By Paula Newton, CNN Canada is launching a standardized proof of vaccination credential in the coming weeks for both domestic and international travel. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement outside a children’s hospital in Ottawa Thursday, saying Canada is among the world’s leaders in vaccination rates and Canadians want to begin traveling again.
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By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN A man charged with the murder of British politician David Amess had links to the ISIS terror group and targeted the MP due to his support for air strikes on Syria, a court in London heard Thursday. Ali Harbi Ali, 25 and from London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a
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By Caitlin Hu, AnneClaire Stapleton, Matt Rivers, Natalie Gallón and David Shortell, CNN The leader of the gang that kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has threatened to kill them if he doesn’t get what he wants, according to a video released Thursday. The video appears to show Wilson Joseph — who goes
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN A man charged with the murder of British politician David Amess had links to the ISIS terror group and targeted the MP due to his support for air strikes on Syria, a court in London heard Thursday. Ali Harbi Ali, 25 and from London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Britain’s doctors’ union has accused Boris Johnson’s government of being “willfully negligent” in its handling of the latest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, as ministers refuse to introduce mitigation measures despite the country recording more than 50,000 new infections on Thursday. The United Kingdom has recently registered far more cases than
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By Helen Regan and Hilary Whiteman, CNN The Western Australian government has offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($750,000) reward for information that leads to the whereabouts of a 4-year-old girl missing for six days in a remote coastal area. Cleo Smith vanished from her family’s tent at Blowholes campsite in Macleod, about 50 kilometers
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Nada Bashir and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Five days after UK Member of Parliament David Amess was stabbed to death, lawmakers in the UK are now believed to face a “substantial” threat, the Home Secretary said Wednesday evening in the House of Commons. “The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has conducted an independent review
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Nada Bashir and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Five days after UK Member of Parliament David Amess was stabbed to death, lawmakers in the UK are now believed to face a “substantial” threat, the Home Secretary said Wednesday evening in the House of Commons. “The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has conducted an independent review
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN In the past five years, the Australian town of Cowra has been hit by droughts, Covid and even a mouse plague. So when it came to bringing tourists back to this sunny piece of New South Wales, Cowra Tourism manager Glenn Daley knew it was going to take something massive. Or
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN In the past five years, the Australian town of Cowra has been hit by droughts, Covid and even a mouse plague. So when it came to bringing tourists back to this sunny piece of New South Wales, Cowra Tourism manager Glenn Daley knew it was going to take something massive. Or
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Staff at an English animal hospital were in for a shock when they responded to a call about an unusual creature — which turned out to be an aggressive and deadly snake. A call from a local stonemasonry firm alerted a team of animal experts to a stowaway snake that arrived
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By Max Foster, CNN Queen Elizabeth II is resting at Windsor Castle after “reluctantly” accepting medical advice to cancel a trip to Northern Ireland, planned for Wednesday and Thursday, Buckingham Palace has said. The 95-year-old UK monarch has been advised to rest for the “next few days,” the palace said in a statement. A source
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Leah Dolan, CNN Miss France, the country’s 101-year-old beauty pageant, is being sued by a feminist activist group and three unsuccessful applicants over alleged discriminatory entry requirements. An appeal has been filed against the pageant’s parent company, Endemol Production, by Osez le féminisme (Dare to be feminist), who in a news statement issued on Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Last December, as the first of several worrying Covid-19 variants ripped through the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the unwelcome decision to cancel Christmas plans for millions of Brits. “We are sacrificing our chance to see loved ones this Christmas, so we have a better chance of protecting their
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By Rodrigo Pedroso, Stefano Pozzebon and Isa Soares, CNN Brazilian senators have recommended President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with 10 crimes, including crimes against humanity, alleging his “reckless” mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Lawmakers investigating the President officially presented their report on Wednesday, condemning
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Last December, as the first of several worrying Covid-19 variants ripped through the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the unwelcome decision to cancel Christmas plans for millions of Brits. “We are sacrificing our chance to see loved ones this Christmas, so we have a better chance of protecting their
Continue ReadingBy Kara Fox, David Shortell, Natalie Gallón, Matt Rivers, AnneClaire Stapleton and Melissa Bell, CNN The danger was visible all around them, long before a group of Christian Aid Ministries missionaries and children were abducted from the road in Haiti. In one 2019 blog post, an unnamed member of the Ohio-based group described a harrowing
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By Kara Fox, David Shortell, Natalie Gallón, Matt Rivers, AnneClaire Stapleton and Melissa Bell, CNN The danger was visible all around them, long before a group of Christian Aid Ministries missionaries and children were abducted from the road in Haiti. In one 2019 blog post, an unnamed member of the Ohio-based group described a harrowing
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By Rodrigo Pedroso, Samantha Beech and Shasta Darlington, CNN A Brazilian congressional panel is set to recommend mass homicide charges against President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leaked draft government report seen by CNN on Tuesday. CNN Brasil received draft excerpts of a congressional investigation that accuses Bolsonaro
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By Rob Picheta, CNN The UK government on Tuesday unveiled its roadmap to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, putting new funds behind electric vehicles, sustainable aviation fuel and forests as carbon sinks, while boosting the role of nuclear in its energy transition. The Net Zero Strategy comes less than two weeks before the UK
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