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News in brief Two dead, more than 20 u Pope Francis said British royal Kate yesterday he would hold a injured in Florida shooting meeting on July 1 in Rome to UK PM marries fiancee TOP discuss Lebanon’s difficult gets first dose of situation with Christian representatives from the TWEETS4 country. “I’ll meet at the Vatican COVID-19 vaccine with the leaders of the Christian communities in Lebanon to reflect on Pope to meet in surprise ceremony the worrying situation in the country 01 and pray together for the gift of peace Christian representatives One-year-old Wilfred attended the and stability,” Pope Francis said after from Lebanon on July 1 The event was not announced in advance wedding, as did two official witnesses. Sunday’s Angelus prayer. The event and media reports said guests were invited at the last minute to the Roman Catholic Symonds shared a picture of their son u The British government is thinking about making COVID-19 was• conducted yesterday in a field of bluebells - which vaccination compulsory for healthcare workers to stop the spread of the cathedral in central , adding that virus in hospitals, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said yesterday. “It would be under cover of an even senior members of Johnson’s office some speculated was a nod to the tradi- incumbent on any responsible government to have the debate, to do the thinking extraordinary cloak- were unaware of the wedding plans. tion of ‘something blue’. everal children lost as to how we go about protecting the most vulnerable by making sure that those and-dagger operation “The Prime Minister and Ms Symonds Stheir parents due to who look after them are vaccinated,” he told Sky News. “There is precedent were married yesterday afternoon in a COVID-19. The Govern- for this; obviously small ceremony at Westminster Cathe- Friends and family of some of the 20 to 25 injured in the Sunday mass ment will care for these Johnson, 56, is the dral,” Johnson’s office said on Sunday. shooting gathered together to pray outside the Ryder Trauma Center at children, ensure a life UK could surgeons get vaccinated •first Prime Minister to make COVID-19 for hepatitis B. So it’s “The couple will celebrate their wedding Jackson Memorial Hospital.html#storylink=cpy of dignity & opportuni- marry in office since Lord with family and friends next summer.” ty for them. PM-CARES jabs compulsory something that we are absolutely thinking Liverpool joined forces Weddings in England are currently lim- Reuters reported. for Children will ensure in healthcare about.” ited to 30 people due to COVID-19 restric- CNN said about 20 to 25 of education & other assis- with Mary Chester in 1822 tions. wo people have died and those injured were taken to a tance to children. u A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and Johnson, 56, and Symonds, 33, have been Tmore than 20 were injured number of nearby hospitals. @narendramodi supplies successfully docked with the core module of the Daily Mail reports that living together in Downing Street since in a shooting outside a billiards The shooting took place country’s future space station on Sunday, state media said. A •the couple are understood Johnson became prime minister in 2019. club in Hialeah, a town to the early Sunday morning, CBS4 Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft -- loaded with essentials “I’m hugely grateful to On Saturday, the cathedral was suddenly north of Miami in Florida, po- Miami said, and added that Reuters to have been secretly such as food, equipment and fuel -- blasted off late Saturday from the Wenchang everyone who is playing a locked down at 1:30 pm and Symonds ar- by Britain’s tabloid media, has a compli- lice said early on Sunday. at least one of those injured launch site on the part in the rollout - thank planning the small rived 30 minutes later in a limo, in a long cated private life. “I am at the scene of another was listed in critical condition. 02 tropical southern China cargo craft ritish royal Kate, Duch- you for everything you ceremony for six months white dress with no veil, media reports He was once fired from the Conserv- targeted and cowardly act of CBS4 Miami said police had island of Hainan, the Bess of Cambridge, said on are doing.” said. ative Party’s policy team while in oppo- gun violence, where over 20 no one in custody as of early Xinhua news agency docks with Saturday she had received a William, 38, The couple announced last year they sition for lying about an extra-marital victims were shot and 2 have Sunday. reported. The docking Reuters | London space station first dose of COVID-19 vaccine said last week were engaged and that they were expecting affair. He has been divorced twice and sadly died,” Miami-Dade po- The Florida mass shooting with the space station’s module and paid tribute to everyone he had been giv- a child. Their son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas refuses to say how many children he has lice director Alfredo Ramirez is one of a number that have Tianhe core module was completed at 5:01 am Beijing involved in the rollout of the en a first dose ritish Prime Minister , was born in April 2020. fathered. III said in a tweet. taken place in the past few time (2101 GMT Saturday), the agency said, citing the China Manned Space Agency inoculation programme. of vaccine. BJohnson married his fiancee Earlier this month the Sun had reported Johnson’s last marriage was to Marina A white Nissan Pathfinder weeks in the United States. (CMSA). Kate, 39, said she had re - His grand- Carrie Symonds in a small cere- that wedding invitations had been sent to Wheeler, a lawyer. They had four children pulled up to the location and There were at least 200 mass u A ceived the shot at the Science mother, Queen mony at Westminster Cathedral friends and family for July 2022. together but announced in September 2018 three people got out with as- shootings in the country in the ust 2 more days to neighbourhood Neighbourhood Museum, a prominent tourist Elizabeth, got on Saturday, his office said. Johnson, once dubbed “Bonking Boris” that they had separated. sault weapons and handguns first 132 days of this year, a Jsubmit feedback & in the southern in south China attraction not far from Kate’s her first shot and started firing into the report by the Gun Violence questions on our @UNDP Chinese city of Kensington Palace home in in January and has en- crowd that was gathered for Archive, a non-profit research SDG Impact Standards for under lockdown Symonds, who becomes Guangzhou has been after fresh west London. couraged others to take up the Johnson was first married at the age of 23 to Allegra Johnson and Wheeler a concert at the venue, CNN group, said. Enterprises as part of the locked down as officials the third Mrs Johnson, virus outbreak “Yesterday I received my vaccine, saying it was quick Mostyn-Owen in 1987. They met while they were have two daughters, Lara second (and final) round rush to quell an uptick in first dose of the COVID-19 vac- and painless. announced their engage- students at Oxford. Their union was annulled in 1993 Lettice, 26, and Cassia of consultation. Share cases in the area. The industrial hub north of Hong Kong cine at London’s Science Mu- Britain is currently offer- ment on social media in after it emerged he was having an affair with childhood your inputs and be part home to nearly 15 million people has reported 20 new cases of the coronavirus Peaches, 22, and two sons seum,” she said on the Twit- ing a COVID-19 vaccine to February 2020, at the friend Marina Wheeler who he married in 1993. But Milo Arthur, 24, and Theo- of co-creating a new way in the past week. A notice by the Guangzhou municipal health bureau issued ter account she shares with anyone aged 30 and over, KNOW WHAT Myanmar junta sentences of doing business: https:// Saturday identified five streets in Liwan district in the city centre as “high-risk same time as she dis- they separated in 2018. Their divorce was finalised dore Apollo, 20, together. her husband, Prince William, and has given a first dose closed her pregnancy. after he arrived in Downing Street in 2019 sdgimpact.undp.org/en- areas” and ordered residents to stay indoors until door-to-door testing is along with a picture of her re- of vaccine to 38.8 million p 28 for attacks on Chinese- terprise.html completed. Markets, schools and entertainment venues in the area were shut. The ceiving the shot. eople. @SdgImpact city government has rushed to conduct mass testing and about 700,000 people had been tested by Wednesday. The mini-outbreak in Guangzhou is believed to owned factories be linked to a 75-year-old woman who tested positive for the virus variant first 03 identified in , local health officials said. Ukraine’s ambassador to Iran removes Mortar shell hits Afghan Coronavirus storm COVID-1:9 Countries worst affected Thailand dies on beach island central bank AFP News Country Total cases Total head who is wedding, kills at least six deaths Global tally engulfs Everest kraine’s ambassador to running for AFP News he risks posed by 1 USA 34,035,654 609,429 UThailand died early Sun- Covid shutdown last year cost T#ClimateChange 2 India 27,923,301 326,341 170,734,062 day on the southern beach president millions in lost revenue. could dwarf that of island of Koh Lipe while on Reuters ount Everest guide Bud- Lama’s symptoms are mild any single disease. But 3 Brazil 16,471,600 461,142 Deaths vacation with his son, police Mdhi Bahadur Lama has but he said some climbers there’s no vaccine for cli- said, with the cause of death spent days isolated in a tent were suffering more severely mate change. We have to 4 France 5,657,572 109,358 still undetermined. ran’s President Hassan after testing positive for coro- The warmer weather that act NOW, in solidarity, to 5 Turkey 5,235,978 47,271 3,550,650 Andrii Beshta is a 45-year- IRouhani has dismissed navirus, as an outbreak that ushers in safer conditions prevent & prepare before old career diplomat who was the central bank governor, climbers say is putting lives at for scaling Everest and other 6 Russia 5,063,442 121,162 it’s too late. Recovered: appointed as Ukraine’s am- Abdolnaser Hemmati, one risk sweeps base camp. Himalayan peaks has coincid- A fire in March damaged a Chinese-owned garment factory in Yangon’s @DrTedros 7 UK 4,480,945 127,775 bassador in Thailand in 2016. of the few moderates run- He is one of four in his ex- ed with a new wave of Cov- Hlaing Tharyar industrial zone 8 Italy 4,213,055 126,002 152,728,111 The National Police said ning in a June 18 presiden- pedition team thought to have id-19 infections in Nepal. Sunday Beshta was found dead tial election, who said he contracted Covid-19 at the foot The country is reporting an AFP News ens of protesters died. 9 Argentina 3,732,263 77,108 New cases around 5:30 am (2230 GMT) accepted the decision that of the world’s highest moun- average of 8,000 cases a day Beijing -- Myanmar’s top 04 10 Germany 3,685,632 89,022 in his room at a hotel resort he must step aside at the tain, along with a growing and the health system has been yanmar’s junta has hand- foreign investor -- said two in Koh Lipe, an idyllic beach bank in order to stand for Representative picture number of others. overwhelmed. Med out lengthy prison employees were also injured 11 Spain 3,668,658 79,905 +115,804 island popular with travellers president. “This is not just our prob- Over the last two months sentences to almost 30 people and demanded the immediate Reuters 12 Colombia 3,363,061 87,747 for its crystal-blue waters. Hemmati, a technocrat Kabul put the death toll at at least lem, it is happening in most since the climbing season be- for torching Chinese-owned protection of Chinese citizens New deaths “Preliminary investigations appointed central bank 10 and the number of wounded of the teams at the base camp gan, more than 1,000 moun- factories, state media said. and property. 13 Iran 2,902,094 79,939 showed no signs of him be - governor in 2018, is one of t least six Afghan civilians at 18. right now,” the 35-year-old taineers and their mainly Ne- Myanmar has been in tur- On Monday, a junta tribu- 14 Poland 2,871,950 73,738 +2,467 ing attacked, no signs of a raid seven candidates for presi- Awere killed and several more A Taliban spokesman dismissed told AFP. pali guides have been camped moil since the generals ousted nal sentenced 28 people to 20 or violence,” said a statement dent, with the others mostly were wounded when a mortar the allegation and said the mor- Dozens of suspected Cov- in the tent city. civilian leader Aung San Suu years in prison for attacks on Figures as of closing attributed to National Police Beshta’s body was sent first staunch hardliners after a shell hit a house during a wed - tar was fired by Afghan security id cases have been flown out More than 350 have reached Kyi in February, with more the Myanmar Rong Wei New nding cash bail is Middle East deputy spokesman Kissana to a local hospital for an autop- vetting body, the Guardian ding ceremony in northern Kapisa forces. of the area and at least two the summit so far this season, than 800 civilians killed in an shoes factory and Yuan Hong Eessential for civil Country Total new Total New Total Active Phathanacharoen. sy, before it was transported to Council, barred leading re- province, security officials said on Afghan civilians often bear the companies have cancelled ex- but some are still at base camp ongoing bloody crackdown, Garment factory, Myanmar rights and racial justice cases cases deaths Deaths recovered cases The medical team first on a police hospital in the Thai formists and conservatives Sunday. brunt of the attacks as they aree peditions after team members waiting for the next weather by a local monitoring group’s state media reported Thurs- in the US, particularly in the scene had wore PPE suits capital Bangkok for further from standing. The explosion on Saturday caught in the crossfire. tested positive. window. count. According to Chinese day. Nineteen of the convicted the Deep South. as a precaution to investigate investigation into his cause In a Saturday night dis- evening was in the Tagab district, Violence has sharply increased However authorities in Ne- Breathing is already difficult state media, demonstrators in were still on the run, it added. @richardbranson Egypt 260,659 15,001 191,475 54,183 the body, while authorities had of death. cussion on the Clubhouse which has seen fighting between across the country since Washing- pal have yet to acknowledge at high altitudes so the corona- the commercial capital Yan- Beijing enjoys exceptional Saudi 449,191 +907 7,347 +13 432,138 9,706 questioned the ambassador’s He has spent more than a social media app, Hemma- the Afghan government forces and ton announced plans last month a single case at the mountain, virus becomes a major threat gon torched dozens of Chi- leverage over Myanmar and Arabia son Ostap, who had shared the decade of his career in Thai- ti said Rouhani had told the Taliban insurgents. to pull out all U.S. troops out of with the stakes high for the if symptoms appear during a nese-owned textile factories has refused to label the mili- room with him. land, according to the embas- him that he would have to Shayeq Shoresh, a spokesman Afghanistan by Sept. 11. country’s tourism indus- climb. in March, causing around $37 tary action a coup. UAE 569,073 +1,810 1,677 +4 548,785 18,611 He said his father had gone sy’s website, arriving first in stand down at the bank if for the provincial police, blamed Nearly 1,800 Afghan civilians try after a million in damage. It supplies Myanmar with Kuwait 306,717 1,764 291,521 13,432 to bed around 11 pm the night 2007 as a counsellor to the dip- he stands for president, “be- the Taliban for firing the mortar were killed or wounded in the first Twitter accounts of Myan- military hardware but observ- before, but had woken up at lomatic mission in Bangkok. cause it affects monetary and added that at least six civil- three months of 2021 during fight- mar pro-democracy groups ers say it also maintains alli- Disclaimer: (Views expressed Oman 216,183 +817 2,334 +13 199,287 14,562 4:30 am vomiting before fall- He was appointed the em- and exchange rate policies”. ians, including women and chil- ing between government forces allege -- without offering clear ances with some ethnic mili- by columnists are personal and ing unconscious, said Kissana, bassy’s deputy director-gen- “I told him that I had no dren, were killed and four more and Taliban insurgents despite proof -- that the army carried tias on the long China border need not necessarily reflect our Qatar 217,041 554 212,716 3,771 who added that other witness- eral in 2011, taking over as am- problem with his decision,” wounded. efforts to find peace, the United out the factory attacks to justi- that have been fighting the editorial stances) es were also questioned. bassador in 2016. he said. But a senior security official in Nations said last month. fy a crackdown in which doz- army for decades.