COVID-19: Business optimism highest since 2015 thanks to vaccine progress

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Pakistan anti-France protesters clash with police for second day
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Will Smith has pulled production of his film Emancipation out of Georgia in protest at the state's new law restricting access to voting. The film, about a runaway slave, was the largest and most high-profile Hollywood production to leave the state so far. It came after Georgia's Republican-controlled state legislature passed a law introducing stiffer voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, and limiting the number of voting drop boxes. The law also gave the State Election Board new powers to remove local election officials, and barred the provision of food and water to people waiting in line to vote. Opponents have said the law is designed to reduce the number of black voters casting ballots. Joe Biden has called it “outrageous” and “un-American”. Read more: What is the new Georgia voting law and why is it controversial?
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The Independent
‘The fear is much worse is coming’: Loyalist leaders call for political action as Northern Ireland violence returns
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COVID cases are now rising in 34 areas of the UK
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Azerbaijani president visits park displaying military trophies from Karabakh war
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visits a "War Trophy Park" showcasing military equipment seized from Armenian troops during the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Yerevan ceded swathes of territories to Baku under a Russian-backed ceasefire, which was seen as a national humiliation in Armenia.
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Ethiopian Jews' long wait for life in Israel
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The Independent
Putin could spark war in Europe by invading Ukraine, says former US ambassador
Michael McFaul warned world leaders should be ‘very’ concerned by unfolding situation
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Minister ‘deeply concerned’ after burning car left on train track near Bellarena
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Reuters
Thailand reports 965 new COVID-19 cases as biggest holiday begins
Thailand on Tuesday reported 965 new COVID-19 cases after registering record rises in the past two days as the country started its Songkran new year holiday amid a third wave of infections. Authorities have banned for a second year the water fights that usually happen on the streets during Songkran and urged people to avoid unnecessary travel and reduce gatherings to help curb the outbreak, which includes the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 variant first identified in Britain. Of the new infections, 956 were local transmissions, including 194 in the capital Bangkok, the epicentre of an outbreak that has spread to most parts of the country.
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Cara Delevingne shares photograph of her grandmother with 17-year-old Prince Philip
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COVID-19: Business optimism highest since 2015 thanks to vaccine progress

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