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With the covid cluster in Australia's biggest city Sydney continuing to grow, police say large fines will be given to anyone attempting to leave restricted areas.
The case numbers linked to the Bondi delta variant cluster, which has been spreading across Sydney for a week, now stands at 65.
Shaun Bindley has more.
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The surging violence in Afghanistan is expected to be the main topic of conversation, when U.S. President Joe Biden meets his Afghan counterpart on Friday.
President Ashraf Ghani will be accompanied at the White House by the chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah .
They will discuss the withdrawal of US troops, amid an increase in fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington.
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Hong Kong is tightening its quarantine requirements for people arriving from the UK.
Health authorities say that's needed due to a surge in Covid-19 cases there involving a highly infectious strain of the virus that's also been recorded in Hong Kong.
Richard Kimber reports.
At least one person has died and ninety nine people remain unaccounted for after the sudden collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Miami.
Local officials say they don't know yet why the building collapsed.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer has more
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US President Joe Biden has called the closure of Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily — quote — "a sad day for media freedom in Hong Kong and around the world."
The popular 26-year-old tabloid was forced to shut down Thursday under what the American president say was pressure from Beijing to suppress the media and silence dissent.
U.S. correspondent Liling Tan reports.
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US President Joe Biden has struck a deal to further his infrastructure plan.
The bipartisan agreement marks a victory in his bid to work with Republicans who oppose most of his agenda.
Kate Fisher repost from Washington
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The remains of some 751 people, mainly children, have been found in another horrific discovery in Canada.
An Indigenous group says the bodies were found in unmarked graves on the site of a former boarding school in Saskatchewan.
Nina-Maria Potts has more;
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At least one person has died and more than fifty people remain unaccounted for after the sudden collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Miami.
Local officials say they don't know yet why the building collapsed.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer has more
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The Biden administration is banning U.S. imports of a key solar panel material from a major Chinese producer .
It's part of a broader effort to confront China's alleged human rights abuses of Uyghurs and other minorities.
Silicon Valley reporter Rachel Silverman has more.
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel says she would like all European countries to ask British travellers to quarantine on arrival in EU nations. It comes as the UK prepares to announce changes to its own border and travel restrictions. Laura Makin-Isherwood reports.
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Rescuers in Miami are desperately searching for survivors after a 12-story apartment building partially collapsed overnight, killing at least one person and injuring eight others.
There are fears many more could be trapped in the rubble, as Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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