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Arab News says Morocco will lengthen its night curfew, starting two hours earlier at 9 p.m from Tuesday, as it tightens restrictions to counter a surge in coronavirus infections, the government said.

Aljazeera says Afghan forces fought fierce street battles and bombed Taliban positions as the group’s fighters swarmed major cities amid an intensifying offensive.

Arab News says unvaccinated employees within the Saudi public, private, and nonprofit sectors will have their leave days deducted until they receive a COVID-19 jab.

The Times says Turkey has arrested several hundred illegal migrants heading from Afghanistan towards Europe in the past few days as a fresh exodus of people fleeing the advancing Taliban gathers pace.

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