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MTN Nigeria's CEO Karl Toriola says the telecoms player is looking to sell 14 per cent of its shares in Nigerian retail investors in the short to medium term.

John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. CNN's Al Goodman reports.

Emergency operations were underway after at least one person died in the partial collapse of a multistory residential building in the Surfside neighbourhood in Miami on Thursday. There are currently around 80 units of the Miami-Dade rescue crews on site.

The Delta variant, which was first detected in India, could account for 90% of new coronavirus infections in Europe by late August, the EU's disease control agency said on Wednesday. "Based on the estimated transmission advantage of the Delta variant and using modelling forecasts, 70% of new SARS-CoV-2 infections are projected to be due to this variant in the EU/EEA by early August and 90% of infections by the end of August," the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its regular threat assessment brief.

The Chinese Embassy in Britain on June 22 held an online symposium on the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), with the participation of 30 representatives from British political parties, experts and scholars.

CNN's Manu Raju speaks to Chuck Schumer about confronting his most daunting series of legislative landmines in his young tenure as Senate majority leader, navigating conflicting demands from his left and his moderates — all the while facing wary Republicans after years of partisan brawling with the hard-nosed New Yorker.

Zimbabwe is on course to achieve its highest corn yield since 1984 with 2.7 million tons of the grain expected this year. Corn deliveries are rolling in thick and fast at silos across the country as farmers finish drying their bumper crop.

The sea-view side of a beachfront condo tower collapsed in the Miami-area town of Surfside early Thursday, drawing a massing response from emergency services. (June 24)

One by one, the Taliban has been taking over areas in a number of provinces in northern Afghanistan in recent weeks, local officials told CNN. The Taliban says it has taken control of 90 districts across the country since the middle of May. Some were seized without a single shot fired.