Your daily round-up of today's news:
- The family of George Floyd has broadly welcomed the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, the policeman who killed him last year. The Minneapolis court handed the former policeman a 22 and a half prison term.
- The coronavirus lockdown in Sydney, Australia, has been extended for two weeks due to a sharp rise in the Delta variant.
- Afghan reports suggest that the Taliban have claimed further gains overnight after heavy fighting in many parts of the country.
- Myanmar authorities have burned almost a billion dollars worth of illegal narcotics to mark the international day against drug abuse and trafficking.
- Family members of nearly 160 people still missing in the building collapse in Florida have been spending another night waiting for the news. So far, four people have died.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Pope Francis to apologize for abuses of church-run residential schools for indigenous children.
- The Formula 1 re-added the Turkish Grand Prix for the 2021 season and for the 2023 season, the Russian Grand Prix will move from Sochi Autodrom to the streets of St. Petersburg.
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