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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 recoverAustralia will increase its aid budget to only the Pacific and Timor-Leste this year as aid and development spending to all other parts of the world…

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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 – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe leaders of New Zealand’s two main political parties, Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins, have cla…

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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 transmission of Covid-19New Zealand will not reciprocate quarantine-free trips across the Tasman as the Australian Capital Territory joins Australia’s tr…

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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 – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDraconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing “unchecked…

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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 new Covid casesFollow our coronavirus live blogFull Australian Covid stats; Covid restrictions state by stateNSW cases map; Vic cases mapSign u…

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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 resume tourist visas by early 2021. Follow latest updatesBoris Johnson faces revolt over forcing through Covid measures Australia: ‘We should not…

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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 – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson will announce a 30% increase in the UK’s funding of the World Health Organization, ma…

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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 prime minister’s appeal to people’s common sense. Plus letters from Patrick Cosgrove and David Boyd HaycockI, like so many others, am slack-ja…

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