World News: 25 July 2022

China approves Genuine Biotech's HIV drug for COVID patients
The drug will compete with Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid, which was approved in China in February shortly before the country experienced its worst outbreak of the pandemic. Adding a homemade therapy to the country’s existing arsenal of vaccines to fight the virus could help China transition to life beyond Covid Zero.

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'No place like home': Climate change threatens Fiji's rugby nursery
The village is deemed "at risk" by Fiji's government and headman Josevata Nagausaukula contemplates a future in which children now honing their rugby skills have been shifted, with their families, to higher ground inland.

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Clear and present danger: Jellyfish swarm Israel's coast
Beyond stinging swimmers and costing the country some $10 million a year in lost tourism, the translucent invertebrates have also been clogging desalination plants and industrial fishing nets as their seasonal numbers grow, authorities say.

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Russia's Lavrov courts Africa in quest for more non-Western friends
African countries, which have a tangled legacy of ties with both the West and the former Soviet Union, have largely avoided taking sides over the war in Ukraine. Many import Russian grain and, increasingly, energy too but they also buy Ukrainian grain and benefit from Western aid flows and trade ties.

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Illegal Brazil gold tied to Italian refiner and Big Tech customers
Public filings by Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet name the private Italian firm Chimet as a source of some gold used in their products. Tech companies often use small amounts of the metal in circuit boards for consumer electronics.

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'God, give us rain' - Romanian monastery prays for end to drought
Romania’s Orthodox Church has asked clerics to perform traditional rain prayers. At the Pantocrator monastery in the southern Romanian county of Giurgiu, Culeasa joined roughly 100 people in prayer.

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