Switzerland will hold a referendum on whether to push ahead with same-sex marriage. MPs adopted a bill recognizing same-sex marriage in December, several years after many other Western European countries.
Hungary's parliament on Tuesday voted to transfer state assets worth billions of dollars into foundations that will control many of the country's public universities and cultural institutions, a move opposition figures have decried as a theft of public funds.
Absa Corporate and Investment Banking is hosting a virtual round table on the outlook on South Africa's economy for the second quarter of this year.
India's devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has spilled over to neighboring countries such as Nepal. Experts say thousands in Nepal may have caught the highly infectious variants from India. CNN's Lynda Kinkade reports.
A new power could soon arise in cities. UK company Pavegen is installing floor tiling that generates kinetic energy through the footfall of commuters.
Kenyan farmers say they are being forced to hand pollinate their crops due to a decline in bee populations from pesticides. Kenya's insect experts say the chemicals, meant to kill desert locusts and other pests, are killing off bees and other pollinating bugs.
China has the ability to achieve its targets of carbon peak and carbon neutrality added to China's overall plan for ecological conservation, said director of the World Resources Institute (WRI) of China on Tuesday in Beijing.
1968 Olympic bronze medalist and famous protestor John Carlos talks to New Day about the IOC's ban on protests and demonstrations at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
People enjoying warm weather in Chicago and Ann Arbor, Michigan, say they welcome new outdoor mask-wearing guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (April 27)
A Miami private school has forbidden its employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, and if they do, they will not be allowed to return, the school told its staff. CNN's Leyla Santiago reports.
Wilson, the anaconda, gets an annual medical examination. Preliminary results? She is not pregnant. Her four rows of teeth are in great shape too. And what about those unblinking eyes? No worries on that front, either. (April 27)
Washington (AFP) – Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan, warns in a Senate hearing that if the Taliban were to seize power militarily from the government in Kabul, they will have little international support. "They will face isolation, regional opposition, sanctions, and international opprobrium," he says.
