TOP NEWS STORIES FOR THE WEEK FOR KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL 29 JUNE – 5 JULY 2020 YOUNG STAR FLYING WHAT DOES SIGNED TWELVE-year-old BOOKS TRUMP KNOW Keedron Bryant’s song IS it a bird? Is it a plane? about the fears of being a No, it’s that library book young African-American you requested. went viral – and now he’s ABOUT ALIENS? landed a record deal. A school librarian from Virginia, USA, has been Warner Records signed delivering books to kids in Keedron and are releasing his lockdown using drones. song, I Just Wanna Live. Kelly Passek worked with drone service Wing from Google’s parent company Alphabet to deliver library books to children this summer. IN an interview with his son, Donald Junior, Her books are now, literally, Donald Trump has admitted to hearing flying off the shelves! “interesting” things about aliens and UFOs during his presidency. Donald Trump Jr. asked: “Before you leave office, will you let us know if there are aliens?” Trump senior responded: “I won’t talk to you about what I know about it, but it’s very interesting.” BRYANT KEEDRON Instagram/ DEFORESTATION RISES TENNIS STARS GET ILL DEFORESTATION of the Amazon rainforest has FOUR tennis players have tested positive for risen every month for the last 14 months, new COVID-19 after playing at the Adria Tour event in data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Croatia and Serbia. Research has revealed. The tournament was set up by world The figures also show number one Novak Djokovic to help that from the beginning of players ease back in to the game after August 2019 to the end of lockdown. But Djokovic himself, Grigor May this year, 6,437 square Dimitrov (pictured), Borna Ćorić and kilometres of Amazon Viktor Troicki have all now caught the rainforest had been cleared . Getty virus and are self-isolating.

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