Younger Brazilians are increasingly being affected by COVID-19, with those in their 20s showing the greatest increase in deaths so far this year, according to a report published by government biomedical institute Fiocruz on Friday.
French authorities opened a terrorism investigation and detained three people after a police official was stabbed to death inside a police station outside Paris on Friday. Officers shot and killed the attacker at the scene, authorities said.
Around 60,000 Muslim worshippers prayed at Al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on the second Friday of Ramadan, after dozens of arrests and violent protests.
The European Commission says it expects to seal the world's biggest vaccine deal within days, buying up to 1.8 billion doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years.
Indonesia's navy scoured the waters off Bali on Friday, bolstered by the arrival of a sonar-equipped Australian warship with a helicopter, in an increasingly frantic search for a missing submarine.
SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk's rapidly expanding company.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it would be life-threatening.
Several provinces are tightening public health measures today to curb rising COVID-19 infections, with British Columbia officials set to announce new provincial travel restrictions and two Ontario hot spots poised to see workplace closure orders to control outbreaks come into effect.
India on Friday posted the world's largest daily COVID-19 caseload for a second day, with 332,730 new cases and 2,263 deaths, as the pandemic spiralled out of control.
