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Philippines accuses China of ‘incursion’ in disputed sea

Coast guard detects 200 boats in line formation

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Myanmar’s doctors, nurses protest at dawn to avoid confrontation

Security forces using lethal force, live rounds to quell uprising

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How Finland embraces being ‘world’s happiest nation’ 4 years in a row

When I first heard – and I’m not alone, I would say – I had a big laugh, says television producer

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Calls grow for a national monument honouring America’s Covid-19 dead

Advocates say declaration of a national holiday would be ‘an important step in the healing process’

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Plane skids off Jakarta airport runway in hard landing

It makes U-turn 2 minutes after take-off to address technical issue

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Choosing jail over Covid-19 jab: Republicans resist inoculation

Recent poll shows 41% of GOP supporters nationwide won’t get vaccinated, compared with just 11% Dems

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Tourists in Mexico party like there’s no Covid-19

Hordes of visitors keep coming to world’s third-most visited country last year, due to lack of both closed borders and compulsory testing

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Canada’s Conservatives reject chief’s belief in climate change

Party leader Erin O’Toole, however, reiterates opposition to carbon tax imposed in 2019 to curb pollution

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Thousands in flooded Sydney suburbs issued evacuation orders

Torrential rains pummel vast coastal region already soaked by unusually wet summer

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33 arrested at UK protests against virus lockdown

Scuffles, demonstrators throwing bottles, cans at cops reported at Hyde Park

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Myanmar army forces civilians to dismantle barricades by gunpoint

Security forces making locals – including those not involved in rallies – to remove protester trademark

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Tokyo Games organisers meet on overseas fan ban

Latest move a bid to reduce virus risks, win over sceptical public

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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort partially closed over Covid-19 outbreak

Beach Club, a la carte dining room shuttered