The latest short-form news audio from FSN Bureaus worldwide
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India has granted emergency approval to the Moderna vaccine.
For now, it will be imported by local pharma company Cipla under a commercial arrangement.
Experts are welcoming the move as the country braces for an imminent third wave.
Ishan Garg reports.
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With Australia's hotel quarantine system again being blamed for the spread of the coronavirus, calls are increasing for the arrival of international travellers to be curtailed.
Its been revealed a worker at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane was exposed to the virus by a person that has travelled between Australia and Indonesia a number of times, during the pandemic.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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Los Angeles County is advising people to wear masks in indoor public spaces, regardless of their vaccination status.
The guidance comes with the highly transmissible Delta variants now accounting for almost half the county's coronavirus cases.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.
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Residents of Los Angeles have been told they need to wear face-masks indoors again, even if they are fully-vaccinated.
The move comes as the Delta variant is surging in the US, and it's now reported that the Centers for Disease Control is reassessing its guidance.
From Washington, Simon Marks reports.
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The government of Ethiopia has declared a unilateral ceasefire in its Northern region where conflict has been ongoing since november last year.
The decision comes as the Tigray Defense Forces, declared as rebels by the government, announced that they have taken over parts of the region including the capital city .
Coletta Wanjohi reports from Addis Ababa :
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President Biden says he's planning to visit the scene of last Thursday's apartment collapse in Florida later this week….possibly as early as Thursday.
The official death toll stands at 11 with more than 150 people still unaccounted for.
And there are fresh reports today that residents of the building were warned of structural problems that needed to be addressed.
The Wall St J and the NYT reporting that the homeowners' association warned residents at least 15 million dollars needed to be spent on repairs.
Giles Gibson is at the scene in Surfside.
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Facebook's market capital slipped back below one trillion US dollars in Tuesday morning trading, a day after becoming the fifth US company to break that threshold.
The social network's stock surged Monday after a federal judge threw out antitrust complaints against the company.
Liling Tan reports from New York.
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England will face Germany at Wembley Stadium tonight (Tuesday 16G), with the winner booking their spot in the Euro 2020 quarter-finals.
England have met Germany four times in the knockout rounds of a major football tournament since their World Cup Final victory over the Germans in 1966. On all four occasions, The Three Lions have lost to Die Mannschaft.
From London, Benji Hyer reports.
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The search and rescue operation in Thursday’s Miami building collapse has entered a sixth day, with 150 people still missing and at least eleven dead.
It’s emerged that the president of the Champlain South Towers warned in April that the building was in desperate need of repairs, and had urged residents to pay millions of dollars for structural repairs.
Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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South Africa’s highest court has found Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months’ imprisonment. The former president defied an instruction from the Constitutional Court to appear before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, then chose not to defend the Commission’s application to find him guilty of contempt. Mark Roughton reports.
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President Samia Hassan has revealed that Tanzania has recorded 100 new Covid-19 cases since the third wave of the viral disease broke out across the globe, President Hassan said 70 of the 100 patients were in a critical condition.
From Dar es salaam, Daniel Kijo has more.
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