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How South Africa’s action on Covid-19 contrasts sharply with its response to Aids
Twenty years ago Nelson Mandela made an impassioned plea for international cooperation on “one of the greatest threats humankind has faced”. Aids was ravaging lives and overwhelming health systems, at…
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Amazon writes its own TV news segments to laud coronavirus pandemic response
After weathering a couple of months of withering news coverage about its response to the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon is offering its own take on the news.Several local TV news stations…
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Japan wants tourists to return so much it’s offering to pay for half of their travel expenses, perhaps
In April, foreign visitor numbers to Japan fell by 99.9 per cent from the same month last year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organisation. Were this any other time,…
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Who is Dominic Cummings, and why has his lockdown car trip convulsed UK politics?
The Rose Garden at 10 Downing Street is normally reserved for British prime ministers to make set-piece announcements. But on Monday it was the scene of epic political theatre when…
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YouTube deletes comments critical of China’s Communist Party
YouTube has been deleting comments critical of China’s ruling party because of a software flaw, the company said on Tuesday in response to criticism of the practice.Users of the online…
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China’s ‘bat woman’ at centre of coronavirus theories says her work helped identify new strain fast
The Chinese virologist at the centre of conspiracy theories over the coronavirus origin has publicly defended her work, saying it contributed to fast identification of the new pathogen and would…
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Church of Scientology hands out 50,000 coronavirus pamphlets resembling New Zealand government advice
Shops in New Zealand’s largest city have scrambled to remove thousands of Scientology booklets that resemble the government’s coronavirus posters, as the country slowly reopens after one of the world’s…
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Australia and China should seek common ground, not conflict
A nation as reliant on China for trade as Australia should be mindful of its circumstances and try to smooth differences. In the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, with economies…
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Coronavirus latest: Dow surges even as US death toll nears 100,000; WHO says Americas region is new epicentre
Iconic world sites, from the New York Stock Exchange to the Church of the Nativity, reopened their doors from the coronavirus pandemic, but new alarm bells rang in Latin America…
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Coronavirus: Washington Governor Jay Inslee personally appealed to Xi Jinping for PPE, on advice of Chinese-American entrepreneur
A US state with close ties to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s alma mater directly petitioned the Chinese leader for protective clothing for its medical workers battling the coronavirus last month,…