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‘Big-hearted decision’: Joe Biden offers ‘safe haven’ to Hong Kong residents in US
China’s Foreign Ministry said Biden’s asylum offer “slandered and smeared Hong Kong’s national security law...and blatantly trampled on international law”.
- by Michael Martina, Ted Hesson and David Brunnstrom
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Warm reception: this journo job in a rural US town is fit for a film
There are some unusual duties linked to the role at The INNformer, a small independent newspaper in rural West Virginia, including manning the desk of a small Victorian hotel.
- by Amelia Lester
Backlash after Facebook cuts off ad data for researchers
Facebook said the ad data tool used by researchers violated its privacy standards by scraping data from the site without authorisation.
- by Cristiano Lima
Delta variant challenges China’s costly lockdown strategy
“The world needs to learn how to co-exist with this virus,” wrote a prominent Shanghai doctor about the recent outbreak.
- by Huizhong Wu and Joe McDonald
Critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds
Human-caused warming has led to an “almost complete loss of stability” in the system that drives Atlantic Ocean currents, a new study has found.
- by Sarah Kaplan
Moderna says its COVID-19 shot maintains high efficacy after six months
The new Moderna data comes from the company’s roughly 30,000-participant clinical trial used to support the vaccine’s emergency authorisation.
- by Michael Erman
Fire engulfs California town, destroying shops and homes
Thousands of residents of the town of Greenville had evacuated earlier under a warning from authorities that they were in imminent danger.
- by Noah Berger
Missing $7860 whisky bottle among the extravagant gifts given to Trump’s White House
The public register reveals Scott Morrison joined numerous other world leaders in giving former president Donald Trump a picture of himself.
- by Matthew Lee
Former US Olympic swimmer who stormed US Capitol nears plea deal
Klete Keller, a US gold medallist in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, faced seven riot-related charges, including civil disorder and witness tampering.
- by Mark Hosenball
Delta expected to push herd immunity threshold above 80 per cent
Dr Anthony Fauci fears the virus is being given “ample” opportunity to morph even further into a deadlier strain that could diminish the effectiveness of vaccines.
- by Emma Court
Obama curtails 60th birthday bash after Delta variant surge
The party for the nation’s 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends.
- by Darlene Superville