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The latest in Australian politics, Kerala's rock star health minister and the farmers saving rare breeds and preserving biodiversity.

A botched attempted raid on Venezuela proves truth is stranger than fiction. Keeping the Internet free of the worst violence, hate speech, animal cruelty and child abuse is taking a terrible toll on moderators. Newly discovered records suggest poet Lord Byron's exploits pale in comparison to those of his forebears.

In Britain the message has changed from stay at home to stay alert but what this mean? Ian Dunt tries to figure it out. How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West - Catherine Belton's expose on Putin's people. Alexandra Shulman, the long serving editor of Vogue in Britain, her new book: Clothes and other things that matter.

Bruce Shapiro's America, Michael Moore's divisive documentary on renewable energy and Sean Scalmer on the forgotten Australian politician, Graham Berry.

Anthony Albanese's major speech; Does Covid-19 discriminate? The plight of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Daniel McCarthy takes America's temperature, Matt Alt explores why Japan has turned to a 19th-century folk legend in its hour of need and Rachel Nuwer discusses whether Covid could curb the global wildlife trade.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is facing mounting criticism and challenges on many fronts. Sarah Maslin assess how the beleaguered country and its leader are faring. John Kirk discusses the history and current deployment of Cuba's medical brigades. Philippe Sands, in his new book The Ratline, follows the trail of a Nazi fugitive, Otto von Wachter.

The latest from the USA, the deep state with David Rohde and the case for a literary stimulus.