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UN World Food Programme warns could suspend work in N. Korea

Country’s self-imposed coronavirus isolation pose problems for relief work

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UK jobless rate hits 5.1% in Q4 as pandemic pauses economy

Finance minister hints at further employment support in coming months

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Afghanistan begins Covid-19 vaccine campaign as violence surges

Govt administers AstraZeneca doses donated by India amid fraught peace talks

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Japan mulls scrapping virus emergency in all but metropolitan areas

Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba reportedly set to remain under enhanced restrictions

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Argentina reveals VIPs who got Covid-19 vaccines early

Decision follows meeting between cabinet chief and country’s new health minister

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S. Korea to withhold virus relief from public health rule-breakers

Country’s PM says no exceptions will be made ahead of fourth round of money relief

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Aussie MP who promoted pandemic misinformation quits ruling party

Sydney lawmaker makes his decision after being publicly dressed down by Prime Minister Scott Morrison

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FB to restore Aussie news pages ‘in coming days’

Govt, company reach compromise on key aspects of world-first law

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Wife of Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ arrested at US airport

Dual US-Mexico citizen Emma Coronel Aispuro faces one charge of conspiracy to traffic various drugs

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Canada MPs vote through motion calling China’s treatment of Uighurs ‘genocide’

Conservatives urge Justin Trudeau’s govt to officially label it as such

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2 more Myanmar junta leaders hit with US sanctions

Washington warns of further action as popular protests are brutally suppressed

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First vaccine dose slashes Covid-19 hospitalisations by at least 75%: UK studies

Observations made in England, Scotland of recipients of Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs

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Biden calls US Covid-19 toll ‘heartbreaking’

US president urges Americans to mourn lives lost, remain vigilant in face of pandemic