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More vaccines could be delivered to poor countries in the coming weeks than they have received so far this year, but authorities say they will struggle to get them into people’s arms https://t.co/0f4ieDp1ha

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Latin America produces much of the world’s food. But tens of millions of people here can no longer afford to eat it.
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Some former U.S.-trained Afghan soldiers and spies, abandoned after America's withdrawal and hunted by the Taliban, have enlisted in Islamic State https://t.co/VhYY6pebsW

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A 12-year-old girl’s video challenged Mexico’s coronavirus czar over a policy against vaccinating minors. “I’ve learned you have to stand up for yourself in this world. Now, I’m standing up for others who want the vaccine.” https://t.co/qnpABEJEPB

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Facebook's services are used to spread religious hatred in India, internal documents show. Company researchers identified calls to violence that coincided with the 2020 riots in Delhi that left 53 dead. https://t.co/joPEXmsuCy

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Kidnapping has become the great equalizer in Haiti, as violent gangs target resident of both mansions and hovels, and all classes, ages and walks of life https://t.co/khQf5qbCj4

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In debt and desperate to feed her family, a housecleaner in Afghanistan earning 70 cents a day is considering handing over her three-year-old daughter to pay her lender. “If life continues to be this awful, I will kill my children and myself.” https://t.co/AiTWutviy7

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Afghan women fear going outside and speaking out as fear of the Taliban and uncertainty prevail https://t.co/0FmoCLUPuX

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“Everyone left the war and escaped.”​ How the Afghan army, built by the U.S. and allies over 20 years, collapsed on contact with a swift Taliban offensive. https://t.co/s9zQVMu5LD

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Across the Asia-Pacific region, few Covid-19 infections and low vaccination rates have led to an immunity shortfall as the Delta variant strikes https://t.co/o5Q3kGBN49

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Tunisia's remarkable democratic transition is facing its biggest test in 10 years. Here's how the country got here. With reporting help from @Ghaya_BM in Tunis: https://t.co/N5sxqgitgk

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The scandal-tainted Vatican bank has been overhauled over the last decade to ward off tax evaders and money launderers. Now it must convince legitimate customers it has something to offer them. https://t.co/GeUjz0yTkY

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Denmark wants to tighten a policy aimed at reducing the concentration of “non-Western” residents in disadvantaged areas—a policy that has drawn lawsuits and accusations of xenophobia https://t.co/h9srdPaXTw

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After mass vaccinations, a town in Brazil begins to return to normal as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage across the rest of the country https://t.co/vesCQR9Kh2

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In peaceable Sweden, authorities are readying people for the kind of crisis that seemed unthinkable a decade ago: a military invasion by Russia https://t.co/JkJHFMjYGI

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As it fights the world’s fastest-growing surge of infections, India is also carrying out one of the most logistically complex vaccination campaigns https://t.co/5mK2pPXSFs

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Dozens of Syrians are stripped of refugee protection in Denmark and told to go back to Syria:

“Why would you wait until now that we have integrated and we now consider this our country and reached this stage and now you are telling us to go?” https://t.co/lV2k9V99xd

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Will the pandemic result in a rhino baby boom? Park rangers in Nepal hope so. "I never saw them this relaxed in groups before." https://t.co/r9BbQz6MTt

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Prince Philip, a constant presence at the side of Queen Elizabeth II and longest-serving consort to a monarch in British history, has died at 99 https://t.co/qeFuYPZOJb

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Time running out, billions of dollars of cargo on the line and the tide ebbing away. Inside the race to free the Ever Given. https://t.co/CYoYqU1AdZ