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A small blast went off close to the Israeli embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Friday afternoon, damaging the windows of parked vehicles.

With mounting infections and a rising death toll since the new year, Portugal now has both the highest infection and death rates per million in the world, according to the Oxford University's data crunching website, Our World in Data. CNN's Isa Soares reports.

A frightened policeman fires a live round as a warning shot. Young men cowed by baton-wielding officers, drenched in foul smelling chemicals from water cannon, scream abuse. Ultra-Orthodox Jews clashing with Israeli authorities has become an almost daily routine.

A new Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax was 89% effective and appeared to offer protection against some variants of the coronavirus in a clinical trial conducted in the UK, the American biotech firm has announced.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that four men convicted of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl should go free, a move described by the White House as an "affront to terrorism victims everywhere."

Severe cases of Covid-19 might impact the quality of a man's sperm, thus possibly impacting his fertility, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Reproduction.

In between a surging pandemic and a global scramble for vaccines, the fate of this year's Olympic Games has become shrouded in uncertainty.

Any suggestion that the departure of former US President Donald Trump from Washington would provide a temporary pause in US-China tensions has been swiftly dispelled.

CNN's Chris Cuomo speaks with Vlad Tenev, CEO of the stock-trading app Robinhood, after the company barred traders from buying shares of GameStop promoted by WallStreetBets, a popular subreddit for investors.

Thai police arrested 89 foreigners on suspicion of breaching coronavirus restrictions after raiding a party at a bar on a popular resort island in southern Thailand, police told CNN on January 29.

A variant suspected of helping fuel a surge of coronavirus in Brazil's Amazon region shows up in Minnesota. Another that's been worrying officials in South Africa pops up in two places in South Carolina.

A "remarkably lucky" Australian man who forced a crocodile off his head by prizing open its jaws with his bare hands has managed to escape with minor injuries, paramedics said.

Cicely Tyson, an award-winning icon of the stage and screen who broke barriers for Black actresses with surpassing dignity, died Thursday, her manager Larry Thompson confirmed to CNN.

A longtime Fox News politics editor who was fired by the network earlier this month after angering former President Donald Trump, rebuked the current state of American media and skewered right-wing propagandists in a candid opinion piece published Thursday.

Once upon a time, the locals peddled rice on Bangkok's Khao San Road. Lots of it.

The US Army announced a series of new grooming policies on Tuesday that will allow soldiers to wear ponytails, locs, lipstick and even earrings.

Robinhood's free-trading revolution helped pave the way to the recent Reddit mayhem on Wall Street.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that she's committed to addressing the concerns of her colleagues over security but said that effort is hampered because "the enemy is within the House of Representatives," referencing the rhetoric and behavior of some Republican members of Congress.

The Pentagon said Thursday that the Biden administration would not commit to a full drawdown of troops from Afghanistan by May because the Taliban have not honored the commitments they made in their deal with the United States.

Hope stemming from decreasing Covid-19 numbers has been blunted by the spread of new coronavirus variants.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of "trying to get me killed" during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and called for his resignation from the Senate, after the Texas Republican appeared to agree with her on the need for an investigation into Robinhood following chaos on Wall Street.

Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled that four men convicted of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl could go free. Judea Pearl, Daniel's father, speaks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour.

Former President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met Thursday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where the two Republicans discussed strategy for winning the House majority in next year's midterms, according to a readout of the meeting provided by Trump's Political Action Committee Save America.

CNN's John King discusses the meeting between Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and former President Trump at Mar-a-lago and where the Republican party stands today.

Six people were killed and 10 were taken to a hospital after a liquid nitrogen leak at a food processing plant in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said.

President Joe Biden continues to push for a bipartisan Covid-19 relief package as the pandemic's devastating impact on the US economy comes to light. CNN's Phil Mattingly reports.

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Poland's government put into effect Wednesday a ruling that outlaws the termination of pregnancies with fetal defects, resulting in a near-total ban on abortion in one of Europe's most devout Catholic countries.

Poland imposed a controversial near-total ban on abortions. See protesters react to the new law.

Law enforcement authorities across several countries have taken down a network of what they describe as the "world's most dangerous malware."

President Joe Biden begins his term with a team of seasoned Washington operators whose placement inside the building provides clues to who will be close at hand in moments of crisis.

Canadian authorities say Rodney and Ekaretina Baker flew to a remote village in the Yukon to pose as local workers in order to skip the line and get the Covid-19 vaccine they weren't entitled to. CNN's Paula Newton reports.

CNN's Brianna Keilar calls out Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for trying to walk back his role in the US Capitol insurrection while noting that Hawley, who has voted against all of President Joe Biden's nominees, only seems to vote yes when it comes to overturning elections.

In ultra-Orthodox areas across Israel, police have clashed with members of the community angry at the government's attempts to impose nationwide lockdown rules on local schools and synagogues. Many Israelis are bitter over what they see as tolerance of lockdown violations by significant parts of the ultra-Orthodox community, a potent force in an election year. CNN's Sam Kiley reports.

Two roads diverged in American politics, and the Republican Party chose the one traveled by disgraced ex-President Donald Trump and QAnon conspiracy theorists.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tells CNN's John Berman that the Republican party needs to return to the way it was prior to Donald Trump's time in the White House.

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg speaks to CNN after a video of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Hogg with baseless claims surfaced. In a written statement to CNN, Greene said that the video was taken while she was in Washington, "going from office to office in the Senate to oppose the radical gun control agenda that David Hogg was pushing." Greene was not a member of Congress at the time the video was shot in March of 2019.

A Texas pediatrician diagnosed with terminal cancer killed another pediatrician during a hostage situation before turning the gun on himself, according to an Austin Police Department news release.

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