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Largest Pfizer study confirms jab provides 95% protection against Covid-19

Research based on national Israel vaccination campaign shows proof pandemic could be ended with rapid, global immunisation programmes

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French energy giant funding Myanmar’s military junta

Total allegedly diverts funds from gas sales to offshore accounts instead of government

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NZ declines to call China’s Uighur treatment genocide

Parliament passes motion expressing ‘grave concern’ at human rights abuses in Xinjiang

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India authorises 5G trials without Huawei, ZTE

Indian telecom providers to work with Samsung, Nokia, and Ericsson

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India announces US$6.7 bil in cheap loans for vaccine, health firms

Reserve Bank of India ready to deploy ‘unconventional’ measures if crisis worsens, says governor

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Mexico president vows full probe after 25 die in metro accident

Questions on construction, maintenance standards on network used by millions raised

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Japan, S. Korea meet with Blinken despite rifts

Foreign ministers Toshimitsu Motegi, Chung Eui-yong discuss North Korea as US looks to resume diplomacy

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California governor candidate brings bear to rally

John Cox campaigning on the theme of ‘beauty and the beast’

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Germany bans fund-raising group over Islamist ‘terror financing’

Ansaar International channels funds to foreign groups such as Hamas and al-Qaeda-linked groups, says Interior Ministry

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UK puts £29m into new labs to tackle Covid-19 variants

Research facility at Porton Down to help speed up deployment of jabs

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World calls for peace in Colombia as anti-government protesters deploy ‘excessive force’

Violent demonstrations leave 19 killed, 849 injured

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3 children, 2 staff killed at Brazil daycare stabbing attack

18-year-old assailant ambushes centre with samurai-style sword, slashes self after brutal murders

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Singapore steps up virus curbs as infection clusters grow

Cluster at one of the biggest hospitals here has grown to 40 cases