Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has withdrawn his country from an international treaty to protect women through a presidential decree issued in the early hours of Saturday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a presidential decree to withdraw his country from an international treaty to protect women. The move has sent shockwaves through a country that has been reeling from high-profile domestic violence cases and femicides. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for Covid-19 and is "self-isolating at home," the country's health minister, Faisal Sultan, said on Saturday.
Volcanic activity has "somewhat decreased" in the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, southwest of the capital Reykjavík, where a volcano erupted Friday night, the the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) announced Saturday.
Paul Stewart played for the England international team and some of English football's leading clubs, notably Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.
Australia's east coast was smashed by heavy rains on Saturday, sparking dangerous flash flooding that forced the evacuation of multiple regions as the fast-moving waters unmoored houses, engulfed roads, stranded towns and cut power lines.
Over the last 10 years, as Syria fell deeper into the abyss, the country has burned and President Bashar al-Assad has clung to power. An uprising that started peacefully has left as many as half a million dead by some estimates. CNN's Ben Wedeman looks back on a tragic decade.
Europe has missed its chance to stop the third wave of the coronavirus epidemic before it got out of control. Now it's paying a high price for it, with new lockdowns being imposed across the continent.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in Brazil by the pandemic in the past month, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says there's a "war" against him personally.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Chinese diplomats had a tense exchange at a key first meeting in Alaska.
