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India's Covid-19 crisis 'beyond heartbreaking' as first foreign aid trickles in
The first emergency medical supplies trickled into Covid-stricken India on Tuesday as part of efforts to staunch a catastrophic wave in the latest pandemic hotspot, with the United States also pledging to export millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses.
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Worrying side-effect of India crisis
Critics have sounded alarm bells for the public as India’s brutal second wave of COVID-19 whittles away “whatever remains of democracy”.
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Chilling warning on ‘suffocating’ Indo sub
A desperate search for a missing Indonesian submarine could be all for nothing, with an expert making a grim prediction about the fate of its 53 crew.
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Submarine missing with 53 on board
The Indonesian navy is searching for a submarine that has gone missing off the coast of Bali with 53 people on board.