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30 Dec 2020

South Africa: COVID-19 cases soar with little prospect of widespread vaccination

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Jean Shaoul On Sunday, South Africa reported that its total number of COVID-19 infections had reached one million, just nine days after repo...

Daily deaths near 1,000 as UK Parliament spends day ratifying Brexit treaty

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Robert Stevens Yesterday was a continuing nightmare for the British population, as another 981 deaths were announced from COVID-19. A furthe...

Spanish officers plot fascist coup to impose “herd immunity” COVID-19 policy

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Alejandro López & Alex Lantier The stream of revelations of fascist sympathies and calls for mass murder in the Spanish army constitute ...

Coronavirus deaths reach record high in Germany as hospitals teeter on brink of collapse

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Marianne Arens The death toll from the coronavirus continues to grow relentlessly. Approximately 1.8 million people have died worldwide and ...

Macron government rejects national lock-down in France

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Samuel Tissot Yesterday, French authorities reported that 969 people had died in the space of 24 hours on December 29, bringing the official...

Spain to cut pensions as billions go to super-rich in EU pandemic bailout

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Alice Summers Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government is preparing to cut pensions by around 5.5 percent and raise the retirement ...

US-China tensions at center of fight over Philippine vaccine procurement

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John Malvar The availability and distribution of a vaccine for COVID-19 in the Philippines has become the subject of a fierce dispute bound ...

Freedom of Information request reveals surge of COVID-19 infections among London bus, rail and tube workers

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Laura Tiernan A video clip from the BBC documentary “Hospital” has been widely shared among bus drivers this past week. Filmed in October at...