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Mekele (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Ethiopian soldiers captured by the Tigray Defence Force walk towards Mekele Rehabilitation Centre, in the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. According to the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF), more than 7,000 captive Ethiopian soldiers have walked from Abdi Eshir, about 75 km southwest of Mekele, for four days.

"This Delta strain is a game changer," said New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian at a press conference announcing the lockdown extension. More than five million Sydney residents will spend at least another week in coronavirus lockdown, after detecting 27 new cases.

Statues of Britain's Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were torn down outside Manitoba province's legislature in Winnipeg on Canada Day on Thursday.

The Biden administration announced shipments of millions of Moderna vaccine donations for Guatemala and Vietnam on Tuesday, after pledging to donate 4 million doses to Indonesia last week. But overall, the U.S. fell short of its target of sending 80 million doses to countries in need by the end of June.

African American legal scholars developed it, expressing the belief that racism is not simply individual acts of prejudice. They say it's bigger than that; it's embedded into the United States' legal and social systems. Producer: Yass Monem

Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN's KFile found video of him from just weeks earlier telling a Republican group that climate change is "bullsh*t."

Republican candidates across the country are campaigning on the baseless claim that fraud was a rampant problem in the 2020 election. CNN's Sara Murray reports.

Elsa strengthened to a hurricane and is expected to make landfall over the northern Florida Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. CNN's Tom Sater reports.