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Tens of millions are going hungry in Latin America and the Caribbean as the Covid-19 pandemic sharpens a regional malnutrition crisis to its worst levels in decades, according to the United Nations. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/32Fqzo5

With the stroke of midnight, Barbados cut its last remaining bonds to the British monarchy after nearly 400 years. In a vibrant celebratory ceremony on Monday evening, the Caribbean island removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and inaugurated its first-ever President. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3FZGyvH

The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce -- and in a way not seen in plants and animals. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3roXFD5

Honduran presidential candidate Xiomara Castro headed for a landslide win in Sunday's election, declaring victory as supporters danced outside her offices to celebrate the left's return to power 12 years after her husband was ousted in a coup. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3EjfrLT

A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3cY8XG8

Queen Elizabeth will have one less realm next week when Barbados severs its final imperial links to Britain by removing the 95-year-old as its head of state and declaring itself a republic. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/32zmzp7

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Peru early Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Study (USGS) and Peru's National Seismology Center. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3p7iUGL

At least 19 people were killed and 20 more injured on Friday when a passenger bus traveling on a highway in central Mexico crashed into a house, authorities said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3p36oIf

Environment Canada has issued its first "red alert" for British Columbia ahead of what officials are characterizing as a dangerous weather system expected to push more atmospheric rivers into the province. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/313EzY2

The phone connection between a Venezuelan prison cell and Houston, Texas, crackles and fades. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3lb8pkE

A male with a long gun who was targeting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, on Thursday has been taken into custody, authorities said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3CUFRBM

The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but certain species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3reXoT0

Read CNN's Fast Facts about former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2zV2lF9

Fighting against climate change is often a matter of who controls the territory. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3nIHeiR

A sidewalk collapsed during Christmas festivities in the southeastern city of Joinville in Brazil on Monday, injuring 33 people, according to authorities. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3FCH2rq

Canada is ending its pandemic-era policy of turning back asylum-seekers trying to cross into the country between ports of entry, according to a revised policy document released on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/30SZIEv

The race to replace Chilean President Sebastián Piñera is now down to two candidates after a general election was held on Sunday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3nDS3CM

Two of the missionaries kidnapped in Haiti over a month ago have been released, according to a statement by the US-based Christian Aid Ministries. CNN has not been able to independently confirm their release. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3CDyTkH

Mexican authorities have reported finding some 600 migrants on Friday hidden in two trailers traveling through the state of Veracruz, according to the country's National Migration Institute (INM). from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3DCueRe

José Antonio Kast is offering a "new right" centered on three pillars: freedom, the defense of law and order, and the strength of family. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3qWjTfE

A gang of six people accused of stealing horses for slaughter and selling the meat to restaurants disguised as beef has been arrested in southern Brazil, according to officials. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3qOqpF6

A flotilla of motorboats, canoes, dinghies and jet-skis helmed by farmers raced to move dozens of trapped cows from frigid waters as floods hit the Canadian province of British Columbia. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3qLkMra

Brazil is looking to partner with SpaceX to expand internet connection to rural schools and protect the Amazon, the country's Communications Minister Fabio Faria tweeted on Tuesday. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/31YRueg

Cuban activists said they were forcibly trapped inside their homes on Monday, as the government clamped down on plans for opposition protests on the island. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3Cie7He

Read CNN's Fast Facts about the life of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3FiIDCq

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has called a "crisis cabinet" after at least 68 inmates were killed in prison clashes on Saturday, according to an official statement of the President's office. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3Hif1Hj

Researchers studying 15,000 birds in the Amazon rainforest found that nearly all of the birds' bodies have become lighter since the 1980s, losing on average about 2% of their body weight every decade. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3F2xxSa

Nicaragua's campaign to silence critics does not stop at its borders -- Costa Rican government sources and anecdotal evidence that agents of the Ortega regime have been stalking and threatening outspoken Nicaraguan exiles and, in some cases, are believed to have carried out physical violence abroad. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3wu9Xug

They've been called "a parody," "a sham," and "the worst possible conditions" for a vote, but Nicaragua's general elections are going ahead on Sunday anyway. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3bOz4P9

Some 3,000 baby river turtles native to the Amazon rainforest were released into a Peruvian river on Thursday after hatching from eggs kept on artificial beaches as part of a conservation effort. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3qd75AU

Brazilian country music star Marília Mendonça died in a plane crash on Friday in a rural region of the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, according to her public relations firm. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3kaAYOI

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A hotel in Mexico popular with American tourists was sent into chaos Thursday amid reports of gunfire. According to local authorities, a confrontation between drug dealers had exploded into lethal violence on a beach nearby. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3CRVnzi

A skinny, bespectacled, left-leaning playwright whose works until recently were promoted by the government would seem an unlikely candidate to become Cuba's public enemy number one. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/2YfT5el

Bolivia's highlands city of La Paz has been hit by an unusual heatwave, with levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation soaring off the charts, exacerbated by unusually low levels of cloud cover some experts link to climate change. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3mHfsmf

A four-year-old girl who went missing from a remote campsite more than two weeks ago in Western Australia has been found alive, local police said in a statement early Wednesday local time. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/31jEnUB

In Chile's dry Atacama Desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called "dark energy," a mysterious cosmic force thought to be driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3mDVQPU

Brazil is heading to the UN climate summit in Glasgow with ambitious environmental promises, including cutting emissions 50% and ending illegal deforestation entirely by 2030, as well as becoming carbon neutral by 2050. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3mA2UNn

Until recently, the Dominican Republican seemed to be heading toward normality. September saw a record number of tourists visit the Caribbean nation, and more than 2 million students in the public education system returned to in-person classes for the first time in more than a year. On October 11, the country's nationwide state of emergency was lifted. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - Regions - Americas https://ift.tt/3GFFyy0