World
‘There are other ways’: Fauci raises doubts about COVID vaccine patent waiver push
Others say a waiver would enable more manufacturers across the globe to produce vaccines and help combat dwindling supply.
- by Josie Ensor and Sarah Newey
Opinion & Perspectives
Europe’s carbon tariff plan will ‘trigger a race to the top’, but there will be tensions
Frans Timmermans and Josep Borrell
There is no time to lose in transitioning to a world run on clean technology but it will have its risks and obstacles, write two senior European lawmakers.
North America
‘Anxious to see you’: JFK letters to Swedish lover up for auction
The letters underscore the US president’s reputation as a womaniser.
- by William Kole
Hunter Biden: ‘I come from a family forged by tragedies’
US President Joe Biden’s younger – and sole surviving – son battled alcoholism and drug addiction in the wake of losing his brother, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015. Here, he reveals the genesis of his demons and how he was pulled back from the brink.
- by Hunter Biden
Europe
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Brexit
France sends patrol boats as tensions flare with UK on fish
- by Jill Lawless and John Leicester
Opinion
Climate policy
Europe’s carbon tariff plan will ‘trigger a race to the top’, but there will be tensions
- by Frans Timmermans and Josep Borrell
Opinion
Trade deals
China’s miscalculation on trade deal helps Biden rebuild the Western Front
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Asia
COVID-19 spreads to rural India, villages ill-equipped to fight it
In the town of Susner in Madhya Pradesh state, patients were being treated outdoors under trees, on blankets on the ground.
- by Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Tanvi Mehta
Analysis
China relations
China’s latest move a mere formality as Xi and Morrison speak the dialogue of the deaf
Beijing’s decision to suspend a high-level economic dialogue with Australia has no practical effect. But it conveys important information nonetheless.
- by Peter Hartcher
‘Cold War mindset’: Beijing suspends key government dialogue with Australia
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Anthony Galloway
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Brazil shocked by police raid that leaves dozens dead in Rio de Janeiro favela
Some questioned whether police were flouting a court ruling last year that forbade them from storming favelas during the pandemic unless under “absolutely exceptional” circumstances.
- by Terrence McCoy
NZ suspends quarantine-free travel from Sydney
- by Georgia Forrester and Henry Cooke
Colombia, strained by pandemic and poverty, explodes in protest
- by Julie Turkewitz and Sofía Villamil
