U.S. withdrawal puts freedoms for Afghan women in peril
The Taliban is poised to extend its reach across the country, reversing the gains of women in Afghanistan.
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U.S. aid reaches COVID-wracked India as thousands gasp for air
Help is arriving, but as the government denies acute oxygen shortages that are leaving patients to die at overcrowded hospitals, it's a drop in the bucket.
2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy was actually pregnant woman
Believing the mummy was a male priest, researchers were surprised to see the small hands and feet of a fetus on X-ray scans.
4 Americans among dozens killed in Israel stampede
Gathering of tens of thousands of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews was the 1st big religious festival of its kind since COVID restrictions were lifted.
Tons of dead fish choke banks of highly polluted lake in Lebanon
Experts have warned for years that wastewater, industrial waste, and agricultural runoff were turning Lake Qaraoun into a toxic stew.
Brazil surpasses 400,000 coronavirus deaths
Brazil has become the second country in the world to top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month. April was the country's deadliest month of the pandemic.
Black women are at higher risk for miscarriage, study finds
"It's something that hasn't been highlighted before and something that we need to understand more about," said a co-author of the study.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas urges fans to help India's COVID-19 crisis
"India is my home and India is bleeding," Chopra Jonas said.
Navalny "a horrible skeleton" in court appearance after hunger strike
The Russian opposition leader told a Moscow court via video link from prison that he'd dropped down to around his 7th-grade weight.
"No other option": Afghans brace to fight Taliban without U.S. help
One female Afghan special forces soldier says if the Taliban try to take away her rights after the Americans pull out, they'll have to get through her first.
Scientists back Brazil's decision to ban Russian COVID vaccine
Brazil's drug regulator wasn't the first to flag apparent anomalies with Sputnik V vaccine doses, and scientists say their import ban seems prudent.
China gets a flying start on building its own space station
Officials expect the project to take a couple years, but launch of the control module is a major step for China's increasingly sophisticated space program.
Inside Afghanistan as U.S. prepares for troop withdrawal
CBS News got rare access to the Afghan military as its soldiers prepare to fight the Taliban on their own.
In India, a scramble for vaccines as COVID deaths top 200,000
India is expanding its vaccination program as the second wave of the pandemic takes grim toll on the lives of its 1.32 billion people.
Olympic spirit is hard to find in Japan as vaccine rollout stumbles
One political scientist says the country won't be "vaccine-ready for the Olympics," leaving many in Japan extremely wary of hosting a COVID-era Games.
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