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Help from all over the world is starting to arrive in India.
On Friday morning, 400 oxygen cylinder and one million COVID-19 testing kits landed in India…
At a time when the healthcare system is crashing and crematoriums filling up across the nation.
Ishan Garg tells us more.
IN: Aboard the flight
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Duration: 43 seconds
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A pair of Sydney men, allegedly linked to a 2019 attempt to smuggle MDMA into Australia from the Netherlands, have appeared in court in Brisbane.
The arrests stemmed from a major joint international investigation that prevented an estimated 15 million ecstacy pills arriving in Australia.
Shaun Bindley reports from Brisbane.
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Hong Kong's health authorities are warning of a new COVID-19 transmission risk, after recording the city's first untraceable local case of a mutated virus strain. Hundreds of people living in the residential building where the case was discovered have been sent to government quarantine centres.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
Wall Street bounced back Thursday, on the back of strong first-quarter GDP, declining jobless claims, and blockbuster earnings from Facebook and Apple,
The three benchmark indices clocked gains as the technology sector continued its winning streak, with the S&P hitting a new record high.
Here's Liling Tan with the Wall Street wrap.
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DUR: 52 seconds
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US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are due to meet former president Jimmy Carter and his wife today (Thursday) in their home town in the state of Georgia.
It's the first time they've met since Mr Biden took office.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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DUR: 37
Tanzanian agriculture minister Adolf Mkenda has dismissed reports forecasting decreased wheat production in the country, arguing that there would be an increase.
Daniel Kijo reports.
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Prominent Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared via video link in an appeal hearing in a defamation case he claimed is politically motivated. The activist is in jail since January over charges he called politically motivated. Meanwhile Navalny's team had to disband his political network ahead of another court ruling set to declare it an "extremist" organization. Daria Bondarchuk reports from Moscow.
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Boris Johnson is being accused of judging his own trial, as a formal investigation is launched into the refurbishment of his Downing Street residence.
The Prime Minister has been under growing pressure to disclose who financed the revamp after his former adviser, Dominic Cummings, claimed Conservative party donors "secretly paid" for the works.
From London, Benji Hyer reports.
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DUR: 40 secs
The Zondo Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture is allocating four days to question South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. For the first two days, Ramaphosa is responding in his capacity as deputy president and president of the ruling African National Congress. He was deputy president of both the ANC and the country during the years in which state capture is alleged to have occurred. Mark Roughton reports.
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