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URGENT: Tsunami alert issued after 6.8-magnitude quake by Vanuatu: US monitors

A US monitor issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after a large 6.8-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Vanuatu. The…

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) -- New Zealanders must brace for additional Covid-19 cases from an outbreak that has plunged the…

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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Australian airline Qantas said Wednesday it would make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for staff, as the company…

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) -- A coronavirus case that plunged New Zealand into a snap national lockdown was confirmed as…

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) -- New Zealand will move into a snap three-day lockdown after recording its first case of…

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) -- New Zealand recorded its first locally transmitted case of Covid-19 in six months on Tuesday,…

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) -- A coronavirus curfew was announced Monday for Australia's second-biggest city of Melbourne, with residents confined to…

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Poland has sold one million Pfizer Covid vaccine doses to Australia as part of a "responsible policy of solidarity", the…

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CANBERRA, Australia (AFP) -- Australia's capital Canberra was ordered into a seven-day lockdown Thursday, after a single Covid-19 case was…

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) -- Five million people in Australia's second-largest city will remain under stay-at-home orders for at least another…

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