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1. Au revoir 'America First': Biden team ditches Trump-style nationalism with foreign policy picks

   

   Bye-bye, 'America First'. We now have a good sense of what Joe Biden's administration will look like, what its early moves will be and its attitude toward international affairs. And it's a dramatic shift from the Trump era.

2. How Australia succeeded in lowering COVID-19 cases to near-zero

   

   When COVID-19 cases surged in July, restrictions were draconian and immediate in some regions.

3. Hong Kong leader says restoring 'political system from chaos' is priority

   

   The Hong Kong government's priority is to "restore the political system from chaos," Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday in her annual policy address, which did not deliver blockbuster steps to boost the economy or ease a housing crisis.

4. OxyContin maker Purdue pleads guilty to charges related to opioid crisis

   

   Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three criminal charges, formally admitting its role in an opioid epidemic that has contributed to hundreds of thousands of deaths over the past two decades.

5. Pennsylvania, Nevada certify Biden as winner of presidential vote

   

   Pennsylvania and Nevada certified Democrat Joe Biden's U.S. presidential election victory on Tuesday, dealing further blows to President Donald Trump's efforts to subvert the results. Georgia, meanwhile, began a machine recount of the roughly five million votes cast in the presidential race in the state.