Zero-to-some game: Asia-Pacific covid-19 plans crack

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 9:53 a.m.

Where governments enacted zero-tolerance coronavirus strategies, numbers indeed stayed low. That was before the Delta variant. We ask how countries can now wind back those policies. A shocking report of sexual abuse within France\u2019s Catholic church further threatens the institution\u2019s connection with society. And countering the notion that the \u201cstandard English\u201d taught the world over is the only proper one. 

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