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By Madeline Holcombe and Jay Croft, CNN Elsa has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a post-tropical cyclone, after its rains and winds hit major cities in the Northeast on Friday. All storm warnings have been discontinued for the New England coast, the National Hurricane Center said in its final advisory on Elsa, though

By Caitlin Hu, Lionel Vital, Stefano Pozzebon and Helen Regan, CNN The violent fallout from the assassination of Haitiian President Jovenel Moise was evident on Friday near his private residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Burned-out cars, spent bullet casings, bloodstains and bullet-pocked walls were what remained of a shootout between the police and some

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Stellantis, the giant automaker formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and France’s PSA, plans to invest €30 billion, or $35.5 billion, by the end of 2025 to expand its portfolio of electrified vehicles. The company is planning for 70% of its sales in Europe and 40% of sales

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Schoolteacher Katrina Sam has lived in Lytton in the Canadian province of British Columbia all her life, but a week after a disastrous wildfire, the town she grew up in is almost entirely gone. Lytton itself is a village of just 250 inhabitants, but over 1,000 people live in the surrounding

Opinion by Rabah Arezki and Per Magnus Nysveen for CNN Business Perspectives After a pandemic and a price war sent petroleum prices tumbling in 2020, they are again on the rise. A new oil price super cycle — an extended period during which prices exceed their long-term trend — seems to be in the making.

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Hundreds dead in a historic heat wave. A Canadian village burned to the ground. Water shortages. Animals competing for food. The culprit? Humans, according to climate change scientists. The unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in late June “would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change,”

By Manveena Suri, Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped 12 members of his cabinet on Wednesday in a dramatic reshuffle, including the federal ministers for health and law, as he faces fierce criticism over the government’s alleged mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who was the

By Stefano Pozzebon An international human rights body has accused Colombia’s security forces of applying “disproportionate and excessive force,” in dealing with street protesters, more than two months since demonstrations began in Bogota, which left dozens dead. The report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), released on Wednesday, adds to criticisms of the

By Eric Cheung and Lilit Marcus, CNN On July 6, a planeload of Taiwanese travelers arrived in the US territory of Guam. But they didn’t just travel for the island’s gorgeous scenery — they were also there to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The travelers were among the first to take part in the Air Visit