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President Xi Jinping has declared that China would stop building new energy projects abroad that use coal. The announcement at the U.N. General Assembly could affect 44 coal plants earmarked for Chinese state financing, totalling $50 billion

More than 100 countries face spending cuts as Covid worsens debt crisis, report warns

A Madhya Pradesh Twist To Record Vaccination Numbers On PM Modi Birthday NDTV's Anurag Dwary reports Read more:

A-grade hypocrisy. When @AnnastaciaMP  called for a plan to vaccinate kids when the health advice stacks up, Hunt, Liberal Ministers & Murdoch attacked her for 'scaremongering'. Now she's been proven right, not a sentence of apology, instead Hunt is praised for his foresight!

Be it the deaths of U.S. soldiers or Afghan civilians, tragedies of the War on Terror could have been avoided. The U.S. military invented the concept of "collateral damage" to cover its atrocities. For whom the bell tolls? Farewell to all the victims of the war.

'I think we need to make misogyny a hate crime. I think harassment in the public space against women should be a criminal offence.' @SadiqKhan  reflects on the 'epidemic of violence against women and girls' after London school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed walking home.

Meet the 98-year-old Chinese grandmother still practising Kung Fu 👇

"Since 1 February, the military junta and its forces murdered 1,100+ people, arbitrarily detained 8,000+, and forcibly displaced 230,000+ civilians, bringing the total number of internally placed persons in Myanmar to well over half a million." -- UN rapporteur.

LOCKDOWN RECORD: Melbourne has claimed the unenviable crown of most locked down city in the world. The Victorian capital today clocks up 235 days of strict stay-at-home orders, overtaking the record set by Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. MORE: #9News 

China has developed the world's first #COVID19  #vaccine  which could protect against different variants. Clinical trials on Wednesday revealed the recombinant protein vaccine has a 79% efficacy against Delta, whilst it shows 92% and 59% efficacy against Gamma and Mu respectively.