Israel is administering a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose to a test group of health workers in the country’s largest hospital. They say it’s the first major study into whether it will help contend with the fast-spreading omicron variant. And across the globe, extreme poverty rates continue to decline. This phenomenon is powered by continued economic growth in places like India and China, but how sustainable is this positive trend? Also, for more than 30 years, Memorial International has been Russia’s most prominent human rights organization, with a founding mission to archive Soviet-era crimes. On Tuesday, Russia’s Supreme Court shut down the organization. 

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