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Arab News says the UN was urged on Wednesday to take action against Tehran after two Iranian attacks on shipping in the Gulf in less than a week.

France24 says Turkey is battling the worst wildfires in its history, President Erdogan said, as fires spread to a power station in the country’s southwest after reducing swathes of coastal forest to ashes.

BBC News says fully-vaccinated passengers returning to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from France will no longer need to quarantine after Sunday.

VOA says a Pentagon police officer was killed during an attack at the Pentagon public transit hub Tuesday, gunfire was exchanged and there were multiple injuries.

TRT World says the Turkish government has said a vast majority of forest fires that have ravaged the south of the country for almost a week have been contained.

Aljazeera says Ahmadullah Azadani climbed on the roof of his house and awaited something that would have been unthinkable in the city even a week earlier.

Arab News says Australia’s New South Wales reported one of the country’s youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month high.

BBC News says an emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.

France24 says public anger in Lebanon is mounting a year after the August 4, 2020, Beirut blast, with a stalled investigation, crippling economic crisis and political sclerosis.

VOA says a third police officer who responded to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol died by suicide last week, the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.