Topic: Jair Bolsonaro

Japan is staging the Summer Olympics during a state of emergency and without spectators with coronavirus cases surging though the situation nowhere nearly as dire elsewhere.

YouTube has removed videos Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted to his channel for violating rules against making false COVID-19 claims.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Wednesday with a bowel obstruction, doctors said, and he may need emergency surgery.

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is in a hospital for observation after testing positive for COVID-19, the government has announced.

COVID-19 has dominated Asia, originating in Mainland China 1/2 years ago, spreading to India a few months ago and now surging in Indonesia, with i35% increase in deaths and 38% cases in island nation..

Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Brazil to demand that President Jair Bolsonaro be impeached as information from an investigation sheds light on a vaccine scandal.

Coronavirus deaths and cases are trending down in Asia, where the outbreak began 1 1/2 years ago in Mainland China and spiked most recently in India, as the global toll nears 4 million people.

As coronavirus subsides through much of the world, the pandemic is surging in Russia with record cases last week and the most deaths in three months.

Brazil has become the 12th nation and the first from South America to sign onto NASA's agreement to create a safe, transparent and sustainable environment for the exploration of space.

India remains a major COVID-19 hotspot with the most daily deaths and cases but the numbers are way down from world daily records a few weeks ago as the global pandemic is subsiding in many nations.