Denmark is launching a digital vaccine passport, with the goal of allowing COVID-19 vaccinated residents to move around in public more freely. The hope is businesses could operate more openly, too. Some are concerned about privacy and creating an unequal system for those who can't be vaccinated.
Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, took charge of Italy's new government on Friday, and unveiled a cabinet that mixed unaffiliated technocrats with politicians from across his broad coalition.
China has banned the BBC World News television channel in a diplomatic fight with Britain after British regulators revoked the licence of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
Donald Trump's defence lawyers will make their case on Friday why the former president is not guilty of inciting last month's deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, as the Senate races toward a final vote in his second impeachment trial as soon as Saturday.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared in a Moscow court on Friday to face a charge of defaming a Second World War veteran. Meanwhile, Navalny's anti-Kremlin movement has received bitcoin donations worth nearly $380,000 this year, outstripping the total amount it was given in the cryptocurrency in 2020.
Los Angeles is temporarily closing five mass vaccination sites including Dodger Stadium for lack of supply as California faces continuing criticism over the vaccine rollout.
Yoshiro Mori resigned Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following sexist comments implying women talk too much.
