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WorldA specialist described the number of dead cranes as “exceptional”.Tags: Print EditionISRAEL: A bird flu outbreak has killed more than 2,000 wild cranes on a reserve in northern Israel, an unusually high toll for the seasonal flu,…
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WorldA migrant carries her children after being helped ashore from a RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat.Tags: Print EditionLIBYA: The bodies of more than a dozen migrants who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean…
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WorldFlowers are seen next to a portrait of South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu outside St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Sunday, after the news of Tutu’s passing at the age of 90.Tags: Print EditionSOUTH…
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WorldHouses destroyed by hurricane Ida - the costliest weather disaster of 2021. Tags: Print EditionFRANCE: The ten most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than US$170 billion (RM713 billion) in damage, US$20 billion…
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WorldTags: Print EditionUK: The world’s economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first time next year and it will take China a little longer than previously thought to overtake the United States as the No.1 economy, a report…
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WorldFace mask wearing Parisians taking a stroll near the Eiffel Tower.Tags: Print EditionFRANCE: France has recorded more than 100,000 COVID-19 infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic and COVID-19…
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Omicron variant now in 22 African nationsUS monitoring COVID-hit holiday cruise shipsNew York sees increase in hospitalised childrenWorldA man has a swab taken at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia…
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WorldTags: Print EditionAUSTRALIA: Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital pathology has confirmed an additional 995 people were prematurely sent an SMS advising them their test was negative, when their true result was yet to be determined.…
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Taliban clamp down on women’s use of taxis WorldAn Afghan woman boarding a tuk-tuk.Tags: Print EditionAFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should…
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WorldTags: Print EditionPANAMA: Panama made record drugs seizures in 2021, confiscating some 126 tonnes of contraband, chiefly cocaine, the security ministry of the Central American country said on Sunday. This year's haul compared…
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