By Deputy Chief Editor
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News Pick
NSW and Victoria schools reopening plans focus on Covid surveillance testing but scrap contact tracing
New South Wales and Victoria have announced near-identical plans to slow the spread of Covid as students return to classrooms…
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World
Beijing authorities conduct mass Covid testing as cases rise before Olympics
Beijing’s city government has introduced measures to contain a recent outbreak of Covid-19, as China’s capital continued to report new…
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Middle East
Yemen: Saudi-led airstrike on rebel-run prison kills at least 60 and wounds 200
An airstrike on a prison in northern Yemen killed at least 60 people and wounded 200 more, while a separate…
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Europe
Secret ballot to elect president of Italy begins as Berlusconi drops out
Italian parliamentarians will begin casting their votes for a new president on Monday after the scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi abandoned his…
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Australia
COVID-19 cases and deaths rise in NSW as hospitalisations and ICU patients decline
Hospitalisations and intensive care admissions have fallen overnight in Victoria and New South Wales amid Australia’s Omicron outbreak. It comes…
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Sports
How tennis star Novak Djokovic could still be deported
Tennis star Novak Djokovic is free to play at the Australian Open but there’s one thing that could put him…
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World
Ten die after Brazilian cliff collapses onto leisure boats
Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake. Another 32…
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Middle East
Basmah bint Saud: Saudi princess released from jail after almost three years
Princess Basma bint Saud was detained in March 2019 as she prepared to fly to Switzerland for medical treatment. It…
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Europe
Berlin cannibal jailed for murdering engineer
The judge in Berlin said Stefan R, 42, had killed the electrical engineer to “act out his fantasies of cannibalism”.…
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Australia
Mark McGowan says ‘life is about to get difficult’ for unvaccinated WA residents under sweeping new vaccine requirements
Western Australian venues and events will soon be subject to an expanded set of proof of vaccination requirements under a…
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