TRT World says Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over its decision to release superhero movie “Black Widow” on streaming at the same time as in theatres.
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Aljazeera says the Taliban armed group has taken responsibility for the killing of a comic this week in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar.
France24 says France said it failed to understand why it was exempt from the rule allowing fully-vaccinated EU citizens to enter England without quarantining.
BBC News says England’s chief midwife has stepped up her call for pregnant women to get the Covid jab as soon as possible.
Mirror says Brits are bracing for gale force winds and heavy rain as Storm Evert sweeps through huge swathes of the country today.
VOA says more than a month after Turkish authorities crushed Pride-themed events in Istanbul, emotions still run raw for members of the country’s embattled LGBT community.
TRT World says Antony Blinken met the head of the WHO, in Kuwait where he pledged his support to the UN agency’s investigation in China into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
Aljazeera says last week, Kawsar Sama and her family packed up and got on a flight to Kabul. For the 21-year-old and her family, life in the southern city of Kandahar had become dangerous.
Arab News says Yemen’s government has put health facilities and workers on high alert and demanded that people follow COVID-19 restrictions as the country braces for a third wave of the virus.
France24 says France on Wednesday urged Tunisia to rapidly appoint a new prime minister and government as the north African country lurched further into political uncertainty.
BBC News says a Liverpool fan Andrew Devine, 55, who suffered life-changing injuries in the Hillsborough disaster has died, his family said in a statement released by Liverpool FC.
VOA says America’s CDC now recommends vaccinated people in certain parts of the country wear masks while indoors, reversing a decision the agency made two months ago.
TRT World says four police officers have told lawmakers they were beaten, taunted with racial insults, heard threats including “kill him with his own gun” as they tried to defend the Capitol.
Aljazeera says at least six Rohingya died on Tuesday and thousands have been relocated in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s southeast after monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods.
Arab News says Saudi Arabia on Tuesday warned against travel to banned destinations amid the pandemic, and said anyone travelling to a red list country will face a 3 year travel ban.
France24 says while the global economy is still growing, the uneven distribution of vaccines is widening disparities as rich countries pick up speed and leave developing nations behind.
BBC News says senior cabinet ministers are to discuss allowing fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and US to avoid quarantine when they arrive in England. A review of the rules is due by 31 July.
VOA says the final victim of the condo building collapse in Florida has been identified, a relative said Monday, more than a month after the middle-of-the-night catastrophe.
TRT World says street clashes have erupted outside Tunisia’s army-barricaded parliament, a day after President Kais Saied fired the PM and suspended the legislature.
Aljazeera says that Tong Ying-kit buzzed his motorcycle past a cheering crowd and angry police is not in question, nor that his bike crashed and injured three police.
Arab News says in his first interview as Lebanon’s PM-designate, Najib Mikati promised the Lebanese people he will “tell the truth about everything.”
France24 says at least 57 migrants drowned after their boat sank off Libya, the latest tragedy on the dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossing to Europe.
BBC News says Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to cut crime by tackling drug misuse and using electronic tagging on more burglars after release.
TRT World says crews battling a large fire that has incinerated more than 190,000 acres in northern California braced for the possibility that smoke columns could spawn lightning storms.
Aljazeera says the United States will continue to carry out air raids in support of Afghan forces, a senior US military commander has said, amid an increase in attacks by the Taliban.