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[ad_1] South China morning post China leads world in jailed journalists for second year in a row, watchdog group China has topped the world ranking of jailed journalists for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a watchdog on …

[ad_1] According to Oxfam, nine out of 10 people in underdeveloped countries will miss a vaccine in 2021. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan / Bloomberg Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan / Bloomberg Covid-19 vaccines appear to be prepared to protect millions of world citizens richest countries in the coming months. But inoculating the rest …

[ad_1] How often can we say in Does Jürgen Klopp’s stay at Liverpool mean that they have made a mistake in a transfer? There aren’t many, if any, and you would have to think hard about a genuine contender who fits into that category. Almost every first-team transfer in the …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS: American tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google face fines of up to 10 percent of annual turnover and could even split under draft European Union rules announced Tuesday to curb their powers. The rules are the most serious attempt by the 27-nation bloc to curb tech …

[ad_1] Indonesia plans to vaccinate its young working-age population against the coronavirus before the elderly, in contrast to much of the world that plans to put its vulnerable older people first. The first Southeast Asian country to receive Covid-19 vaccine delivery will focus on inoculating people between the ages of …

[ad_1] Photographer: Adrian Wyld / Canadian Press / Bloomberg Photographer: Adrian Wyld / Canadian Press / Bloomberg In the evolving race for Covid-19 vaccines, Indonesia has taken the apparent lead in Southeast Asia with the delivery of vaccines from China. Sinovac Biotech Ltd. this month. Southeast Asia’s largest and most …

[ad_1] SYDNEY: Australia will ask the World Trade Organization to investigate China’s punitive tariffs on barley imports, it said on Wednesday (December 16), in a significant escalation of tensions between the two nations. Trade Minister Simon Birmingham announced the decision, saying Beijing’s 80 percent surcharge on Australia’s barley imports “is …

[ad_1] South China morning post China leads world in jailed journalists for second year in a row, watchdog group China has topped the world ranking of jailed journalists for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a watchdog on …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS: The global plan to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the poorest countries faces a “very high” risk of failure, which could leave billions of people in the nations without access to vaccines until 2024, according to internal documents . The World Health Organization’s COVAX program is the world’s leading …

[ad_1] JAKARTA – President Joko Widodo announced on Wednesday (December 16) that he will be the first recipient of a Covid-19 vaccine in Indonesia and that the vaccine will be available free of charge to all Indonesians. “I want to emphasize once again that I will be the first to …