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India coronavirus: The tragedy of the tuk-tuk driver who fled Covid
When Rajan Yadav heard Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announce a nationwide lockdown on 24 March to halt the spread of Covid-19, little did he know that his life was about to change forever. ...
How tech can just about save Christmas Day
Christmas 2020 is not what any of us would have planned. Covid-19 restrictions and travel bans suddenly imposed on the UK have left millions of Brits cut off from one another and facing a potentially depressing Christmas Day. ...
Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot
Working in Paris and India at the turn of the last century, Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine created the world's first vaccines for cholera and plague. Then an accidental mass poisoning derailed his life. ...
The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has revealed. ...
Where does the Republican Party go after Trump?
Donald Trump may have lost the election but he won a record number of votes, and tightened his grip on states like Ohio. So what can Ohio tell us about the Republican Party's future? ...
Coronavirus: Sputnik V vaccine rushed out to wary Russians
Its name alone speaks of Russia's ambition: Sputnik V, the country's leading vaccine against Covid-19, is meant to be a world-beater just like its cosmic namesake. ...
Venezuela's parliamentary poll: Five things you need to know
Venezuelans will choose 277 members of the National Assembly on Sunday in an election which is being boycotted by most opposition parties, who have denounced it as a "fraud". ...
The Donut King who went full circle - from rags to riches, twice
If you walk into a doughnut shop in California, the chances are it's owned by a Cambodian family. That's because of a refugee who built up an empire, and became known as the Donut King, only to lose it all. ...
Covid: Are countries under pressure to approve a vaccine?
The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccinations. ...
US election 2020: What legal challenges remain for Trump?
Donald Trump is continuing his attempts to overturn the result of the US presidential election, but he has been dealt a series of legal blows and time is running out. ...
Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the mafia
"Until half an hour ago, 12 of our 18 Covid intensive care beds were occupied," says Demetrio Labate, fastening his protective clothing. "But now we're down to 11. We just lost another patient - he was 82." ...
Afghanistan, home to the heroin trade, moves into meth
Underneath a busy bridge in Kabul, among piles of discarded rubbish and a stream of filthy water, lives a drug-ravaged community of homeless men. ...
Tigray crisis: Ethiopian soldiers accused of blocking border with Sudan
The number of refugees fleeing the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia - where federal and regional forces are engaged in fighting - has reduced drastically after soldiers were deployed to the border with Sudan. ...
Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine 'dose error' explained
On Monday, the world heard how the UK's Covid vaccine - from AstraZeneca and Oxford University - was highly effective in advanced trials. ...
US election 2020: What is the presidential transition?
President Trump has yet to concede to Joe Biden but has accepted that the formal transition process should begin, even as his team's legal challenges continue. ...
Nagorno-Karabakh: 'It's too painful to sleep'
Fighting has ended in and around Nagorno-Karabakh but some civilians are still suffering. ...
The assassination of a ‘Brave Journalist of Afghanistan’
The night before he died, Aliyas Dayee was up late working. This was not unusual for Dayee, who didn't mind going to bed late or getting up early for a story. That night, he was finishing a radio report about an attack on an Afghan military checkpoint near Lashkargah in Helmand province, Afghanistan, where he lived. ...
Covid: Oxford vaccine shows 'encouraging' immune response in older adults
The Oxford coronavirus vaccine shows a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s, raising hopes that it can protect age groups most at risk from the virus. ...
Belarus protesters battered, bruised but defiant after 100 days
Opposition protesters remain defiant in Belarus despite police brutality, 100 days after they first took to the streets to denounce the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. ...
Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: The long, medium, and short story
A conflict between the government of Ethiopia and forces in its northern Tigray region has thrown the country into turmoil. ...
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