Vaccines and critical-care beds are in short supply. Yet President Jair Bolsonaro is railing against social distancing and calling an experimental treatment from Israel “miraculous.”

At the United Nations, U Kyaw Moe Tun declared his new military masters illegitimate. They fired him, but he has no intention of leaving.

Women are winning greater political representation in Kosovo, raising hopes of more equality in a country still living with the scars of the war against Serbian rule in the 1990s.

The police in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Friday to disperse crowds protesting record numbers of coronavirus cases and the country’s troubled health care system.

Security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators in the capital as fury rose over the government’s handling of the health crisis.

The head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation apologized for forecasting a big drop in housing prices last year.

After a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was accused of rape, demonstrators in one of West Africa’s most stable countries took to the streets to voice their grievances with the president.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday that Canada’s health regulator had authorized the use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, giving the country a fourth vaccine option.

As officials in Texas and Mississippi lifted statewide mask mandates, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered, in a new study on Friday, fresh evidence of the importance of mask use.

Demonstrators clashed with the police in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday during widespread protests against the arrest of the opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been accused of rape.