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There are signs that Melbourne's strict measures, including a shutdown of non-essential businesses, are bringing the outbreak under control
World
17.08.2024
Australia records significant fall in new virus cases
When Xiao Jia lost her sight as a teenager she was told the "respectable" career choice was to become a massage therapist, instead she found an industry rife with abuse and aggression, where women are afforded little protection
World
17.08.2024
Sexual abuse, assault: Grim prospects for China's blind women
Saudi Arabia has sought to quell speculation over the health of its ageing monarch, seen here in March 2020
World
17.08.2024
Saudi king lands in Red Sea megacity to 'rest' after surgery
A plane flies past smoke from the Lake Fire in the Angeles National Forest
World
17.08.2024
Huge fire north of Los Angeles prompts evacuations
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Rafters race down the Tisza River in northeastern Hungary collecting as much rubbish as possible
World 17.08.2024
Rowers dredge waste in days-long Hungary race
Travel to or from Azerbaijan's capital Baku remains tightly locked down
World 17.08.2024
'Love is not tourism': hope for couples kept apart by virus
Willem van Gool, chairman of the tourism office for Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, poses in Baarle, Belgium.
World 17.08.2024
Netherlands' Belgian enclave juggles tricky virus rules
Israeli warplanes struck the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to similar launches of incendiary balloons from the Palestinian enclave
World 17.08.2024
Israel launches fresh strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza
Yemeni labourers remove rubble ahead of restoration works on the site of a collapsed UNESCO-listed building following heavy rains in the Old City of the Yemeni capital Sanaa
World 17.08.2024
Yemen's heritage battered first by bombs, then floods
A Florida sheriff who banned face masks allowed for certain exceptions, including for officers who work in prisons, schools, hospitals or with people suspected of being infected with the virus
World 17.08.2024
Florida sheriff bans face masks among officers
New Zealand health chief Ashley Bloomfield said authorities were racing to trace how big the new outbreak was
World 17.08.2024
New Zealand races to track origin of new cluster as cases jump
Democratic vice presidential running mate, US Senator Kamala Harris, speaks during the first press conference with Joe Biden
World 17.08.2024
'Impossible dream': Kamala Harris inspires in father's Jamaica
Joe Biden giving a speech in Tel Aviv in 2010
World 17.08.2024
Biden's deep Israel ties could ease Obama-era tensions: experts
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