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The coronavirus pandemic has hammered Latin America, with Brazil the latest epicentre of the disease
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17.08.2024
WHO stops hydroxychloroquine trials over safety concerns
Corruption convictions nearly doubled last year in China as President Xi Jinping ramped up his crackdown on graft
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17.08.2024
Corruption convictions nearly double in China over last year
Venezuelan attorney general Tarek William Saab (pictured January 2020) asked the country's Supreme Court "to determine if the Voluntad Popular political organization is a terrorist organization"
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17.08.2024
Venezuela attorney general seeks to declare Guaido party 'terrorist organization'
Media companies in Australia are accused of breaching a gag order on the trial of Cardinal George Pell
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17.08.2024
Australian media to be tried for contempt over Pell reporting
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Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour joined a galaxy of African talent for a virtual concert to raise awareness of the coronavirus pandemic
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Galaxy of African stars hold virtual coronavirus concert
Living conditions for many migrant workers in the Maldives are tough
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Virus traps poor foreign workers in deserted Maldives
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (pictured May 24, 2020), who regularly rails against the mainstream media, occasionally stops outside the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia to speak to the press, but the informal event has turned tense at times
World 17.08.2024
Top Brazil media end coverage of presidential doorstop
Egyptian historian Khaled Fahmy says his top concern now is that, as many countries start re-opening their borders, their citizens will be subjected to ever more rigorous forms of governmental scrutiny
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A world redrawn: Egypt historian Khaled Fahmy sees rising surveillance state
South Africa's Pieter-Steph du Toit was linked with a move to Montpellier
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Top 14 rugby clubs' financial 'bubble bursts' due to COVID-19
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (pictured May 24, 2020) has touted the supposed benefits of hydroxychloroquine and a related drug, chloroquine, against the new coronavirus
World 17.08.2024
Brazil stands by hydroxychloroquine despite WHO
Intertwining hoof paths by a million migrating antelope across the underexplored landscape of South Sudan
World 17.08.2024
South Sudan: an unexplored Eden of biodiversity
Doctors, academics and institutions have adapted their scientific messaging in hopes of countering what has been termed an infodemic about coronavirus
World 17.08.2024
Scientists fight online virus misinformation war
"A truly healthy economy will not allow pollution to continue to cloud the air we breathe and the water we drink," organizations representing 40 million health workers said.
World 17.08.2024
World needs 'green recovery', health experts tell G20 leaders
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