Aljazeera says EU regulators have launched a fresh antitrust investigation of Google, this time over whether they are stifling competition in digital advertising technology.
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TRT World says four Saudis who were involved in the brutal 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the US in 2017
Sky News says Italy’s prime minister wants the Euro 2020 final to be moved from Wembley Stadium because of Britain’s rising infections.
France24 says South Africa will host the continent’s first Covid-19 vaccine production facility, as President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday Africa now understood that doses would “never come” from elsewhere in time
Arab News says renowned human rights defender Amal Clooney has secured the prosecution of a Daesh member who abused, enslaved and assisted in the rape of captured Yazidi women.
Aljazeera says Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has for the first time addressed his links with the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988
VOA says the US, the EU, Britain and Canada joined forces Monday to impose sanctions on several senior officials in Belarus
BBC News says Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib has become the first active NFL player to come out as gay.
Aljazeera says Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days” after authorities used the national security law imposed by China
TRT World says eight children in a van from a youth home for children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a wet interstate
Aljazeera says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has condemned the new Iranian president as a “hangman”, describing Ebrahim Raisi’s election win as a final “wake up” call for world powers
Arab News says Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has called for the exit of foreign mercenaries from Libya without delay
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