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NBA star Blake Griffin discusses the second season of his podcast, “The Pursuit of Healthiness with Blake Griffin,” which focuses on mental health. With guests including Malcolm Gladwell, Kevin Durant and Jessica Alba, the six-time All Star says the more mental health is discussed, “the more that the stigma goes away.

Robert Ballard tells CNN's Bianna Golodryga how he believes his dyslexia helped him locate the Titanic and why he views it as a gift.

As the violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates for a second week, CNN's Arwa Damon hears from 10-year-old Gaza resident Nadine Abdullatief about how her life is being affected.

President Joe Biden singled out competition with Russia and China as part of his vision for the military branch's role in national security as he addressed the United States Coast Guard Academy's 2021 graduating class.

Lilongwe (Malawi) (AFP) – Some 17,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine destined for the arms of Malawians have instead ended up in the incinerator, after low uptake meant they went unused and eventually expired.

President Joe Biden delivered a commencement speech to US Coast Guard Academy graduates, where he discussed the importance of diversity in America.

Local authorities in the Netherlands are using social media for large-scale snooping on citizens, new research has found. The study says some civil servants used fake accounts to monitor local Facebook and Twitter pages. It is suggested the authorities were seeking to maintain public order and forecast any protests planned online.

An international dispute between Bolivia and Peru erupted when the Peruvian Ministry of Culture proclaimed the Morenada folk dance as Peruvian national heritage. Hundreds of dancers marched to the beat of drums, trumpets and cymbals at an event in La Paz to defend the iconic dance and reclaim it as their own.

EU member states have agreed to allow vaccinated travellers into the bloc under a recommendation to be adopted on Friday by EU ministers and taken up by leaders at a summit next week, the European Commission says. EU ambassadors agreed that those inoculated with EU-approved vaccines against Covid-19 would be able to enter, though the decision is not binding on member states, which can make up their own mind whether to apply it.

Vote counting takes place in Chile after two days of voting on a body of 155 people that will rewrite the country's dictatorship-era constitution – blamed by many for deep social inequalities.

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