By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Hours before the airline offices open for the day, hundreds of Cubans wait in line, hoping to snag a hard-to-find ticket off the island. For many Cubans, it is only the beginning of a long and often dangerous journey to the United States. Throughout much of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba’s borders
Continue ReadingBy Natalie Gallón and Matt Rivers, CNN The remaining 12 hostages kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti two months ago were released Thursday, according to the country’s justice minister Berto Dorcé. Seventeen missionaries representing Christian Aid Ministries (CAM), including 16 Americans and one Canadian, were kidnapped by armed men on October 16 while driving
Continue ReadingCNN By Rob Picheta, Lauren Kent and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will not travel to Sandringham for Christmas and will instead celebrate at Windsor Castle, a Buckingham Palace source told CNN on Monday, as the new Omicron coronavirus variant surges in the United Kingdom. In a typical year, the Queen travels to
Continue ReadingBy Sara Spary, CNN An album of recorded birdsong has managed to beat Christmas classics from Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé to make it into the top five of Australia’s music charts, also leapfrogging ABBA and Justin Bieber. “Songs of Disappearance,” which features the call of 53 of Australia’s most threatened bird species, has soared
Continue ReadingCNN By Cheryl Ho, CNN Five children died and four suffered serious injuries when they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia on Thursday. Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were attending an end-of-school
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Jack Guy, CNN Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a pre-Christmas family lunch as a precaution because of a surge in Covid-19 cases in the United Kingdom, a source at Buckingham Palace told CNN on Thursday. According to the source, the decision is a precautionary one as it is felt the lunch
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Ho, CNN Five children died and four suffered serious injuries when they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia on Thursday. Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were attending an end-of-school activity
Continue ReadingBy Masrur Jamaluddin and Lilit Marcus, CNN Destinations around the world have faced significant tourist reductions amid the coronavirus pandemic. But few have taken a harder hit than Bali, the Indonesian island long beloved of global travelers. Due to strict border control measures and a closed airport, Bali went from receiving millions of international visitors
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Hasbun, CNN Nine people were killed on Wednesday after a private aircraft crashed while making an emergency landing in the Dominican Republic, according to the plane’s operator, Helidosa Aviation Group. Among the victims was Puerto Rican music producer Jose A. Hernandez, better known as “Flow La Movie,” as well as his wife and
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan and Megan C. Hills, CNN Another year of masks, “Zoom” face and excessive screen time appears to have knocked the beauty industry off its axis. In 2021, TikTok — the video platform with a track record of catapulting cosmetics to such success that they remain sold out for weeks — was awash with
Continue ReadingTraveling alone can be stressful. But, throw kids into the mix, and you may think twice about leaving home for the holidays. But, a well-known pediatrician says travel with young children doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
Continue ReadingBremen, KY. (CNN Newsource) – Jordan Baize, 34, rode out the tornado in his basement with family, while they covered themselves with a mattress. He has lived in Bremen, Kentucky his entire life but has never experienced a storm that intense before. While surveying the damage at his house and going through the rubble that
Continue ReadingBy Ben Westcott and Caitlin McGee, CNN Australia’s largest state, New South Wales (NSW), has announced its highest number of new Covid-19 cases in three months, with local officials attributing the rise to an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The latest outbreak comes as multiple governments across Australia are moving to relax Covid-19
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN So you’ll be home for Christmas? It looks like a lot of people are telling their families “you can plan on me.” New projections say winter holiday travel is about to roar back with a vengeance. AAA estimates more than 109 million Americans will travel over the long
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, CNN Toronto Police have released a video of a person they say is a suspect in the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, the billionaire couple found murdered in their home in late 2017. “Through our investigation, we have been unable to determine what this individual’s purpose was in the neighborhood. The
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As you make your way through the soda aisle, you may notice a lot less of the word “diet” than you used to. That’s because some diet sodas are disappearing — or at least, that packaging is gone. Instead you’ll find those beverages under their new branding:
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The United Kingdom’s Covid-19 response was under pressure on Tuesday, with the National Health Service (NHS) website crashing due to demand for booster appointments, lateral flow test kits no longer available online and long queues at vaccination walk-in centers. In the run-up to a holiday season that the British government promised
Continue ReadingBy Etant Dupain, CNN At least 71 people have been killed and dozens injured after a tanker transporting gasoline exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city on Monday, authorities said. The situation remains “critical,” Deputy Mayor Patrick Almonor said on Tuesday, who also extended an appeal for blood donations. Almonor said the fuel tanker exploded
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As you make your way through the soda aisle, you may notice a lot less of the word “diet” than you used to. That’s because some diet sodas are disappearing — or at least, that packaging is gone. Instead you’ll find those beverages under their new branding: zero sugar. “Zero
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN One of America’s most popular national parks — Arches National Park in Utah — is rolling out a timed entry system in a bid to prevent overtourism. “By implementing a temporary, timed entry reservation system, our goal is to better spread visitation throughout the day to reduce traffic congestion and visitor
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