From Italy and the World

CNN  —  The tight ring of security that surrounds the seat of the Russian presidency was punctured in dramatic fashion by what appeared to be two attempted drone strikes in the early hours of Wednesday morning. But until the Kremlin chose to publicize the incident around 12 hours later, social…

CNN  —  Eight people have died in the city of Brno, the Czech Republic, after a large fire broke out early on Thursday in an area frequented by homeless people, Czech police said. A spokesperson said the fire started overnight at a site of 12 interconnected mobile cabins near a…

CNN  —  At first glance, it looks like a sci-fi movie. What appear to be two drones, streaking across the night sky in Moscow, head straight for the Kremlin, on target to hit the historic Senate Palace, the official residence of Vladimir Putin. Suddenly, just as one passes the Russian…

CNN  —  Ukrainian air defenses withstood Russia’s most intense air attack on Kyiv since the start of the year overnight into Thursday, the capital region’s military chief said. The barrage came after Moscow accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone strike at the Kremlin…

For days now, the blasts have echoed the condition each country’s military is in. Ukraine is apparently striking at fuel depots in Russian-occupied areas and inside Russia itself — seemingly precise attacks but ones to which Kyiv is making no overt claim. Russia has been lashing out at what often seem to…

CNN  —  Numerous waves of showers and thunderstorms will move across the United Kingdom over the next several days, leaving those celebrating King Charles III’s coronation to dodge the rain over the weekend of festivities. King Charles will be officially crowned during an ornate and deeply religious ceremony in London…

CNN  —  A 13-year-old boy opened fire on his classmates at a school in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Wednesday, rocking the Balkan country. The shooting left at least eight children dead, along with a security guard. While Serbia is awash with guns, mass shootings like these are rare. Here’s…

Dnipro, Ukraine CNN  —  For days now, the blasts have echoed the condition each country’s military is in. Ukraine is apparently striking at fuel depots in Russian-occupied areas and inside Russia itself – seemingly precise attacks but ones to which Kyiv is making no overt claim. Russia has been lashing…

CNN  —  Moscow alleged Wednesday Ukraine flew two drones toward the Kremlin overnight in what it claimed was an attempt to kill President Vladimir Putin. The Russian president was not in the building at the time, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. The Kremlin said the attack was foiled and the…

The father of one of the pupils at a Serbian school where a student opened fire early Wednesday said the suspect “started shooting randomly.” Milan Milosevic said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired, Reuters reported. “She managed to escape. (The boy) … first shot the…

CNN  —  A boy was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly opening fire in an elementary school in the Serbian capital Belgrade, authorities said. Five children were wounded in the incident, CNN affiliate N1 reported, before a seventh-grade student – typically aged 12 or 13 – was placed under arrest. The…

CNN  —  European police carried out raids in multiple European countries on early Wednesday, as part of a probe into the Calabrian Mafia, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor. “This morning, a large-scale European operation took place in several countries. It concerns a case opened by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s…

Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 28. (Stringer/AP) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had no conversations with the White House after a trove of classified US intelligence documents were posted on social media, he told The Washington Post Monday. In an interview with the Post, Zelensky said he learned…

CNN  —  London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a man outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday after he allegedly threw suspected shotgun cartridges into the palace grounds, just days before the coronation of King Charles III. Police attended the palace about 7pm local time and arrested the man on suspicion of possessing an…

Catalonia, Spain CNN  —  Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said. Caudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been hit…

A destroyed Russian tank remains on the side of the road near the frontline town of Kreminna in Luhansk region, Ukraine on March 24. (Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters) Russia has suffered more than 100,000 casualties since December and the “stunning” number is a key signal that Moscow’s winter offensive has “backfired,” according to new estimated…

CNN  —  A former US Marine, Cooper “Harris” Andrews, 26, was killed on the outskirts of Bakhmut late last week, according to his mother and colleagues in Ukraine. Andrews, from Cleveland, Ohio, was hit by a mortar, his mother, Willow Andrews said, likely on April 19 on the so-called “Road…