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China slams New Zealand over Uighur concerns

Wellington struggles to find middle ground between largest trading partner and traditional Western allies

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Russia okays single-dose ‘Sputnik Light’ Covid-19 jab

It has 79.4% efficacy compared with 91.6% for two-shot Sputnik V

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Amnesty, HRW want Covax to reveal vaccine contracts

NGOs urge heightened transparency, but facility says info protected under confidentiality obligations

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Indonesia bans ‘mudik’ travel for Aidilfitri

Annual exodus usually sees about 30 mil returning to their home towns

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Outrage in France over killing of policeman in drugs check

Shooting reignites debate over President Emmanuel Macron’s crimefighting record

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Philippines’ Duterte orders arrest of mask violators

But justice secretary, police chief urge officers to fine offenders, give them community service instead

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Australia logs 5 new cases of blood clots in AstraZeneca jab recipients

Patients are two men in their 70s, one in his 60s, and two women in their 50s and 60s

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Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong handed extra jail time for Tiananmen vigil

Pro-democracy dissident pleads guilty to ‘unlawful’ protest last year

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Stay in your own backyard, China tells G7 on rights criticism

Accusations of abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong ‘unfounded’, says Foreign Ministry

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Sydney rushes to trace first local Covid-19 cases in a month

5 million residents will again have to wear masks on public transport and in indoor venues

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In world first, Serbia gives cash to those who get Covid-19 vaccine

Those jabbed by May 31 get RM120

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India sees world record 4,000 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

Many places still seeing fatal shortages of beds, drugs and oxygen

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US backs plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine patents

Notion fiercely opposed by pharma giants, say patents not main roadblocks to scaling up production