At least 17 killed in Philippines plane crash
At least 17 people were killed when a Philippines Air Force plane carrying troops crashed on landing in the south of the country and broke up in flames on Sunday.
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July 2, 2021 Australia to halve arrivals to halt spread of delta variant amid vaccine chaos
Australia will halve the number of arrivals from overseas as its coronavirus hotel quarantine system creaks under pressure from outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.
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July 1, 2021 President Xi Jinping warns foreign powers trying to bully China will ‘get their heads bashed’
China’s President Xi Jinping has warned foreign forces attemping to bully the nation will “get their heads bashed” in a defiant speech to mark the centenary of the ruling Communist Party.
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June 30, 2021 Kim Jong Un berates N Korea’s top officials over ‘great crisis’ in COVID response
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has berated his country’s top officials for creating a “great crisis” through failures in coronavirus prevention, according to state media.
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June 29, 2021 Brisbane and Perth call snap lockdowns as Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce fined for not wearing mask
Millions more people in Australia are being thrown into new lockdowns as the country battles flare-ups of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19.
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June 28, 2021 US air strikes kill five Iran-backed militia fighters in Syria, Iraq
The Pentagon announced on Sunday it had conducted retaliatory targeted air strikes against “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” on the Iraq-Syria border, which a monitor said killed at least five militia fighters.
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June 27, 2021 ‘Like a hell’: Ethiopia airstrike survivors recall massacre
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Maerg was serving customers at his cafe in Ethiopia’s Tigray village of Togoga when the military airstrike occurred, filling the room with dust and bringing down debris that struck him on the head.
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June 25, 2021 Belarus releases jailed journalist taken off Ryanair flight to house arrest
A dissident Belarusian journalist who was grabbed off a Ryanair flight forced to land in Minsk has been released under house arrest.
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June 23, 2021 Iran likely had failed rocket launch, preparing for another
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran likely conducted a failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket in recent days and now appears to be preparing to try again, the country’s latest effort to advance its space program amid tensions with the West over its tattered nuclear deal.
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June 20, 2021 Bolsonaro doesn’t believe in social distancing, masks or vaccines. That wasn’t lost on those protesting
The infection rates are officially between 80,000 and 100,000 people every day. But that is the recorded cases, experts say the real figure could be two, three or even four times higher.
