Last year Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a blockade of the Ukrainian steel plant Azovstal in the port city of Mariupol. The siege ended in the evacuation of hundreds from the plant, the last holdout in the city under Russian bombardment. CNN has now obtained exclusive information detailing how the deal was struck, and who [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describes what he expects the endgame for the war in Ukraine should be like in an exclusive interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Source: Latest CNN News
Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton breaks down how some weapons could make a difference in the battle over the key Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Source: Latest CNN News
Protests have erupted in Georgia this week after the country's parliament passed the first reading of a draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents." Source: Latest CNN News
For the first time in its operational history, the Seychelles' tanker fleet made a profit of $25 million for the year 2022, said a top official of the Seychelles Petroleum Company (SEYPEC) on Wednesday. The chief executive of SEYPEC, Sarah Romain, made the statement to the press while providing an update on the company's performance in [...]
CNN's Don Lemon speaks to the mother of LaTavia Washington McGee, one of the surviving Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico. Source: Latest CNN News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invites House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine to see the situation on the ground firsthand -- an invitation that comes as the Republican Party faces a divide over whether the United States should continue to provide aid to the country under attack from Russia. Source: Latest CNN News
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has called for the adoption of a multidimensional vulnerability index (MVI) for small island developing states (SIDS) and vulnerable countries within the United Nations framework and international financial institutions.Ramkalawan made the statement on Tuesday at a high-level side event under the theme "Achieving a fair and complete measurement of vulnerability: perspectives from [...]
Switzerland remains opposed to exporting arms to war-torn Ukraine, the famously neutral country's President Alain Berset said Tuesday on the sidelines of meetings at the United Nations. Switzerland bars re-export of Swiss weaponry to nations at war, but the issue of the country's long tradition of neutrality has been under debate since Russia's full-scale invasion [...]
Protests erupted in Tbilisi, Georgia after the nation's parliament passed the first reading of the controversial foreign agents bill that critics say could curtail basic freedoms in the country. Source: Latest CNN News