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California says it can no longer afford aid for COVID testing and vaccination of migrants

All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States.

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Miami Open entry list impressive, but COVID vaccine border rule would bar No. 1 Djokovic

MIAMI — The Miami Open revealed its provisional entry list for next month’s tournament at Hard Rock Stadium. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic is currently the top seed but unlikely to play, unless he gets a special exemption, because the U.S. COVID travel laws do not allow unvaccinated non-U.S. citizens…

Miami Herald

Minorities in UK no longer at much higher risk of dying from Covid

ONS numbers reveal rates of deaths now much lower for all ethnic groups compared with earlier in pandemic

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Boris Johnson in line for more taxpayers’ money for Partygate defence

Exclusive: Taxpayers to foot another five-figure bill as government prepares to extend support for former PM for second time

The Guardian - UK

Lots of fun on offer at the show, but we're missing out on some favourites

The show's organisers estimate 90,000 people will attend the show at EPIC on 24 to 26 February.

The Canberra Times

Novak Djokovic hoping for special permission to play in Indian Wells and Miami

The Serbian is currently unable to enter the United States as he is unvaccinated against Covid-19.

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock will come face-to-face with man who denies assaulting him at Tube station

Ex- Health Secretary Matt Hancock will come face-to-face in court with a protester who is accused of assaulting him during a week-long campaign of harassment, as a top judge insisted: “It’s not a show trial”.

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Lonesome review – explicit Australian gay coming-of-age film is proudly not for everyone

The second film from Teenage Kicks director Craig Boreham is unapologetically erotic, with a lot to admire – if you can look past the rough edges

The Guardian - AU

A law was meant to free sick or aging inmates. Instead, some are left to die in prison

Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when he got grim news early last year.

Tribune News Service

Queen Camilla pulls out of another engagement as she continues Covid recovery

Queen Camilla had been due to join King Charles on a visit to a food distribution charity in London today - but the King carried out the visit alone as his wife continues to recover from Covid

Daily Mirror

Camilla misses royal visit with King as she continues to recover from Covid

The Queen Consort pulled out of a trip to tour the warehouse and kitchen of food redistribution charity on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Queen Camilla still ill with Covid as she cancels another event

All last week's appearances had to be called off

Wales Online

Man who spent $5m Covid relief funds on luxury sports cars and vacations is jailed

Mustafa Qadiri ordered to pay millions in restitution

The Independent UK

COVID-specific hospital beds to be abolished following downgrade

Hospital beds will no longer be reserved exclusively for COVID-19 patients within a year after the disease's status is lowered to the same level as seasonal flu, it has been learned.

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Axios

White House's lunchroom back in business for first time since COVID shutdown

It's the latest sign of the White House's embrace of a post-pandemic world.

France 24

Chinese banker 'was looking to move wealth to Singapore before disappearance'

The missing founder of China Renaissance, Bao Fan, was looking to start a fund for his personal fortune, according to the Financial Times. Bao is one of the country's biggest financiers in the tech sector and could be the latest target of a crackdown on the industry. Also in the…

Tribune News Service

Airlines turn market darlings as COVID-19 forces financial clean up

Unloved during the pandemic as their businesses were incapacitated almost overnight, airlines that cut back to survive the crisis are now blowing through profit forecasts and luring back investors.

Caixin Global

Fisher: Why ‘Selling the Rally’ Will Make You Sorry

History shows there is nothing prudent about ditching stocks after new bull markets’ initial bursts

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The Independent UK

Australia down 40% on pre-Covid tourists one year on from reopening

British and Indian travellers are returning in bigger numbers – but decline from China is 94%

Caixin Global

South Korea Will End Testing for Travelers From China

The decision comes as the positive Covid rate for arrivals from China fell to less than 1% this week from more than 18% at the beginning of January

The Independent UK

Suicidal NHS staff lose mental health support in ‘irresponsible’ cuts

Exclusive: ‘It’s clinically irresponsible to simply halt a service’ for suicidal staff, warns professor Mike Wang

Reuters

Hong Kong hands out cash, cuts duties in budget despite larger deficit

Hong Kong is set for back-to-back deficits but will give cash handouts and offer some help to first-time home buyers to help the economy recover from prolonged COVID-19 restrictions, the city's government announced in its budget on Wednesday.

Reuters

China expects sharp rebound in tourism this year

China expects its tourism market to flourish this year, starting with a busy and robust summer travel season as travellers flock to vacation destinations after the government ended its zero-COVID policy that kept people home for almost three years.

Reuters

North Korea paper calls outside aid 'poisoned candy', urges self-reliance

North Korea's official newspaper said on Wednesday that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be equal to taking "poisoned candy", urging economic self-reliance despite deepening hardships amid sanctions and coronavirus lockdowns.

The Independent UK

California man who spent $5m Covid relief funds on luxury sports cars and vacations jailed

Mustafa Qadiri ordered to pay millions in restitution

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