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Key parts of ICJ's ruling on Israel genocide case you may have missed
The ruling addresses the emergency measures requested by South Africa.
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Human footprint from 153,000 years ago 'pushes the clock back on mankind by 30 millennia'
New dating technologies have uncovered the oldest homo sapiens footprints ever found.
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Omicron symptoms: South African doctor on three most common signs of new variant
Dr Angelique Coetzee first raised the alarm about the variant almost four weeks ago.
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VideoAre travel bans effective at stopping the spread of the Omicron variant?
President Biden’s decision late last week to ban travel from eight southern African countries is unlikely to curb the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, an epidemiologist warns, and could even be counterproductive. “While it feels attractive to do a travel ban because it shows action and power and protecting our borders, it actually doesn’t really have a lot of public health impact,” Dr. Stefan Baral, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch
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Omicron: Surge in COVID cases 'will send us back into lockdown' - expert
An expert has warned that high case rates could trigger another lockdown.
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New coronavirus strain could already be in the UK, health officials warn
The health secretary said the new variant was of 'huge international concern', amid fears it may have reached the UK.
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‘Extremely worrying’: UK urged to ‘act now’ and put multiple countries on red list over COVID super variant
The new variant that has been detected in South Africa and Botswana has experts worried.
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