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Millions of Australians have been left without mobile and internet service after telecommunications giant Optus was hit by an outage. Optus is the country's second-largest provider, with more than 10 million individual customers and hundr...
Germany's transport network will be at a near standstill on Monday as two of the country's largest unions strike. Staff at airports, ports, railways, buses and subways walked out shortly after midnight for a 24-hour stoppage. Uni...
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Rescuers work through third freezing night as death toll nears 16,000 Without shelter, water, fuel or electricity there are fears that many earthquake survivors could yet lose their lives....
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From long lines to delays and cancellations, airports around the world have been trying to manage a post-pandemic travel surge with a shortage of staff. WSJ follows an American Airlines pilot through the disruptions to unpack how airlines are trying ...
The National Gallery will send some of its finest masterpieces around the UK for its 200th anniversary. Twelve famous artworks including Constable's The Hay Wain, Botticelli's Venus and Mars, and Renoir's The Umbrellas travel across the...
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The US Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden's rule requiring workers at large companies to be vaccinated or masked and tested weekly. The justices at the nation's highest court said the mandate exceeded the Biden adminis...
Existing vaccines should still protect people who contract the Omicron variant from severe Covid cases, a World Health Organization (WHO) official says. It comes as the first lab tests of the new variant in South Africa suggest i...
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Italy is to make it compulsory for all workers to have a Covid "green pass" - proof of vaccination, a negative test or recovery from the virus. The measures are a first for Europe and some of the strictest in the world....
About 3,000 health workers in France have been suspended because they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. A new rule, which came into force on Wednesday, made vaccination mandatory for the country's 2.7 million health, car...
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Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to l...
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