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China has issued a policy document which says it will allow tax deductions for children under three.
It forms part of the government's efforts to reverse a drastic drop in the country's birth rate.
Samuel Wong reports.
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The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there's been a dramatic rise in the proportion of Delta variant COVID cases in the United States.
That as officials reveal there's a number of positive coronavirus cases among staffers, including in the White House.
FSN's Washington Correspondent Caroline Malone has the details.
One hundred people have been killed and several communities razed in Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria.
Thousands of others are now displaced and in dire need of relief.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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One hundred people have been killed and several communities razed in Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria.
Thousands of others are now displaced and in dire need of relief.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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China has hit back at accusations of a global hacking spree and says the US is roping in its allies to smear the country.
The US led a broad coalition of nations, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand as well as the European Union and NATO warning of the threat.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said China was responsible for a pattern of irresponsible, disruptive and destabilizing behavior in cyberspace.
Samuel Wong reports.
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A federal judge in the US has ruled Indiana University can require its students to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
It's the first case to tackle the constitutionality of Covid-19 vaccine requirements at public universities.
US Correspondent Rachel Silverman has the story.
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Michael Calvey, an American investor accused of criminal embezzlement in Russia pleaded not guilty, adding his acquittal could send a positive signal to foreign businesses looking to invest in Russia. The prosecution asked the court to hand Calvey a six-year suspended prison term. The high-profile case, emblematic of the problems associated with doing business in Russia, unfolded amid souring relations between the Kremlin and the West. Our Moscow correspondent Daria Bondarchuk has more.
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The Nigerian government has placed six states and the federal capital territory on red alert following the emergence of the deadly Delta variant of coronavirus in the nation.
The Delta variant has already led to the deaths of at least two people in the country.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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More than eighty wildfires are burning in the Western US, fueled by drought conditions and above average temperatures.
The largest of those fires is burning just across the California border in Oregon.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has increased the alert level for COVID-19 in the United Kingdom to a level four.
They're telling people to avoid travel to the UK, and to make sure to get vaccinated if you do have to travel.
Caroline Malone reports.
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