CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Katie Hunt, CNN An elephant’s tusks are among its defining features — they help the animal lift heavy branches, topple trees, strip…

By Sarah Dean, CNN Down a narrow, winding street in central Rome, golden cobblestones shine out from the footpath in front of homes, etched with the…

By Lauren Kent, CNN Photographs by Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Forests have long been celebrated as the natural heroes in the fight against the climate…

By Amy Cassidy and Reuters The European Union is facing mounting pressure from its own lawmakers to withhold funds to Poland as an ongoing spat…

By Eyad Kourdi and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN Syria has executed 24 people who were convicted of terrorism charges for igniting last year’s…

By Yasir Abdullah and Mostafa Salem, CNN Throngs of Sudanese protesters took to the streets on Thursday to voice their support for civilian rule…

By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Moscow will impose a 10-day lockdown from next week in an effort to curb soaring Covid-19 cases, the…

Story by Reuters Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers won backing from 10 regional powers at talks in Moscow on Wednesday for the idea of a United…

By Jomana Karadsheh, Eyad Kourdi, Kareem Khadder and Reuters Four children were among at least 10 people killed in Syrian regime strikes in the…

By Bethlehem Feleke, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN The capital of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region was covered in smoke on…

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN Police in Lagos fired tear gas Wednesday as hundreds of demonstrators turned up at the Lekki toll gate…

By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Millions of Russians face strict new Covid-19 restrictions from this week after a slow vaccination drive, an…

By Nadine Schmidt and Sheena McKenzie, CNN Two former German soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to create a paramilitary unit to…

By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Bethlehem Feleke, Barbara Arvanitidis and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Three children were killed and one person was injured in…

By Stephanie Halasz, CNN The trial of a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary has finally began in Germany, weeks after she went on…

By Sharon Braithwaite and Stephanie Halasz, CNN The five victims of last week’s attack in Norway were all stabbed to death, rather than killed…

By Stephanie Busari, CNN When Adesola heard about the shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos on October 20, 2020, she immediately thought of her…