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- JOE BROCK
Singapore
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The amount of plastic waste flowing into the ocean and killing marine life could triple in the next 20 years, unless companies and governments can drastically reduce plastic production, a new study published on Thursday said.
Single-use plastic consumption has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according
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- COLIN PACKHAM and SONALI PAUL
Sydney, Australia
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Australia reported its highest daily number of coronavirus-related deaths in three months on Thursday as new infections continued to climb in its second most populous state.
Victoria state said it had confirmed another 403 infections, while five people had died from the virus in the
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- MICHELLE NICHOLS
New York City, US
Reuters
A temporary basic income for the world's poorest 2.7 billion people in 132 developing countries could help slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing them to stay home, according to a UN Development Programme report released on Thursday.
The report suggests three
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- ROLI SRIVASTAVA
Mumbai, India
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Coronavirus quarantine charges levied by an Indian state on migrant workers who are being flown home from Gulf nations will drive many returnees further into debt and put them at risk of destitution, campaigners and labourers said on Wednesday.
India in May began
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- ANASTASIA MOLONEY
Bogota, Colombia
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Ecuador's Indigenous groups in the Amazon have launched an information dashboard to monitor the coronavirus and identify contagion hotspots as the disease spreads through the rainforest and threatens ancient cultures, a leading rights group said on Tuesday.
The dashboard, a collection of charts
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
People may be reading the news and “doomscrolling” through social media during the coronavirus pandemic.
But what they don’t appear to be reading is the Bible.
That’s according to the 10 annual State of the Bible survey released on Wednesday (22nd July) by the American Bible Society.
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- STEPHANIE NEBEHAY and JOHN MILLER
Geneva/Zurich, Switzerland
Reuters
Researchers are making "good progress" in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021, a World Health Organization expert said on Wednesday.
WHO is working to ensure fair vaccine distribution, but in the
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- JANE WARDELL and GAYLE ISSA
Sydney, Australia/London, UK
Reuters
Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis.
In the United States, which has the highest number of cases in the world
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
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Bored of seeing the same view day after day under lockdown? Why not try swapping it for one on the other side of the world?
That is the idea behind a website that allows people to travel the world virtually by sharing videos
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- NANCHANOK WONGSAMUTH
Bangkok, Thailand
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Thai agricultural workers in Israel will be at greater risk of labour abuses under a new partnership between the governments, advocates said, voicing concerns that the United Nations migration agency would no longer oversee the process.
Thailand's Department of Employment this week signed
