-constant thud of shelling and the threat of Russian drones…
CNN — At least 59 people drowned after a migrant boat sank off the Greek coast in the early hours of Wednesday, that country’s Coast Guard said. No one on board the fishing boat was wearing a life jacket, the Coast Guard said. A total of 104 migrants who were…
CNN — As the early stages of Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian invaders is unfolding on the battlefield, hundreds of warplanes from some of Kyiv’s biggest supporters are in the skies over Germany as NATO holds its largest aerial war games ever. “Air Defender 2023” is bringing together 250 warplanes –…
Dutch military intelligence warned the CIA last year about an alleged Ukrainian plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines three months before they were hit, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday, without specifying a source. The report was based on a joint investigation by NOS, Dutch television news show…
CNN — Dutch military intelligence warned the American intelligence service, CIA, last year about an alleged Ukrainian plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines three months before they were hit, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday without specifying a source. The report was based on a joint investigation…
A Ukrainian serviceman rides an armored recovery military vehicle in Donetsk region, Ukraine on June 12. Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters Russia-backed officials and military bloggers are reporting intense fighting along the border of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, in an area where Ukrainian forces have made gains in recent days. The fighting is taking…
CNN — Russian and Ukrainian forces are reporting intense fighting along the border of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and southern Zaporizhzhia regions as Kyiv’s military attempts to break through the front lines and recapture territory in an ongoing counteroffensive. The new reports came as Russian missiles attacked the central Ukrainian city…
CNN — Three British tourists died after a boat in Egypt’s Red Sea caught fire on Sunday, British holiday company Scuba Travel said on Monday. “It is with great regret that we, as Tour Operator, with heavy hearts, must accept that three of our much-valued dive guests, who had not…
Paris CNN — An 11-year-old British girl was shot dead in Saint-Herbot, a hamlet in Brittany, western France, on Saturday, according to the local prosecutor. The girl’s parents were seriously wounded in the gun attack. Her 8-year-old-sister escaped and was found “unharmed but in a state of shock,” Quimper prosecutor…
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Silvio Berlusconi at Fiumicino airport in Rome, on July 5, 2019. Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images Berlusconi’s political career was marked by many controversies over the decades, but perhaps the most recent came last fall, when audio released by Italian news agency LaPresse revealed the 86-year-old…
Rome CNN — Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant billionaire and former Italian prime minister who once described himself as the “Jesus Christ of politics,” has died at a Milan hospital at the age of 86, his press office confirmed on Monday. Berlusconi, who had a recent history of health issues, had…
CNN — Ukraine has lost 16 US-supplied armored vehicles in the past several days, according to open-source intelligence analysis, as the country’s military announced its forces had captured three villages from Russia in an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region. The 16 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles either destroyed or…
A Ukrainian volunteer is seen treading the water while carrying a woman from an evacuation boat in Kherson city on June 9. Ashley Chan/SOPA Images/Sipa/AP At least 14 people have died and more than 2,700 have been evacuated from flooded areas in southern Ukraine after the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam, Ukrainian officials reported…
CNN — A third of young men in Germany find it acceptable to use violence against women, according to a new survey which has caused outrage among gender equality campaigners. The survey was commissioned by children’s charity Plan International Germany. Its findings were published in regional newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.…
Ukrainian soldiers stand in front of a building with a Ukrainian flag, during an operation that claims to liberate the village of Blahodatne, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on June 11. 68th Separate Hunting Brigade ‘Oleksy Dovbusha’/Handout/Reuters There are few reports from the battlefields between the southern Zaporizhzhia…
CNN — Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested as part of the police investigation into the finances of the Scottish National Party (SNP), the most high-profile SNP official yet to be questioned in the probe. In a statement, Scotland Police said “a 52-year-old woman has today, Sunday,…
Paris CNN — The date is set, venues have been chosen, tickets are on sale. One hundred years after the Olympics last graced the streets of Paris, the city is braced for the return of the world’s largest sporting event next summer. While organizers and the French government claim that…
CNN — With a few words, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky gave his strongest signal yet that his forces have begun their much-anticipated campaign to regain swathes of territory taken by Russian forces. The president said “relevant counteroffensive defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine” but remained tight-lipped about the details.…
Kyiv CNN — Editor’s note: The southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol has long been known for its sweet delights. The name “Melitopol” means “the Honey City” in Ukrainian and the city’s official logo features a cherry, a nod to the deep red fruit the region is famous for. But life…
CNN — The suspect in the knife attack in the French alpine town of Annecy that left four children and two men injured is facing attempted murder charges, prosecutors say. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Investigators are still trying to determine why the suspect –…
CNN — Floodwaters are receding following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, but debris washed along the Dnipro river is turning Odesa’s Black Sea coastline into “a garbage dump and animal cemetery,” according to Ukrainian authorities. “A lot of mines, ammunition and other explosive objects are being carried into the…
CNN — A US citizen has been detained in Moscow according to a Telegram statement from Moscow’s courts of general jurisdiction. The man was detained on Saturday where “the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow took a preventive measure against an American citizen,” it said. The court statement described the man…
Kyiv CNN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has given his clearest indication yet that Ukraine’s long-awaited push to liberate territory still held by Russia’s occupying forces is underway, saying “relevant counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine.” Speaking in Kyiv Saturday, the Ukrainian leader was asked to respond…
CNN — An ancient stone site in western France has been removed to make way for a new hardware store, sparking criticism of the local mayor. The mayor of Carnac, Olivier Lepick, insisted he adhered to the law in granting planning permission for the new Mr Bricolage hardware store. The…
Southern Ukraine CNN — Deep inside a makeshift bunker, residents of Orihiv await an aid delivery while artillery shakes the ground above. “It’s comfortable here,” 72-year-old Olga Shumska says, unfazed by the commotion outside. The town in the Zaporizhzhia region sits just five kilometers away from a frontline where Ukrainian…
