Peter Wilkinson

Senior Editor, Global Breaking News, CNN Digital

Peter Wilkinson is CNN Digital's Senior Editor, Global Breaking News, based in the London bureau.
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Catherine, Princess of visits Nottingham Trent University to learn about their mental health support system on October 11, 2023 in Nottingham, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales are carrying out engagements across the UK to mark World Mental Health Day and to highlight the importance of mental wellbeing, particularly in young people.
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March 22, 2024 - Catherine, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer
Mar 23, 2024
Catherine, Princess of Wales, disclosed Friday she has been diagnosed with cancer and is in the “early stages” of treatment.
TOPSHOT - Voters look for their names on an electoral roll in a polling station at the Imara College in Lubumbashi on December 20, 2023. Millions of Congolese head to the polls on December 20, 2023 in a high-stakes presidential election pitting the incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi against a fragmented opposition. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images)
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DR Congo vote marred by protest and delays as opposition alleges fraud
Dec 20, 2023
DR Congo vote marred by protest and delays, opposition alleges fraud
Even evacuating the injured puts his limited vehicles at risk from Russian drone attacks
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Gas, drones and convict recruits: Ukrainian soldiers describe Russia’s deadly surge on the frontlines
Dec 19, 2023
The front lines where Ukraine and its allies had hoped for a summer breakthrough now epitomize the bleak, dark winter ahead — of Russian resurgence and Kyiv’s mounting losses.
Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer from his window, at the Vatican, December 17, 2023. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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Pope Francis authorizes blessings for same-sex couples
Dec 18, 2023
Pope Francis formally permitted Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples on Monday, in a significant shift in Vatican doctrine.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks on during an interview with AFP at the office of his Anti-corruption Foundation (FBK) in Moscow on January 16, 2018. - The Kremlin's top critic Alexei Navalny has slammed Russia's March presidential election, in which he is barred from running, as a sham meant to "re-appoint" Vladimir Putin on his way to becoming "emperor for life". (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Concerns about Navalny grow after he fails to appear at latest court hearings
Dec 18, 2023
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny failed to appear at another court hearing on Monday, further raising concerns about his well-being 10 days after his team lost contact with him.
Egypt's president Abdul Fatah El-Sisi talks to the press after a meeting at the Palace in Cairo, part of a visit of both Belgian and Spanish Prime Ministers (incoming and outgoing presidency of Europe) to Egypt, in Cairo, Friday 24 November 2023. The two heads of government have visited Israel and Palestine yesterday, to hold talks with political leaders on the war in Gaza. In Egypt, Sanchez and De Croo will meet the Egyptian president and visit the border crossing to the Gaza strip in Rafah. BELGA PHOTO NICOLAS MAETERLINCK - SPAIN OUT - (Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)
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Egypt’s Sisi sweeps to third term as president with 89.6% of vote
Dec 18, 2023
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has swept to a third, six-year term as Egypt’s president, winning 89.6% of votes in an election in which he faced no serious challengers, the National Election Authority announced on Monday.
An army soldier examines damages on the site of a bombing at a police station on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station's main gate in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing several policemen and wounding more than dozen others, officials said. Some militants also opened fire and a shootout between them and security forces was still ongoing, police officer Kamal Khan said. (AP Photo)
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Pakistani armed forces suffer deadliest attack this year
Dec 12, 2023
Pakistani armed forces suffer deadliest attack this year
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 29 : Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in support of political prisoners in Prospekt Sakharova Street in Moscow, Russia on September 29, 2019. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Alexey Navalny fails to attend trial after his team loses contact with jailed Russian opposition leader
Dec 12, 2023
The trial of Alexey Navalny was postponed on Tuesday, one day after lawyers said they had lost contact with the jailed Russian opposition leader, who was believed to be imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow.
ALTERNATIVE CROP A picture taken on January 26, 2013 shows Olympian sprinter Oscar Pistorius posing next to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg. South Africa's Olympic sprinter Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius was taken into police custody on February 14, 2013, after allegedly shooting dead his model girlfriend having mistaken her for an intruder at his upscale home. AFP PHOTO / WALDO SWIEGERS (Photo credit should read WALDO SWIEGERS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Oscar Pistorius to be released on parole as Reeva Steenkamp’s mother warns he has not been rehabilitated after murder
Nov 24, 2023
Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole in January, prison authorities said Friday, nearly 11 years after the South African Paralympic sprinter killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 12: Columbia students participate in a rally in support of Palestine at the university on October 12, 2023 in New York City. A counter rally in support of Israel was also held by students across the lawn. Across the country and around the world, people are holding rallies and vigils for both Palestinians and Israelis following last weekend's attack by Hamas. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea, and air, killing over 1,200 people and wounding thousands. Israeli soldiers and civilians have also been taken hostage by Hamas and moved into Gaza. The attack prompted a declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with ongoing airstrikes in Gaza that have killed over a thousand people. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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October 21, 2023 - Israel-Hamas war news
Oct 22, 2023
The first convoy of aid trucks passed through the Rafah crossing and entered besieged Gaza on Saturday morning, as the Israeli military said it’s preparing for an operation on the ground there. Follow for live updates.
Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel on October 12, 2023.
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October 15, 2023 Israel-Hamas war news
Oct 16, 2023
Conditions in Gaza have deteriorated into a “complete catastrophe,” aid workers say, as tens of thousands of Palestinians try to flee south. Follow here for live updates..
Israeli tanks from an artillery unit are seen near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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October 14, 2023 Israel-Hamas war news
Oct 15, 2023
Israel’s military has warned 1.1 million people living in northern Gaza to evacuate amid signs Israel could ramp up its retaliatory offensive against Hamas following the group’s October 7 terror attacks.
A man runs on a road as fire burns after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel October 7, 2023.
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October 11, 2023 - Israel-Hamas war news
Oct 12, 2023
Israel is hammering Gaza with airstrikes, hitting hundreds of targets and reducing neighborhoods to rubble, as new atrocities are uncovered in its territory after a devastating attack by Hamas militants.
Firefighters work amid aircraft wreckage at an accident scene following the crash of a private jet in the Tver region, Russia, August 23, 2023. Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, was reportedly listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed north of Moscow on August 23, 2023. Investigative Committee of Russia/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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August 24, 2023 Russia-Ukraine, Prigozhin news
Aug 25, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first public comments since the plane crash that apparently killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, as US intelligence begins to probe the crash’s cause. Follow live updates here.
Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies, and attempting to murder six more between 2015 and 2016.
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‘I am evil,’ wrote British nurse found guilty of murdering seven babies in her care
Aug 18, 2023
A British nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the hospital where she worked, making her the country’s worst baby serial killer in recent times.
Blur performs at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday July 8, 2023. (Ian West/PA via AP)
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Blur raise their game as Britpop legends emerge as a genuine stadium band
Jul 10, 2023
In an era when the elder statesmen of rock might start to consider hanging up their microphones and leather pants, Blur stomped onto Britain’s biggest stage this weekend to stake their claim for the big time.

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Peter Wilkinson is Senior Editor, Global Breaking News, CNN Digital, based in the London bureau.

He was previously Weekend Editor, and before working for CNN was a journalist at Reuters, BBC News Online and several UK national newspapers, including the Daily Mirror and the Sunday People. Follow him on Twitter.