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Covid surge after some Australians break lockdown to celebrate country’s biggest football event of the year

By Ben Westcott and Chandler Thornton, CNN Fans who gathered to watch two Victoria-based rivals play in one of Australia’s top sporting events are partly to blame for a more than 50% increase in the state’s daily reported Covid-19 cases, local officials said Thursday. Victoria reported 1,438 new infections Thursday, up from 948 the previous

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An ambulance leaves from the Litoral penitentiary after a riot

Over 100 killed in bloody Ecuador prison massacre

By Stefano Pozzebon and Abel Alvarado, CNN Violent clashes that erupted in an Ecuadorian prison on Tuesday have killed 118 people and wounded 79, the country’s prison agency said late Thursday. The death toll represents a significant uptick from earlier estimates after the disturbances at the Litoral Penitentiary, located on the outskirts of the coastal

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he may not attend the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November.

Australia’s Scott Morrison under climate pressure at home as biggest state boosts targets

By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing calls at home to increase commitments to slashing greenhouse gas emissions after the country’s most-populous state on Wednesday announced goals nearly twice as ambitious as his government’s. New South Wales, which includes the country’s biggest city of Sydney, will now seek

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Ariel Henry speaks to CNN during an interview from the prime minister's residence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

Exclusive: Haiti’s Ariel Henry says he understands US migrant deportations and says elections will be pushed back

By Melissa Bell, Pierre Bairin, Mark Esplin and Helen Regan, CNN Haiti’s unelected leader Ariel Henry says he understands why the United States is deporting thousands of Haitian migrants from the Texas border, as he wants to cooperate with America — and will welcome home those who fled the disaster-hit country. In an exclusive interview

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