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Brazil’s scandal-plagued President may face a reckoning as lawmakers consider impeachment

By Samantha Beech, Rodrigo Pedroso and Juliana Koch, CNN Corruption inquiries, a spreading Covid-19 crisis, plunging popularity and persistent bouts of hiccups. Brazil’s scandal-plagued President Jair Bolsonaro just can’t seem to catch a break. The President said he’s now feeling “100% well” after his recent health scare, a consequence he says of a failed assassination

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Argentina creates an ID for nonbinary people

By Karol Suarez, CNN Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez announced a new National Identity Document (DNI) for nonbinary people on Wednesday. The DNI’s goal is to guarantee the right to gender identity fo people who don’t recognize themselves as either female or male, he said. “There are other identities besides man and woman that must be

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Hear John Kerry’s stark warning about our ongoing climate crisis

Hear US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry deliver a major policy speech emphasizing the urgency of climate action at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. Under the Paris Agreement, most nations agreed to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees. The US remains the world’s second biggest greenhouse gas emitter after China and is by far the biggest emitter historically.

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John Kerry warns ‘time is running out’ to address climate crisis, calling the last 30 years a ‘failure’

By Angela Dewan, CNN John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, urged the world’s governments to speed up efforts against the climate crisis Tuesday, saying the political response to it has “failed” to respond effectively for more than three decades. In a speech at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London, Kerry

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Boris Johnson had to be talked out of meeting the Queen early on in the pandemic, ex-adviser claims

By Luke McGee, CNN Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser has claimed that the Prime Minister tried to maintain his weekly face-to-face audiences with Queen Elizabeth during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the elderly monarch being vulnerable to the virus. Dominic Cummings, who resigned late last year, told the BBC that he had

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