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15,555 forest fires raze vast areas in Bolivia over 7 months

831 infernos reported in August alone; 147,000ha consumed

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Thai police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters

Restrictions keep turnout low, but vastly outnumbered demonstrators vow to keep fighting despite heavy-handed security forces

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J&J’s single-shot Covid-19 vaccine bags India’s emergency approval

Country bids to boost inoculations, but unclear when doses will be delivered

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Man rescued from croc’s jaws in Australia’s remote northeast

Pair went swimming in ‘croc country’ off Cape York Peninsula

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Thousands of homes, farms hit by floods in N. Korea

Footage from Pyongyang’s state-run KCTV shows houses flooded up to their roofs

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Vaxxed or not, Delta levels remain similar in UK Covid-19 patients

Microbiology prof says if vaccine blocks transmission only by 50%, herd immunity will never be achieved even with 100% uptake

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Sydney posts Covid-19 record as Melbourne races to trace outbreak

New South Wales sees 319 community cases, 5 more deaths

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Half of all Americans fully vaccinated against Covid-19: White House

More than 165 mil have received either Moderna, Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson jabs

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Brazil has near-record year for Amazon deforestation

Area nearly the size of Puerto Rico destroyed from August last year to July

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Unvaccinated people twice as likely to be reinfected with Covid-19: study

Duration of infection-acquired immunity remains poorly understood

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Unicef rubbishes claims of Covid-19 transmission by breastfeeding

Govts urged to curb aggressive marketing tactics of infant formula industry

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13 mil in Manila head back into lockdown over Delta fears

Move comes in wake of 330 cases involving hyper-contagious variant in recent weeks

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S. Africa’s ex-president Zuma hospitalised ahead of graft trial

79-year-old admitted after ‘routine observation’, but his condition remains unclear