On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas discussed efforts to revert immigration policies laid out by the Trump administration, including those involving children.

Top U.N. human rights experts called for an investigation into the poisoning of the Kremlin critic Aleksei A. Navalny. The experts said an international investigation should be carried out as 'a matter of urgency.'

On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India was vaccinated against the coronavirus. The country is beginning a large inoculation effort using the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Covaxin vaccines.

A concerning variant of the coronavirus first detected in Brazil has surfaced in Britain, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson told citizens they have nothing to worry about.

The military on Sunday used live ammunition and tear gas in cities across Myanmar, attacking protesters who have been calling for a return to democracy since a Feb. 1 coup. At least 18 were killed, the United Nations said.

Demonstrators shattered glass and set fires in Barcelona on Saturday. It was the latest in nearly two weeks of protests led by young people opposing the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasél over provocative tweets.

Tom Moore, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, raised millions for Britain's National Health Service during the pandemic by walking laps in his garden. He received military honors on Saturday.

World Health Organization officials again urged that vaccines be distributed equitably worldwide and that the supply for the Covax initiative not be compromised.

On Friday, John F. Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, confirmed that overnight U.S. airstrikes hit a collection of buildings on the Syrian side of a border crossing with Iraq, targeted at members of an Iran-backed militia and an affiliated group.

Yogananda D. Pittman, acting chief of the Capitol Police, told a House panel on Thursday that officers were unprepared for the scale of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and were uncertain of when to use lethal force.