Aljazeera says Australia has announced its first Covid death of 2021 as authorities in New South Wales struggle to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant.
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Arab News says Lebanon’s power cuts have stopped the country’s vaccination campaign and also led to warnings about food poisoning.
France24 says British billionaire Richard Branson was due on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and fly into space.
BBC News says it is possible to catch two Covid variants at the same time, experts are warning after seeing it kill a 90-year-old woman.
Sky News says England are “here to win” in the Euro 2020 final and “want to go and bring the trophy home”, says manager Gareth Southgate.
Sky News says this summer’s Tokyo Olympics will go ahead without spectators after a surge in coronavirus cases, organisers have announced.
TRT World says President Joe Biden has said the US military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31, saying “speed is safety”.
Aljazeera says a 28-member hit squad made up of Americans and Colombians assassinated President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said.
Arab News says COVID-19 infections in the Kingdom have reached a total of almost half a million since the first case was reported about 494 days ago.
France24 says France warned its nationals against travelling to Spain or Portugal because of a spike in Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant.
The Guardian says Boris Johnson is poised to call an extra bank holiday if England win Sunday’s football final at Wembley.
TRT World says Covid cases are rising rapidly in the United States as the highly contagious Delta variant dominates.
TRT World says Florida rescuers will end their search for survivors in the rubble of an apartment building that partially collapsed.
BBC News says coronavirus cases in the UK have risen above 30,000 for first time since January, official figures show.
The Guardian says at 10.11pm on a cool Wednesday night at a febrile, fevered Wembley Stadium, Harry Kane stepped forward.
France24 says Haiti police killed four “mercenaries” they said were behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moise Wednesday.
Arab News says three rockets were fired at the US embassy in Iraq at the end of a day marked by rocket and drone attacks.
VOA says authorities in Afghanistan said Wednesday that pro-government forces had pushed back Taliban insurgents from parts of a northwestern city.
BBC News says two of the world’s biggest airlines will trial fast-track lanes at Heathrow airport for fully-vaccinated arrivals.
France24 says the Cannes Film Festival chased away the pandemic gloom with a glittering curtain-raiser starring Marion Cotillard.
Arab News says with just days to go before the UN mandate for cross-border humanitarian assistance to Syria expires, the spotlight is on Russia.
Aljazeera says a Colombian court has accused members of the military of forcibly disappearing 24 people and murdering at least 120 civilians.
TRT World says the weather was getting worse in southern Florida as Tropical Storm Elsa began lashing the Florida Keys.
VOA says the U.S. military troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is 90% complete, U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday.
BBC News says England’s schools will find out later how the government plans to relax rules around the school bubble system.