By Luke McGee, CNN Boris Johnson has apologized for attending an event in the back garden of 10 Downing Street on May 20, 2020, at which point Britons were prohibited from gathering due to strict coronavirus restrictions. At the start of the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions, Johnson said he did attend the gathering
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By Paula Newton, CNN The Canadian province of Quebec announced Tuesday that residents who have refused a Covid-19 vaccine will soon have to pay a fine. The fines will be a way for the unvaccinated to contribute to an overburdened public health care system, authorities said. “Right now, these people, they put a very important
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By Paradise Afshar and Forrest Brown, CNN Think of it as laissez les bons temps rouler — but with precautions. New Orleans will reinstate its indoor mask mandate starting Wednesday morning to address rising Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations in the city. This is something visitors as well as residents will want to keep in mind
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Grocery store shelves across America are wiped clean, and they’re staying empty as stores struggle to quickly restock everyday necessities such as milk, bread, meat, canned soups and cleaning products. Disgruntled shoppers have unleashed their frustration on social media over the last several days, posting photos on Twitter of bare
Continue Reading By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Grocery store shelves across America are wiped clean, and they’re staying empty as stores struggle to quickly restock everyday necessities such as milk, bread, meat, canned soups and cleaning products. Disgruntled shoppers have unleashed their frustration on social media over the last several days, posting photos on Twitter of bare
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Business Mark Walhberg is a tequila guy. It’s not just the actor’s go-to drink of choice, but he’s now invested in a line of tequlia called Flecha Azul, co-founded by Mexican PGA golfer Abraham Ancer and entrepreneur Aron Marquez. “It’s funny because when it was first mentioned to me I said
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By Luke McGee, Rob Picheta, Arnaud Siad, Niamh Kennedy and Ivana Kottasová, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has more questions to answer after it emerged that one of his top officials sent an invitation to a Downing Street party to dozens of employees during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the country. The email, from
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By Ivana Kottasová, Vasco Cotovio and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN The United States and the European Union issued new sanctions on a number of Nicaraguan officials on Monday, just hours before the the country’s long-time strongman leader Daniel Ortega was sworn in for his fifth term as the president. The US and the EU have accused
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Canada was moved to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s highest-risk category for travel on Monday. The world’s second-largest country by total area, Canada has seen a steep rise in cases as the Omicron variant spreads. The country recorded 294,437 new cases for the week ending January 8, according
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The colossal 180 million-year-old fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur have been found in the UK, in what researchers have described as one of the most significant discoveries in the region. Discovered in a reservoir in the county of Rutland, in the English East Midlands, the specimen is the largest and most
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By Hannah Ryan and Max Foster, CNN This year is set to be a landmark one for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. It is her Platinum Jubilee — marking 70 years since the Queen first took the throne in 1952 and making her both the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-serving female head of state in
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Leonardo DiCaprio has an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe awards under his belt. But his latest accolade comes from a group of international scientists at London’s Royal Botanic Kew Gardens and the National Herbarium of Cameroon, who have honored the Hollywood actor and environmental activist by naming a
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By Sharif Paget and Forrest Brown, CNN Royal Caribbean International announced on Friday it has canceled voyages on four ships because of “ongoing Covid-related circumstances around the world.” “In abundance of caution, Royal Caribbean International is pausing operations” on some ships, the company said in a statement. The cruise line said it moved forward with
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN Zoo animals take a snow day, skiers rescue a lucky dog from an avalanche, and rule-breaking partyers are grounded in Cancun. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A wild snow day Animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo enjoyed the first snowfall of 2022 in the Washington, DC, area, including
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By Amy Cassidy and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The British government is tapping into the military to ease staffing shortages across London hospitals caused by a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Friday it would deploy 200 personnel to hospitals across the capital, where the number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 reached
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By Natalie Gallón and Matt Rivers, CNN The bodies of two Haitian journalists killed on Thursday, were retrieved Friday and removed from the mountainous terrain of the Laboule 12 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, a source in Haiti’s security forces told CNN. Despite initial information from Haitian National Police shared internally and reported by CNN and other
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Hong Kong Disneyland has announced that the park will temporarily close from Friday, January 7, to Thursday, January 20. On its website, the park pointed to the latest global surge of Covid-19 saying the move was “required by the government and health authorities and in line with prevention efforts taking place
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