Brazil's first female president is out of a job, but not barred from the ballot if she wants to run again.

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Scanning Botswana's remote Linyanti swamp from the low flying chopper, elephant ecologist Mike Chase can't hide the anxiety and dread as he sees what he has seen too many times before. 

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Renowned British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough says he sees no other way than to ban the sale of ivory less than 100 years old.

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Poachers have devastated Africa's savannah elephant population. The Great Elephant Census reveals that in just seven years, 30% of the species has been wiped out. Unless things change, the population will be halved in less than a decade.

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Brazil's Senate convened Wednesday for a closely watched vote that will determine whether President Dilma Rousseff gets kicked out of office.

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As word of Donald Trump's surprise trip south of the border spread, many Mexicans took to social media with a common refrain: "Is this a joke?"

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A Russian airstrike in Syria killed official ISIS spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani, Russia's Ministry of Defense said on its official Facebook page.

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The death of one of ISIS' most prominent figures, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, is one more example of the pressure the group is under in both Iraq and Syria.

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North Korea has executed its top education official, Kim Yong Jin, the South Korean Unification Ministry said Wednesday.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Nigeria, his first to sub-Saharan Africa, has put the country's tech businesses firmly in the world's spotlight.

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South Africans are responding on social media after protests over alleged racist hair policies at a prestigious high school. And other schools in the country are seeing similar demonstrations. It all started with the protest by a group of young black girls from Pretoria Girls' High.

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Twenty-two towns in France are maintaining a ban on the burkini despite court rulings that have said mayors have no legal right to dictate what women wear on the beach.

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Pep Bonet photographed the heavy-metal subculture in Botswana. These metalheads in southern Africa learned about the music through the Internet, he said.

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Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign last year by targeting the Mexican government, which he accused of intentionally sending murderers and rapists to the United States. Since then, he has continued to launch attacks, claiming that he will force Mexico to pay for a border wall with the United States and claiming that an American judge's Mexican heritage prevents him from fairly adjudicating a lawsuit against one of Trump's businesses.

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The tax battle between Apple and the European Commission can seem abstract, especially if you've actually read the EC competition arm's explanation of why it is demanding Apple pay $14.5 billion of back taxes.

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SWIFT, the messaging network that connects the world's banks, says it has identified new hacks targeting its members.

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When JetBlue Flight 387 touches down in Cuba on Wednesday, it will be the first direct commercial flight between the US and the island in over a half-century.

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The resumption of scheduled US-Cuba flights will bring Americans hoping to see the island "before it changes." But it already has, writes CNN's Patrick Oppmann.

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A five-day-old newborn peers out from a pink blanket. His dark, almond-shaped eyes stare directly at the camera, his tiny hand tucked underneath his chin.

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They appear after shark attacks, marathons, earthquakes and even terrorist attacks like the one in Paris last year. And they have appeared en masse most recently in images of migrants and refugees attempting deadly crossings of the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.

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Award winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, made a powerful speech about the plight of refugees, calling it "the moral imperative of our time" to do more to help.

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ISIS spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani has been killed, according to a statement from the terror group and its Amaq news agency.

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The mayor of a seaside town on the French Riviera is sticking by his town's burkini ban, telling beachgoers, "if you don't want to live the way we do, don't come."

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When Jet Blue flight 387 touches down in Cuba on Wednesday, it will be the first direct commercial flight between the US and the island in over a half-century.

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Less than 24 hours after Marxist FARC rebels in Colombia put a permanent ceasefire into effect, President Juan Manuel Santos tells CNN the peace deal is "the most comprehensive" possible.

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At least seven people were killed and more than 15 injured Tuesday when a truck with explosives blew up outside the Somali presidential palace and the popular Somali Youth League Hotel, police told CNN.

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Uzbek President Islam Karimov has been hospitalized after suffering a brain hemorrhage, according to the longtime strongman's daughter, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva.

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The Icelandic Meteorological Office is on alert for a possible eruption from the country's largest volcano, Katla, after two earthquakes rattled the region.

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In Afghanistan, where decades of warfare have ravaged the country, there's a beautiful green oasis tucked between the mountains that's home to something rare and precious.

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It's monsoon season in the Philippines and in a ramshackle neighborhood in Quezon City, near Manila, a sudden downpour has left gray puddles in the rutted streets and fat, dirty drops of rainwater steadily dripping from corrugated metal roofs.

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An 18-year-old woman who was wanted by police in Australia has responded to a post on Facebook asking a TV station to use a different picture of herself.

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India's tourism minister is furiously backpedaling after suggesting that women who visit India shouldn't wear skirts for their own safety.

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Italy's anti-mafia chief is adamant that the country's notorious crime syndicate must be kept from infiltrating reconstruction efforts, as an investigation opened into why so many buildings collapsed in a devastating earthquake last week.

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President Dilma Rousseff insisted Monday she had committed no crime and said she was proud that she'd been "faithful to my commitment to the nation."

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France's highest administrative court ruled Friday that mayors do not have the right to ban burkinis -- but if you thought that was the end of the matter, think again.

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The death of Latin American music legend Juan Gabriel is heartbreaking news for throngs of fans who've followed his music career for decades.

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Police in China say they have captured a man that raped and killed 11 women since the late 1980's.

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ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 15 people and injured 16 others at a wedding Sunday in the Iraqi city of Karbala.

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ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing Monday that killed dozens of recruits at a military training camp in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, according to the ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency.

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When Lucy, the world's most well-known fossil, was discovered sticking out of a shallow Ethiopian stream bed in 1974, she provided new insight about life for early human ancestors 3.18 million years ago. The image of her skeleton -- which is estimated to be 40% complete and considered the best representation of her species, Australopithecus afarensis -- became iconic.

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A homecoming for any athlete who has appeared at an Olympics is special -- but for five who competed at the Rio Olympics, the place they formerly called home was the vast refugee camp at Kakuma in Kenya.

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