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The US envoy to the United Nations says North Korea's barrage of missile tests made a mockery of the Security Council in veiled criticism of China and Russia. "These members have bent over backwards to justify the DPRK's repeated violations, and in turn they have enabled the DPRK and made a mockery of this council," Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells a Security Council session, using the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. SOUNDBITE
Voters turn up at 8 a.m. at the opening of a polling station in Besançon, in eastern France, to vote in the first round of the parliamentary elections, for which the abstention rate is predicted to be well over 50 percent. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive Wednesday for Covid-19 and will shift to a virtual work schedule, the State Department says. "The good news is that he is fully vaccinated, he is boosted, he is experiencing only mild symptoms," the spokesperson for the State Department, Ned Price, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Beijing residents queue for Covid tests as China faces its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020. The capital city is sealing off whole neighbourhoods where handfuls of cases have been detected, while eastern Shanghai is recording dozens of daily deaths. IMAGES
Residents in a locked down compound line up for Covid tests as Shanghai logs 39 Covid deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns. IMAGES
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