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North Korea claims the country has seen no cases of Covid-19, but at this school in Pyongyang, stringent safety mesaures are applied to avoid the virus.

Nine Catalan pro-independence leaders have walked out of prison after being pardoned by the Spanish government. The separatists had been serving sentences for organising a bid to make Catalonia an independent republic in 2017. They had spent between three-and-a-half and four years behind bars.

The Delta COVID-19 variant first identified in India has spread quickly around the world and is now hitting Indonesia. Southeast Asia's largest country now looks at another peak as it hits the 2 million mark in confirmed cases. VOA's Ghita Permatasari reports.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg reacts to a draft of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, exclusively obtained by AFP, a 4,000-page assessment of climate impacts warning of the dire consequences facing humanity if it fails to rein in carbon emissions.

Residents in North India's rural Kangra district say they have been anxious to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after a second wave of the pandemic created havoc and ravaged villages last month. While tech savvy, digitally aware city dwellers have managed to get shots, millions in rural areas are being left behind because of a technology barrier.

India's technology driven vaccination initiative has raised concerns the country's huge digital divide is making it difficult for many people to get inoculated, particularly in the nation's vast countryside. While tech savvy, digitally aware city dwellers have managed to get shots, millions in rural areas are left behind because of a technology barrier.

Ashley Diamond, a transgender woman, has spent the last decade in and out of men's prisons in Georgia. Now, she's suing the Georgia Department of Corrections to be transferred to a women's facility. ​

The National Bank of Rwanda has said that it is studying the use of central bank digital currencies with plans to issue its own electronic currency.

Bagram (Afghanistan) (AFP) – As the US plans to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan by this year's 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a booming scrap business has grown from the goods left by departing US troops at the country's largest airbase in Bagram.

As England supporters leave Wembley Stadium, they express their satisfaction with their team clinching first place in Euro 2020 Group D with a 1-0 win against the Czech Republic.

Manufacturers of green energy products like electric buses in the UK are set to propel the country's target to cut carbon emissions with the help of their Chinese partners. The promotion of electric buses is a brave new world of public transport in the UK.

Iran's president-elect Ebrahim Raisi vowed to keep a tough stance towards the US in his first speech to supporters in the holy city of Mashhad. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports from Mashhad, Iran.