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Female Tesco employees could be owed thousands after they sought clarification over equal pay rights from the European Court of Justice.
Shop floor workers made up of mostly women claim that male warehouse employees are being paid around $4 more than them, even though their work is of equal value.
Chris Jones has more in London.
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A group of rebel MPs are set to try to overturn a decision made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government to cut the UK overseas aid budget. An amendment, signed by 18 MPs, has been tabled to try to force a return to previous spending commitments, just days before the G7 Summit gets underway. Laura Makin-Isherwood reports.
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OUT: Laura Makin-Isherwood, London
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the mining industry will play a major role in the country's bounce back from the covid downturn.
He says the resources sector will become a "pin up industry" and Australia will lead the world in lower emissions productions.
Shaun Bindley reports from Brisbane
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India's single-day COVID-19 fatalities dropped to nearly 2900 – the lowest tally in a month.
But the threat of a third – potentially more dangerous – wave looms large…
Causing authorities to ramp up vaccine procurement…
As Ishan Garg reports from New Delhi.
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Japan is ramping up its vaccine rollout with plans for workplace and university inoculations. The nation continues to battle a fourth wave of coronavirus infections while preparing to host the Olympics in less than two months' time
Phoebe Amoroso reports from Tokyo.
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OUT: "...to give vaccinations."
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Benjamin Netanyahu's run as Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister is set to come to an end.
His opponents say they have successfully forged a coalition to oust him from power.
The news came just ahead of a midnight deadline in Israel.
Reporter Noga Tarnopolsky is in Tel Aviv.
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OUT: "…four year term"
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Reporter Noga Tarnopolsky in Tel Aviv says the new government is a coalition made up of strange bedfellows.
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OUT: "…done government"
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Although the government is unlikely to take office for at least another week, reporter Noga Tarnopolsky in Tel Aviv says it will now be very difficult for Prime Minister Netanyahu to find a way of remaining in power.
IN: “I don’t think…..”
OUT: “…thwart this”
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Reporter Noga Tarnopolsky in Tel Aviv says it’s too early to assess the impact of the coalition’s creation on Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians.
IN: “In terms….”
OUT: “…just don’t know”
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Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents say they have successfully forged a coalition to oust him from power.
The news came just ahead of a midnight deadline in Israel.
Naftali Bennett will now serve as the country's Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with Yair Lapid.
Reporter Emily Rose is in Tel Aviv.
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OUT: "…election after election after election"
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But the deal is not entirely done yet.
The coalition must secure support in a vote in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, at some point over the next 12 days.
And that gives Benjamin Netanyahu time to try and prize the coalition apart.
US President Joe Biden has appealed to all Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, revealing fears the country has hit a wall and infections could rise again by the winter.
Crediting his own administration with the success of the roll-out so far, the president warned that a gulf between the vaccinated and unvaccinated is deepening.
Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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