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By Lilit Marcus, CNN The standard for luxury hotels in Vietnam has just gotten higher — literally. The new Vinpearl Landmark 81, Autograph Collection, has just opened inside the country’s tallest building, Landmark 81, in Ho Chi Minh City. It clocks in at 461 meters (1,512 feet) high and overlooks the Saigon River in the

By Sophia Saifi, CNN In Pakistan’s capital, people are lining up in the hundreds for a single bag of free flour at a government distribution center during the holy month of Ramadan, which ends this week. Amid record inflation and soaring poverty, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced a relief package in early March offering a

By Marlon Sorto, Fidel Gutierrez and Paulina Gomez, CNN At least seven people were killed, including a child, when gunmen opened fire at a public swimming pool in Mexico on Saturday, according to local authorities. An eyewitness told local authorities the armed men had arrived at the pool and opened fire around 4:30 p.m. local

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Hundreds of families in Colombia are facing a choice: abandon their homes and livelihoods, or face the devastation of a predicted volcanic eruption in the coming weeks. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano, one of Colombia’s highest peaks, sits in a densely populated farming area and is infamous for claiming the lives

By Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Brice Lainé and Carlos Villalón, CNN Darién Gap, Colombia and Panama (CNN) — There is always a crowd, but it can feel very lonely. To get closer to freedom, they have risked it all. Masked robbers and rapists. Exhaustion, snakebites, broken ankles. Murder and hunger. Having to choose who

By Forrest Brown, CNN Amelia Earhart’s achievements in the early decades of aviation captivated the world. The daring pilot still holds a grip on our imaginations nearly a century later — and now, Earhart fans can bask in her globe-trotting history back on her native Kansas soil. The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum is scheduled to

By Kareem El Damanhoury, Stefano Pozzebon and Michael Rios, CNN Almost 9,700 children and adolescents have tried to cross the infamous Darien Gap in the first two months of 2023, a seven-fold increase compared to the same period in 2022, according to a UNICEF report. The 60 kilometer (37 mile) trek north brings migrants from

By CNNE’s Bertha Ramos and Michael Rios A human rights court has ruled that Mexico violated the rights of two people who were held in pretrial detention for more than 17 years. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said on Wednesday that the Mexican government is responsible for “the violation of the rights to personal

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Cyclone Ilsa smashed into a remote stretch of coast in Western Australia around midnight Thursday local time with wind speeds that broke previous records set more than 10 years ago in the same place. After brewing off the coast for days, Cyclone Ilsa made landfall between De Grey and Pardoo Roadhouse

By Florencia Trucco and Michael Rios, CNN Two nuns who worked at a nursing home in Nicaragua were expelled from the country this week, amid a far-reaching crackdown on opposition leaders, journalists and the Catholic church by the government of President Daniel Ortega. The strongman president has taken aim at the clergy in his country,

Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Botox blog promoting injections to mothers on the school run has been banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exploiting women’s insecurities and perpetuating “harmful” gender stereotypes. The action was taken following a complaint to the ASA, the UK’s regulator of advertising, about a promotional page on www.glowday.com, a