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The experience of Covid-19 shows how easily catastrophe can befall our species | Raghu Karnad
Months after the end of the second world war, Albert Einstein gave an interview to urge Americans to imagine the third one. It was vital, he said, “to recognise that…
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Coronavirus: experts see ‘positive sign’ as 220,000 Hong Kong residents sign up for mass-testing scheme in first 11 hours of online registration
About 220,000 people in Hong Kong signed up for the city’s voluntary Covid-19 testing scheme in the first 11 hours of online registration on Saturday, with medical experts hailing the…
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Michelle Obama condemns shootings of Jacob Blake and protesters – as it happened
This evening, summarized Kari Paul here, closing this blog for the night. Here are the top stories from the past few hours you should know. Former first lady Michelle Obama…
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Covid-19 hits Hong Kong sports: athletes slow down, events are cancelled, coaches worry over loss of income
Hong Kong tchoukball player Lin Pak-hei feels rusty for not practising the team sport for half a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The closure of schools and sports facilities in…
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Back to school in Covid times: what can pupils in England expect?
It has been a summer of painstaking preparations for headteachers charged with drawing up plans covering everything from new behavioural rules to “Covid-secure” measures before millions of pupils in England…
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Secondary schools in England could use attendance ‘rota system’
English secondary schools in local lockdown areas could have to use a “rota system” to limit the number of teenagers attending at any one time, with teachers and pupils required…
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Pacific’s fight against Covid-19 hamstrung by lack of clean water
Papua New Guinea’s battle against a climbing rate of Covid-19 infections is being hampered by the most basic of shortages – access to clean water –public health experts have warned.…
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‘It’s got to be a big stick’: Melburnians, perhaps surprisingly, are all for lockdown
Wyndham Village shopping centre could be anywhere in Australia. An Aldi at the entrance, a Coles at the other end, with rows of small businesses – a barber, a fashion…
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Airlines warn flying back 100,000 stranded Australians will take six months unless travel caps eased
Frustrated airlines continuing to fly into Australia are warning it will take six months to repatriate more than 100,000 Australians stuck overseas if the country’s strict arrival caps are not…
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Parliament lets Scott Morrison know who his tribe is – and it isn’t the premiers and chief ministers | Katharine Murphy
Scott Morrison is like one of those stealth planes that are purpose-built to avoid detection. But parliaments are heavy things. Institutions can weight prime ministers who like to float above…