The new order includes firms engaged in making and deploying the surveillance technology used against Muslim minorities and dissidents around the globe.

Latin America, South and Southeast Asia and Africa will be among the recipients of an initial 25 million excess doses that the Biden administration is sharing this month.

Will Israel’s coalition last?

British transport authorities cited rising cases in Portugal, and concern over virus variants, complicating plans for Britons hoping for a summer getaway.

The leader of a small Arab party that is joining forces with the planned coalition “has done this to make his mark,” one analyst said, “but he will not get anything.”

At least 64 pro-government forces and 26 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan so far this month.

The W.H.O. said that test positivity had risen in 14 countries on the African continent over the last seven days, and that eight had reported surges of over 30 percent in new cases.

Analysis of the fossil record shows a mysterious mass extinction that decimated the diversity of sharks in the world’s oceans, and they’ve never fully recovered.

Experts warn that lotteries and other perks may do little to allay the anxiety and confusion underlying residents’ reluctance to get inoculated.