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The Economist's Brazil correspondent Sarah Maslin tells Fareed about the toll Covid has taken in Latin America.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is pressuring GOP senators to vote against a January 6 commission to investigate the Capitol riot. CNN's Jamie Gangel reports.

Nine employees of a San Francisco Bay-area transit agency who died in a mass shooting were remembered Thursday after an employee opened fire Wednesday at the Valley Transit Authority rail yard in San Jose, before taking his own life. (May 27)

Dante's 'Divine Comedy' tells the story of a journey through hell, purgatory and paradise. Now the poem itself is being sent on an awe-inspiring trip of its own. As Italy marks 700 years since the poet's death, his masterpiece will face the final frontier.

Gladys Sicknick, the mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, met with GOP lawmakers to try and persuade them to vote for a commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack.

CVS announced that people who plan to receive or have received a Covid-19 vaccine at CVS can enter its new "One Step Closer" sweepstakes and win a prize.

The UK's health minister Matt Hancock has been defending himself after a blistering attack from the prime minister's former chief aide Dominic Cummings. Cummings had said Hancock should have been fired and accused him of lying on multiple occasions. But Hancock shot back on Thursday: "“I have been straight with people in public and in private throughout.

Coimbatore (India) (AFP) – A temple dedicated to "Corona Devi" (Corona goddess) has appeared near the South Indian city of Coimbatore, as the country struggles to combat a brutal new wave. The national death toll passed 300,000 on Monday. The manager of the temple says the idea of worshipping disease-causing viruses as goddess forms has existed for years, in the belief that prayers will help ease the situation.

Kolasin (Montenegro) (AFP) – Two roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, marking the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy. After six years of carving tunnels through solid rock and raising concrete pillars above gorges and canyons, the road goes nowhere.

Ngaski (Nigeria) (AFP) – Rescuers and volunteers search the waters of the Niger River where a boat carrying 180 sank in Nigeria. More than 150 people are feared to have drowned when the overloaded boat taking passengers to a market broke apart in northwest Kebbi state.

During a visit to Rwanda to finalise reconciliation between Paris and Kigali after more than 25 years of diplomatic tensions over the 1994 genocide, French President Emmanuel Macron recognises his country's role in the genocide, from backing a genocidal regime to ignoring warnings of the impending massacres.

Medinīpur (India) (AFP) – Residents are rescued from flooded homes after Cyclone Yaas battled Covid-ravaged India. Thousands have been left homeless and nine have been killed barely a week after western India was hit by Cyclone Tauktae, claiming 155 lives.