Military prosecutors filed charges against an Indonesian known as Hambali and two other men in June 2017. They’ve been in US custody for 17 years.

As promised, China's government has highlighted Australia's record on war crimes, racial discrimination and indigenous treatment, amid the diplomatic row.

Authorities described the attack that killed at least 32 people in a crowded clothing market as a possible sign of the reactivation of the terror group.

Outpatient services have been suspended at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre and Renji Hospital, also prompting the lockdown of surrounding residential communities.

But the United States, Britain, France and other nuclear powers have not signed the treaty and boycotted talks that led to it.

Japanese Prime Minister Suga and IOC President Bach this week strongly reaffirmed their commitment to the Tokyo Olympic Games going ahead in July this year.

The New York State Bar Association separately has opened an inquiry into whether he should be expelled from that organisation.

Some Cuban and Central American asylum seekers flocked to entry points, many carrying their belongings, hoping to end their waits in dangerous border towns.

An investigation’s findings were reportedly so “scathing” and “blistering” that it would have been virtually impossible for the former astronaut to stay in the role.

America’s leading infectious-diseases expert endured nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from Donald Trump. But his star is rising again.

The new US President is facing pressure from progressive Democrats to aim big, while Republicans are cautioning him not to veer too far from the political centre.

There is no sign of the sculpture in the Oval Office, where Biden's predecessor Donald Trump kept it close at hand.

Facebook's global head of policy said that Trump's ban would remain in place until at least after the board had ruled, which could take up to 90 days.

Britain's Government has rejected EU demands to offer João Vale de Almeida the trappings of statehood, drawing the ire of Brussels.

“We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and it will take months to turn this around,” Biden said.

With governments across the region still reeling from the surprise cuts, officials say the reductions are undermining their efforts to inoculate their citizens.

Representative Carolyn Maloney asked the FBI to review Parler’s financing and its ties to Russia after she noted the company had re-emerged.

Among many changes in the Oval Office, former president Donald Trump's light gold drapes have been replaced with a set that hung during Bill Clinton's presidency.

The carrier had blamed "the dynamic restrictions and requirements implemented by the different state authorities" for its earlier decision to suspend flights.

Exotic's lawyers were so confident their client would receive a pardon from Donald Trump that they hired a limo to pick up Exotic at prison. The pardon never came.

The Iraqi military said two attackers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up among shoppers at a crowded market in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad.

People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows and the glass door at the Democratic Party of Oregon business office in Portland, spray-painting an anarchist symbol over the party sign

While some QAnon disciples gave way to doubt as Trump's term ended, others doubled down on blind belief or strained to see new coded messages in the Inauguration Day’s events.

The 46th US President urged Americans to "start afresh" and find a way to look beyond their profound political, racial and religious differences. 

The latest first lady is an English professor with a reputation as a fierce defender of her family.

Medical personnel who have been protesting for a week just as a second wave of coronavirus cases is hitting the country, have now stepped up their fight.

The wife of Prince Harry is suing publisher Associated Newspapers after its tabloid printed extracts of the handwritten letter she sent to her estranged father.

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1914, Morley was a girl when the so-called Spanish flu killed millions around the world in 1918-1920.

Pompeo and the others had "planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves [and] gravely interfered in China's internal affairs" China's government said.

"They want to promote Pfizer's vaccine and trash Chinese vaccines," said the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

As a scholar of Latin American politics, I have sometimes struggled to explain to my young Australian students the phenomenon of populism. It is no longer difficult.

The blast destroyed most of the small building that was flanked by a school and a nursing home.

President Joe Biden is calling on Americans to overcome their divisions, declaring in his first address in office that “without unity, there is no peace”.

But after his inaugural speech and arrival at the White House, Biden’s focus quickly turned to policy.

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From Iran to the Pope to Australia, leaders have joined in congratulating US President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.

A police officer hero, Bernie Sanders' mittens, history-making Kamala Harris, and the dramatic change in tone in Washington all contributed to the momentous event.

Between judo, erotica readings and drone strikes on terrorists, there's much to learn about the woman now confirmed as US Director of National Intelligence.

Joe Biden did not mention Donald Trump by name. He did not need to do so.

The executive orders signed by Biden also included a sweeping order to review all of former President Donald Trump's actions weakening climate change protections.

Foundational texts like The Canterbury Tales and the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf would no longer be taught under proposals to stop teaching medieval literature.

Inauguration ceremonies of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.

Pomp and circumstance met pop in America's first made-for-television Presidential inauguration day.

As Biden spoke for the first time as President, you could feel the resting heart rate of American politics returning to something resembling normal.

A key booster of the QAnon conspiracies resigned shortly after the inauguration, telling followers to 'respect the Constitution'.

While the restrictions have started to bring infection rates down, officials say the death rates and pressures on the National Health Service will continue to grow. 

Francis said he hoped Biden would work towards a society of true justice, freedom and respect for the rights and dignity of every person, especially the poor.

President Joe Biden's 20-minute speech echoed Abraham Lincoln as he called for unity in this "winter of peril": "we're going to need each other".

Vice-President Kamala Harris broke the barrier on Wednesday that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries.

Biden declared that Americans must end their "uncivil war" and begin to see beyond their profound political differences