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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has re-imposed a strict lockdown that includes the closure of schools and the suspension of inter-district travel to curb a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. Non-Ugandans travelling from India have also been stopped from entering the country. Leon Solomon reports form Kampala
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India's capital New Delhi is opening up as cases of COVID-19 continue to fall around the nation.
More businesses can reopen and public transport will start once again…
But with some restrictions still in place.
Ishan Garg tells us more.
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Filipino-Japanese golfer Yuka Saso has won the US Women's Open.
At age 19, she is the second teenager ever to win the tournament after South Korea's Park Inbee in 2008.
Phoebe Amoroso reports from Tokyo.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is determined to "get to the bottom" of COVID-19's origins, and will hold China accountable. The US is carrying out its own investigation into the source of the pandemic, after saying a report from the World Health Organisation left many questions unanswered
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
President Trump will remain banned from Facebook and Instagram until January 2023, meaning that he will no have access to those social media platforms during next year's mid-term elections in America.
But he could be back online in time for the next Presidential election, as our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Facebook will continue to keep former US president Donald Trump off its platform until at least January of 2023.
The decision comes as the result of new rules for how the social media giant says it will treat public figures.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.
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Coronavirus restrictions in Wales will ease further from Monday.
The easing of the country's restrictions means large outdoor activities and events will resume from June 7.
That means concerts and sporting events like football matches will be allowed to host 4,000 people non-seated and 10,000 seated.
Following that, groups of people from 3 households will be allowed to meet.
But despite the plan for Wales to gradually ease its coronavirus restrictions, its First Minister Mark Drakeford has concerns over the spread of the Delta variant.
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He says that it could be difficult for a country like Wales to contain the spread of the variant from other parts of the UK
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http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/0604-DrakefordDeltaintheUK-CJ-generic.mp3The U.S. economy added almost 560,000 jobs in May, failing to match expectations for a second month in a row even as the country starts to shrug off the coronavirus pandemic.
Giles Gibson reports from Washington.
Ethiopia says it has charged over 50 soldiers with human rights abuses.
The Attorney General says the accused are linked to crimes they committed in the country's Northern region of Tigray, where a conflict is in its 7th month.
Coletta Wanjohi reports from Addis Ababa
The UK's medicines regulator has approved the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for 12 to 15 year-olds.
Health experts involved in the trials say the benefits of having the vaccine outweigh the risks for this age group.
Chris Jones has more in London.
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Two UK police forces have agreed to pay compensation to 601 victims of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster.
96 people died at the football stadium in the North of England after it became overcrowded.
The victims and the families of those involved say the police force suppressed the truth over who was to blame for the incident.
Chris Jones has more in London.
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