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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