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Thousands of Israelis defy lockdown to protest outside Benjamin Netanyahu's home, there's international pressure on China to close wet markets permanently, and the "happiness lab" helping people to cope with covid restrictions.
The WHO's emergencies head Dr Michael Ryan says it's 'quite possible' 2 million will die before a vaccine is developed. Also: the US has more than 7 million cases, and the role our genes play in our response to Covid-19.
France records its highest daily number of new cases - just over 16,000. Also: measures to simplify the postponed Olympics, and are animals the answer to identifying Covid-19?
UK trials to vaccinate volunteers and then expose them to the virus. Also: the European Commission calls for measures to prevent a second wave, and Israel tightens restrictions.
President Trump defends his record and blames China. Also: Johnson & Johnson becomes the fourth company to begin a final and large-scale trial of a vaccine, and football fans in Brazil can return to stadiums.
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Sacha Baron Cohen said to have test-screened follow-up to his 2006 hit, which was shot during the pandemicReports that Sacha Baron Cohen has filmed and test-screened a sequel to his 2006 comedy hit, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benef…
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Greater Manchester mayor says rule ‘creates an incentive for people to gather in the streets or at home’New Covid fines of up to £10,000 come into force in EnglandDelay university term until on-campus testing ready, says Labour‘Like the Englis…
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The number of lives lost to the virus is nearing one million, and new hot spots keep emerging. The U.S., Brazil, India and Mexico account for more than half of the total.
Four people were killed by a hostage-taker at a kosher supermarket that year. Families and survivors who testified this past week said his callous anti-Semitism was still hard to process.
Big crowds at places like the Beijing auto show are a sign of good news for a world mired in recession. But China needs its less affluent to spend more before its growth engine can return to full speed.
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As the coronavirus claimed its millionth life, people in Wuhan expressed sadness on Monday at the continuing global impact of the pandemic, more than nine months after it emerged in the city in central China.Pride at the city’s resilience in the fa…
Japan’s government on Monday urged people to seek help if they were struggling to cope, following the death at the weekend of a popular actress.The death of Miss Sherlock star Yuko Takeuchi, 40, shocked the nation and follows other recent cases of…
James Cameron has given fans an update on the Avatar sequels during a chat with none other than the Terminator.Speaking from New Zealand, Cameron joined Arnold Schwarzenegger for the 2020 Austrian World Summit. While the actor and director mostly spo…
Guangzhou is speeding up plans to become the leading aviation hub in the Greater Bay Area, as the city’s Baiyun International Airport started a third phase of expansion on Sunday.The extension, which includes a fourth and fifth runway, a third term…
September 28, 2020 5:16 PMTHE HAGUE (REUTERS) - One of four suspects being tried in absentia for the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 has denied any involvement with firing or supplying the missile used in its destruction, a lawyer said in…
September 28, 2020 3:42 PMBAKU/YEREVAN (REUTERS) - Azerbaijan declared a partial military mobilisation on Monday (Sept 28) following clashes with Armenian forces over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
September 28, 2020 2:06 PMVANCOUVER (AFP) - Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers return to a Canadian court on Monday (Sept 28) to press for her release, arguing the US misled Canada about her alleged crimes to secure her detention o…
September 28, 2020 12:53 PMYEREVAN (AFP) - Armenia and Azerbaijan, two ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus, are locked in a decades-long territorial dispute with deadly fighting erupting on Sunday (Sept 27).
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As commentator Greg Alexander doubled down in his scathing assessment of the hip-drop tackle, the NRL sent Storm forward Max King straight to the judiciary.
Victoria is on track to meet the government’s targets for reopening the state, epidemiologists say – but they warn reopening too soon would increase the chances of a third wave.
The 93-year-old broadcaster has announced his final show in a remarkable radio career will be on Saturday.
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Adelaide say they are conducting an investigation after two Crows players were allegedly caught in possession of an "illicit substance" in the early hours of Monday morning.
Stripe has led a $12 million Series A round in Manila-based online payment platform PayMongo, the startup announced today. PayMongo, which offers an online payments API for businesses in the Philippines, was the first Filipino-owned financial tech st…
A U.S. federal court has said a ban on TikTok will not go into effect on Monday as scheduled. The move to delay the anticipated ban will allow Americans to continue using the app while the court considers the ban’s legality and whether the app…
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The Trump administration said it would close the embassy unless the Iraqi government stops rocket attacks by Shiite militias against U.S. interests.
The failure to form a government thwarts a French-led initiative that sought to end a political impasse and unlock international aid after a massive explosion destroyed nearly half the capital last month…
Fighting flared Sunday amid fear that involvement of regional powers could transform the standoff into a regional conflict.
Covid-19 has now reached some of the most remote regions of the world, including regions of the Amazon rainforest where the isolated Yanomami have lived for more than a millennium.
President Xi Jinping wants to encourage domestic consumption as a hedge against potential commercial or geopolitical disruption, but merchants in the export-oriented city of Yiwu face hurdles to selling more goods at home.
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On 28 August 2020, the National IHR Focal Point of Chad notified WHO of an outbreak of chikungunya in Abéché, eastern Chad.
Three months after the declaration of the eleventh Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the number of confirmed cases continues to increase, and the geographic spread of the outbreak continues to…
On 9 August 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan notified WHO of the detection of a…
On 23 July 2020, the France IHR National Focal Point reported a confirmed autochthonous (locally acquired) case of yellow fever in a 14-year-old male in French Guiana. On 17 July 2020, the case was laboratory confirmed at the French National Referenc…
The health zone of Rethy in Ituri province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has seen an upsurge of plague cases since June 2020. The first case, a 12-year-old girl, reported to a local health centre on 12 June experiencing a headache, fever, co…
