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Officials say a section of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay scheduled to be held in the City of Osaka will be cancelled.
The announcement comes after the prefecture reported 616 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, surpassing Tokyo for a third day.
Phoebe Amoroso reports.
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A former supervisor of the fired Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death has testified the officer violated police use-of-force policies in his restraint of Floyd last May.
Former police officer Derek Chauvin is accused of murder George Floyd…..an incident which sparked Black Lives matter protests across the globe. .
US Correspondent Rachel Silverman has details.
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Wall Street closed the first trading day of the month on a very high note, as investors bet on an economic recovery and shrugged off an increase in weekly unemployment benefits.
All three benchmark indices finished up with the S&P surpassing the 4,000 threshold for the first time ever.
Here's Liling Tan with the US markets roundup.
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Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine is highly effective at protecting against Covid-19 for at least six months after the second dose, according to the companies.
The new analysis also suggests that it works against a variant that was first identified in South Africa.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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The African Union has called for urgent and coordinated international action after a jihadist attack that killed dozens and uprooted thousands on the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma.
This comes on the back of more than 5,000 people fleeing an attack by a group linked to ISIS making their way to safety elsewhere in northern Mozambique, while a small group of victims arrived by boat in neighboring Tanzania.
The UK government is facing further criticism over the findings of a report into racism in the UK. Opposition politicians have said the black community was being 'gaslighted' and that institutional racism is being downplayed. Laura Makin-Isherwood has more.
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Less than half of Brits are following self-isolation rules, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal.
The report also found only half of people in the UK know the main Covid-19 symptoms, whilst fewer than one in five are requesting a Covid test if they experience those symptoms.
Benji Hyer has more details from London.
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At least four people were killed during a shooting at an office complex just south of Los Angeles.
The suspect was shot and wounded.
Rachel Silverman has details.
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The Japanese government has issued a designation allowing three prefectural governments to take stricter measures against the spread of coronavirus.
Osaka and Hyogo Prefectures in Western Japan, along with Miyagi in the northeast, will now have the power to order businesses to shorten their hours, even if no state of emergency has been declared.
Phoebe Amoroso reports.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and six other high profile democracy activists have been found guilty of unauthorized assembly in relation to an anti-government protest in 2019. The group includes some of Hong Kong's longest-standing democracy campaigners.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
One of the worlds most celebrated music festivals, the Byron Bay Blues Festival on the far north coast of New South Wales has been cancelled for the second year in a row, after a locally transmitted case of covid 19 was discovered on Tuesday.
Festival organisers said in a statement the New South Wales Minister for Health Brad Hazzard has signed a health order cancelling the event.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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