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Maine Sen. Susan Collins tells CNN's Jake Tapper that infrastructure should move through the normal committee process in the Senate.

Beijing (AFP) – It's the world's biggest market for luxury goods — and their counterfeits — so an expert eye for telling a bona fide Chanel handbag from a bogus one is a skill set in hot demand across China. In a Beijing classroom, shelves are stacked with handbags as would-be luxury appraisers are learning what it takes to tell real from fake.

A ship in the Lebanese capital has been loaded with 59 containers of hazardous materials to be taken to Germany. The dangerous substances resulted from the huge explosion of hundreds of tonnes of fertilizer that killed more than 200 people in Beirut port and destroyed buildings on the city's dockside last August.

Two people were killed and another was seriously wounded at a shooting at the Oneida Casino near Green Bay, Wisconsin, according to Lt. Kevin Pawlak of the Brown County Sheriff's Office.

Senegal has a long tradition of interfaith respect and tolerance. In honor of that, young Christians made a goodwill gesture by distributing snacks to Muslims breaking their fasts one evening during the holy month of Ramadan. Allison Lékogo Fernandes reports from Dakar.

China is committed to reaching its ambitious goal of realizing carbon neutrality, according to Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) chief economist Erik Berglof.

Slovakians still trust the Sputnik V vaccine despite questions about the quality of some of the batches exported from Russia and a lack of data to properly assess it. In April, Slovakia's drug agency found that some batches manufactured in Russia were sub-standard and could not be used.

Italian cruise line Costa Cruises took to the seas on Saturday for the first time in more than four months, buoying an industry capsized by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring Tajikistan have agreed to withdraw troops from their borders after fresh fighting that left about 40 people dead and 175 wounded. The heads of national security for the two former Soviet republics in Central Asia agreed to the pullback during a meeting on Saturday.

SpaceX Crew Dragon 'Resilience' spacecraft was rescued by speedboats already waiting for its splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast from Panama City, Florida, on Sunday. The capsule recovered was swiftly dragged on a boat, where other crew members helped NASA astronaut Victor Glover come out from it safely.

Hundreds of people staged a rally in Washington on Saturday to demand immigration reform from the Biden administration. (May 1)

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells Fareed how she would handle relations with Russia, and manage Putin's brinksmanship.