By Karol Suarez, Rafael Romo, Helen Regan and Hira Humayun, CNN Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile’s youngest President after he won a presidential runoff election on Sunday. With 99.95% of ballots counted, Boric won with 55.87% of the vote, securing victory over his right-wing opponent, Jose Antonio Kast, who
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By Robert Iddiols and Amy Cassidy, CNN A photo has emerged that appears to show British Prime Minister Boris Johnson drinking wine with Downing Street staff during the country’s first coronavirus lockdown last year. The image, shared with British newspaper The Guardian, purports to show an outdoor gathering that took place on May 15, 2020.
Continue Reading By Karol Suarez, Rafael Romo, Helen Regan and Hira Humayun, CNN Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile’s youngest President after he won a presidential runoff election on Sunday. With 99.95% of ballots counted, Boric won with 55.87% of the vote, securing victory over his right-wing opponent, Jose Antonio Kast, who
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN For fans of westerns, “1883” certainly looks like the real deal, coming from “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan and featuring Sam Elliott as a gnarled cowboy. The execution, however, feels stale, offering less incentive to stick around and see how these pioneers fare with their journey than to go, say, re-watch
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By Matt Rivers, Natalie Gallón and Etant Dupain, CNN Videos by David von Blohn, for CNN CNN Exclusive: Port-au-Prince, Haiti — The smell of raw sewage and food waste permeates the air in the entrance to Haiti’s National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince. Its source is the exposed pipe that visitors must walk over as a
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By Philip Wang, CNN Fully vaccinated international travelers arriving in Sydney and Melbourne will no longer have to quarantine for 72 hours starting Tuesday, December 21, Australian government officials announced Thursday. In a joint statement, the premiers of New South Wales and Victoria said international travelers who are fully vaccinated will instead be required to
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A delivery driver goes above and beyond, the new Miss Universe shows off an unusual talent, and a bear cub has a festive face-off. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Delivery driver turns decorator One Amazon delivery driver’s nice gesture left an Oregon homeowner so thankful, she decided to
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A delivery driver goes above and beyond, the new Miss Universe shows off an unusual talent, and a bear cub has a festive face-off. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Delivery driver turns decorator One Amazon delivery driver’s nice gesture left an Oregon homeowner so thankful, she decided to
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A delivery driver goes above and beyond, the new Miss Universe shows off an unusual talent, and a bear cub has a festive face-off. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Delivery driver turns decorator One Amazon delivery driver’s nice gesture left an Oregon homeowner so thankful, she decided to
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A delivery driver goes above and beyond, the new Miss Universe shows off an unusual talent, and a bear cub has a festive face-off. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Delivery driver turns decorator One Amazon delivery driver’s nice gesture left an Oregon homeowner so thankful, she decided to
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By Daniela Mohor W., for CNN Just ten years ago, Gabriel Boric was a student leader in the Chilean capital, rallying against the country’s privatized education system alongside thousands of other students in Santiago. Now, the 35-year-old progressive congressman is taking that ethos to the polls, where he hopes to stave off his rival, far-right
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By Allegra Goodwin and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A 27-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and remains in police custody after four young boys died in a house fire in Sutton, south London, the city’s Metropolitan Police said Friday. The boys, two sets of twins, aged 3 and 4 years old, were
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Boris Johnson’s Conservatives on Friday lost control of a parliamentary seat they have dominated for nearly 200 years, ratcheting up the pressure on Johnson from his lawmakers, who are in mutinous mood after a series of crises and scandals. The defeat was described as “a kicking” for the Conservatives, substantiating fears expressed
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Oscar Holland, CNN | Begona Blanco Munoz, CNN This year’s Miss World competition, scheduled to take place Thursday in Puerto Rico, has been postponed after multiple people linked to the event — including 23 of the 97 contestants — tested positive for Covid-19. In a statement released hours before the pageant was due to start,
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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Hours before the airline offices open for the day, hundreds of Cubans wait in line, hoping to snag a hard-to-find ticket off the island. For many Cubans, it is only the beginning of a long and often dangerous journey to the United States. Throughout much of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba’s borders
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By Natalie Gallón and Matt Rivers, CNN The remaining 12 hostages kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti two months ago were released Thursday, according to the country’s justice minister Berto Dorcé. Seventeen missionaries representing Christian Aid Ministries (CAM), including 16 Americans and one Canadian, were kidnapped by armed men on October 16 while driving
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By Rob Picheta, Lauren Kent and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will not travel to Sandringham for Christmas and will instead celebrate at Windsor Castle, a Buckingham Palace source told CNN on Monday, as the new Omicron coronavirus variant surges in the United Kingdom. In a typical year, the Queen travels to her
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By Sara Spary, CNN An album of recorded birdsong has managed to beat Christmas classics from Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé to make it into the top five of Australia’s music charts, also leapfrogging ABBA and Justin Bieber. “Songs of Disappearance,” which features the call of 53 of Australia’s most threatened bird species, has soared
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By Cheryl Ho, CNN Five children died and four suffered serious injuries when they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia on Thursday. Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were attending an end-of-school activity
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By Max Foster and Jack Guy, CNN Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a pre-Christmas family lunch as a precaution because of a surge in Covid-19 cases in the United Kingdom, a source at Buckingham Palace told CNN on Thursday. According to the source, the decision is a precautionary one as it is felt the lunch
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