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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.

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.