From Italy and the World

CNN  —  The UK, France, and Germany have all pledged to step up security measures amid fears of attacks against members of the Jewish community after videos emerged of people apparently celebrating deadly attacks launched by Hamas militants. The surprise attacks saw gunmen cross the border from Gaza into Israel…

CNN  —  Shani Louk, a German-Israeli national, was among festivalgoers who had gathered in farmland near the Gaza-Israel border for what was supposed to be an all-night dance party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Instead, in the early hours of Saturday morning, it was swarmed by Hamas fighters who…

CNN  —  The German states of Bavaria and Hesse vote in regional elections on Sunday, in what is widely being seen as a test-case for Germany’s shifting political landscape. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to make gains in both states, although most other major parties have ruled…

CNN  —  How does the war in Ukraine end? Earlier this year, former President Donald Trump boasted that if he were re-elected, he’d “have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.” Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a slightly less ambitious forecast: If things go his way, the war…

CNN  —  At some point during any election campaign, virtually anywhere in the democratic world, voters can expect to be told that their country is at a crossroads. But rarely has the age-old electoral cliche been truer than right now in Poland. The European Union’s fifth-most populous nation will vote…

CNN  —  A 10-year-old boy who was killed by Russia’s strike on the city of Kharkiv on Friday was apparently asleep when missiles hit residential buildings, Ukrainian officials said. A picture purporting to show the boy’s body lying in the middle of the rubble was posted on social media by…

CNN  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday that by arming Ukraine, the United States is pushing Russia toward using nuclear weapons. “I am getting the impression – I say again that it is my opinion – that Americans are pushing Russians toward using the most terrifying weapon. They arm…

Hroza CNN  —  Two women slowly approach a makeshift memorial in the village of Hroza. They pause for a moment, carefully laying a red rose each as tears stream down their face. “My neighbors, my neighbors,” cries Valentina Kozienko, her face puffed red in pure agony. “A lot of our…

CNN  —  Morocco and Algeria have introduced measures to limit the risk of bedbug infestation, as France reportedly grapples with a surge in numbers of the blood-sucking insect. The Moroccan health ministry “has taken all appropriate measures to limit the risk of introduction and spread of this insect on the…

Hroza, Ukraine CNN  —  There were no military targets in the village that was hit by a Russian missile strike Thursday, a top Ukrainian police official said, in what was one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began and which the country’s president called “inhuman” and “deliberate.”…

A Russian missile strike killed dozens in a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Thursday, officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began. Follow here for live updates. Source link

CNN  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Thursday that it was not an “external” attack that crashed the plane carrying Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin in August, but hand grenades within the aircraft. Speaking at the Valdai Forum in Sochi, Putin said the “chairman of the investigative committee just reported a…

London CNN  —  A British man who broke into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and planned to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II has been handed a nine-year jail sentence. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was arrested on Christmas Day 2021 within the grounds of the royal residence, where the late monarch…