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Omicron risk ‘very high’, says WHO amid 11% rise in global Covid cases

The number of Covid-19 cases recorded worldwide increased by 11% last week compared with the previous week, with the biggest increase in the Americas,...

Save the Children staff confirmed dead in Myanmar massacre

Two Save The Children staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in Myanmar on Christmas Eve, the group has...

UK speaker in favour of letting MPs bring babies to Commons debates

British Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said he is in favour of letting MPs bring their babies with them for parliamentary debates as...

Russian court orders shutdown of renowned human rights group

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organisations should be shut down. The move stirred...

Judge to consider reducing 110-year sentence handed to trucker for fatal crash

A judge on Monday was set to consider a request from prosecutors to reduce the 110-year prison sentence of a truck driver for a...

Christmas weekend snowstorm causes chaos in California and Nevada

A major Christmas weekend storm caused whiteout conditions and closed key roads in the mountains of Northern California and Nevada, with forecasters warning that...

El Salvador women jailed for 30 years under anti-abortion laws are released

Three El Salvador women who were jailed for 30 years under the nation’s strict anti-abortion laws after suffering obstetric emergencies have been released, according...

Taliban dissolves ‘unnecessary’ election commissions

The Taliban has dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions as well as the state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs. Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s...

Muted Christmas in Philippines in wake of deadly typhoon

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines, Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation, have been marking Christmas without homes, adequate food and water, electricity...

China increases efforts to control Covid outbreaks ahead of Winter Olympics

China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi’an following...

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