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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks as U.N. General Assembly appointed him for a second five-year term from January 1, 2022, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

UN chief urges General Assembly to act on Myanmar

"We cannot live in a world where military coups become a norm. It is totally unacceptable"

The morning sun rises over a neighborhood as a heatwave continues during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Encinitas, California, U.S., August 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

Unrelenting US Southwest heatwave continues as power grids hold up

Belarusian law enforcement officers stand guard in a street in Minsk, Belarus March 25, 2021. BelaPAN via REUTERS/File Photo

EU reaches deal on Belarus economic sanctions, according to Austria, diplomats

A woman wearing a mask amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic takes photographs of her boyfriend at a Han river park in Seoul, South Korea, May 24, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

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S Korea pledges $200 million to international Covid-19 vaccine effort

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo: Collected

Coronavirus chronicle

New Zealand PM Ardern gets ‘pain-free’ Covid vaccine shot

People line up to purchase Apple Daily newspaper from a newspaper stall after police raided its newsroom and arrested five executives the day before, in Hong Kong, China early June 18, 2021. REUTERS/James Pomfret

2 Apple Daily executives charged with collusion with foreign country

A U.S. Customs and Protection vehicle stands beside a sign reading that the border is closed to non-essential traffic at the Canada-United States border crossing at the Thousand Islands Bridge, to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada September 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg/File Photo

Businesses fret as Canada extends ban on travel with US

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a news conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

UN chief Guterres appointed for second term

A view of the exterior of the JP Morgan Chase & Co. corporate headquarters in New York City May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar

US companies give staff a day off for Juneteenth

A recent PHE study looked at vaccines effectiveness against the Delta variant in the UK (AFP via Getty Images via The Independent)

Coronavirus chronicle

One Covid vaccine dose cuts hospital risk by 75%, says study

The Honourable Mr. Justice Mahmud Jamal, who has been a judge on Ontario's court of appeal since 2019 and has been nominated to Canada's Supreme Court, poses in an undated photograph. Office of the Commissioner Federal Judicial Affairs Canada/Handout via REUTERS

Canada PM Trudeau nominates first judge of colour to sit on Supreme Court

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Delta Covid variant becoming globally dominant, says WHO official

A woman receives a dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, as South Africa rolls out the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination to the elderly at the Munsieville Care for the Aged Centre outside Johannesburg, South Africa May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo/File Photo

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Africa Covid trajectory is 'very concerning', WHO official says