European lawmakers are returning to Strasbourg this week for the first time in over a year. The June plenary session will take place in a hybrid format. Previous meetings were held remotely because of the dangers posed by travelling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aymeric Laporte spoke about his decision to play for the Spanish national team.
Dozens of passengers were killed and several others injured after a train collision in southern Pakistan on June 7. At least 45 people are dead and officials are working to rescue more than a dozen people who remain trapped, Edhi Rescue Services said, after the Sir Syed Express train collided with the Millat Express train in Sindh province between railway stations.
Tourists from around the world are now able to visit Spain – so long as they are vaccinated. Starting on Monday, the country has said that visitors from nations identified as both low and high-risk will be able to visit Spain as the country strives to reinstate its "world tourism leadership" after being hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Dozens of protesters march quickly through the streets of Myanmar's Yangon against February's military ousting of the civilian government.
Manchester City stars Bernardo Silva, Rúben Dias, João Cancelo and Gonçalo Guedes, from Valencia, were the only players missing in the Portugal national team for the Euro-2020. The Fernando Santos' squad is now complete.
Kelaniya (Sri Lanka) (AFP) – Sri Lanka armed forces distribute food to flood victims after monsoon rains triggered floods and mudslides, killing at least a dozen people and leaving more than a quarter of a million homeless.
World War II veterans laid wreaths at the ceremony commemorating the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings, at the World War II Memorial in Washington DC on Sunday. Veterans and attendees stood next to the wreaths as buglers performed paying tribute to the largest seaborne invasion ever undertaken.
London (AFP) – People outside Buckingham Palace react after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced the birth of their daughter Lilibet Diana — named for Harry's grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and his late mother.
Once praised as a rare beacon of hope during this pandemic, Vietnam is now entering a worrying new phase with Covid-19 infections increasing sharply. To make things worse, the country reported it had detected a potentially new hybrid variant. CNN's Paula Hancocks has more.
Yuka Saso talks with CNN's Coy Wire about the influence Rory Mcllroy played within her game. Saso became the first Filipino player to win a golf major tournament during the US Women's Open in San Francisco.
India's brutal second wave has impacted children across the country. According to India's Child Rights Commission over 1700 children have been orphaned since the beginning of the pandemic. 577 lost their parents between April 1 and May 25 this year. CNN's Vedika Sud speaks to the eldest sister– now the primary caretaker of a family of seven siblings who lost their mother and then their father to the brutal second wave.
