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So let me get this straight in my head, I can have Aids, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, Ebola, Hepatitis, Meningitis and conjunctivitis.. and I can eat in a restaurant and go to the pub.. but if I haven't had…

France on Wednesday ended most capacity limits imposed in April on restaurants, cinemas, stores and other public venues, although the measures were extended in parts of the southwest over the spread o…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced several senior officials after a "crucial" coronavirus incident, state media reported Wednesday, potentially signalling a breach in the country's epidemic defe…

Olympics chief Thomas Bach will arrive in Japan on July 8, Tokyo 2020 organisers said Wednesday as they make final preparations for the pandemic-postponed Games. Bach had initially been expected to vi…

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Russia reports 669 deaths from the virus over the past 24 hours, a record for the second day in a row, according to a government tally. The …

The outback town of Alice Springs became the latest Australian population centre to lockdown Wednesday, as anger mounts over the country's slow coronavirus vaccine rollout. The usually busy streets of…

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Russia's Covid-19 death toll reached a record on Wednesday as the country battled the highly infectious Delta variant, even as Europe prepared to launch an EU-wide Covid certificate to boost its devas…

Parts of the Olympic torch relay in host city Tokyo will be taken off public roads, officials said Wednesday, in another virus setback for the flame as it travels across Japan. The Olympic torch relay…

Opposition lawmakers in Brazil launched a fresh bid Wednesday to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro as more allegations broke of corruption in acquiring coronavirus vaccines to tackle a pandemic he is a…

Duty Editor: Tom Barfield Email: tom.barfield@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Record deaths in Russia as EU eyes summer travels + Scores die in Canada heatwave + N.Korea replaces officials over virus inci…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced several senior officials after a "crucial" coronavirus incident, state media reported Wednesday, potentially signalling a breach in the country's epidemic defe…

Chinese factory activity stabilised in June, data showed Wednesday, but output was hit by supply shortages of key commodities and microchips as well as the coronavirus-induced closure of a key port th…

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Russia reports 669 deaths from the virus over the past 24 hours, a record for the second day in a row, according to a government tally. The …

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was opposed to mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for Russians but urged the jab-sceptic population to get inoculated as his country battles a deadly thir…

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Russia's Covid-19 death toll hit a new record Wednesday as the country battles the highly infectious Delta variant, while Europe geared up for the launch of an EU-wide Covid certificate to boost its d…

Spain is grappling with growing fallout from end-of-year student holidays to Majorca that have led within a week to more than 1,000 people being infected nationwide with Covid-19 and thousands more qu…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced several senior officials after a "crucial" coronavirus incident, state media reported Wednesday, in what analysts said was a signal the disease had breached it…

Spain is grappling with growing fallout from end-of-year student holidays to Majorca that have led to nearly 2,000 people nationwide being infected with Covid-19 and thousands more quarantined. News m…