Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified to Congress on Thursday about how the military was responding to complaints of sexual misconduct.

On Wednesday, officials for the N.C.A.A., as well as coaches and additional sports officials, testified to Congress about establishing rules around payment for college athletes.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, said on Monday that inequitable vaccine distribution has allowed coronavirus deaths to rise in low-income countries with less access, despite wider global declines.

Two express passenger trains collided on Monday in Ghotki, Pakistan, leaving at least 33 people dead and 100 others injured.

The security forces fired stun grenades at demonstrators rallying in East Jerusalem in support of several leading Palestinian activists who were arrested in the area on Sunday.

Thousands of Britons scrambled to leave over the weekend, even paying extra to rebook flights, in an effort to beat the Tuesday deadline for a new quarantine order Britain imposed on those returning from Portugal.

The announcement came as three U.S. senators briefly visited Taiwan's capital on Sunday. The donation is part of the 25 million doses the U.S. plans to distribute this month to countries struggling to control the virus.

Officials from the Group of 7 countries agreed on Saturday to back a new global tax rate of at least 15 percent, which companies would have to pay regardless of where their headquarters are based.

The White House announced on Thursday that it would distribute the coronavirus vaccines as part of the 80 million doses President Biden pledged to send overseas by the end of June.

President Biden announced on Wednesday an accelerated effort to vaccinate Americans by his proposed July 4 deadline.