Senior officials from international organizations and foreign governments said that the COVID-19 origin-tracing issue must not be politicized, warning that politicizing the issue may hinder global cooperation in fighting against the raging pandemic.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently announced that 20 teenagers who get vaccinated against the coronavirus will be eligible to receive a full ride to an in-state public university. Maxim Moskalkov has the story. Camera: Anatolie Casenco
Asset manager Vanguard is giving a $1,000 bonus to any US worker who gets the Covid-19 vaccine by October 1. CNN's Matt Egan reports.
Frontier Airlines now says it "supports" and will pay the crew of flight attendants it had earlier said were suspended after using tape to restrain a passenger charged with groping and punching them.
The New York attorney general's investigation into sexual harassment allegations found that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women. CNN's Shimon Prokupecz reports.
It's not unusual for the Olympic Games to attract controversy. Then again, not every Olympics is hosted by a country being accused of genocide. That's what is creating waves upon the approach of the 2022 Winter Olympics, as VOA's Bill Gallo reports. Jesusemen Oni contributed to this report.
Lila Hartley, 12, wrote a letter to her school board in Duval County, Florida, urging them to mandate mask wearing in schools to protect all students and staff, but mostly her little brother. CNN's Leyla Santiago reports.
CNN's John Avlon analyzes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's regime as Fox News host Tucker Carlson makes a trip to the country to broadcast his show.
China's spiraling outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 has hit Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic, prompting citywide coronavirus testing as authorities scramble to contain the city's first reported local infections in more than a year.
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez, an internal medicine specialist and viral researcher, criticizes GOP governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis for banning mask mandates in schools, calling it the "wrong thing to do" as coronavirus case counts rise in the US.
Engineering workers affiliated to metal workers union Numsa have threatened to go on strike over a wage dispute with employers in the sector.
Almost 80 per cent of Africa's C-suite executives are optimistic about business growth this year.
