Anti-Olympic protesters call for the Games to be cancelled with just over a month left until the July 23 Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony. A large percentage of Japanese residents remain sceptical that the biggest international event since the pandemic began will be safe.
A court in Hong Kong has denied bail to two executives of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and parent company CEO Cheung Kim-hung were arrested two days ago under the city's national security law. They have been charged with collusion with a foreign country to endanger national security in a case widely seen as an attack on press freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
The Palestinian Authority has cancelled a deal with Israel to receive about one million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, saying the doses are about to expire. When Israel first announced the agreement it said they would expire soon, but did not say when. Under the deal, Israel said that the Palestinian Authority would have reimbursed them with a similar number of vaccines once they had received them from a pharmaceutical company in September or October.
Tropical Storm Claudette has formed and made landfall early Saturday morning along the Gulf Coast.. Claudette will bring the threat for flooding and tornadoes for much of the Southeast through the weekend. CNN meteorologist Tyler Mauldin has the latest.
The international scientific community has been closely following China's successful launch of Shenzhou-12, underscoring that the mission is a huge milestone in the country's manned space expeditions. China on Thursday launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, sending three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for the construction of China's space station.
Metropolitan Police have said they arrested a total of 30 people in central London as part of the policing operation for England's Euros clash with Scotland.
England and Scotland played out a Euro 2020 stalemate at Wembley as the visitors frequently got the better of their hosts and the Three Lions failed to secure early passage to the knockout stages.
The "two-track pandemic" is now taking its toll on some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday. The WHO chief stressed that "vaccines donated next year will be far too late for those who are dying today, or being infected today, or at risk today.
As the COVID-19 pandemic gets under control in the U.S., the economic recovery continues hampering the pockets of many families who are turning to food banks and free grocery services to stay afloat.
Scotland fans celebrate their team's draw against a heavily favoured England in their second match of Euro 2020. "At the end of the day, Scotland is Scotland, England is England and Scotland are number one," says one fan.
The moral panic around critical race theory, an academic legal framework for analyzing structural racism, has sparked a big debate between parents, educators and lawmakers. CNN's Randi Kaye reports.
Photographer Kathrin Linkersdorff creates art from dead flowers. She treats the flora for months, then photographs them. She's inspired by the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
