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France24 says fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius.

Arab News says underage marriage in Jordan surged last year during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic due to increased financial hardship among poorer families.

VOA says Britney Spears’ father said in a court filing Thursday that he was planning to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years.

Aljazeera says the Taliban has captured the key city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, a day after the group claimed control over Kandahar and Herat.

BBC News says police in Plymouth have confirmed six people – including a suspected gunman – have died in a firearms incident.

GCSEs 2021: BBC News says hundreds of thousands of pupils are finding out their GCSE results, amid predictions of another spike in grades after exams were cancelled.

VOA says California will require that all teachers and school staff be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, Gavin Newsom said. No other state has enacted such a requirement.

France24 says initially spared the worst of the Covid-19 virus, more children and teens are experiencing “long Covid” with medical clinics cropping up to treat their symptoms.

TRT World says wildfires tearing through forested areas of northern Algeria have killed at least 65 people, state TV reported, as some of the most destructive blazes in the country’s history continued to rage.

Aljazeera says Australia’s capital Canberra has announced a snap one-week lockdown after reporting its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in more than a year.