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Relocating 70 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ to cost around $3.5 million

By Mia Alberti and Issy Ronald, CNN Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference Wednesday. It will form part of a deal that the local Antioquia government signed with various institutions including the Colombian Agricultural Institute,

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UK plan to house migrants in barracks and barges is condemned as ‘cruel’ and unworkable

By Sana Noor Haq and Allegra Goodwin, CNN The UK government has put forward plans to house migrants in disused military bases rather than hotels and is examining the possibility of using barges, in controversial proposals that have further inflamed tensions over immigration. British Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick introduced the plan on Wednesday, which is

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What Elian Gonzalez wants for Cuba

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN More than two decades after he was found clinging to an inner tube in the Straits of Florida, Elián González is taking on his most high profile role since the bitter custody battle that returned him to Cuba. On Monday, Cuba’s National Election Council said that the 470 candidates for the

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What Elian Gonzalez wants for Cuba

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN More than two decades after he was found clinging to an inner tube in the Straits of Florida, Elián González is taking on his most high profile role since the bitter custody battle that returned him to Cuba. On Monday, Cuba’s National Election Council said that the 470 candidates for the

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Asylum-seeking Haitian family makes last-minute dash over northern border as US, Canada begin restricting illegal migrant crossings

By Polo Sandoval, CNN A Haitian migrant family became one of the last to possibly benefit from a loophole in a decades-old asylum agreement on Friday, one day after US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jointly announced changes to the treaty that would restrict certain migrants from seeking protections in Canada.

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‘Great Expectations’ serves up another grim revision of a Charles Dickens classic

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After a bleak reimagining of “A Christmas Carol” in 2019, Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) is back to give another Charles Dickens tale, “Great Expectations,” similar treatment, with equally grim results. While the underlying story is better suited to such tinkering, even Olivia Colman‘s toothy performance can’t salvage this six-part production,

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