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DEVELOPING STORY
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![Thousands took part in 'Invasion Day' protests in Melbourne and other cities in Australia [James Ross/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/h_56648840.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
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Egypt's revolution 10 years on
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![A crowd of anti-government protesters walk past a large puddle of water from tapped water mains in Tahrir Square on the morning of January 31, 2011 in central Cairo, Egypt [Chris Hondros/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/108635211.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Cairo facing a massive police presence to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak on January 25, 2011. [Mohammed Abed/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_Nic532136.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Riot police force anti-government protesters back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on January 28, 2011 [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/108473126.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
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Moderna says COVID vaccine works against variants
US biotech firm plans trials of a booster shot against the virus strain first discovered in South Africa as precaution.
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Janet Yellen confirmed as US Treasury secretary
Yellen, among the first of Biden’s picks to be confirmed, is the first woman to hold the job of overseeing the economy.
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Milk and more: China, New Zealand sign upgraded free trade deal
Following US trade war, China has signed several trade and investment deals to bolster its multilateral credentials.
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Opinion
Sri Lanka’s cremation of COVID dead a ‘human rights violation’
UN’s human rights experts says gov’t policy a violation of human rights and could ‘foment existing prejudices’.
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Shipping companies join hands to help sailors stuck at sea
More than 300 firms to work together to help the hundreds of thousands of sailors stuck due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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‘Counterproductive, dangerous’: Putin slams pro-Navalny protests
The Russian president, who is under pressure from the West to free Navalny from jail, condemns rallies as illegal.
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