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Vilnius, Latvia
Reuters
Europe urged pharmaceutical companies on Tuesday to honour their commitments to supply coronavirus vaccines, as delivery cuts and delays dim hopes of a quick fix to COVID-19 and increase talk of protectionism and hoarding.
Countries around the world, anxious to reboot economies and restart travel
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- EDITH M LEDERER
United Nations
AP
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged coordinated global action on Monday to build an alliance against the growth and spread of neo-Nazism and white supremacy and the resurgence of xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and hate speech sparked partly by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UN chief also urged international action

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- KIERAN GUILBERT
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Countries must enable victims of human trafficking to play a key role in programs and policies to tackle the crime, the first global alliance of survivors-turned-advocates said on Monday.
The 21-member International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council aims to help governments improve their

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- JILL GRALOW and CORDELIA HSU
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
As Australia holds a national day of festivities on 26th January, Indigenous woman Rita Wright will be protesting the celebrations at a march in Sydney.
Australia Day marks the date the British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788 to start a penal colony, viewing

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- YERETH ROSEN
Anchorage, Alaska, US
Reuters
Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.
Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the

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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Billionaires including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk have seen their wealth soar during the COVID-19 pandemic while the world's poor face years of hardship, charity Oxfam said on Monday as it demanded steps to tackle inequality.
Nations have a "shrinking
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