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Actor George Clooney performed a comedy sketch for an Omaze fundraiser he is holding for the Clooney Foundation for Justice, an organization focused on fighting for human rights.

What's happening in India is being felt across Africa as India bans all vaccine exports to COVAX, the global vaccine alliance many African countries rely on. Africa is scrambling to make up for the shortage. CNN's David McKenzie reports.

Under the weight of official policies, the future of Islam appears to be in doubt in Xinjiang, a rugged realm of craggy snow-capped mountains and barren deserts bordering Central Asia. (May 6)

Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) – Thousands of demonstrators pour into Colombia's streets to protest the policies of President Ivan Duque, the eighth straight day of protests that have left at least 24 dead and hundreds wounded.

President Jair Bolsonaro says the novel coronavirus may have been made in a laboratory to wage "biological warfare," in the latest comments likely to strain Brazil's relations with China.

A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl after she allegedly attempted to cut two females with a knife, according to officials and body camera footage. The bodycam footage has been put in slow motion and blurred by the Columbus Division of Police.

For the eighth consecutive day, Colombians continued protesting to demand an end to police abuse and the implementation of social policies to overcome the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic. (May 5)

Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot, was wrongly terminated, the Atlanta Civil Service Board has ruled. CNN's Ryan Young reports.

Washington (AFP) – Joe Biden says Republicans face an identity crisis and a "mini-revolution" after Donald Trump's presidency.

British officials played down a report that an agreement had been reached between Iran, the UK and Washington that would see Tehran receive billions of dollars in return for releasing hostages including British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

SpaceX launched and successfully landed its futuristic Starship on Wednesday, finally nailing a test flight of the rocketship that Elon Musk intends to use to land astronauts on the moon and send people to Mars. (May 5)

Progress on women's rights in Afghanistan could be at risk with the withdrawal of US and international troops, even if the Taliban doesn't fully take power, according to a newly declassified US intelligence report. CNN's Alex Marquardt reports.