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- RENJU JOSE
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australia on Tuesday suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic as a fast-moving Omicron outbreak continued to push up hospitalisation rates to record levels, even as daily infections eased slightly.
Australia is dealing with its worst COVID-19 outbreak, fuelled by the Omicron variant of the
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- LIZBETH DIAZ
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Reuters
Guatemalan authorities said on Monday they have sent back more than 600 migrants who entered the country in a caravan that was bound for the United States.
Guatemala's foreign ministry said 622 people, mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua, entered through border posts with
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- MEGAN ROWLING
Barcelona, Spain
Thomson Reuters Foundation
After a landslide in 2017 killed 1,141 people and left more than 3,000 homeless in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the recovery plan included training residents to plant 21,000 native trees to reduce the risk of future disasters on bare hillsides.
Amid erratic and
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- JAY REEVES
Birmingham, Alabama, US
AP
A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $US20 million donation that will go to help congregations including one that was slammed during the tornado that killed more than 20 people in Mayfield, Kentucky, last month.
Lilly
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- JANE WARDELL, PRAVEEN MENON and KIRSTY NEEDHAM
Sydney, Australia/Wellington, New Zealand
Reuters
Significant damage was reported along the western coast of Tonga's main island on Tuesday following the weekend's massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, but a closed airport and downed communications are hampering international relief efforts.
The New Zealand High Commission reported the damage along
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- KABUL NEWSROOM and SNEHA BHOWMIK
Kabul, Afghanistan
Reuters
An earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 20 people and destroying hundreds of homes, local authorities said.
The 5.6 magnitude tremor shook the western province of Badghis, bordering Turkmenistan, in the afternoon, reducing brick homes to rubble, according to photos shared
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- EMMA BATHA
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The world's 10 wealthiest people more than doubled their fortunes to $US1.5 trillion during the pandemic as poverty rates soared, according to a study released by a charity on Monday ahead of a high-profile World Economic Forum event.
Heads of state will join
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- ANTHONY DEUTSCH and STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG
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- JEFF MARTIN and MICHAEL WARREN
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- KHALID ABDELAZIZ
Khartoum, Sudan
Reuters
Organisers of anti-military rallies in Sudan's capital Khartoum announced an escalation of protests after security forces used gunfire and teargas on Monday to disperse demonstrations against a coup and medics said seven people had been killed.
The toll marked one of the bloodiest days since
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- KIRSTY NEEDHAM and PRAVEEN MENON
Sydney, Australia/Wellington, New Zealand
Reuters
A distress signal has been detected in an isolated, low-lying group of islands in the Tonga archipelago following Saturday's massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, the United Nations said, prompting particular concern for its inhabitants.
Initial reports suggested no mass casualties on the main
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- RENJU JOSE
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday the shortages of at-home antigen tests were "not unique" to the country as authorities deal with a runaway Omicron outbreak that has driven up hospitalisation rates and strains testing systems.
Australia is facing a shortage of at-home
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- NICOLE WINFIELD
Rome, Italy
AP
Italy’s supreme court has faulted prosecutors for withholding evidence benefiting the key suspect in the Vatican’s fraud and embezzlement trial in a parallel case in the Italian courts.
The Court of Cassation ordered the Tribunal of Review to consider that evidence before deciding whether to
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- MARC FRANK and MARIO FUENTES
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- JOSH SMITH
Seoul, South Korea
Reuters
North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles from an airport in its capital city of Pyongyang on Monday, South Korea's military reported, in the fourth test this month.
Japan's government also reported the launch, with chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno condemning the launches
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