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Day workers leaving India’s Mumbai as virus dries up jobs

Migrant workers are piling into rail stations in India’s financial capital Mumbai to head back to their home villages now that virus-control measures have dried up work in the hard-hit

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What is Ramadan and when is it?

Millions of Muslims around the world will be celebrating the start of Ramadan on 13 April. The festival involves a month of fasting – believers taking part will not eat

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AstraZeneca vaccine: How do you weigh up the risks and benefits?

For most people currently being offered the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. But the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that – because

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India Covid-19: ‘No end in sight’ as doctors battle second wave

It was the middle of January when Dr Lancelot Pinto realised he would be able to spend some quality time with his family after nearly a year. The pulmonologist had

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What we know about India’s coronavirus vaccines

India’s Covaxin, the homegrown government-backed vaccine, has an efficacy rate of 81%, preliminary data from its phase 3 trial shows. India’s regulators gave the vaccine an emergency approval in January

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Russia and China hit back at Western sanctions

Russia and China have jointly condemned Western sanctions, a day after the EU, UK, US and Canada blacklisted some senior Chinese officials for rights abuses against ethnic Uighurs. The joint

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Covid vaccines: EU tussle with UK over AstraZeneca escalates

“This is not about EU v UK. This is a problem with AstraZeneca,” claimed an EU diplomat this morning. He and I were discussing the latest thorny chapter in EU

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Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, a bomb scare and a murder in India

On the morning of 25 February, a vehicle laden with explosives was found near the house of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, in the heart of Mumbai. In the following

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Is Europe’s AstraZeneca jab decision-making flawed?

A number of countries have decided to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution following reports that some people have suffered blood clots after being given the jab.

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China’s parliament remakes Hong Kong in its own image

For almost 24 years, Hong Kong has been a kind of unwitting political laboratory, the subject of an experiment centred on the defining ideological divide of our time. Could two

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