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Boris Johnson to stress work as the fix for cost of living crisis
May 25, 2022 10:48UK ministers remain unable to decide on ways to relieve poverty as they wrangle over windfall tax for energy companies.
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Record 420,000 children a month in England treated for mental health problems
May 24, 2022 04:09Experts say COVID-19 has seriously exacerbated problems such as anxiety, depression and self-harm among school-age children in England and that the “relentless and unsustainable” ongoing rise in their need for help could overwhelm NHS services.
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Boris Johnson to sacrifice top official over Partygate to save himself
May 24, 2022 00:35UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under pressure on Saturday May 21 to explain a recent meeting he held with the senior mandarin Sue Gray. It has led to claims that No 10 had tried to interfere and water down her findings about the Partygate during the coronavirus lockdown.
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Fauci warns US society in ‘decline’ due to spread of disinformation
May 22, 2022 10:36The US' top medical adviser has issued a stern warning that society is in “decline” due to the spread of disinformation and propaganda.
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Biden signs $40 bn Ukraine aid package, putting COVID funds on backburner
May 21, 2022 09:25US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bill that provides nearly $40 billion of additional humanitarian and military aid for Ukraine, in a move that prioritizes assistance for Kiev over fight against the coronavirus in the world's worst-hit country.
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Iran supports UN efforts to address global food insecurity: Takht-Ravanchi
May 20, 2022 06:31Iran's envoy to the United Nations (UN) says the Islamic Republic supports the world body's efforts to address global food insecurity amid the acute hunger crisis gripping the world.
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North Korea hails 'good results' in COVID-19 fight as caseload passes 2 million
May 20, 2022 06:28North Korea on Friday claimed “good results” in the fight against the country’s first confirmed coronavirus outbreak even as the number of people with fever symptoms crossed two million.
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Capitalism is to blame for how quickly US COVID deaths reached 1 million
May 20, 2022 03:01With solemn tone and a truly daunting dot-matrix map of the lost, The New York Times put forth the question that nobody seems prepared to deal with at this juncture: How did this country suffer 1 million COVID deaths, the most of any country in the world, in less than three years?
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UK police finish probe into Johnson's partygate scandal with 126 fines
May 19, 2022 09:47British police have finished their investigation into COVID-19 lockdown parties held at Downing Street office, issuing a total of 126 fines, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson receiving no further fines.
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US COVID deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
May 18, 2022 13:57Virus has laid bare America’s fragmented healthcare system and corrosive racial and socioeconomic inequality.