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Year-long trial by Oxford University researchers carried out in Burkina Faso shows up to 77 percent efficacy.
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People scramble for life-saving oxygen supplies across India as Japan announces third state of emergency for Tokyo.
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Foreign ministers of Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan underline an ‘urgent need for an immediate ceasefire’.
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India set another record for COVID cases on Friday, with reports of bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds.
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As Earth Day Summit continues, some activists are demanding more systemic change to tackle the climate crisis.
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Senior Pakistan sources give ‘examples’ of specific Indian actions needed in disputed Kashmir for talks to move forward.
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Edhi Foundation writes to Modi, offering to send ambulances and medical staff to help its neighbour fight the virus.
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Reliance Industries to buy UK’s 900-year-old Stoke Park estate for $79m, adding to group’s hospitality assets.
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Outbreak a blow to Nepal’s hopes for a bumper mountaineering season on the world’s highest peak.
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As state helplines struggle and Twitter emerges as means to seek help, people without internet miss out on information.
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Dire shortage of oxygen sees states closely guarding their supplies and even posting armed police at production plants.
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The B.1.617 variant has appeared elsewhere, with concerns about it leading some countries to slap travel restrictions.
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Flights from the two South Asia nations suspended after COVID-19 cases detected in travellers arriving from the region.
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India posts 332,730 new cases and 2,263 deaths in past 24 hours as fire in a hospital treating COVID patients kills 13.