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The European Union is pivoting to the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus shot with a record agreement to buy up to 1.8 billion doses, as court proceedings in its lawsuit against another major vaccine maker, AstraZeneca, began in Brussels on Wednesday.

Britain's political spending watchdog will launch a formal investigation into the funding of renovations to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apartment in Downing Street.

Saudi Arabia is considering selling part of its giant state oil company to a major foreign investor, likely from China.

Few former world leaders have had their legacy debated as fiercely as Tony Blair.

As India continues to grapple with an unrelenting second wave of Covid-19, some neighboring countries in South Asia are seeing their own surges in case numbers, prompting border closures and travel bans.

CNN's Brianna Keilar speaks with Rana Ayyub, an investigative journalist and Washington Post columnist in India, about the unfolding coronavirus crisis in the country and the government's response under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Most Mondays and Tuesdays, former President Donald Trump skips golf to confer with aides about the week ahead.

Three months after India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi's declaration of a win over Covid-19, the country is now in the grips of a devastating second wave, the healthcare infrastructure is at breaking point and an oxygen supply shortage compounding the death toll. Ivan Watson takes a look at the government's role in India's deepening Covid crisis.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a series of damaging allegations -- including that he made a remark to "let the bodies pile high" when discussing lockdown last year. Despite his denials, a new poll shows only one third of Britons think Johnson is trustworthy. CNN's Isa Soares reports.

When India asked the United States this month to lift a ban on exporting vaccine raw materials to help with the South Asian country's Covid crisis, Washington appeared to drag its feet, citing the need to "vaccinate the American people" first.

A second wave of Covid-19 is devastating India, killing thousands of people each day and setting world records for daily infections.

The 19-year-old's eyes are so swollen he cannot open them properly. His face is marked with big purple welts and bruises. Etched into his shoulders and back are long, dark lacerations that have yet to heal over -- wounds, he said, that were inflicted when Myanmar military officers who had detained him whipped him repeatedly with cable wires.

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.

Brazil's Senate launched an inquiry Tuesday into the federal government's response to Covid-19, which could hobble President Jair Bolsonaro's re-election bid if it leads to an impeachment proceeding or criminal charges.

As the White House intensifies conversations with key Republicans on infrastructure, a small, bipartisan group of senators is in the early stages of seeing if they might be able to break loose consensus on their own plan.

Where there was once a fight about whether Americans should still wear masks, new guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- wrapped in a push to get more Americans vaccinated -- could create a fight over taking them off.

Iran's Navy once again harassed US ships operating in the Persian Gulf, this time coming within 68 yards of the ships on Monday night, prompting one of the American ships to fire warning shots, according to Cdr. Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.

Millions of people stuck at home for more than a year are expected to hit the road for much-needed post-pandemic vacations this summer. Good luck finding gas.

President Joe Biden cited new guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- which said vaccinated Americans do not have to wear masks outside in some situations -- to urge all Americans to go get a vaccine.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said sexism was to blame for an incident where she was left awkwardly standing while her male colleague sat during her last visit to Turkey earlier this month.

It was only two weeks ago that Boris Johnson looked set for a triumphant spring, as the UK's rapid vaccine rollout meant his country could put the nightmare of the past year-and-a-half behind it.

Human Rights Watch has accused the Israeli government of committing crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians in a new report Tuesday, eliciting an angry response from Israeli officials.

Donald Trump schooled his protégés well in his politics of down-in-the-muck misinformation.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration lifted the pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on Friday. The agencies previously had decided to pause administration of the vaccine due to cases of an extremely rare blood clotting disorder found in six women between the ages of 18 and 49 who had gotten the shot.

The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country's second slowest population growth rate in US history. Amid that, Texas will gain two seats in the redistricting process, the results found.

Ursula von der Leyen, the first female president of the European Commission, said she felt 'hurt' and 'alone' after being left without a chair by two male leaders at a summit in Turkey earlier this month.

The largest naval flotilla assembled by Britain in recent years will set sail in May on a months' long voyage through the Pacific, the country's Defense Ministry said Monday.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Monday criticized the ongoing Republican election audit of the 2020 ballots from Arizona's largest county as a political stunt, calling it a "farce" and saying it should end.

CNN's Vedika Sud goes to New Delhi's crematorium and hospital, which have been crippled by India's record-breaking second wave of Covid-19 cases.

Critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom have met the state's threshold with enough validated signatures to force a recall election of the Democratic governor this year, a contest that could land on the ballot as early as this summer and as late as December.

A North Carolina city declared a state of emergency Monday morning amid concerns that video showing the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. could cause civil unrest when it's released to the public.

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory acknowledged reality in 2020: former President Donald Trump lost. He then explained why -- and objected to Trump's baseless effort in Congress to overturn the election.

CNN's Clarissa Ward reports on the torture tactics, such as beatings with cable wires, the Myanmar military is using against pro-democracy protesters.

An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said on Monday.

The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country's second slowest population growth rate in US history. Amid that, Texas will gain two seats in the redistricting process, the results found.

Apple is rolling out a major privacy feature on Monday that will allow iOS users to decide how they want their personal data handled -- a move that has worried some companies, including Facebook.

Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) warns his own party saying that conspiracies could prevent Republicans from retaking power in Washington.

A former Trump official tells CNN's Elizabeth Cohen that they want the former President to make a PSA encouraging coronavirus vaccinations because his administration's legacy could be at stake.

For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year.

The White House is hammering out the details of an increasingly likely European summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which could happen as soon as early summer, according to sources familiar with the planning.