Arras, France school knife attack: Teacher killed and several people injured
Paris CNN — A teacher was killed Friday and several people injured in a knife attack at a public school in Arras, northern France, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. A…
Gaza: International efforts to bring aid ramp up, as Israeli blockade crushes Palestinian health care system
CNN — Medical and relief workers are pleading for safe passage for the 2 million civilians in Gaza as Israel pounds the enclave with airstrikes and imposes a complete siege,…
Thai death toll spotlights poor agricultural workers from Asia who toil in Israel’s fields
Bangkok CNN — Like his father Chumporn and dozens of other able-bodied men from their village in northeast Thailand, Manee Jirachart moved to Israel in search of work, dreaming of…
Gaza’s sole power plant shuts down due to shortage of fuel under Israeli blockade
Gaza CNN — Gaza’s only power station has stopped working after the fuel needed for generating electricity ran out on Wednesday, Gaza officials said. “Gaza is currently without power,” the…
Germany’s shifting political landscape put to the test in key state votes
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…
Boy killed in Kharkiv was asleep when Russian missile hit, Ukraine says
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…
Extreme heat scorches large parts of South America as winter ends
CNN — This weekend may have marked the beginning of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, but it felt like the peak of summer across several countries in South America, where…
Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian journalist who protested on live television sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in absentia
CNN — Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist who staged a daring protest against the Ukraine war live on state-run television, has been sentenced to eight and a half years in…
Migrant crisis: They should be in elementary school, instead they speak like war veterans
Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico CNN — The smell of burning wood and plastic hits us as we step out of the van. Smoke from campfires meets the cloud of dirt kicked…
Dozens of cats left to die in Abu Dhabi desert, prompting outcry
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi, UAE…