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    A fast-spreading pandemic has reduced an additional 100 million people into poverty

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    Activism will be key to overcoming the COVID-19 crisis

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    COVID-19: The world can end vaccine inequity firstly by effectively sharing the doses, says WHO chief

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    Revellers cross international borders to welcome 2022; throw caution to the wind

    Tens of thousands of people intermingled among complete strangers to usher in the New Year on Nepal's Kosi river barrage. The revellers arrived from...
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