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The Guardian says New Zealand is shutting down the quarantine-free travel bubble with Australia for two months, as the country grapples with a number of serious outbreaks of Covid-19

France24 says the most troubled Olympics in history finally get underway in Tokyo on Friday, struggling to emerge from Covid-19 after a postponement following a build-up marred by scandal

Arab News says the Eastern Province municipality carried out 1,314 inspection tours in one day across shopping malls, commercial centers and stores to monitor compliance with Covid rules

Aljazeera says rioting in South Africa this month has claimed 337 lives, the government said on Thursday, marking a further jump in the death toll from the 276 announced the previous day

The Independent says is there a series more charming than Ted Lasso? Not that I’ve seen. The Apple TV+ comedy, a paragon of positivity, follows a college-level American soccer coach (Jason Sudeikis)

VOA says the U.S. has averaged more than 26,000 new COVID-19 cases per day over the past week — more than double the number it was a month ago

TRT World says hundreds of workers have fled businesses in northern Haiti after demonstrations near the hometown of assassinated president Jovenel Moise

Aljazeera says Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts

Arab News says at least three people have been shot dead, one of them a police officer, in a week of rioting and protests over water shortages

France24 says piles of cars were strewn across a central Chinese city Thursday as shocked residents picked through the debris of a historic deluge