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The Guardian says the first person charged and tried under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law has been sentenced to nine years in jail

Aljazeera says the Taliban armed group has taken responsibility for the killing of a comic this week in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar.

France24 says France on Wednesday urged Tunisia to rapidly appoint a new prime minister and government as the north African country lurched further into political uncertainty.

A horror crash in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has killed at least 18 people after a truck crashed into a bus. 

The Telegraph says more than 1,000 unmarked graves believed to hold the remains of kids have been found at the sites of former Christian residential schools.

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

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

Nine people have been arrested in Peru after accusations they have been charging Covid-19 patients the equivalent of more than £15k for hospital beds

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

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

The i says convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has been handed over for transfer to California to face additional sexual assault charges, after a failed bid to prevent his extradition.

VOA says the delta variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) now accounts for 83% of new cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Aljazeera says the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has declared a state of emergency amid a surge in wildfires that have forced hundreds of people from their homes

The UK and allies – the US, NATO and the EU – have accused the Chinese government of “systematic cyber-sabotage” in statements released. 

Lebanon’s PM-designate Saad Hariri has stepped down after nine months in the job, citing “key differences” with the president, leaving the cash-strapped country leaderless.

9 Chinese nationals are amongst the 12 people who have died after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a ravine in northern Pakistan, officials said. 

Pope Francis has left hospital after spending 10 days at Rome’s Gemelli hospital following an operation to remove half his colon. 

Arab News says relatives of people who died in the Beirut blast threw coffins over the fence at the residence of Mohammed Fahmy.

France24 says the head of Haiti’s national police announced that officers arrested a Haitian man accused of flying into the country on a private jet.

TRT World says authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse have said they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks.

A group of unidentified individuals broke into the private residence of President Jovenal Moism 53, overnight and shot him dead.

French air attack in Mali killed 19 unarmed civilians, UN says Aljazeera says a French air attack in January killed at least 19 civilians at…