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Coronavirus pandemic
Why Trump’s secret COVID jab was a massive missed opportunity
Donald Trump’s status as a Republican folk hero makes him the perfect person to sell the vaccine to sceptical conservatives. It’s a role he has rejected.
- by Matthew Knott
Enough coronavirus vaccine for all US adults by end of May, Biden says
- by Zeke Miller and Linda A. Johnson
Opinion & Perspectives
Why Trump’s secret COVID jab was a massive missed opportunity
Matthew Knott
Donald Trump’s status as a Republican folk hero makes him the perfect person to sell the vaccine to sceptical conservatives. It’s a role he has rejected.
North America
Biden’s pick for key Cabinet job loses nomination over mean tweets
Longtime Democratic policy adviser Neera Tanden will not become Biden’s budget director, in the administration’s first defeat in filling a Cabinet post.
- by Eli Stokols and Jennifer Haberkorn
More than a dozen killed in California when truck hits four-wheel drive
A Ford Expedition typically seats eight people legally. Authorities did not immediately know why 25 people had been crammed into the truck.
- by Elliot Spagat
Enough coronavirus vaccine for all US adults by end of May, Biden says
- by Zeke Miller and Linda A. Johnson
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
Why Trump’s secret COVID jab was a massive missed opportunity
- by Matthew Knott
Europe
Asia
Media workers shot dead on way home in Afghanistan
The head of the local broadcaster said the three women were recent high school graduates aged between 18 and 20.
- by Ahmad Sultan and Orooj Hakimi
Is he protester or ambassador? Who is Myanmar’s UN envoy?
The dispute over who is recognised as representative of the Myanmar generals who carried out the February coup is causing a headache for the UN.
- by Edith Lederer
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Contagious Brazil COVID-19 variant can re-infect people, scientists warn
A highly transmissible COVID-19 variant that emerged in Brazil and has now been found in at least 20 countries can re-infect people who previously recovered from the disease, scientists say.
- by Kate Kelland
Analysis
Khashoggi case
‘Letting the murderer walk’: Joe Biden’s Saudi Arabia problem
- by Ishaan Tharoor
