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Don’t touch foreigners, China health chief warns after first monkeypox case

Official gets slew of comments calling out xenophobia in his statement

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Iran president demands US ‘guarantees’ against nuclear deal withdrawal

But Biden administration says impossible to tell what future president would do

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Iran to open legal fight at UN top court to free billions frozen in US

Washington says US$2 bil assets must go to survivors, relatives of terrorist attacks blamed on Tehran

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After 14-hour wait, last public member bids farewell to Queen Elizabeth II

Christina Heerey feels honoured to catch final glimpse before ceremony ended around 6.30am

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Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state ends, funeral starts today

Mourners queued over 25 hours to file past coffin of late royal

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China lifts weeks-long lockdown on southwest megacity Chengdu

Those wanting to enter public areas, take public transport require negative test result within 72 hours

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Evacuation warnings after Typhoon Nanmadol makes landfall in Japan

National broadcaster NHK says one killed, 50 injured so far as storm passes through Kyushu region

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Biden says Covid-19 pandemic in US ‘is over’

With restrictions largely scrapped, president’s comments reflect current status of American society

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Rattled Taiwan hit by more aftershocks 

Disaster registers one fatality, injures 150 others

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Power cuts to plunge South Africa into darkness

State utility firm Eskom urges citizens to use electricity sparingly over coming week

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US military would defend Taiwan against China: Biden

White House again says Washington’s long-standing policy on matter was unchanged

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Canada’s Trudeau says monarchy’s role not open for debate

Not a priority, says PM despite public appetite for referendum on matter

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Fossil fuel reserves contain 3.5 tril tonnes of CO2: database

Seven times the emissions of carbon budget for 1.5°C target of Paris Agreement