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Hindu priests turn to ‘corona goddesses’ as India’s doctors pushed to brink
Hindu priests at a temple in southern India are saying daily prayers to two coronavirus goddesses in an effort to tame the pandemic as the country battles a new surge…
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Rising festival ‘hits pause’ the day after opening as Melbourne enters lockdown
Organisers of the hotly anticipated arts festival, which has already been cancelled once, say they are not making any ‘knee-jerk decisions’ Melbourne’s newest major arts festival, Rising, has been thrown…
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Matt Hancock to face questions over Dominic Cummings allegations
Health secretary will appear in the Commons and host a press conference a day after incendiary claims from PM’s former aide The health secretary, Matt Hancock, will face MPs on…
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Coronavirus: Melbourne to enter snap lockdown; Malaysia’s outbreak leaking into Thailand
More than 5 million people in Australia’s second-biggest city were ordered into a week-long lockdown on Thursday, as officials blamed a sluggish vaccine roll-out and hotel quarantine failures for another…
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Coronavirus: will a Hong Kong cruise to nowhere sink or swim? Launch of sea packages draws mixed response
Pandemic-battered cruise ship companies and travel agents have jumped straight into action after the Hong Kong government revealed plans to allow voyages to nowhere in the summer but the initial…
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Joe Biden calls for further probe into origins of coronavirus pandemic, urges transparency from China
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the United States is going to look further into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and urged China to be transparent in the…
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Cummings brought to life what many already knew about Johnson’s failures
Analysis: PM’s former adviser is self-interested and inconsistent, yet his attack had the ring of plausibility Late-night battles, expletive-ridden rants, Jaws references and Spiderman memes – the dramatic details of…
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Lions led by donkeys: Cummings uses broad strokes to portray colleagues
Cummings compared data expert to Jeff Goldblum’s scientist in the film Independence Day, whose warnings were ignored Thousands died of Covid who didn’t need to, Dominic Cummings tells MPs See…
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Factchecked: Dominic Cummings’ evidence to MPs on Covid crisis
We check claims made by Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser against the facts See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings has been giving evidence to…
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French students convicted for racist tweets blaming Chinese people for coronavirus pandemic
A French court on Wednesday found four students guilty of inciting racial hatred online by posting anti-Asian tweets blaming Chinese people for the spread of coronavirus.The four, aged between 19…