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US donates 20 mil more Covid-19 jab doses to rest of world

President says country has enough supply to vaccinate all citizens aged 12 and above

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Israel-Hamas conflict creating instability beyond Gaza, warns US military chief

Mark Milley adds it’s ‘in no one’s interest to continue fighting’

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Hong Kong ‘suspends’ operations of its Taiwan office

Govt spokesman declines to comment whether closure tied to politics

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94% of Brazil deforestation illegal, report reveals

Researchers say Jair Bolsonaro’s promise to eliminate issue looks doubtful, given lack of transparency on authorised land use

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127 missing as Cyclone Tauktae sinks Indian vessel

146 rescued so far from ship operated by state-run oil company

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Monster cyclone blasts western India amid deadly Covid-19 outbreak

Tropical storm Tauktae biggest hit to area in 30 years, disrupts country’s already struggling virus response

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Israeli strike puts sole Gaza Covid-19 lab out of action

Palestine’s Al-Rimal clinic housing testing facility, Health Ministry, Qatar’s Red Crescent office partly destroyed in attack

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Singapore shuts schools, Taiwan bars foreigners to battle Covid-19 outbreaks

Both governments, though with relatively mild caseloads, tighten restrictions to fight recent spikes

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Electric chair or firing squad? US state makes death-row inmates choose

South Carolina introduces law to allow fatal sentences as loved ones of victims are owed ‘closure and justice’, says Governor Henry McMaster

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Wife of Belgian envoy to Seoul invokes immunity over assault

Police will not pursue case of woman accused of hitting boutique staff who suspected her of stealing

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6 dead as powerful cyclone approaches western India

Over 150,000 residents to be evacuated from Tauktae’s path of destruction

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Thailand logs nearly 10,000 Covid-19 cases, most in prisons

Of the 9,635 fresh infections, 6,853 are from jail clusters

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UN General Assembly to consider call for Myanmar arms embargo

Draft calls for implementation of 5-point consensus reached by Asean on April 24