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Canada observed its first national holiday honoring victims and survivors of the country's residential school system. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3ooaRXw

A Rio de Janeiro judge ruled Wednesday to suspend "vaccine passports" in the city, saying that they are too divisive for society. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3F3FVS9

Over 100 people have died in a prison massacre that erupted yesterday in Ecuador, the country's prison agency said Wednesday. At least 52 people were injured, it also said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3ijXa7T

Thousands marched for abortion rights across Latin America on Tuesday, holding placards and banners that read "It is my right to decide" and "legal abortion for health and life," as they demanded reproductive freedoms in a region known for some of the world's strictest anti-abortion laws. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3F3XmSI

A Brazilian hospital chain tested unproven drugs on elderly Covid-19 patients without their knowledge as part of an effort to validate President Jair Bolsonaro's preferred 'miracle cure,' a lawyer for whistleblowing doctors told senators on Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3F3Ln7u

Haiti's unelected leader Ariel Henry says he understands why the United States is deporting thousands of Haitian migrants from the Texas border, as he wants to cooperate with America -- and will welcome home those who fled the disaster-hit country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3ukluLC

The tens of thousands of people sheltering in the shadow of Texas's Del Rio bridge have gone, but their trials continue. And they will not be the last, as Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry warned on Saturday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2XSqWKg

Colombian authorities said on Friday they have confiscated a shipment of 3,493 shark fins which were to be illegally trafficked to Hong Kong from Bogota's airport. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3lVw20e

For isolated rural communities living off-the-grid in Colombia, Jenifer Colpas and Tierra Grata provide a lifeline of clean energy and safe water and sanitation while empowering local women. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3zzHDXr

Dozens of children with non-Haitian passports have been sent to Haiti as part of the US government's massive deportation operation this week, according to the International Organization for Migration. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3lShVJ0

Guerrier Antoine traveled through at least 11 countries over the course of nearly a month, braving hostile authorities and violent bandits, being robbed of several years worth of savings, only to end up right back where he started: Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, where he was born. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2XTAAMy

North and South America were the last continents to be settled by humans, but exactly when that started is a topic that has divided archaeologists. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3CLlxn3

Police are looking for a man in Canada they say punched a nurse in the face multiple times, knocking her to the ground after she administered a Covid-19 vaccine to his wife without his permission. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/39ziUI8

After more than a year of racial reckoning that saw historic monuments to enslavers and colonists torn down on both sides of the Atlantic, the United Nations convened a major day-long event on racism and reparations on Wednesday. But representatives from some of the West's biggest powers never showed. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3CEolCh

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Operation Fast and Furious, the ATF Phoenix Field Division's allowance of illegal gun sales to track sellers and purchasers. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2xrhw7f

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a complex hand with Joe Biden. He has played it quite well. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2XSdUMH

Chaotic scenes broke out at Haiti's main airport on Tuesday after migrants who had been deported from the United States were flown back home. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2XCxNXI

Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelo Queiroga has tested positive for Covid-19 while in New York City for the UN General Assembly, the President's Office announced Tuesday evening. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3nWmUe8

Justin Trudeau just effectively proved you can win and lose an election at the same time. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3nVPHjg

With Covid-19 and the environment at the top of the agenda at this year's United Nations' General Assembly, observers braced for the first world leader to speak in the UN headquarters' storied hall: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, notorious for both his off-the-cuff comments and controversial handling of the pandemic and the environment. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3hTxIGp

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Polls opened in Canada on Monday for a tightly contested general election pitting incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against a conservative rival. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3Cpdxrm

In September, Cuba became the first country in the world to begin vaccinating against the coronavirus on kids as young as two years old on a large scale. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/39fATU2

The vote, set for September 20, includes six federal parties. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Erin O'Toole are likely the only leaders capable of forming government given their national support, but Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) polls well as a leader and could again hold the balance of power in any Canadian parliament. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3Evt9Ma

Trinidad and Tobago Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh on Wednesday criticized as "false" the claim by American rapper Nicki Minaj that a person on the Caribbean island suffered swollen testicles after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2Z2hbt4

Haiti's top prosecutor is seeking charges against Prime Minister Ariel Henry in connection with the assassination of the late President Jovenel Moise. He has also barred the Prime Minister from leaving the country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3AfKQwv

Liliana Silva didn´t see it coming. When her brother traveled from Germany, where he lives, to visit his family in Chile, none of them felt vulnerable. He had completed the 10-day mandatory quarantine in Santiago and shown no symptoms of Covid-19. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/395fWuG

One women's right leader consulted by CNN says the unanimous ruling, which found penalizing abortion to be unconstitutional, could make Mexico a destination for women from abroad. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3E8Ajpn

Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, known as 'Sendero Luminoso' in Spanish, died in prison on Saturday, according to the country's National Penitentiary Institute. He was 86. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2X90bko

The Cuban government has begun to vaccinate children as young as two years old for COVID-19, the island's state media reported, in a bid to get kids back into classrooms. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3E336vl

A powerful earthquake has struck the southwest of Mexico late Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2VmdQDy

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for advocates of women's health and human rights in the majority Roman Catholic nation. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2WVqomn

After denouncing protesters as "anti-vaxxer mobs," Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pelted with gravel at an election campaign stop on Monday night. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3jWlsGB

When fires broke out at a national park last summer, the loss was something even experts didn't think possible. More than 10% of the world's population of mature sequoias went up in flames -- along with a a big chunk of history. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3BP6Q1y

An Indigenous Mexican woman will soon sit on the pedestal where a Columbus figure was mounted in the late 19th century. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2WRYEPz

Brazilian football hero Pele underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his right colon last Saturday, he announced on social media on Monday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3BNkiDb