Australia sets up suburban checkpoints to contain Melbourne COVID-19 hotspots

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[caption id="attachment_3654" align="alignnone" width="920"] Disinfectant products are seen on a car while motorists fill out paperwork for police as they cross back into South Australia...

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New Zealand’s health minister resigns over ‘unhelpful distraction’ from COVID-19 response

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020

[caption id="attachment_3683" align="alignnone" width="921"] File photo of New Zealand health minister David Clark. [/caption] WELLINGTON: New Zealand's health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday (Jul...

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Brazilian Amazon sees worst June in 13 years for forest fires

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020

The fires are expected to be at their worst in August, like last year, when this photo of a burnt area was taken in Altamira,...

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US buys up COVID-19 drug, as some countries say well-stocked

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

Remdesivir is an experimental medication produced by the US laboratory Gilead Sciences WASHINGTON: Britain and Germany said Wednesday (Jul 2) they had sufficient stocks...

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Ancient Australian Aboriginal sites discovered underwater

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

[caption id="attachment_3672" align="alignnone" width="898"] This handout aerial picture released by the DHSC Project and Flinders University shows a research area in the Dampier archipelago off...

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Football: Klopp expects four teams in title race next season

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020

[caption id="attachment_3724" align="alignnone" width="939"] Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp [/caption] LONDON: Jurgen Klopp expects Liverpool to face a stern challenge for their Premier League title from...

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Hundreds of elephants found dead in Botswana

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020

Mystery surrounds the "completely unprecedented" deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Dr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern...

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Business News

US seizes Chinese products made from human hair in forced labour crackdown

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

[caption id="attachment_3657" align="alignnone" width="932"] A US Customs and Border Protection officer at the Port of New York/Newark inspects a shipment of hair pieces and accessories...

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Pakistan blocks online game PUBG over ‘negative’ impact

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020

[caption id="attachment_3775" align="alignnone" width="914"] PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a popular mobile game, but has been banned in several countries, and Pakistan is moving to join...

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More than 160,000 COVID-19 cases reported daily in past week: WHO

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

[caption id="attachment_3648" align="alignnone" width="918"] Members of the Brazilian Armed Forces medical team take a COVID-19 test from a member of the indigenous Ye'Kuena ethnic group,...