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Latest Australia News
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Latest Bangladesh News
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Crackdown in East Jerusalem
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Indian workers who built US Hindu temple file suit alleging abuse
The complaint filed on behalf of more than 200 Indian workers alleges ‘shocking violations’ of US labour laws.
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Taiwan may raise COVID alert level after cluster emerges
The island has already restricted public gatherings after finding a cluster of cases with no clear source of infection.
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Opinion
COVID variant first detected in India found in 44 countries: WHO
B.1.617 variant of virus found in samples uploaded to open-access database ‘from 44 countries in all six WHO regions’.
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‘Enough’: Mo Salah tells world leaders to end Palestine violence
Liverpool and Egypt footballer calls on world leaders to ‘make sure the violence and killing of innocent people stops’.
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