Arab News says Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has called for the exit of foreign mercenaries from Libya without delay
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Each morning we bring you the main headlines from all around the globe. These are the headlines you have to know.
France24 says Tokyo Olympics organisers and Japanese officials meet Monday to decide whether fans will be allowed at the Games
BBC News says the government must start planning for the autumn booster jab rollout now, doctors and NHS trusts have said
Euronews says Hungary is being investigated over a new law that bans the sharing of content that portrays homosexuality or sex reassignment with people under the age of 18
VOA says newly unveiled efforts to combat a growing domestic terrorism threat in the US have to find a way to overcome a major obstacle
TRT World says Iran has begun voting in a presidential election tipped in the favour of a hard-line protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Aljazeera says health officials in Indonesia are blaming the emergence of the Delta variant for a massive surge in COVID-19 cases
France24 says Israeli jets launched airstrikes on Gaza overnight Thursday to Friday after militants in the Palestinian territory again set off incendiary balloons into southern Israel, the army and AFP journalists said
BBC says people aged 18 and over in England are to be invited to book their first Covid-19 jab in what the NHS has described as a “watershed moment”
The Guardian says the United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the nation.
VOA says India’s iconic Taj Mahal monument reopened Wednesday as a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic begins to ebb
TRT World says Hong Kong police have arrested the chief editor and four other senior executives of the Apple Daily newspaper
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said ‘being PM is too much like hard work’ and he ‘can’t wait to have fun and make money’
France24 says China launched a spacecraft on Thursday carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction
BBC News says cuts to the UK’s aid budget will leave millions of people at risk of dying from “neglected tropical diseases”
TRT World says a car bomb explosion at a military base in the Colombian border city of Cucuta has wounded 36 people.
Aljazeera says the US death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000, even as the vaccination drive has brought down daily cases.
Arab News says Saudi Arabia approved the creation of a sports academy designed to discover and develop talented youth.
France24 says Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York, can be transferred to LA.
The Guardian says Covid vaccinations are to become mandatory for care home staff under plans to be announced by ministers.
BBC News says Israel says it has launched air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for incendiary balloons fired.
Sky News says a UK-Australia free trade deal has been agreed and will be announced on Tuesday morning, a government source said
TRT World says the United States has crossed the grim milestone of 600,000 Covid-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally.
ICC prosecutor seeks full probe into Duterte’s drug war killings that killed thousands of people including innocent children.
Arab News says hundreds of African migrants are feared dead after a shipwreck off the western province of Lahj in Yemen.