A ground crew member transports the COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX at Bole international airport in Addis Ababa.
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The inefficient vaccine allocation rules currently in place must be replaced by new cooperative institutional structures and more concrete steps by the Group of Twenty (G20) countries.
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Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
Ireland has third-worst wage rate in EU.
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Ireland is looking at imposing a living wage on all employers.
COVID and containment measures have brought Afghanistan to brink of humanitarian catastrophe.
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The infrastructure and levels of deprivation in poorer countries have prevented them from benefiting from containment measures as much as richer nations.
Pubs, restaurants and cafes in England, Scotland and Wales are now able to serve customers indoors.
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Surge vaccination is being used to combat the B16172 variant, while the government prepares for a vaccine booster programme.
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The two countries both stand to benefit from closer economic ties.
Houses in the city of Victoria, the capital of Seychelles.
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What does the Seychelles experience tell us about variants, vaccine efficacy and herd immunity?
Ex-hurricane Ophelia striking the British Isles on October 16, 2017.
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Storms which originate in the tropics and reach Europe aren’t as rare as scientists once thought.
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A public health expert outlines what Britons can expect from their upcoming booster programme.
Delft after protests against the local government. One of South Africa’s first social impact bonds funded a project in the town.
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Two social impact bonds that have concluded in South Africa showed that they got innovation going where it was desperately needed.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
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Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
For Narendra Modi, the Indian premier, the deal is a very welcome distraction.
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What the deal involves and why it matters.
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We cannot look back in the future and
know we could have done more.
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Despite clear concerns about the global impact of problem betting, more governments are making it easier to access
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Britain moves to protect itself from the B1617 variant, which vaccines may be less effective against.
U.S. President Joe Biden, with presidential climate envoy John Kerry, opened the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22, 2021, by announcing new U.S. targets.
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Two energy and climate policy experts take a closer look at the Leaders Summit on Climate, the US pledge and today’s industrial reality.
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The amount of risk from overseas arrivals depends not just on Australia’s vaccination rates, but also on the particular circumstances of the country from which people are travelling.
Northern Irish protesters on April 7, 2021, burn the Peace Gate in Belfast, built in the 1990s to separate the city’s warring Protestant and Catholic communities.
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Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK territory’s worst outbreak of violence in decades.
Human rights defenders speaking out for women march through an informal settlement in Nairobi.
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Removing funding from research-led projects puts people in highly vulnerable situations.
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Google mobility data shows people staying home less and visiting shops more than they were last spring.