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
Continue ReadingBy 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
Continue ReadingBy 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,
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios and Marlon Sorto, CNN A hippo descended from the private menagerie of druglord Pablo Escobar has died in Colombia after being hit by a car, according to a statement from Colombian officials. The hippo died on the spot, while the person in the car received medical attention from first responders, following the
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed in Wyoming are the oldest bat fossils ever found — and they reveal a new species. Tim Rietbergen, an evolutionary biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, identified the previously unknown bat species when he began collecting
Continue ReadingLianne 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
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN A massive cyclone swirling off Australia’s western coast will likely make landfall as a category 5 storm — the strongest on the national scale — according to the country’s official forecaster. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) expects Cyclone Ilsa to cross the Pilbara coast of Western Australia Thursday evening or Friday
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus and Manveena Suri, CNN Flowers, a coconut and a round of cheers were part of the celebrations following the inaugural test run through India’s first underwater metro tunnel on Wednesday. The Kolkata metro’s newest line, set to open to the public in November, passes underneath the Hooghly River in the city’s northeast,
Continue ReadingBy Florencia Trucco, Karina Maciel and Karol Suarez Mexican authorities are investigating the head of the country’s immigration agency, in the wake of last month’s deadly fire in a migrant detention center that killed at least 38 people and left dozens injured. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Wednesday that the Attorney General’s
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near the border between the United States and Canada. The fireball, which was visible in broad daylight and created
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Issy Ronald, CNN Prince Harry will attend the coronation of King Charles next month, but his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will remain in the United States with the couple’s children, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday following months of speculation. “Buckingham Palace is pleased to confirm that The Duke of Sussex will
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN Pearl is no ordinary handbag dog. She’s so tiny, her owner can just slip her into her pocket. The two-year-old chihuahua, who measures around the same length as a dollar bill, has been named the world’s shortest dog by Guinness World Records. Born in Florida on September 1 2020, Pearl is
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN A powerful cyclone is intensifying off the coast of Western Australia and is expected to make landfall later Thursday or Friday morning local time as one of the most destructive storms to hit the region in more than a decade. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said Cyclone Ilsa is expected to
Continue ReadingBy Mia Alberti and Elizabeth Plaza Colombian police are investigating an acid attack perpetrated against a human rights activist, Lilia Patricia Cardozo, in the country’s northwestern Boyaca region, according to the city’s council. Cardozo is the director of a womens’ rights NGO called Plataforma Feminista Boyacense (Boyacense Feminist Platform), which works to end domestic abuse,
Continue ReadingBy Tatiana Arias Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is heading to China on a state visit this week, with talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping expected to focus largely on trade, as well as the war in Ukraine. The 77-year-old Lula had originally planned to visit Beijing last month, but was hospitalized with
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN He’d spent years backpacking around the world, and Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama was finally ready to return home to pursue his long-held dream of opening up a guesthouse. In 2011, Kajiyama arrived back in Japan with his Israeli partner Hila, who he met in Nepal, and the pair set about finding the
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN Buckingham Palace on Sunday revealed further details ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, which will take place in London in less than a month’s time. The new British sovereign will be crowned alongside his wife, Camilla, in a deeply religious service at Westminster Abbey
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum While China and Russia have strengthened ties since the Kremlin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the US has not seen evidence that China has provided systemic material support to the Kremlin as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government look for avenues to evade Western sanctions and backfill its military, according to senior
Continue ReadingCNN By Gregory Wallace and Catherine Nicholls, CNN South African authorities are applauding a pilot’s courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. The pilot, Rudolf Erasmus, told CNN he was piloting a small aircraft on Monday with four colleagues aboard when he felt a “cold
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Catherine Nicholls, CNN South African authorities are applauding a pilot’s courage for safely landing an aircraft after feeling a venomous stowaway cobra slithering on his body mid-flight. The pilot, Rudolf Erasmus, told CNN he was piloting a small aircraft on Monday with four colleagues aboard when he felt a “cold sensation
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