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Chinese rush to renew passports as COVID border curbs lifted

People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China dropped COVID border controls that had largely prevented its 1.4 billion residents from travelling for three years.

Reuters

Commuters baffled as hundreds strip down to their pants to ride the London Underground

January 8 is No Trousers Tube Ride Day and this year is the first time enthusiasts were able to participate since the pandemic - it wasthe inaugural trouserless tube ride on the Elizabeth Line

Daily Mirror

Firms miss out on £300m of pandemic business rates relief

The Government has confirmed that it handed out only 80% of the cash available from its £1.5 billion Covid-19 Additional Relief Fund.

The Independent UK

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Economists fret over perils ahead for global growth

The world economy looks to be transitioning to a more difficult era in which interest rates will be higher, geopolitical tensions greater and uncertainties more pronounced.

Tribune News Service

Thousands join post-pandemic pride parade in Delhi

NEW DELHI: Lutyens' Delhi was immersed in hues across the spectrum as thousands of members of the LGBTQ community took to its streets to join the 13th year of the Delhi Queer Pride March.

The Times of India

A brain study finds that young people at the end of the first year of the pandemic had older brain ages than similar young people scanned before it started.

Inverse

Migrating professionals grow black middle class in the South and West

Erika Harrison, a Houston attorney who has lived in the area since she was 5, started her blog, Black Girls Who Brunch, “to showcase the vibrant food scene beyond the franchise restaurants.” But recently, the blog has grown into much more than that.

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Undergraduates to be catch-up tutors for disadvantaged pupils in England

Student volunteers will be trained to teach groups of up to three children who fell behind during pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Crisis in A&E medicine cannot be blamed on pandemic, warns senior medic

Royal College of Emergency Medicine president Adrian Boyle was among health leaders who attended the Prime Minister’s winter crisis talks.

The Independent UK

Over 2,000 join LGBTQ march in New Delhi after COVID break

More than 2,000 members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters have returned to New Delhi streets after a three-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to press for equal marriage rights

The Independent UK

HIV remains a leading killer in Africa despite medical breakthroughs – how to eliminate it

About 38 million people around the world are living with HIV. About 70% of them live in Africa. This shows that there is no solution to the AIDS pandemic without a solution in Africa. In 2021, there were 1.5 million new cases of HIV – just over 4,000 cases per…

The Conversation

As China lifts pandemic border controls, mixed feelings at home and abroad

HONG KONG: Over the past three years, Zhou Wanhui, a Hong Kong resident, has visited her parents in China just three times.

Bangkok Post

Filipino Catholics hold big procession after pandemic eases

Thousands of Catholic devotees have joined a night procession through downtown Manila to venerate a centuries-old black statue of Jesus Christ, which was not paraded to discourage an even larger crowd amid lingering fears of COVID-19

The Independent UK

China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-COVID

Travellers streamed into China by air, land and sea on Sunday, many eager for long-awaited reunions, as Beijing opened borders that have been all but shut since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuters

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Kickball league for LGBTQIA+ community launched during COVID pandemic prepares to expand across Australia

Players kick a big red ball, the referee blows his whistle and teammates cheer from the sidelines. It's just like any community sports league, but with more tutus and wigs.

Inverse

Practicing one whimsical activity may stave off brain aging — study

Opinion: Lifestyle interventions like social ballroom dancing are a promising, noninvasive, and cost-effective path toward staving off dementia as we – eventually – leave the Covid-19 pandemic behind.

The New Daily

Melbourne – yes, really – tops list of domestic tourists’ destinations

Melbourne has emerged as Aussie tourists' top domestic destination as the nation's travel sector bounces back from its pandemic doldrums.

Nottingham Post

Boss of major Nottingham venues opens up on 'rollercoaster' since pandemic

DHP Family is responsible for sites including Rock City and The Bodega

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Priyanka Chopra calls Sophie Turner and Danielle Jonas her ‘close friends’; recalls their Caribbean holiday together

Priyanka Chopra recently recalled joining Nick Jonas, his brothers Kevin and Joe Jonas on a holiday in the Caribbean just before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. The actress had also shared a glimpse of the holiday with her fans where she spent time with sisters-in-law Sophie Turner and Danielle Jonas.

Al Jazeera

Australia’s battered tourism puts hope in China’s reopening

Tourism-reliant businesses are hopeful the return of Chinese visitors will revive the sector from the pandemic slump.

ABC News

Australian flower industry booms during COVID pandemic as consumers opt for locally grown

When Bronwyn Modra's father passed away she took a floristry course to work through her grief, but it ended up leading to an exciting new family farming business.

The Independent UK

Ex-Sen. Burr: SEC probe into trading over with 'no action'

Former North Carolina U_S_ Sen_ Richard Burr says the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into investment sales early in the coronavirus pandemic has concluded with “no action.”

Bangkok Post

China optimism lifts Asian equities

RECAP: Asian equities advanced on Friday amid hopes for China's emergence from the pandemic and an economic lift from renewed travel from the mainland.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Former North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr says insider trading investigation ends with ‘no action’

WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Richard Burr announced Friday that an insider trading investigation about a $1.6 million stock sale before the COVID-19 pandemic ended without action against him.

Fortune

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