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By Caitlin Hu, CNN After more than a year of racial reckoning that saw historic monuments to enslavers and colonists torn down on both sides of the Atlantic, the United Nations convened a major day-long event on racism and reparations on Wednesday. But representatives from some of the West’s biggest powers never showed. On its

By Kara Fox, CNN Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old teacher from south London, is believed to have been murdered on the five-minute walk from her house to a pub, police say, sparking renewed outcry about the UK’s epidemic of violence against women and girls. London’s Metropolitan Police has arrested a 38-year old man on suspicion of

By Niamh Kennedy, Amy Cassidy and Deborah Bloom, CNN Humanity needs to “grow up” and deal with the issue of climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. Johnson, a last-minute addition to the speakers’ list that day, slammed the world’s inadequate

By Valentina DiDonato and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Chaotic scenes broke out at Haiti’s main airport on Tuesday after migrants who had been deported from the United States were flown back home. Thousands of Haitians have fled the country due to a combination of political instability following the assassination of the president in August and an

By Lilit Marcus and Carly Walsh, CNN Australia is on track to allow borders to reopen by Christmas, the country’s minister for trade, tourism and investments said on Wednesday, September 22. “I do empathize with the Australians who have been denied the opportunity to travel overseas this year,” Tourism Minister Dan Tehan said during a

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Jessie Yeung, CNN Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelo Queiroga has tested positive for Covid-19 while in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Brazilian president’s office announced Tuesday evening. Queiroga was part of Jair Bolsonaro’s Presidential Committee, according to the statement, which added he was “doing well.”

By Akanksha Sharma and Ben Westcott, CNN An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck near Melbourne in southern Australia on Wednesday, according to Geoscience Australia. In a tweet on Wednesday morning, the Victorian State Emergency Service’s (VICSES News) Twitter account said the earthquake’s epicenter had been near Mansfield in the state of Victoria. “Please be patient

By Vasco Cotovio and Jonny Hallam, CNN The family of British teenager Harry Dunn, killed in a crash two years ago, has reached a “resolution” in a civil lawsuit against the woman who was charged in his death, the spokesperson for the Dunn family said Tuesday. Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, has

By Luke McGee, CNN Boris Johnson has finally admitted that he has six children, a question he has previously dodged in numerous interviews and press conferences. The British Prime Minister, speaking to NBC’s Today show on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, was asked by an interviewer if he had six children, to which

By Caitlin Hu, CNN With Covid-19 and the environment at the top of the agenda at this year’s United Nations’ General Assembly, observers braced for the first world leader to speak in the UN headquarters’ storied hall: Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, notorious for both his off-the-cuff comments and controversial handling of the pandemic and the environment.

By Affan Chowdhry and Paula Newton, CNN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party will form Canada’s next government following a tightly contested general election against conservative rival Erin O’Toole. Trudeau, however, fell short of his target of winning the necessary 170 seats to form a majority government. As at 2 a.m. ET, Elections Canada showed

By Paula Newton and Luke McGee, CNN Polls have officially closed in Canada for a tightly contested general election pitting incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against conservative rival Erin O’Toole. With multiple time zones, Canada’s polling stations closed at staggered times throughout the evening on Monday, but Elections Canada said in a tweet that those