Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has left the door open for Novak Djokovic to compete at next year's #AusOpen despite the tennis superstar facing an automatic three-year ban from entering the country reut.rs/3KeO1dg
On the first day of the #AusOpen, the world's best men's tennis player was taking selfies with fans at a Dubai airport arrivals gate instead of warming up for his first scheduled match on center court at Melbourne Park in front of thousands reut.rs/3fxoTAo
Novak Djokovic could be barred from playing in the French Open as things stand now after the Sports Ministry said there would be no exemption from France's new vaccine pass law reut.rs/3IcRWW9
World number one Djokovic, who has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, was deported from Australia before the first Grand Slam tournament of the year after losing a court case to have the cancellation of his visa overturned
France's vaccine pass law, approved by parliament on Sunday, will require people to have a certificate of vaccination to enter public places such as restaurants, cafes, cinemas and long-distance trains
'The rule is simple. The vaccine pass will be imposed, as soon as the law is promulgated ... This will apply to everyone who is a spectator or a professional sportsperson. And this until further notice,' the ministry said reut.rs/3IcRWW9
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Novak Djokovic has purchased 80% of Danish biotech firm QuantBioRes, aiming to develop a medical treatment against COVID-19, the company's chief executive told Reuters reut.rs/3rzUZkq
QuantBioRes CEO Ivan Loncarevic, who describes himself as an entrepreneur, says the investment was made in June 2020 but declined to reveal the amount reut.rs/3FDhMAR
QuantBioRes has around 11 researchers working in Denmark, Australia and Slovenia, according to Loncarevic, who stresses they were working on a treatment, not a vaccine
Thousands of people in Hong Kong volunteered to adopt unwanted hamsters after a mass cull order from the government over COVID-19 fears raised alarm that panicky owners would abandon their pets reut.rs/3nGZt7X 1/5
Authorities ordered 2,000 hamsters from dozens of pet shops and storage facilities to be culled after tracing a coronavirus outbreak to a worker in the Little Boss petshop, where 11 hamsters subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 2/5
Scientists around the world and Hong Kong health and veterinary authorities have said there was no evidence that animals play a major role in human contagion with the coronavirus 3/5
Tonga sits at the junction of two major tectonic plates, the Pacific and Indo-Australian.
The Pacific Plate is pushed west and sinks back into the mantle along a 'subduction zone’ as it reaches the Indo-Australian Plate and the smaller Tonga Plate reut.rs/3fEu9SU
An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Jan. 15, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in Japan and causing large waves in several South Pacific islands, where footage on social media showed waves crashing into coastal homes
Satellite images from Planet Labs on Jan. 7 showed volcanic gas escaping through the vent. On Jan. 15, about two hours before it erupted, the vent was predominantly underwater.
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai lies about 65 km (40 miles) north of Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga
All the homes on one of Tonga's small outer islands were destroyed in the massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with three people so far confirmed dead, the government said in its first update since the disaster hit reut.rs/329JK9T 1/5
With communications severely hampered by an undersea cable being severed, information on the scale of the devastation after Saturday's eruption, causing waves up to 15 meters high, has so far mostly come from reconnaissance aircraft 2/5
But the office of Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni said in a statement that every home on Mango island, where around 50 people live, had been destroyed, only two houses remained on Fonoifua, and Namuka island had suffered extensive damage 3/5
🏬 More than 8,000 employees at nearly 8️⃣0️⃣ King Soopers stores went on strike this week as they seek an increase in wages of at least $6 per hour for all reut.rs/3nqSYG9 1/5
The company's ‘last, best and final offer’ proposed raises of up to $4.50 per hour based on job classification and tenure. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said the latest offer was ‘worse than the previous offers in many ways’ reut.rs/3qt3LBr 2/5
The proposal, which came after the union rejected two previous offers, provides for investment of $170 million in wages over the next three years, more healthcare benefits and a starting pay of $16 per hour 3/5
Britain's domestic spy service MI5 has warned lawmakers the Chinese Communist Party has been employing a woman to exert improper influence over members of parliament reut.rs/3I5EbbA 1/6
MI5 sent out an alert and picture of the woman named Christine Lee alleging she was 'involved in political interference activities' in the UK 2/6
British House Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said the woman has also 'facilitated financial donations' to serving and aspiring Parliamentarians 3/6