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An Australian man, stranded in India since March last year, has lodged a challenge in the Federal Court against the validity of the governments decision to ban travel home from India.
The travel restrictions mean anyone travelling home to Australia from India, could face up to five year in prison and fines of up to $66,000.
Shaun Bindley reports
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Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more time in prison, for defying a police ban on a vigil to commemorate the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. He's already behind bars for his roles in two other anti-government protests in 2019.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
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The United States is backing India's appeal to waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines at the WTO.
New Delhi argues that a waiver will help poorer nations ramp up vaccine manufacturing…
By allowing domestic pharma companies to produce shots developed by international vaccine makers.
Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
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The Japanese government will decide whether to extend the state of emergency by the weekend. The emergency measures are in place for four prefectures and currently scheduled to end on March 11th.
Phoebe Amoroso reports in Tokyo.
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US President Joe Biden says he is open to compromise on his 2 trillion dollar infrastructure and jobs plan. However he says he's not going to budge on how the plan is financed….by increasing taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans.
Biden made the remarks as he touted a new program to provide assistance to restaurants….as Rachel Silverman reports.
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Former US President Donald Trump will not be allowed to return to Facebook or Instagram, at least for the moment.
Facebook's Oversight Board has ruled that the President's posts "severely violated" the platform's rules, but it also criticizes the company.
From Washington, Simon Marks reports.
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Michael McConnell is co-chair of the Oversight Board and announced the decision in a press call with reporters.
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The UK is set to spend more than 40 million dollars building what the government calls 'state of the art' coronavirus laboratories. It's hoped the labs will help accelerate the production of vaccines that may need to be tailored to new Covid-19 variants. Laura Makin-Isherwood has more.
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India's entire delegation to this week's G7 meeting in the UK has been forced into self-isolation after at least two of them tested positive for Covid-19.
Although it's not a G7 member, India was invited to attend the first face-to-face convening of the group's foreign ministers in more than two years.
The talks are taking place in London, where Benji Hyer reports.
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