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Graveyards and crematoriums across India are struggling to cope with the surging number of deaths as the nation of 1.3 billion people battles a raging coronavirus outbreak.

The search for missing workers from the capsized boat in the Gulf of Mexico will be suspended at sunset Monday. (April 20)

Annapolis (United States) (AFP) – The United States is "falling behind" China in their competition to lead the world in the field of renewable energy, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says during a speech in Annapolis, Maryland.

Minneapolis (AFP) – Prosecutors and Derek Chauvin's lawyer make their closing arguments before jurors begin mulling the fate of the white ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing African-American George Floyd.

Cuba's Communist Party hierarchy has selected Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to the powerful position of First Secretary, replacing Raul Castro after he announced his retirement last week. CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) says that Poland has breached the independence of its own judicial system. Europe's highest court said that two recently appointed Supreme Court judges are not impartial nor are they independent, and breach EU law.

Walter Mondale, the former Democratic senator from Minnesota and vice president under Jimmy Carter has died. He was 93 years old. CNN's Wolf Blitzer reports.

The families of Emmett Till and George Floyd, two people whose deaths have become linked to the civil rights movement in the US, are now bonding over their shared tragedies that took place 65 years apart. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.

During closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial a prosecutor rejected the theory that Floyd died because of an enlarged heart: "The truth of the matter is that the reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr.

During a break in closing arguments in the murder trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused of excessive force and killing George Floyd, Floyd's family members and attorneys reacted with pleas for justice. (Apirl 19)

Closing arguments took place at Derek Chauvin's murder trial Monday. Defense attorney Eric Nelson argued that Chauvin acted reasonably under the circumstances and that Floyd died of underlying heart disease and illegal drug use. (Apr. 19)

Officer Derek Chauvin "had to know" he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as the Black man cried over and over that he couldn't breathe and finally fell silent, a prosecutor told the jury during closing arguments at Chauvin's trial.