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By Rhea Mogul, CNN Four teenagers were “miraculously” found alive on an island in southwestern Australia Tuesday after drifting overnight in choppy waters for about 30 kilometers (19 miles), authorities said. In a Twitter post, Victoria Police said the group set off Monday on two stand-up paddle boards from the town of Rosebud before getting

By Tara John and Marcia Reverdosa, CNN The mood is hostile at an encampment outside a military barracks in Brazil’s most populous city of Sao Paulo, where Brazil’s national anthem plays on a loop and dozens of supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro mill around. They tote placards that read: “SOS Armed Forces,” “military intervention with

By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN US airlines have issued travel waivers ahead of what’s forecast to be a brutal “bomb cyclone” of wintry weather in the Midwest and other regions later this week. The important aviation hub of Chicago is forecast to be one of the cities hit the hardest, with the National

KHNL, CELLPHONE VIDEO AND PHOTOS FROM TRAVELERS, DANIEL K. INOUYE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, CNN By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN US airlines have issued travel waivers ahead of what’s forecast to be a brutal “bomb cyclone” of wintry weather in the Midwest and other regions later this week. The important aviation hub of Chicago is

By Liam Reilly and Chloe Melas, CNN Angelina Jolie is moving on from her role as a United Nations special envoy for refugees, and will be engaging “on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues,” the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the actress said in a joint statement. Jolie — who has worked

By Claudia Rebaza and Tara John, CNN As Peru explodes in protest with supporters of its former president taking to streets, lawmakers on Friday rejected a constitutional reform that is needed to hold early general elections in 2023. Calls for early presidential and parliamentary elections have mounted since former President Pedro Castillo was ousted from

By Arnaud Siad and Max Foster, CNN A meeting “filled with warmth and understanding” took place on Friday between an honorary royal aide and the Black charity founder she repeatedly asked where she was “really from,” according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. Susan Hussey offered her “sincere apologies” to Ngozi Fulani for her comments

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN A tour of the Pacific region took a woozy turn for one Australian politician after he downed a cup of a traditional drink in one hit. Former Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack was visiting the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia to celebrate 35 years of bilateral relations

By Hira Humayun, Claudia Rebaza and Caroll Alvarado, CNN About 300 tourists from around the world have been left stranded in the ancient city of Machu Picchu, according to the mayor, after Peru was plunged into a state of emergency following the ousting of the country’s president. Former President Pedro Castillo was impeached and subsequently

By Caitlin Hu and Claudia Rebaza, CNN Peru’s ousted former president Pedro Castillo will remain in pretrial detention for 18 months, the country’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday, as crowds of his supporters protested outside the courthouse and around the country. Castillo, a former teacher and union leader from rural Peru, was impeached and removed

By Tara John, CNN Eight months since El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a war on gangs, an estimated 2% of the country’s adult population — or roughly 100,000 people — are now behind bars. Bukele’s crackdown this year, prompted by a bloody killing spree by gangs that saw dozens of people killed in March,

By Amy Cassidy, Alex Hardie and Kathleen Magramo, CNN China has removed six diplomats from Britain who police wanted to question in connection to the alleged beating of a pro-democracy protester outside of the Chinese consulate in the English city of Manchester. The move follows a request by the British government for China to waive

By Claudia Rebaza and Sophie Tanno, CNN One week into her presidency, Peru’s new President Dina Boluarte is battling to contain widespread protests that erupted after the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo. She is the country’s sixth president in less than five years. Boluarte announced Tuesday the government will set up a crisis management

By Lauren Kent and Lianne Kolirin, CNN The UK may have been blanketed with snow this week, but you wouldn’t know it from the image on the Prince and Princess of Wales’ official Christmas card. The photograph, posted on the royal couple’s official social media accounts, shows them on a sunny family walk with their