America’s new mask rule means new questions
The US’s top public health body, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced stunning new guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to...
News outlets ask: Is this the beginning of the end of the pandemic?
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter....
Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza as conflict enters fifth day
More than 100 people have been killed in Gaza and seven have died in Israel since Monday....
‘We cannot sleep’: Mothers caught in the Israel-Gaza conflict
Mothers in Israel and Gaza tell the BBC they are terrified for their families as fighting escalates....
Covid: Biden hails ‘great day’ as he sheds mask in Oval Office
The president removes his mask in the Oval Office as the new health guidance is announced....
How India’s vaccine drive went horribly wrong
A botched-up plan for procuring jabs has dried up stocks and sent prices soaring on the private market....
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of ‘verbal assault’ on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly shouted at the Democrat in a Capitol Hill corridor...
Paris seeks to ban through traffic in city centre by 2022
The council wants to create a low-traffic zone to reduce pollution and congestion....
Woman gives birth in Kyiv metro underpass
Police in Ukraine helped a woman who went into labour in a metro underpass in the capital Kyiv....
India Covid: How law stops NGOs distributing essential aid
NGOs tell BBC Newsnight they’re unable to send oxygen concentrators to people who need them....