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Hong Kong third wave: sea crew changes for passenger ships and other vessels suspended as government tightens Covid-19 measures
Ships without any cargo trade via Hong Kong will no longer be allowed to change their crew in the city, as the government tightens up preventive measures to contain the…
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100 days to go: America goes postal as pandemic alters 2020 Trump-Biden battlegrounds
The political calendar says Joe Biden and Donald Trump have, as of Sunday, exactly 100 days left to convince Americans they’re the right man to be president.In reality, both have…
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North Korea puts Kaesong city under lockdown after suspected coronavirus case
North Korea said it had placed the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea under lockdown over coronavirus concerns.The North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday that…
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How two South Korean Covid-19 survivors repaid medical staff – in blood
When Kim Ji-seon and her boyfriend were hospitalised with the Covid-19 disease, the South Korean couple were so grateful to medical staff who took care of them that they decided…
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Coronavirus live news: UK advises against all but essential travel to Spanish mainland and imposes two-week quarantine
My colleagues Michael Savage and David Connett have written up a report about the new quarantine rule for arrivals from Spain on UK soil. UK imposes 14-day quarantine on holidaymakers…
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Coronavirus US live: Georgia Senate candidate awaiting Covid-19 results after wife tests positive
Civil rights hero and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis, who died on 17 July at the age of 80, was remembered on Saturday morning at a memorial service in the…
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UK imposes 14-day quarantine on travellers from Spain
The UK will impose restrictions on holidaymakers returning from Spain on Saturday in a bid to curb the surge in coronavirus infections, the government has confirmed. The decision means those…
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Republicans continue Covid-19 relief talks as Democrat warns of catastrophe
The White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, were on Capitol Hill on Saturday, for talks with aides to Senate Republicans over the next…
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Netanyahu faces Israelis’ anger as virus surges and unemployment rises
For Benjamin Netanyahu it wasn’t a bad spring this year, considering the previous 12 months. The prime minister managed, somehow, to continue his treasured run as Israel’s longest-serving leader, despite…
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Local TV stations across US to air conspiracy theory on Fauci
TV stations across the US owned by Sinclair Television will this weekend run an interview with a conspiracy theorist who claims baselessly that Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious…