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By Caitlin McGee, CNN New Zealand will allow fully vaccinated international travelers into the country from next year, in a gradual easing of its strict border restrictions that have been in place for more than 18 months to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Fully vaccinated citizens, residents and tourists will be allowed to enter

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN People in the United Kingdom think that climate change, pollution and the environment are together the most important issues they face, well ahead of the pandemic, the impacts of Brexit and the country’s troubled National Health Service, according to a poll from Ipsos MORI published on Wednesday. The poll showed the

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Fighting against climate change is often a matter of who controls the territory. In the indigenous reservation of Tacueyó in Colombia’s southwestern department of Cauca, that is the role of the indigenous guards, a voluntary, unarmed organization that controls access to the community and administers local justice in place of the

By Gerardo Lemos, CNN en Español A sidewalk collapsed during Christmas festivities in the southeastern city of Joinville in Brazil on Monday, injuring 33 people, according to authorities. People fell into the Cachoeira River when a sidewalk on Avenida Beira Rio collapsed during the inaugural Christmas presentation and the ceremony had to be interrupted for

By Lilit Marcus, CNN For the first time in history, an Airbus A340 plane has landed on Antarctica. Hi Fly, a boutique aviation company, was behind the flight. The company specializes in wet leases, which means they hire out both aircraft and air crew and are responsible for handling insurance, maintenance and other logistics. Hi

Story by Reuters Canada is ending its pandemic-era policy of turning back asylum-seekers trying to cross into the country between ports of entry, according to a revised policy document released on Sunday. Canada turned at least 544 would-be refugees back to the Unites States between March 2020 and mid-October. The government did not immediately respond

By Laura Studley, CNN A controversial statue of US President Theodore Roosevelt in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City has found a new home in Medora, North Dakota, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation announced in a statement. The statue will be on long-term loan to the newly announced

By Maija Ehlinger and Caitlin Hu, CNN Two missionaries kidnapped in Haiti over a month ago have been released, according to a statement by the US-based Christian Aid Ministries. “We have learned that two of the hostages in Haiti were released. We praise God for this! Only limited information can be provided, but we are

By Philip Wang and Karol Suarez, CNN Mexican authorities have reported finding some 600 migrants on Friday hidden in two trailers traveling through the state of Veracruz, according to the country’s National Migration Institute (INM). In a statement, the migration agency said that they discovered 145 women and 455 men in closed box cars that

By Rob Picheta, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has reached her first wedding anniversary since the death of her husband, Prince Philip. The couple were married on 20 November 1947, and spent more than seven decades together until Philip’s death in April, aged 99. Saturday would have been their 74th anniversary. The Queen, who is