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Almost 80 per cent of Africa's C-suite executives are optimistic about business growth this year.

On August 4, 2020, an explosion in Beirut Port killed more than 200 people, injured 6,000 others, displaced over 300,000 people and destroyed most of Beirut's central and eastern districts. The official investigation into the blast has stalled, and questions about how and why this bloodbath happened remain unanswered.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo denies the states attorney general's report that the investigation into allegations against Cuomo found that the governor sexually harassed multiple women.

Olympic swimming gold medalist Caeleb Dressel is pretty much invincible when he has a lane to himself.The American reflected on his failure to win six gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Aug. 3)

CNN's Matthew Chance walks through the forested area outside of Kiev where Ukrainian police said the body of Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov was found with "abrasions" and "peeled skin."

An officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit station outside the Pentagon, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene, officials said. (August 3)

President Joe Biden says New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should "resign," after an investigation found that Cuomo sexually harassed nearly a dozen women in and out of state government. It's a high-profile condemnation from a onetime close ally. (Aug. 3)

A 19-year-old woman will embark on a solo flight around the globe with a mission to close the gender gap in aviation and potentially be the first person to circumnavigate the world in a microlight aircraft. CNN's Kim Brunhuber reports.

Karen Hinton, one of the women who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate conduct, reacts to the findings in the New York attorney general's investigation report.

Gun sales among minorities in the U.S. have been on the rise since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the firearms industry's trade association, millions of Americans bought their first ever gun in 2020, and many of the new gun owners are African Americans and Asian Americans.

A Belarusian dissident who helped his countrymen flee persecution was found dead in a park in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Earlier, Belarusian Olympic sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was forcibly removed by the authorities from the Olympics. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on the seemingly bolder approach by the Belarus government to suppress dissent.

CNN's Gary Tuchman visits a church in Bangor, Maine, where the pastor and most of the congregation are unmasked, unvaccinated and defiant against Covid-19 restrictions.