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US veep Harris launches Pacific push with new embassies, envoy

Washington to open missions in Tonga, Kiribati, appoint first-ever regional ambassador there

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Hong Kong’s ‘Grandma Wong’ jailed for democracy protests

Magistrate cites ‘scale and disruption to social order’ of demonstrations

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Fukushima nuke plant operator ex-bosses ordered to pay US$95 bil: media

Tokyo court orders four former Tepco executives to pay damages in suit brought by shareholders

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Mexican schoolboy set on fire for being indigenous

14-year-old suffered second, third-degree burns following weeks of bullying, says lawyers

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Biden heads to Middle East for first tour as president

Jeddah visit to become highlight after branding Saudi Arabia ‘pariah’ over journalist’s murder

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Former US official John Bolton admits he ‘helped plan coups’

It’s ‘Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump’, he says

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Ukraine, Russia to hold grain talks as war sends food prices soaring

Turkey to host discussions to be attended by UN delegation

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As Covid-19 surges in US, health officials say vaccines remain key

Country sees ‘doubling of hospital admissions since early May’, says CDC director

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Ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak among eight vying to become next UK PM

Frontrunner says won’t ‘demonise’ outgoing Boris Johnson despite fiasco

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Sri Lanka president flees country on military aircraft

Gotabaya Rajapaksa earlier promises ‘peaceful transition of power’

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Moscow sees rise in Covid-19 cases, recommends mask-wearing

Many cases are of the Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5

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China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid-19 case

Steelmaking hub of Wugang goes through three days of ‘closed control’

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Paris 2015 attacker has not appealed sentence: prosecutor

Salah Abdeslam misses deadline to submit appeal against life in prison sentence