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By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Ecuador’s Attorney General’s office has opened an investigation into the deaths of four giant tortoises in the Galapagos archipelago, amid allegations the endangered animals have been poached for their meat. Hunting the tortoises is illegal under Ecuadorean law, and the Galapagos islands have been protected as a national park since the

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

By Pete Muntean, CNN Air traveler complaints in June were up a whopping 270% from pre-pandemic levels, according to new US Department of Transportation data released Monday. Complaints from May to June of this year were up nearly 35% as airlines canceled thousands of flights in the beginning of the summer travel season, the data

By Camilo Rocha, Marcia Reverdosa and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his main election rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva traded insults Sunday during a charged election debate which saw Bolsonaro launch a deeply personal attack on a journalist who questioned his response to the coronavirus pandemic. “I think you go to

By Pierre Bairin and Lilit Marcus, CNN Two Air France pilots were involved in an inflight altercation and exchanged “inappropriate gestures” while in the cockpit of an A320 heading from Geneva to Paris, the airline confirmed on Monday. The spat, which happened in June 2022, led to the suspension of both pilots, who have not

By Camilo Rocha and Maija Ehlinger, CNN The last remaining member of an uncontacted Brazilian indigenous tribe has died, Brazil’s indigenous protection agency, Funai, said Saturday. Known as the “Man of the Hole,” he had lived in complete isolation for the past 26 years on the Tanaru indigenous land, deep in the Brazilian Amazon in

By Marcia Reverdosa, Sahar Akbarzai and Camilo Rocha, CNN Invasions and illegal extraction of natural resources in Brazil’s protected indigenous lands have tripled since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, according to a report by Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) in Brazil. “This government favors the exploitation and private appropriation of Indigenous territories,” the council

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN The Prince of Wales has guest-edited a special upcoming issue of British African-Carribean newspaper The Voice to mark its 40-year anniversary. Founded in 1982, the paper is the only national black newspaper operating in the UK. Prince Charles described the publication as “crucial” before adding that he was

By Ana Cucalon, Omar Fajado and Jonny Hallam, CNN Police fired tear gas in the Argentine capital Saturday, as they clashed with supporters of vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, days after prosecutors sought a 12-year prison sentence against her for alleged corruption. Argentina’s official news agency Télam reported police used sticks and tear gas

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business When Don Vultaggio was considering names for his new iced tea business three decades ago, he wanted something that connoted a “warm and healthy environment.” That meant getting far away from Brooklyn, where Vultaggio grew up. But not too far away: His friends called his New York home the Santa

By Karol Suarez The mothers and fathers of 43 Mexican students who went missing nearly eight years ago have welcomed the findings of a recent government report that found the disappearances were a “crime of the state.” “For us, it is significant and has positive elements that will help us to know the truth and