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Nov 3, 2024 | 
albanyherald.com | Christian Edwards
(CNN) — Moldovans are voting in the second round of a crucial presidential election, which could determine whether the post-Soviet country stays its course toward Europe or lurches back into the Kremlin’s orbit. Maia Sandu, the pro-Western president, is seeking reelection after guiding Moldova closer to the European Union than ever before while Russia’s war in Ukraine raged near its eastern border.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
news8000.com | Christian Edwards
(CNN) — Moldovans have voted by the thinnest of margins in favor of joining the European Union, near-complete results showed Monday, as President Maia Sandu condemned an “unprecedented assault” by foreign actors on the country’s democracy. With more than 99% of votes counted, 50.4% had voted “yes” on whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path towards the EU, according to the Central Election Commission.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
krdo.com | Christian Edwards |Xiaofei Xu |Niamh Kennedy
By Christian Edwards, Xiaofei Xu and Niamh Kennedy, CNN(CNN) — France has seen the highest turnout in decades as voting in the first round of snap parliamentary elections neared the end. The election could oust President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance and leave him to see out the remaining three years of his term in an awkward partnership with the far right.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
albanyherald.com | Christian Edwards |Xiaofei Xu |Niamh Kennedy
(CNN) — France has seen the highest turnout in recent memory as voting in the first round of snap parliamentary elections neared the end. The election could oust President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance and leave him to see out the remaining three years of his term in an awkward partnership with the far right. kAmpD @7 dA> =@42= E:>6 W``2t%X[ dh]bhT @7 G@E6CD 925 EFC?65 @FE[ >2C<:?8 2 a_T :?4C62D6 7C@> E96 =2DE D6E @7 A2C=:2>6?E2CJ 6=64E:@?D 96=5 :?
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May 6, 2024 | 
albanyherald.com | Helen Regan |Sophie Jeong |Abeer Salman |Christian Edwards
(CNN) — Gazans began leaving eastern Rafah on Monday after Israel’s military issued a call for residents there to“evacuate immediately.” A CNN stringer in Rafah’s east said that people were terrified and in a state of panic, while video and images showed displaced people packing their belongings into the back of pick-up trucks, cars and donkey-drawn carts as they prepared to leave.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
albanyherald.com | Svitlana Vlasova |Sebastian Shukla |Christian Edwards
(CNN) — A Russian missile strike killed and injured nearly 100 people in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine – an attack that could have been prevented if Ukraine was provided with better air defenses, President Volodomyr Zelensky said. At least 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s strike and 78 others were injured, including two children, Ukrainian officials said. Search and rescue operations were completed Thursday, with 37 people still in hospital.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
aol.com | Svitlana Vlasova |Sebastian Shukla |Christian Edwards
April 18, 2024 at 5:45 AMA Russian missile strike killed and injured nearly 100 people in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine – an attack that could have been prevented if Ukraine was provided with better air defenses, President Volodomyr Zelensky said. At least 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s strike and 78 others were injured, including two children, Ukrainian officials said. Search and rescue operations were completed Thursday, with 37 people still in hospital.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
albanyherald.com | Christian Edwards
(CNN) — President Vladimir Putin is set to tighten his grip on the country he has ruled since the turn of the century, with early results from Russia’s stage-managed election indicating a predictably large victory for the Kremlin leader in a result that was a foregone conclusion. With half of the ballots counted, Putin was in the lead with 87.3% of the vote, according to preliminary results reported Sunday by Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC). kAm%96 C6DF=E >62?D !FE:?
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
channel3000.com | Christian Edwards
(CNN) — President Vladimir Putin is set to tighten his grip on the country he has ruled since the turn of the century, with early results from Russia’s stage-managed election indicating a predictably large victory for the Kremlin leader in a result that was a foregone conclusion. With half of the ballots counted, Putin was in the lead with 87.3% of the vote, according to preliminary results reported Sunday by Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC).
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
albanyherald.com | Abeer Salman |Mohammad Al Sawalhi |Christian Edwards
(CNN) — Saadi Baraka wakes at dawn and works until dusk, digging on his knees in the dirt as he tries to bury Gaza’s dead with dignity in a cemetery he says has run out of room. The graveyard at Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, dotted with the green and gray of shrubs and tombs, has been expanded several times in recent months to accommodate the interminable flow of bodies. kAmq2C2<2 D2JD 96 92D 3FC:65 `e[gg_ A6@A=6 D:?46 xDC26= =2F?4965 :ED 2DD2F=E @? v2K2 :?
