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- TABITA DIELA and BERNADETTE CHRISTINA MUNTHE
Jakarta, Indonesia
Reuters
Indonesia's air accident investigator is still hoping to recover the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet to better understand information obtained from the flight data recorder, an official said on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 plane crashed into the Java
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
When British single mother Martha sensed another COVID-19 lockdown was looming, one of her biggest worries was how her three young sons would cope with online schooling again when the family still didn't have a computer.
Martha's children, who are all at primary
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- PRAVEEN MENON
Wellington, New Zealand
Reuters
New Zealand said on Tuesday that it was looking to secure a small batch of COVID-19 vaccines early to protect its high-risk workers, as pressure mounts on the government to vaccinate its population.
A tough lockdown and the geographic advantage of being at the
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- MICHAEL TAYLOR
Deadly floods across parts of Indonesia are a stark reminder of the climate change risks facing the South-East Asian nation, environmentalists said on Monday, urging the government to be more ambitious in its efforts to cut planet-heating emissions.
South Kalimantan on Borneo island declared a state
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- NICOLE WINFIELD
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- JEAN FERNAND KOENA
Bangui, Central African Republic
AP
Central African Republic's constitutional court on Monday upheld President Faustin Archange Touadera’s re-election, raising the specter of more violence days after rebels attempted to overtake the capital.
Touadera, meanwhile, told reporters that he was open to talks with his opponents as proposed by
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- ROLI SRIVASTAVA
Mumbai, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Police in Mumbai have charged nine alleged members of a baby-trafficking ring - among them a nurse at a maternity hospital and agents who operated in the impoverished slums of India's financial capital, officials said on Monday.
In the second such
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Rome, Italy
AP
Pope Francis is honoring civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, on the commemoration of his birthday, saying his message of equality through peaceful means remains more timely than ever.
Francis sent a message of prayer Monday to King’s daughter, Rev Bernice King, with
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- EMMA FARGE
Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
The world is on the brink of "catastrophic moral failure" in sharing COVID-19 vaccines, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday, urging countries and manufacturers to spread doses more fairly around the world.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the prospects for
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- FREDRICK NZWILI
In 2020, huge swarms of Biblical proportions struck the region, destroying food crops and animal pastures, and pushed hunger and economic hardship to new levels. And as though that is not enough, the United Nations warned in January, 2021, that a new invasion has started spreading in East Africa.
“We
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- ZEKE MILLER
Washington DC, US
AP
President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he is sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies, his incoming chief of staff said Sunday.
Biden intends
