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Melbourne will remain in lockdown for another week as cases continue to rise.

Melbourne lockdown extends to tackle Covid outbreak

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The herd of wild Asian elephants

China tries to keep elephant herd out of city of 7 million

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Andrei Pivovarov

Russian opposition activist sent to jail amid crackdown on dissent

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The sinking MV X-Press Pearl

Environmental disaster feared as ship sinks off Sri Lanka

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Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, right, and Pyotr Dubrov

Russians end seven-hour spacewalk at International Space Station

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General view of alcohol in a pub

Free beer becomes latest incentive for Americans to get vaccinated

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A worker loads AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines produced by Siam Bioscience factory in Nonthaburi province, Thailand

AstraZeneca starts delivering Thailand-made jabs amid production schedule fears

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Russian opposition figure Dmitry Gudkov

Russian opposition activists due in court amid crackdown on dissent

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US President Joe Biden in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Biden prioritises US voting rights bill amid mounting restrictions

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Isaac Herzog

Veteran politician Isaac Herzog elected president of Israel

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Stsiapan Latypau was taken to hospital after stabbing himself in the neck with a pen

Belarusian activist 'stabs himself with pen' in court 'after threat against family'

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Russian Tu-22M3 bombers fly over the Kremlin’s Tower with a Red Star on the top (Ivan Sektretarev/AP)

Russia’s upper house votes to withdraw from overflight treaty

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Impoverished Sri Lankans walk along the beach as they try to salvage wreckage washed off to the shore from the burning Singaporean ship MV X-Press Pearl (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Sinking ship loaded with chemicals towed away from Sri Lanka’s coast

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Russia Space Station

Spacewalking Russian cosmonauts prepare ISS for disposal mission

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A little girl adjusts testing glasses during an eyesight examination (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

Children in remote Romanian region get eye tests for the first time

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Smoke rising from Iran’s navy support ship Kharg in the Gulf of Oman (AP)

Iranian navy’s largest warship sinks in Gulf of Oman

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An empty Swanston Street in Melbourne (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP)

Lockdown extended as Australian city tackles coronavirus cluster

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A Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft that Malaysian authorities said was in the airspace over Malaysia’s maritime zone near the coast of Sarawak state on Borneo island. (Royal Malaysian Air Force/AP)

Malaysia protests over Chinese military ‘intrusion’ in airspace

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