Four student union leaders at the University of Hong Kong were arrested on Wednesday after they had held a moment of silence for a man who stabbed a police officer and then killed himself.

Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, said on Wednesday that the White House coronavirus response team planned to begin offering booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in September, pending F.D.A. approval.

Pope Francis created a video encouraging followers around the world to get a coronavirus vaccine, citing the sacrifice as an act of love to stop the spread of the disease and protect the world's vulnerable.

The Taliban faced off against protestors in the northeastern city of Jalalabad. Taliban soldiers fired shots into the crowd and beat protesters and journalists.

Authorities issued evacuation orders as the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in California's recorded history, burned toward the city of Susanville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's spokesman, said there would not be reprisals against foreign nationals under Taliban rule and that women would be allowed to work 'in accordance with Shariah law.'

Years of drought have severely depleted the reservoirs that feed the Colorado River, and deeper restrictions on water use are expected. 'Additional actions will likely be necessary in the very near future,' a senior official said.

The defense team for the former head of state for Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime’s defense team argued that his genocide conviction should be overturned.

New Zealand will participate in a three-day lockdown in parts of the county and a seven-day lockdown in one particular area after the country's first possible reported case of the Delta variant.

Tropical Storm Grace made its way across Haiti, drenching the region in rain, pummeling towns and villages, and bringing flash floods. This comes as the country was already reeling from a devastating earthquake.