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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has reimposed restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious Delta variant.

Nine people, including 4 police officers, have died in separate attacks across Colombia, which has seen a recent surge in violence.

US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported.

Italy became a mask-free, “low-risk” zone for coronavirus, marking a milestone for the first European country to be hit by Covid.

BBC News says health secretary Sajid Javid will update MPs later on when the remaining Covid measures will lift in England.

VOA says Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd, will be sentenced Friday in Minneapolis.

TRT World says a court has suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license in the state of New York for claiming that Donald Trump lost last year’s presidential election because of fraud.

The Independent says there’s a creepy, grisly irony in all the “Diana at 60” coverage at the moment. Diana would actually be able to celebrate her landmark birthday in person

Aljazeera says Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School

France24 says EU leaders failed to agree on a proposal by France and Germany to hold a summit soon with Vladimir Putin after Poland and Baltic countries said it would send the wrong message