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By Rodrigo Pedroso and Daniela Gonzalez-Roman Brazil faces potentially dangerous unrest around the country’s upcoming presidential vote, a senior elections official has warned. Speaking at the Wilson Center in Washington DC on Wednesday, Superior Electoral Court Minister Edson Fachin said that the next elections run a risk of unrest “more severe” than the January 6,

By Marnie Hunter, CNN Billed as Nashville’s third skyscraper and the city’s first million-dollar hotel when it opened in 1910, The Hermitage has endured for more than a century in Tennessee’s changing capital. And the grand hotel has recently undergone a transformation of its own. A multi-year restoration and redesign, complete with a makeover of

By Ivana Kottasová and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The crisis that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing right now might be the gravest for his leadership so far — but it’s definitely not the first. Johnson’s government has been plagued by a series of scandals, from accusations of his disregard for rules and revelations of

By Rob Picheta and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Boris Johnson’s scandal-ravaged premiership was dangling by a thread on Thursday as he battled efforts to force him from office even as a growing number of government ministers urged the beleaguered British Prime Minister to resign. The United Kingdom woke on Thursday morning to more than 50 members

By Jack Guy and Luke McGee, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing his biggest crisis yet, after dozens of government officials, including two senior Cabinet ministers resigned over his the handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by a member of the government. Johnson has weathered multiple storms during his time as Prime Minister,

By Jessie Yeung and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Australian authorities have charged 12 members of a religious group with the alleged murder of an 8-year-old girl, police said in a statement Tuesday. The child died at her family home in Rangeville, in southern Queensland, on January 7 after allegedly being “denied medical treatment for a period

By Gregory Wallace, CNN Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has won the opportunity to expand its operations at the crowded Newark Airport — over complaints from dominant United Airlines that Spirit and its peers are clogging up operations. The US Department of Transportation said Spirit will receive 16 peak-hour opportunities to take off or land planes

By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put a Nordic travel favorite on its “high” risk list for Covid-19 along with two other places. Representing three continents, the three destinations added to the list on Tuesday are: • Guatemala• Morocco • Sweden The CDC overhauled its

By CNN and Reuters, CNN Read below the full text of resignation letters by Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid addressed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and posted on Twitter on Tuesday. Rishi Sunak Dear Prime Minister,It is with deep sadness that I am writing to you to resign from the Government. It

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a huge blow on Tuesday when two of his top ministers announced their resignations, saying they could no longer work for a government mired in scandal. Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid both announced they were quitting in letters posted to

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a huge and sudden blow on Tuesday when two of his top ministers announced their resignations, saying they could no longer work for a government mired in scandal. Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced their decisions to quit within minutes of

By Reuters The Eiffel Tower is riddled with rust and in need of full repairs, but instead it is being given a cosmetic 60 million euro paint job ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, according to confidential reports cited by French magazine Marianne. The wrought-iron 324-meter (1,063 ft) high tower, built by Gustave

By Jorge Engels and Jack Guy, CNN Chile’s Constitutional Assembly presented President Gabriel Boric with a historic proposal for a new constitution for the South American country on Monday. Chileans will decide whether to adopt or reject the constitution in a nationwide plebiscite on September 4. “I know, and all of Chile is conscious that

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN On a fine day, locals arrive on boats that motor up the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales to dine on the back deck of the Paradise Café. But for the fourth time in 18 months, café owner Darren Osmotherly is rushing to move his equipment to higher ground as floodwater

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Fourth of July celebrations are going to be a lot more expensive this year. The silver lining? Beer is still relatively cheap. In the four weeks ending on June 12, the price of a hot dog package jumped about 17% compared to last year, according to the market research firm