By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — British singer Vera Lynn, whose sentimental during provided the soundtrack for the Allied war effort, has died at the age of 103, according to a statement from the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity on Thursday.Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, died Thursday morning “surrounded by her close family,” the statement posted on the charity’s website said.Lynn’s two most famous songs, “We’ll Meet Again,” released in 1939 at the start of the war and “The White Cliffs of Dover,” recorded in 1942, created a patriotic image of a...…By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — British singer Vera Lynn, whose sentimental during provided the soundtrack for the Allied war effort, has died at the age of 103, according to a statement from the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity on Thursday.Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, died Thursday morning “surrounded by her close family,” the statement posted on the charity’s website said.Lynn’s two most famous songs, “We’ll Meet Again,” released in 1939 at the start of the war and “The White Cliffs of Dover,” recorded in 1942, created a patriotic image of a...WW…

Stay Updated on Developing StoriesView in AppBy Sarah Dean, Simon Cullen and Claudia Rebaza, CNNLondon(CNN) The partner of Wikileaks founder has revealed the couple had two children while he was living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.In a video posted online and shared by -- on the one year anniversary of his arrest -- Stella Moris said she and Assange met in 2011 when she was brought onto his legal team."I'd been in the embassy almost every single day and got to know Julian very well and in 2015 we got together," she said. "We fell in love. This is a person that I knew well by then....…Stay Updated on Developing StoriesView in AppBy Sarah Dean, Simon Cullen and Claudia Rebaza, CNNLondon(CNN) The partner of Wikileaks founder has revealed the couple had two children while he was living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.In a video posted online and shared by -- on the one year anniversary of his arrest -- Stella Moris said she and Assange met in 2011 when she was brought onto his legal team."I'd been in the embassy almost every single day and got to know Julian very well and in 2015 we got together," she said. "We fell in love. This is a person that I knew well by then....WW…

(CNN)An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said on Monday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained at a Tehran airport in April 2016 following a vacation to see her family with her daughter. She was accused of working with organizations allegedly attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime and was later convicted and sentenced to five years in jail. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, have repeatedly denied the espionage charges...…(CNN)An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said on Monday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained at a Tehran airport in April 2016 following a vacation to see her family with her daughter. She was accused of working with organizations allegedly attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime and was later convicted and sentenced to five years in jail. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, have repeatedly denied the espionage charges...WW…

ByLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Kenya has sounded the alarm over a potential coronavirus “vaccine apartheid” playing out between countries, as it accused the United Kingdom of instituting a “discriminatory policy” after London issued a travel ban on the east African nation.“Kenya continues to see, with deep regret, that vaccine producing countries around the world have begun practicing a form of vaccine nationalism, possessiveness, and discrimination, coupled with a vaccine hoarding attitude that can only be described as a form of ‘vaccine apartheid’,” Kenya’s Foreign Ministry said in...…ByLink Copied!Ad Feedback — Kenya has sounded the alarm over a potential coronavirus “vaccine apartheid” playing out between countries, as it accused the United Kingdom of instituting a “discriminatory policy” after London issued a travel ban on the east African nation.“Kenya continues to see, with deep regret, that vaccine producing countries around the world have begun practicing a form of vaccine nationalism, possessiveness, and discrimination, coupled with a vaccine hoarding attitude that can only be described as a form of ‘vaccine apartheid’,” Kenya’s Foreign Ministry said in...WW…

London (CNN)London has recorded zero daily deaths from Covid-19 in a single day for the first time in over six months, official data indicates.Public Health England (PHE) statistics from Sunday showed no fatalities within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test in the UK capital, while the country as a whole recorded 19 deaths. The last daily record of zero deaths in the capital was on September 14 before a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic struck Britain.The data for Covid-19 deaths is usually lower on Mondays due to a lag in authorities reporting numbers over the weekend but the latest...…London (CNN)London has recorded zero daily deaths from Covid-19 in a single day for the first time in over six months, official data indicates.Public Health England (PHE) statistics from Sunday showed no fatalities within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test in the UK capital, while the country as a whole recorded 19 deaths. The last daily record of zero deaths in the capital was on September 14 before a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic struck Britain.The data for Covid-19 deaths is usually lower on Mondays due to a lag in authorities reporting numbers over the weekend but the latest...WW…

By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — The fridges are here but the shots are not.Doctor Sibylle Katzenstein spent thousands kitting out her so she could administer as fast as possible, but she is yet to receive a single dose.“It would have been nice if I had at least 10 vaccines in my fridge. It cost me a lot of time and frustration and in the end these people who need it, they didn’t get vaccinated,” Katzenstein said.The general practitioner says she has no idea how to get her vulnerable patients vaccinated after repeatedly lobbying for shots and repeatedly being turned down....…By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — The fridges are here but the shots are not.Doctor Sibylle Katzenstein spent thousands kitting out her so she could administer as fast as possible, but she is yet to receive a single dose.“It would have been nice if I had at least 10 vaccines in my fridge. It cost me a lot of time and frustration and in the end these people who need it, they didn’t get vaccinated,” Katzenstein said.The general practitioner says she has no idea how to get her vulnerable patients vaccinated after repeatedly lobbying for shots and repeatedly being turned down....WW…

By , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — A man who was arrested and sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests as a teen in Saudi Arabia has had his sentence commuted, his father told CNN Sunday.Ali al-Nimr’s sentence was reduced to 10 years in jail by the Specialized Criminal Court on Sunday, according to human rights group Reprieve.His father, Mohammed al-Nimr, who attended the hearing in Riyadh, said his son, now 26, should be released in eight or nine months after having already spent more than nine years “of his youth and part of his childhood” in...…By , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — A man who was arrested and sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests as a teen in Saudi Arabia has had his sentence commuted, his father told CNN Sunday.Ali al-Nimr’s sentence was reduced to 10 years in jail by the Specialized Criminal Court on Sunday, according to human rights group Reprieve.His father, Mohammed al-Nimr, who attended the hearing in Riyadh, said his son, now 26, should be released in eight or nine months after having already spent more than nine years “of his youth and part of his childhood” in...WW…

(CNN)Calls are growing in parts of the Muslim world to boycott goods in protest after President Emmanuel Macron publicly defended cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which are considered blasphemous in .Macron made the remarks last week at a tribute to the murdered high school teacher , who was beheaded earlier this month during a terror attack in a northern suburb of Paris.Paty was killed after he showed cartoons of the prophet during a class on freedom of expression. Macron said that France would not "give up" the caricatures and pledged to tackle extreme in the country, sparking...…(CNN)Calls are growing in parts of the Muslim world to boycott goods in protest after President Emmanuel Macron publicly defended cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which are considered blasphemous in .Macron made the remarks last week at a tribute to the murdered high school teacher , who was beheaded earlier this month during a terror attack in a northern suburb of Paris.Paty was killed after he showed cartoons of the prophet during a class on freedom of expression. Macron said that France would not "give up" the caricatures and pledged to tackle extreme in the country, sparking...WW…

(CNN)A activist has been ejected from the country by security forces, according to a statement from the Belarusian Coordination Council.Olga Kovalkova, a confidant of the main Belarusian opposition candidate , was removed from the country on Saturday night, according to a statement from the organization.The council is a body aimed at coordinating a peaceful and orderly transition of power and was established by Tikhanovskaya following Belarus' disputed August elections."On the night of September 5, the Belarusian special services took Olga Kovalkova, a confidant of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,...…(CNN)A activist has been ejected from the country by security forces, according to a statement from the Belarusian Coordination Council.Olga Kovalkova, a confidant of the main Belarusian opposition candidate , was removed from the country on Saturday night, according to a statement from the organization.The council is a body aimed at coordinating a peaceful and orderly transition of power and was established by Tikhanovskaya following Belarus' disputed August elections."On the night of September 5, the Belarusian special services took Olga Kovalkova, a confidant of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,...WW…

London (CNN), the British teenager who left London with two schoolfriends in 2015 to join in Syria, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the deprivation of her British citizenship, judges ruled Thursday.Begum, now 20, had her British citizenship stripped by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid on February 19, 2019, after she was found in a northern Syrian refugee camp. She challenged that decision but on June 13, 2019, the government refused her application for leave to enter the UK to pursue her appeal.The Court of Appeal and a Divisional Court of the High Court on Thursday ruled...…London (CNN), the British teenager who left London with two schoolfriends in 2015 to join in Syria, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the deprivation of her British citizenship, judges ruled Thursday.Begum, now 20, had her British citizenship stripped by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid on February 19, 2019, after she was found in a northern Syrian refugee camp. She challenged that decision but on June 13, 2019, the government refused her application for leave to enter the UK to pursue her appeal.The Court of Appeal and a Divisional Court of the High Court on Thursday ruled...WW…