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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief adviser has accused the British government of acting too late when tackling Covid-19.
Dominic Cummings, who's been facing questions from MPs about mistakes made during the coronavirus pandemic, claimed there was "no sense of urgency" during the initial outbreak.
He's also called for the Health Secretary Matt Hancock to be fired for lying.
From London, Benji Hyer reports.
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China has condemned plans for a people's tribunal to be held on allegations of human rights abuses on Uyghurs in Xinjiang in the UK.
The non-governmental tribunal will be led by prominent barrister Geoffrey Nice, who led the prosecution of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague.
Samuel Wong reports.
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A federal minister says she's encouraged by the response to the Australian governments abuse hotline.
The special hotline was established after a former staffer claimed she was raped in a parliamentary office in 2019.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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Prosecutors in New York have convened a grand jury to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute former President Donald Trump or members of his inner circle.
The news was broken by the Washington Post and is the latest evidence that the former President is in legal jeopardy.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The Biden administration has announced plans to develop the first offshore wind energy projects off the California coast.
It's part of a push to dramatically reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.
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As the global demand for COVID-19 vaccines rages on ....and as Africa struggles to get enough doses for its people, plans are underway to start manufacturing the shots in the continent. The European Union has selected Ghana as a manufacturing hub and the government says it is laying the grounds for the implementation of the project.
Nabil Ahmed Rufai reports from Accra.
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U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra has called for a follow-up investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, amid renewed debate over whether the virus first emerged in the wild or accidentally escaped from a lab.
Secretary Becerra said that international experts should be given "independence to fully assess the source of the virus."
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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The White House has announced that President Biden's first face-to-face summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia will take place in Geneva in the middle of next month.
The meeting will come at the end of Joe Biden's first foreign trip as President to the G7 summit in Cornwall and then to NATO in Brussels.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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An inquiry into discrimination within the Conservative Party has found that while claims of 'institutional racism' were not borne out of evidence - anti-Muslim sentiment 'remains a problem'. The independent review was set up following the Conservative's 2019 General Election win and criticises comments made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson before he took up office in Number 10. Laura Makin-Isherwood has more.
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