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UK marketing budgets continued their sharp decline in the fourth quarter as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the economy. Advertising spend suffered a record drop last year, with the sharpest fall reported in the wake of the first nationwide lockdown in the second quarter. Read more: Cinema…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican senators in Missouri on Wednesday debated ways to check health officials’ power in response to their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. One proposal would ensure there are no government-imposed occupancy limits on churches and other places of worship during public health emergencies. Another bill…

ROME—Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte survived a confidence vote in the country’s Senate but fell short of an outright majority, weakening his government as it searches for a way to tame the Covid-19 pandemic and revive the economy. The vote in the Senate was triggered by the decision of a…

The World Health Organization was poorly prepared to prevent a disease like Covid-19 from becoming a pandemic, and wasn’t adapted for a globalized era of easy travel and extensive trade, an international panel said. Years of warnings that the United Nations agency’s international system wasn’t ready for a respiratory pandemic…

As refrigerated trucks arrive at states across the country, funeral homes say they are turning families away.  As of mid-January, Los Angeles County had nearly 1 million cases of COVID-19 and of those, more than 13,000 had died.  The deaths are taking a toll on the healthcare system and funeral…

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The protesters gathered on a square in front of the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum art galleries, carrying signs reading “Freedom: stop this siege” and chanting “What do we want? Freedom!”. None wore masks, which are not mandatory, and few respected social distancing rules, news agency Reuters reported. Shocking footage…

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A medical expert has warned that Hong Kong will not achieve "herd immunity" against the coronavirus unless it is able to provide five million people with vaccines, about 80 per cent of the population. Speaking on RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong programme, Dr Alvin Chan, a co-chairman of the advisory…