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Police say a 61-year-old Chinese American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, and his attacker is still at large. (April 25)

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) denied that there is systemic racism in the US claiming "America's not a racist country," as President Joe Biden and others urge people to directly confront the issue as the nation grapples with a spate of police killings of Black Americans.

An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia sheriff's deputy about an hour after the same deputy gave the man a ride home, Virginia State Police confirmed to CNN. CNN's Polo Sandoval reports.

Professional football bodies in the UK including the English Premier League are uniting in a four-day boycott of social media. The unprecedented move aims to force digital platforms to do more to stamp out racial abuse aimed at players. It's something many footballers in the UK support, especially those who have been targets of online hatred themselves, including Aston Villa's Tyrone Mings.

John Avlon on how journalism played a role in justice for George Floyd and how partisan media used fear to present their view of the verdict. The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik says Darnella Frazier's cellphone video of Floyd's death proved to be "a hugely powerful statement" in court and hopes coverage of future cases "will lead to social change.

Walkers on the north coast of France are being asked not to approach seal colonies as it can cause the adults to abandon their pups. Since being made a protected species in the 1980s, seals have started to return to the Opal Coast around Calais in increasing numbers.

Some 82 people have been killed and 110 injured in a huge fire in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital treating COVID-19 patients, according to Iraqi authorities.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd joins CNN's Pamela Brown to discuss what the United States can learn from Australia about gun reform efforts after the country implemented firearms restrictions following a deadly mass shooting.

CNN's Patrick Oppmann talks to Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves about the needs of his community as a volcano on the island of St. Vincent has erupted with unrelenting fury for two weeks.

A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl after she allegedly attempted to cut two females with a knife, according to officials and body camera footage. The bodycam footage has been put in slow motion and blurred by the Columbus Division of Police.

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of central London on Saturday, calling for an immediate ease of the coronavirus lockdown. There already has been some easing of the restrictions in the UK. (April 24)

President Joe Biden became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but signaling a commitment to global human rights. The question of whether it should be called a genocide, though, remains highly contentious around the world a century after the event.