Coronavirus outbreak
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Australia’s global aid budget falls – but Pacific and Timor-Leste get a Covid fighting fund
Official development assistance declines to $4bn, boosted by $304m over two years to help region recoverAustra…
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Negative views of China soar in western countries, poll finds
Survey in US, UK, Australia and 11 other nations shows unfavourable opinions about Beijing regime are highest …
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Ardern v Collins: New Zealand party leaders clash in lively but muddled debate
Rivals veered into parodies of themselves, with most analysts declaring incumbent the winnerCoronavirus – late…
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Auckland coronavirus restrictions to be lifted from Wednesday night
New Zealand’s largest city to move to level 1 as Jacinda Ardern says there is 95% probability Auckland cluster…
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Fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies after catching Covid-19 aged 81
Takada was the first Japanese designer to make a mark on the Paris fashion sceneWidely copied rule-breaker who…
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New Zealand refuses quarantine-free trips from Australia as ACT joins travel bubble
Jacinda Ardern says her country will not open up until Australia records a month without community transmissio…
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Covid crisis could force extra 2.5m girls into child marriage – charity
Save the Children predicts worst rise in child marriage rates in 25 years as a result of pandemicUp to 2.5 mil…
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Drones, fever goggles, arrests: millions in Asia face ‘extreme’ Covid surveillance
Coronavirus tracking measures handing ‘unchecked powers’ to authoritarian regimes, activists warn Coronavirus …
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Scott Morrison says New Zealand travellers will be able to visit ‘very soon’
The PM reveals Kiwis won’t need to complete a two-week quarantine as Victoria records two more deaths and 15 n…
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Coronavirus live updates: France’s second wave ‘faster than we thought’ says top doctor; Melbourne lifts curfew
France records more than 14,000 new Covid cases; Colombia passes 800,000 infections; Saudi Arabia plans to res…
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UK to become WHO’s largest state donor with 30% funding increase
Boris Johnson to call for more powers for health body in coronavirus fight as Trump pulls outCoronavirus – lat…
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We won’t beat Covid by channelling Churchill | Letters
Boris Johnson’s Churchillian language does not impress Richard Teverson, while Katherine Arnott dismisses the …
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Wuhan Covid journalist missing since February found, says friend
Chen Qiushi who reported on Chinese response to virus believed to be in detentionCoronavirus – latest updatesS…
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‘Can I really do this?’ New Zealand’s Ashley Bloomfield reveals self-doubts at height of Covid
Much-lauded health director reveals the mental health toll of leading the medical response to the pandemicCoro…
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Global report: Donald Trump calls 200,000 US coronavirus deaths ‘a shame’
US president says it could have been 2.5 million deaths; Japan considers easing border controls; WHO announces…