Latest developments as Philippines reports record 26,458 cases and scientist says Omicron variant could become endemic in UK
US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
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More than one million people have died in the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, according to Johns Hopkins, far and away the most deaths of any country. While the sheer number of deaths from the coronavirus sets the US apa...
Country singer Mickey Gilley, who helped inspire Urban Cowboy, dies at 86
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Country music star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film Urban Cowboy and a nationwide wave of western-themed nightspots, has died aged 86. Gilley died on Saturday in Branson, Missouri,...
Hundreds of Iraqis hospitalised as thick sandstorm blankets country
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Hundreds of Iraqis have been taken to hospitals with breathing problems and Baghdad airport suspended flights for several hours as a thick sandstorm blanketed the country, the fifth to engulf Iraq within a month. Iraq...
As the US supreme court moves to end abortion, is America still a free country?
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It’s the worst possible outcome: according to a draft majority opinion published by Politico, the US supreme court has voted to overturn Roe v Wade, along with its sister decision Planned Parenthood v Casey. This mome...
Zelenskiy’s economic guru: ‘Germany can survive without Russian oil: I wouldn’t want my country facing the shame’
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Before Russia’s tanks, daubed with their infamous Z, rolled into Ukraine, Oleg Ustenko’s advice to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had focused on pension reform, privatisation and coaxing economic migrants to return. Ne...
Ukraine country diary is a balm for the soul
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I’ve avidly read the country diary for more than 50 years. Many of the contributors have made me gasp in wonder at their sense of being humans in their natural landscapes of time and place, most notably in times of wa...
Russia bans Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Ben Wallace from entering country
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Russia’s foreign ministry has banned Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Ben Wallace and 10 other British government members from entering the country. The ministry said the decision was made “in view of the unprecedented hosti...
Liz Cambage says truth will emerge after her former captain accused her of ‘go back to your third-world country’ comments
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Liz Cambage says the truth will emerge after her former Australian captain Jenna O’Hea said that comments the ex-Opals star was alleged to have made towards the Nigerian women’s basketball team prior to last year’s Ol...