NASA Chief says Russia leaving ISS could kick off a space race
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson sits down with CNN's Rachel Crane to discuss the potential impact if Russia would leave the International Space Station.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson sits down with CNN's Rachel Crane to discuss the potential impact if Russia would leave the International Space Station.
A tennis player has been arrested at the French Open tournament on suspicion of match-fixing at last year's event. Twenty-six-year-old Yana Sizikova was taken into custody in Paris on Thursday following her first-round doubles match. She is being held on charges of “sports corruption” and “organised gang fraud”.
President Nicolas Maduro hits out at a decision by the United States not to include Venezuela in its global distribution of millions of donated vaccines against Covid-19. James Story, the US Ambassador to Venezuela has said that Venezuela was not included in the donation plan because "it lacks transparency in delivering the vaccines to the people who need them.
CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen says it may be unlikely that President Biden meets his goal of having 70% of adults get at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by July 4, as the pace of US vaccinations falls.
Ghana is one of the first countries in the world to deliver COVID-19 vaccines by drone. The drones, operated by American medical delivery company Zipline, have delivered almost 25,000 doses of the vital jabs. Ghana's health ministry partnered with Zipline and logistics firm UPS to get the vaccines to remote, rural areas that would be difficult and costly to reach by road.
CNN's Nic Robertson reports that American-born action star Steven Seagal, who also has Russian citizenship, has joined the Russian political party "A Just Russia For Truth," which is a pro-Kremlin organization.
Conservative lawyer George Conway describes Vice President Mike Pence's attempt to distance himself from Trump over the Capitol attack as a "remarkable way to downplay what happened on January 6."
Despite polls showing the majority of the Japanese oppose holding the Olympics games, organizers appear to be forging ahead. Anna Stewart explains why Olympics cancellation is a messy and expensive business.
After leaving war-torn Afghanistan as a child, Nadia Nadim ended up in a refugee camp in Denmark. It was in that camp that she learned the game of football which has now led her to Paris Saint-Germain, one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Vladimir Putin is set to address a major business event on Friday and talk about the country's attractiveness to foreign investors. He will talk at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, known as the Russian Davos in reference to the annual event in Switzerland.
A series of explosions have rocked a military munitions factory in central Serbia, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents. The blasts occurred at an ammunition depot of the Sloboda factory in Čačak, about 140 kilometres south of Belgrade, on Friday.