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Taoyuan (Taiwan) (AFP) – More than 170 Taiwanese tourists boarded a flight to Guam for their Covid-19 jab. Dubbed "Air V&V" — vacation and vaccination — Guam's new tourism programme offers jabs to foreign visitors as a holiday package deal.

Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them. Fearing that the surging contagion could strain health care services as stressed employees try to go on summer holidays, health officials in several parts of the country are also rushing to get COVID-19 vaccine shots to people under 30.

Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday brushed off a warning by major tech companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter that they may quit the financial hub if authorities push ahead with a new privacy law. "Our goal is to target these illegal doxxing actions and the privacy commissioner is empowered to take action and carry out investigations, that's it," says Chief Executive Carrie Lam at the weekly press conference.

Over 50 journalists were injured during clashes at an anti-LGBTQ march in Tbilisi, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. The protesters blocked Rustaveli Avenue and staged a mass march through the streets of the capital, during which clashes broke out.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says another victim has been found in the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Florida, bringing the death toll in the tragedy to 28. (July 5)

Beijing (AFP) – an explosion of Chinese podcasts are wrestling with social issues considered taboo under the country's strict media controls. More than 7,000 new podcasts came online last year with an audience tipped at nearly 10 million — a small but fast-growing group in the world's largest market for web audio content.

Kaduna (Nigeria) (AFP) – Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official and police said, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and pupils.

A drought gripping the Western United States is expected to drop the Great Salt Lake to its lowest levels in 170 years, affecting recreational boating, migrating birds and kicking up dust laced with arsenic (July 6)