CNN reporter challenges Trump on “fake news”

Here is why you should pick up a copy of The Guardian on Thursday Here are some of the stories to look out for when you grab a copy of The Guardian on the newsstands on Thursday.⁣ ⁣

Asked about US involvement in a move by the Australian government to scrap a state's deal to join China's Belt and Road Initiative, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says, "how we can work together as a global community and in a coordinated fashion as it relates to China is part of nearly every discussion the President has with a European partner or country in the region."

The United States will release up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says at her daily briefing. The Food and Drug Administration will perform quality checks over the next few months on US-produced doses before they are sent abroad, she adds. But, she explains, "Just to be clear, right now we have zero doses available of AstraZeneca."

Tobore Ovuorie is DW's 2021 Freedom of Speech Award winner. The investigative journalist's undercover work has given a voice to those hushed in Nigerian society. Her courage almost cost her her life.

Alexander Burakov was arrested in May, while on a journalism assignment for DW. Shortly after his release he spoke about the conditions in detention and compared it to a "military prison."

UEFA had already approved Robert Kempe's accreditation. But German public broadcaster WDR has said Russian authorities revoked it after a "background screening."

The outgoing German chancellor is set to travel to Washington for talks with the US president on COVID, climate change and bilateral ties.

Jeffrey Moyo, a Zimbabwean freelance reporter for the New York Times, walks out of prison after he was granted bail three weeks following his arrest over claims he helped two foreign colleagues enter the country fraudulently. The New York Times had said at the time of Moyo's detention that the paper was "deeply concerned" by his arrest. "Jeffrey is a widely respected journalist with many years of reporting experience in Zimbabwe and his detainment raises troubling questions about the state of press freedom in Zimbabwe," it had added in a statement.

"Pride is back at the White House," US President Joe Biden tells a group of gay rights activists, transgender military service members and youth, and officials during a commemoration of the month that celebrates LGBTQ life in America. Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg - the first-ever openly gay cabinet member - warn against the rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation in statehouses across the US.

'It's Coming Home' is a familiar line heard being sung by fans during England games, but when Denmark's keeper Kasper Schmeichel was asked by a reporter on Tuesday (July 6) how it would feel to stop 'football coming home', he replied that England had never actually won the Euros. Denmark are due to face England in the Euro 2020 semi-final on Wednesday (July 7) at Wembley in London, competing to reach the final of a competition the Danes won in 1992.

The Netherlands is outraged over Tuesday night’s shooting of Dutch crime reporter Robert R. de Vries. The attempted murder is seen as a direct attack on freedom of the press.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says the United States holds China's Ministry of State Security responsible for "malicious cyber activities" and reserves the option "to take additional actions" in response.