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Following the most widespread protests since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, Cubans are now bracing themselves for a new aftershock poised to shake the communist-run island: Mass trials of those who dared to take to the streets calling for change. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3i82s6Y

An Ecuadorian court on Monday ruled in favor of revoking the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a judgment published by the Judicial Branch of Ecuador. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3iZTGHv

There was no mistaking the meaning in last week's anonymous text message: Do what we say or die. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3zEbIpo

Indigenous leader and advocate Mary Simon has been installed as Canada's governor general. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3f0HcOr

As Haiti's elite lay their assassinated president to rest, many terrified residents in Port-au-Prince have far more pressing issues on their minds as gang violence brutalizes the capital. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3rrmHzy

View CNN's Fast Facts on the life of Fidel Castro and learn about the former Cuban leader. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2CjZMLm

"As of this moment, we know absolutely nothing about how they're doing and how they're being treated. We're still in the same suffering," Milena Africano, whose husband is among the detained, said after the meeting. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3iA5ekj

Six weeks after voters headed to the polls in Peru, former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo has been formally declared the country's President-elect. He will be sworn in on July 28, the bicentennial of Peruvian independence, election authorities announced Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/36RxZmY

Canada notched a significant milestone this weekend, fully vaccinating about 50% of its population and surpassing the US vaccination rate for Covid-19. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3ezmB3D

Read CNN's Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Fast Facts and learn more about its detention facility, nicknamed "Gitmo." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2CiI76B

Haiti's acting prime minister Claude Joseph, who has led the country since the assassination of president Jovenel Moise earlier this month, will step down and hand power to Ariel Henry, the elections minister told CNN on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3Bi3JQq

The Yanomami people are battling an old and elusive enemy -- one they haven't seen since the 1980s. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3rnJRXE

Read CNN's Cuba Fast Facts to learn more about this communist country located in the Caribbean Sea, approximately 90 miles south of Florida. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2qXe2pA

Colombia's National Police chief has claimed that former Haitian Justice Ministry official Joseph Felix Badio was a key player in the assassination of Haiti's president. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3xRerLy

As Haitians woke up last week to the news their President had been brutally killed, an unidentified man called into a local radio station and unleashed a strange monologue while live on air. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3iyh0Mj

Canada could start allowing fully vaccinated US citizens and permanent residents on non-essential travel into the country by mid August, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2TePlam

The first forensic evidence that unmarked graves in their hundreds were located at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was a juvenile rib bone and tooth found beneath the apple orchard. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3eqGQ3h

Christian Sanon, the Haitian-American doctor accused by authorities of plotting the assassination of Haiti's President, spent months planning a foray into national politics in the country, holding weekly Zoom meetings through early this year with academics and business leaders, and at one point meeting with the man who allegedly supplied the mercenaries behind the killing, according to a person at the meeting. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2VCJtZh

Amid their country's national crisis, Haitian CNN Heroes are stepping up to keep the most vulnerable -- children and women -- safe. And they hope this moment points Haiti toward a better future. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3rbystI

Cuba announced on Wednesday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on travelers bringing food, medicines and hygiene products into the country in an apparent acknowledgment of demands from anti-government demonstrators. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3i88bIG

Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the climate crisis, according to a new study. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2Tczycd

The head of security at Haiti's presidential residence has been placed in police custody, according to a close associate, as authorities continue to investigate the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3koDQbx

After 26 Colombians were accused of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moise, a retired special forces soldier in Colombia has told CNN that they were actually hired to provide the leader security, and that he himself was approached for the job by a US-based company. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3yWiDK8

Cuban YouTuber Dina Fernandez, known as Dina Stars, said she was being taken away by Cuban state security forces in Havana during a live interview on Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3hAAXTg

The Brazilian president has been admitted to the hospital to investigate the cause of persistent hiccups that are leading to abdominal pains, according to Brazil's Special Secretariat for Social Communication. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3xIKFsc

Read CNN's Jair Bolsonaro Fast Facts to learn more about the president of Brazil. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2Ufa890

Could the traveling pastor with a history of humanitarian work also have masterminded an intricate murder plot to seize power in Haiti? from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3rl7gsN

The Penelakut Tribe in British Columbia announced Monday that it had found more than 160 "undocumented and unmarked' graves in the province's Southern Gulf Islands, once home to the Kuper Island Residential School . from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2VDKKiW

Anti-government activists in Cuba say that more than 100 people have been arrested or are missing on the island following widespread protests on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3ecbpcW

A coalition of scientists and environmental groups is working to protect an underwater migration highway that stretches between the Galapagos Islands and Costa Rica's Cocos Island. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3keenS6

Scientists are fighting to protect a vital underwater migration highway that connects the Galapagos Islands with Cocos Island in Costa Rica. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3eeFUyZ

Cuba's government may have regained control but the underlying conditions that led Cubans to risk everything and call for change are not going anywhere -- and it's anyone guess how long the uneasy peace will last. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3wFMy7D

The plot to kill Haiti's president allegedly spanned multiple countries and involved highly experienced former military officers and months of planning, according to local officials. Yet the primary suspects in the case appear to have been unprepared for their fierce pursuit by Haitian security forces. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3k91AjJ

Several of the men involved in the operation that killed Haiti's president previously worked as U.S. law enforcement informants, according to people briefed on the matter, as U.S. investigators grapple with an increasing number of Florida links to the alleged hit squad. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3ySxSE2