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Scott Morrison rejects calls for quicker Australia border reopening, citing ‘cautious approach’
Prime minister says border changes to occur on ‘sliding scale’ amid pressure from Liberal MPs to reopen before mid-2022 The prime minister has rebuffed calls for a swifter reopening of…
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‘Everybody is angry’: Modi under fire over India’s Covid second wave
From an approval rating of 80% earlier in the year, now tough questions are being asked of PM’s leadership The missing persons complaint was filed at Parliament Street police station…
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Tokyo Olympics: more than 80% of Japanese oppose hosting Games – poll
Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency on Friday as the nation battles a fourth wave of Covid infections See all our coronavirus coverage More than 80% of Japanese oppose…
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Australian bankers leave Wall Street for Sydney amid coronavirus
Catherine McCormack, 39, is trading a plum job at Goldman Sachs in New York for a finance job – in Australia.That might seem like a career-killer, but McCormack says the…
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Australia’s stranded cricketers touch down in Sydney two weeks after IPL suspended
Majority of 38-strong group arrive on BCCI charter flight Returning players come in over NSW’s quarantine cap The majority of Australia’s stranded cricket cohort has returned home after a charter…
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Government hesitancy about pushing vaccination is costing Hong Kong
The total disarray of the government’s quarantine policy over the past two weeks sent me to my dictionary to look up “dilly-dally” (“waste time through aimless wandering or indecision”), then…
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Matt Hancock says ‘high degree of confidence’ vaccines work against Indian variant – as it happened
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UK ‘faces labour shortage’ as Covid and Brexit fuel exodus of overseas workers
Experts say recovery at risk amid sharp fall in EU workers and dwindling interest in UK jobs from abroad Britain’s employers are struggling to hire staff as lockdown lifts amid…
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If 2021 kills fast fashion, Hong Kong’s garment industry could come back to life
LEMMINGS IN CENTRALWalking through Central last week I noticed something that made me sigh. Fresh in the wake of the closure of The Gap and the fire sale that followed…
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Top US adviser Anthony Fauci says coronavirus pandemic has exposed ‘undeniable effects of racism’
The immunologist who leads the Covid-19 response in the United States said on Sunday that “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African…