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Health risks from air pollution in Hong Kong are at the highest level on the city's scale. Experts say there's a combination of factors to blame, and are encouraging people to limit their time spent outdoors.
Richard Kimber reports.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced new sanctions on senior officials in the International Criminal Court.
He also said Chinese diplomats in the United States are to face new restrictions on freedom of movement, in the latest salvo in deteriorating relations between the two countries.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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High ranking US lawmaker Nancy Pelosi is facing criticism after footage emerged of her getting an indoor haircut in San Francisco, which isn't allowed under the city's coronavirus rules.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans are using the episode to accuse the speaker of the US House of Representatives of hypocrisy.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now Hollywood producers.
Harry and Meghan have signed a multiyear deal with Netflix.
Our Correspondent Rachel Silverman has this report from California.
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The German government says the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisonings two years ago. Navalny is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after collapsing in Siberia. Moscow Correspondent Lucy Taylor.
Tui, the largest travel company in the world, has cancelled holidays to the resort of Laganas on the Greek island Zante because customers were failing to follow coronavirus safety measures.
The Anglo-German firm's decision comes after half a dozen clusters of cases were linked to flights from the island.
Tui halting trips to Zante coincides with growing pressure on the British government to reconsider England's quarantine rules for Greece.
From London, Benji Hyer reports.
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Fourteen people are standing trial in France, over a terror attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were shot dead. A further three people were killed at a Jewish supermarket.
The attack happened more than five years ago- the defendants are accused of assisting the militant Islamist perpetrators.
Nina-Maria Potts has more:
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India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is in Moscow today…
He's meeting with his counterparts from Russia AND China.
The meeting comes as the border tensions between India and China are heating up again.
Ishan Garg has more on this from New Delhi.
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The release of GDP figures for the June quarter shows the Australian economy went backwards by 7 per cent.
Shaun Bindley reports from Brisbane.
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