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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A cluster of pneumonia cases in Tucumán, Argentina, was caused by legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, the Pan American Health Organization said. As of Saturday, a total of 11 pneumonia cases had been identified as part of the outbreak associated with a health clinic in the city of San

By Lindsay Isaac, Ignacio Giron, Stefano Pozzebon and Heather Chen CNN. The suspect in an apparent assassination attempt against Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was arrested last year for “improper use of a weapon”, police have told CNN. Argentine authorities have identified Fernando Sabag Montiel as the suspect who approached Fernández de Kirchner

By Zayn Nabbi, CNN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to “follow up” on allegations that a ​person alleged to have been an intelligence agent for Canada smuggled British schoolgirls into Syria. ​ ​ Trudeau’s comments followed a Wednesday report from the BBC detailing the activities of a man who allegedly smuggled multiple people

By Rosa Flores and Julia Jones, CNN Pastor Hector Silva gets emotional as he describes how he had to recently turn away mothers, with infants in their arms, from the gates of his migrant shelter. “It’s very difficult,” Silva said with a broken voice. “To stand at the gate and see a mom with a

By Daniela Mohor W., for CNN In the past few weeks, Daniela Jorquera, a 55-year-old Chilean sociologist who defines herself as progressive, started going to rallies to support adopting a new constitution. “I saw a lot of young people, families. There was music and colorful flags; it had nothing to do with the political confrontation

By Pete Muntean, CNN Major US airlines have updated their customer service agreements following pressure from the Biden administration to step up consumer rights in the wake of a summer plagued by flight cancellations and delays. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue and Southwest (pdf) have all published updates to their customer service

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Queen Elizabeth II will receive the UK’s next prime minister at Balmoral rather than Buckingham Palace — a historic first for her 70-year reign. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said the 96-year-old monarch will not be making the 1,000-mile round trip from Scotland and instead the outgoing leader

By Nectar Gan, CNN Business Police in China have arrested 234 suspects allegedly involved in a rural banking scandal, a month after hundreds of depositors protested over their lost savings in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the pandemic began. Since April, four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have

Heather Chen, CNN Jurong Bird Park, one of Singapore’s oldest and most iconic attractions, has announced that it will cease operations and shut its doors after more than 50 years. However, there is some good news. The world-famous park — home to some 3,500 birds including parrots, flamingos, penguins and eagles — will join the

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN One of Australia’s longest-running cold cases has ended with the conviction of former high school teacher Chris Dawson for the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982, so he could start a new life with his then 16-year-old student. On Tuesday, Justice Ian Harrison found Dawson, 74, guilty following a three-month

By Stefano Pozzebon Colombia and Venezuela have reestablished diplomatic relations, in a tectonic shift in South American regional politics. Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti met on Monday with Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. “At this hour I’m received by President Nicolas Maduro, to whom I present diplomatic papers as Colombia’s

Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The CDC added one new destination on Monday to its “high” risk list for Covid-19. Azerbaijan, which borders the Caspian Sea between Iran and Russia, moved to Level 3, or “high” risk. Locations at Level 3 now account for more than 125 of the roughly 235 places monitored by

By David Williams, CNN A Nebraska man paddled 38 miles down the Missouri River on Saturday in a “boat” made from a hollowed out pumpkin to celebrate his 60th birthday and hopefully set a Guinness World Record. Duane Hansen set out from the public boat docks in Bellevue, Nebraska, at about 7:30 a.m. in the