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WHO says rich countries shouldn’t charge citizens for hotel quarantine
Travellers should not suffer financially as a result of quarantine restrictions used to protect the health of the population, it says.
- by Latika Bourke
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Controversial reporter Martin Bashir leaves BBC amid Princess Diana investigation
The BBC says Bashir has quit for health reasons, as an investigation into claims about his conduct is wrapped up.
- by Bevan Shields
Phone a friend: Boris Johnson pressures Morrison on net zero by 2050 during climate call
The conversation occurred on the same day the British Prime Minister’s climate chief said it was time to “consign coal power to history”.
- by Bevan Shields
Ireland’s health system targeted in ‘serious’ ransomware attack
Appointments and elective surgeries were cancelled at several hospitals and Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the disruption could last for days.
Australian banker paid David Cameron more than he earned as UK’s PM
The former British prime minister was accused of “stalking” rather than lobbying on behalf of controversial banker Lex Greensill.
- by Latika Bourke
Stand-off leads to Scottish police freeing men held by British immigration force
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to wrest immigration powers from the United Kingdom government, welcomed the police force’s actions.
- by Reuters
Royal life a mix of Truman Show and a zoo, says Prince Harry
Asked on a podcast if he felt as if he was in a cage while in his royal duties, the former senior British royal opened up about living in the public eye.
- by Rasha Ali
Muslim veil stands in the way of French local elections candidate
President Emmanuel Macron’s party has pulled support from a woman who appears in a campaign poster in a Muslim headscarf.
‘We are fed up’: Thousands pray at Portugal’s Fatima shrine for world without COVID-19
The Roman Catholic Church teaches the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917 in Fatima, which was then an impoverished farming village.
- by Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira
Progressive politics is facing extinction: Tony Blair
Former British prime minister fires off a withering critique of the far-left and its approach to culture, gender, race and identity.
- by Bevan Shields
COVID vaccine success fans hopes of mRNA shot for cancer
Over the past decade Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko have been working on a variety of vaccines. The pandemic accelerated the trials of their technology.
- by Harry de Quetteville