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Australia passes landmark law requiring tech firms to pay for news
The new law paves the way for Google and Facebook to plough tens of millions of dollars into struggling local media companies, and could provide a model for resolving tussles with regulators worldwide.
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Tiger Woods not facing reckless driving charge: sheriff
The sheriff said the most Woods could face would be a low-level offense known as an infraction if investigators conclude that he was not paying attention or speeding.
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137 NGOs from 31 countries ask UN for Myanmar arms embargo
The letter read: The United Nations Security Council should urgently impose a global arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the military coup and to deter the junta from committing further abuses.
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First vaccines delivered under global Covax scheme
The 600,000 doses delivered to Ghana are from Oxford/AstraZeneca, and will be administered in several Ghanaian cities from Tuesday.
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Israel adopts law allowing names of unvaccinated to be shared
The law gives local governments, the director general of the education ministry and some in the welfare ministry the right to receive the names, addresses and phone numbers of unvaccinated citizens.
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Pope picks new doctor after previous one died from COVID-19
The 84-year-old pontiff picked Roberto Bernabei, an expert in health care for the elderly, as his physician, the Vatican said in a statement.
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Johnson & Johnson vaccine highly effective against severe COVID: FDA
New documents released by the US Food and Drug Administration show that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is highly effective against severe COVID-19, including against the variants identified in South Africa and Brazil.
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23 tonnes of cocaine seized in Europe's biggest haul
"The enormous amount of cocaine would have brought in several billion euros (dollars) in street sales," the customs office said in a statement.
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US seeking seat on UN rights council: Blinken
The United States announced earlier this month that it would re-engage with the 47-member council after Trump's administration pulled the country out in June 2018.
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Italy seeks UN probe into DRC envoy's killing
The envoy, Luca Attanasio, 43, died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda.
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China targets Muslim minorities with more prosecutions, longer prison terms:HRW
More than 250,000 people in the northwestern region have been formally sentenced and imprisoned since 2016, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Britain's au pair system 'killed' by Brexit
Under post-Brexit working terms, au pairs now must earn a minimum of £20,000 ($28,000) per year to obtain a work visa. That is significantly higher than the £5,000 per year typically given in the past.
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Mother sues over US killing of jogger Ahmaud Arbery
Wanda Cooper seeks $1 million in damages in the suit that names the three white men charged with killing her 25-year-old son, who was unarmed and out for a run when he was gunned down on 23 February 2020.
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Tiger Woods in surgery after roll-over car crash
Firefighters and paramedics extricated Woods from the wreckage of his SUV and transported him with a neck collar and backboard to a local hospital via road, where he underwent surgery.
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Hunger rising in C. America amid climate, virus shocks: UN
The UN's World Food Programme said that levels of hunger had risen nearly four-fold in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, from 2.2 million people affected in 2018 to nearly eight million now.
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US Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax records to prosecutors
Trump, 74, has been waging a protracted legal battle to prevent his tax records from being handed over to New York prosecutors probing hush payments to women and possible fraud.
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This is why the US has the highest COVID-19 death toll
Why does the world's leading power have the highest death toll and what lessons are American health specialists learning from the past year?
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Facebook to restore Australia news pages after deal on media law
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had angrily accused Facebook of making a decision to "unfriend" Australia.
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Myanmar generals under renewed pressure after sanctions, mass protest
Authorities have gradually ratcheted up their use of force against a massive and largely peaceful civil disobedience campaign demanding the return of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Biden calls US COVID-19 toll 'heartbreaking'
US President Joe Biden urged Americans to mourn and to remember those lost but also to show determination.
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Nasa releases first audio from Mars, video of landing
The high-definition video clip, lasting three minutes and 25 seconds, shows the deployment of a red-and-white parachute with a 70.5-foot-wide (21.5-meter-wide) canopy.
