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Austria raises alarm about 'dramatic' femicide plague
After several particularly horrific cases among the killings were widely reported in the media, the issue of femicide is now squarely under the spotlight. A...
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'Extensive damage' in tsunami-struck Tonga
Early indications of the scale of the crisis on the virtually cut-off island kingdom were emerging through patchy satellite phone contact with Tonga, surveillance flights and satellite images, three days after the volcanic eruption.
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China orders overseas mail disinfection over Omicron fears
China Post on Monday published a statement ordering workers to disinfect the outer packaging of all international mail 'as soon as possible' and requiring employees handling foreign letters and packages to receive booster vaccine shots.
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Martin Luther King's family joins call for US voting reform
King's son Martin Luther King III spoke at the march, warning that many states 'have passed laws that make it harder to vote' more than half a century after the activism of his father.
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Djokovic could be barred from French Open by vaccine pass law
The unvaccinated Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia on Sunday before the Australian Open - the first Grand Slam tournament of the year - after failing in a court battle to have the cancellation of his visa overturned.
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Tonga cut off by volcanic blast, fears grow for coastal towns
It is two days since the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano exploded, cloaking Tonga in a film of ash, triggering a Pacific-wide tsunami and releasing shock waves that wrapped around the entire Earth.
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World's 10 richest men doubled wealth during COVID: report
Oxfam said the men's wealth jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at an average rate of $1.3 billion per day, in a briefing published before a virtual mini-summit of world leaders being held under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.
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Texas hostage-taker named as British citizen as UK police arrest 2
The captor, who died in the 10-hour siege in the small town of Colleyville on Saturday, was named by the FBI as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram.
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Huge Tonga volcanic eruption felt around the world
Dramatic satellite images showed the long, rumbling eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano spew smoke and ash in the air, with a thunderous roar heard 10,000 kilometres (6,000 miles) away in Alaska.
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Huge Tonga volcanic eruption caused 'significant damage'
The eruption on Saturday was so powerful it was recorded around the world, triggering a tsunami that flooded Pacific coastlines from Japan to the United States.
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Philippines says Myanmar's Suu Kyi 'indispensable' to democracy
The junta court has since hit Suu Kyi, 76, with five new corruption charges -- adding to a slew of cases against her.
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Donald Trump woos adoring supporters in Arizona
Donald Trump delivered a crowd-pleasing speech to thousands of adoring supporters in Arizona, insisting yet again that he won the 2020 US presidential election.
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Hostages freed in Texas synagogue standoff, suspect dead
All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said.
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Kazakh ex-leader's in-laws lose top energy jobs after unrest
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev this week launched an unprecedented attack on Nazarbayev, who handpicked him as a successor in 2019, saying his 81-year-old mentor had failed to share the Central Asian country's vast wealth with ordinary Kazakhs.
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Prince Andrew forces Queen to defend Crown 'at all costs'
Prince Andrew gave his mother Queen Elizabeth II little choice but to inflict the humiliation of stripping him of his honorary military titles as his US civil trial for sexual assault looms.
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Pandemic deaths rise by 12% as cases soar globally
The number of COVID-19 cases continued to soar around the world this week, with the death rate taking off again and rising 12%.
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Hong Kong airport bans transit passengers from 153 countries
The move deepens Hong Kong's global isolation and comes as Beijing battles to stamp out a flurry of Delta and Omicron outbreaks in the only major economy still pursuing a staunch zero-Covid strategy.
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Protests in US after white off-duty officer shoots dead Black man
The death of Jason Walker threatens to catapult racism back into the spotlight as Black Americans demand justice over several killings that have highlighted the United States's struggles with gun laws, police impunity, and racial inequality.
