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US 'to buy 500m Covid vaccine doses for world'

The plan to provide doses for about 100 countries comes as Joe Biden arrives in the UK for a G7 summit.

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US 'to buy 500m Covid vaccine doses for world'

The plan to provide doses for about 100 countries comes as Joe Biden arrives in the UK for a G7 summit.

Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk

US super-rich 'pay almost no income tax'

US authorities probe leak claiming to show how billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay minimal or no income tax.

An Afghan worker of Halo Trust, working on a land mine clearance project, is transferred to an ambulance in Baghlan, Afghanistan, 09 June 2021

Mine clearance workers shot dead in Afghanistan

The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack on workers for the Halo Trust.

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Sweet dreams! Wandering elephants take a snooze

A herd of 15 elephants on the move is China has been spotted having a nap in a forest.

Gosiame Thamara Sithole pictured a month ago

S Africa woman gives birth to 10 babies - reports

Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, was astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb.

The house in Racine, Wisconsin, belonging to Memo Fachino and his husband Lance Mier

US gay couple create buzz with rainbow floodlights

The couple from Wisconsin were told to remove a Pride flag from their porch under new housing rules.

File image of Auckland

The most liveable city in the world revealed

One New Zealand city tops an annual list that has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic.

Sofia Sapega

Belarus plane arrest student refuses to give in

In the first letters to her family since her arrest, Sofia Sapega says she is "holding up" in prison.

Joe Biden and cicada
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Biden shoos away pesky cicada

President Biden had a brief encounter with a cicada before he left for the G7 summit in the UK.

Sanja Djurdjevic

Volleyball player banned over racist eye gesture

Serbia's Sanja Djurdjevic was pictured making the gesture during a game against Thailand last week.

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and his wife Brigitte Macron (C) salute people in Valence, France, 08 June 2021

'Hitler book and weapons found' after Macron slap

Investigators search the homes of two suspects and reportedly find arms at the home of one of them.

Sanja Djurdjevic

Volleyball player banned over racist eye gesture

Serbia's Sanja Djurdjevic was pictured making the gesture during a game against Thailand last week.

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and his wife Brigitte Macron (C) salute people in Valence, France, 08 June 2021

'Hitler book and weapons found' after Macron slap

Investigators search the homes of two suspects and reportedly find arms at the home of one of them.

Passengers are escorted through the arrivals area of Heathrow Terminal Five

US eases travel rules for 61 countries, but not UK

The US public health agency has lowered 61 countries to Level 3, including Japan and France.

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Trump-era ban on TikTok dropped by Biden

The delayed ban on TikTok and WeChat will now not happen - instead apps from China will face reviews.

Visitors look at a display of a semiconductor device at Semicon China

US Senate passes tech spending bill to counter China

The historic $250bn bill saw divided parties unite to compete with China's technological ambitions.

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