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The Duke of Sussex has spoken about his fear that history might repeat itself - when discussing the pressures his mother Princess Diana faced when leaving the Royal family. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex were being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on their decision to step back from Royal life. Laura Makin-Isherwood has more.
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Health officials in the UK are trying to trace a so far unidentified person who's been infected with what the government says is a coronavirus "variant of concern" first found in Brazil.
The individual is one of six cases of the P1 variant found in the UK in February, as Benji Hyer reports from London.
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Ghana has begun its inoculation against COVID-19 and first in line is the country's president. It comes after Ghana received the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines under the W.H.O. COVAX program.
Nabil Ahmed Rufai reports from Accra.
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French drivers will have to provide German police with a negative coronavirus test result in order to cross the border.
The measures are being introduced by the German government after the country's leading health body classified the French region of Moselle as an area of high concern for coronavirus infection rates.
From Berlin, Trent Murray reports
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TIME: 53 secs
South Africa’s marathon lockdown is back to its lowest level of restrictions. Seven weeks since the peak of the country’s second wave of COVID-19 infections, daily active cases are down to levels last seen in June. Mark Roughton reports.
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the COVID-19 jab on Monday morning…
Just hours before the country starting the vaccination drive for at-risk groups…
It's hoped that this will quell vaccine hesitancy in the country, as Ishan Garg reports from New Delhi.
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Duration: 39 seconds
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The 78th Golden Globe Awards — presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — have named "Nomadland" best drama film and "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" best comedy film. The Globes are watched closely as a bellwether for the Academy Awards. Rachel Silverman report has this report from San Francisco.
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Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside a court in Hong Kong where
47 pro-democracy activists are facing charges of subverting the state.
They're accused of trying to "paralyse the government" by holding primaries ahead of the city's legislative election last year.
Their arrests are facing international condemnation.
Richard Kimber reports from outside the courthouse in Hong Kong.
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OUT: Richard Kimber, Hong Kong
DUR: 0.44
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Japan's state of emergency has been lifted in all but the greater Tokyo area ahead of its scheduled end on March 7th. It comes as new infection numbers throughout the country continue to slow down - Grace Lee has more from Tokyo.
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DURATION: 0:42