Goyang (South Korea) (AFP) – A South Korean publisher's defiant move to release the memoirs of the North's founder Kim Il Sung has triggered a heated debate over Seoul's decades-old ban on Pyongyang's propaganda under national security laws.
Protesters march in the Colombian capital Bogota against proposed tax reforms, despite military presence on the streets.
As their government struggles to tackle the pandemic, young Indians have stepped into the breach, setting up apps to crowdsource emergency aid, delivering key supplies and using social media to ensure that people get the help they need.
As the pandemic eases and gun violence is on the rise in the US, a workplace safety expert who leads training in active shooter response and a trauma psychiatrist who counsels survivors of violent incidents say their services are again in demand.
As India's government struggles to tackle the Covid crisis, many have stepped up to help in various ways, including one sub-contractor in Mumbai who sold his cherished SUV to start an initiative providing free oxygen.
Essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages. An analysis by the Center for Public Integrity found companies have little incentive to follow the law. (May 4)
Since the start of the pandemic, France has made keeping schools open a priority. But one high school on the outskirts of Paris has paid a heavy price as 20 students lost a relative to Covid-19. CNN's Melissa Bell speaks with students as well as France's education minister.
The New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase's, which served for years as a safe meeting space for civil rights activists to strategize over bowls of Creole gumbo, is the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. (May 3)
A senior official from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region says he expects foreign media can avoid biases, prejudices and negative preconceptions when reporting on the autonomous region, adding that Xinjiang welcomes all international visitors to come.
President Joe Biden on Monday formally raised the nation's cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback. (May 3)
Ocean City firefighter and medic Ryan Whittington shares updates on the survivors of a crash that left a car dangling off the guardrail of a bridge in Maryland. Anderson Cooper Full Circle airs Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6p E.T.
As hospitals in India struggle to keep pace with a surge of COVID-19 infections, New York's Mount Sinai hospital is donating ventilators to hospitals in need. (May 3)
