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By Tatiana Arias Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the

By Sarah Moon, Jon Passantino and Rebekah Riess, CNN More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province’s chief coroner called it an “unprecedented time.” “Since the onset of the heat wave late last week, the BC Coroners Service

By America Arias and Karol Suarez Rescue specialists from Mexico are joining the massive search for survivors in the wreckage of the Surfside, Florida partial building collapse. In the disaster zone, assisting local, state and federal rescue crews, is the Mexico-based “Go Team” of Cadena International, a Jewish nonprofit which has responded to more than

By Vasco Cotovio, Isa Soares, Rodrigo Pedroso and Marcia Reverdosa, CNN “Who’s mommy’s little girl?” 22-year-old Brazilian Sameque Gois asks as she plays with her baby’s tiny hand, in one of the several videos she showed CNN. In the footage, little Sarah responds to her mother with an ear-to-ear smile. Sarah was born in January

Canada and US cities in the Northwest have reported their hottest temperatures on record, and more than 52 million people are under a heat warning or advisory from coast to coast. CNN’s Jason Carroll reports.

By Angela Fritz, Carma Hassan and Brisa Colon, CNN Hundreds of people have visited emergency departments or urgent-care clinics in the Pacific Northwest since Friday — and as many as 230 deaths have been reported — as an excruciating heat wave smashed all-time temperature records in Oregon, Washington and Canada. Portland set record-high temperatures three

By Aya Elamroussi and Amir Vera, CNN More than 50 million Americans remained Wednesday under heat alerts and hundreds of deaths have been reported across the Pacific Northwest and Canada amid a devastating heat wave. But relief is coming for many, forecasters say. Brittish Columbia and US cities — including Seattle and Portland — have

By Juliana Koch and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Despite a desperate need for Covid-19 vaccines, Brazil is suspending a deal to purchase 20 million doses of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccines, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, after questions were raised about a pricing increase. The ministry said the decision was made on the recommendation of

By Sarah Moon, Jon Passantino and Rebekah Riess, CNN More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province’s chief coroner called it an “unprecedented time.” “Since the onset of the heat wave late last week, the BC Coroners Service