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US to do ‘everything we can’ to free missionaries in Haiti: Blinken

State Dept in contact with Haitian govt, FBI, says secretary of state

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UK monitoring ‘subvariant’ of Covid-19 Delta strain

No evidence it spreads more easily, says PM’s spokesman

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Top Taliban minister praises suicide bombers

Sirajuddin Haqqani promises US$125 and a plot of land for each family

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Ecuador president declares state of emergency over drug violence

Guillermo Lasso orders mobilisation of police, military in streets

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Relatives crowd prison after Myanmar junta protester amnesty

Families seek reunions as junta promises to free more than 5,000 to mark Thadingyut festival

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5 critically endangered monkeys shot dead in Vietnam

Fewer than 1,000 grey-shanked douc langurs left in the wild

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Bill Gates warned in 2008 over ‘inappropriate emails’ to staff: WSJ

Microsoft co-founder found flirting with employee, inviting her to meet him outside of work

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Aussie researchers find new way to predict Covid-19 severity

Checking specific cell fitness marker during testing phase gives strong indicator of condition to follow

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North Korea fires ballistic missile: South’s military

‘Unidentified’ weapon fired into sea east of peninsula, say Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Ex-Nazi death camp secretary who fled trial to face court

Irmgard Furchner is 1st woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades

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US college coach, assistants fired over vaccine refusal

Nick Rolovich loses US$3.2 mil a year job as deadline for mandate expires

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US Justice Dept asks Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law

Biden administration says it is clearly unconstitutional, violates Roe v Wade ruling

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Court finds Colombia responsible for rape and torture of journalist

Acts against Jineth Bedoya could not have happened without consent, collaboration of state, says ruling