Earlier, more than 100 police gathered at the main entrance of the campus.

If a political accord cannot not be found, there’s talk of creating a government of technocrats.

US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes in gripping detail how she hid from the violent mob in the Capitol and the fear she felt when a man demanded: “Where is she?”

What’s behind the latest coup? Did Aung San Suu Kyi ever really have power? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy? 

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the plan to file a budget measure that would allow Congress to fast-track a coronavirus package for passage by both chambers.

Jared Isaacman also announced that he aims to use the private trip to raise $US200 million ($265 million) for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, with half coming from his own pocket.

Paris is gone for now, its lifeblood cut off by the closure of all restaurants, its nights silenced by a 6pm curfew due to the pandemic.

Nearly one million vaccinations were conducted on the weekend and almost nine in ten over-eighties have had their first dose.

The poet was accused of crimes that included fraud, extortion, embezzlement and perjury. When he failed to turn up to face trial, he was sentenced to be burned at the stake. 

Critics have warned that ex-president Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of fraud in the US election could be used to undermine the American position abroad. 

“I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him,” the actor wrote on Instagram.

A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh, where they remain in refugee camps.

The deal between Brisbane-based Ellume and the Biden administration includes the purchase of 8.5 million COVID-19 tests that will be distributed across America.

Israel said on Monday it supplied the Palestinians with their first shipment of COVID-19 shots, totalling 2,000 doses of Moderna’s vaccine.

Austria will significantly tighten its border controls to prevent arrivals from importing new variants of the coronavirus, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday.

New York City faces its heaviest snow of the season as a slow-moving winter storm moves up the East Coast, snarling road, rail, and air traffic across the Northeast.

The group of independent experts spent about 4½ hours on its longest site visit since arriving in China.

Days after Donald Trump started making unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in early November, Myanmar’s military began doing the same.

Israel has extended a national lockdown as coronavirus variants offset its vaccination drive and officials predicted a delay in a turnaround from the health and economic crisis.

A suicide car bomb exploded early on Sunday evening and was followed by a shootout between al-Shabaab militants and security forces.

More than 10,000 people are sheltering at 300 evacuation centres after Cyclone Ana hit the main Fiji islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, amid escalating tension between the civilian government and the military.

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One Facebook post juxtaposes glamorous photographs from Saudi Arabia and the UAE with the ruins of Arab countries where Iran’s proxies wield influence, such as Syria and Iraq.

Alexei Navalny reminds Russians that they still have choices, and that real politics may not be dead, just resting.

The Duchess said it was “offensive” to suggest she had wanted to be “nameless” on her own child’s birth certificate. 

House Republican Adam Kinzinger announced a new political action committee called the Country First PAC, intended to challenge Trump’s ongoing grip on the party.

Police were randomly picking up people and putting them into police buses, but thousands of protesters marched across the city centre for hours.

The Republicans did not provide many details of their proposal. One of the signatories, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, said that it would cost about $US600 billion. 

The 100-year-old’s hospitalisation is a fresh psychological blow to the coronavirus-ravaged United Kingdom.

In a makeshift treatment centre in the Middle East, Australian nurse Kieren Box was trying to treat COVID-19 patients with other things on their minds.

It may be on the other side of the world, but that’s not stopping Britain from applying to join a trade partnership in and around the Pacific Ocean.

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The team members were seen walking through sections of the Baishazhou market — one of the largest wet markets in Wuhan — surrounded by a large entourage of Chinese officials and representatives.

Political tension in the south-east Asian nation soared this week after a spokesman for the military said a coup could not be ruled out if military complaints of widespread voting fraud in last November’s election were ignored.

Thousands of Hong Kongers have already arrived in Britain to take up new citizenship rights, driving estimates that hundreds of thousands might eventually flee China’s rule.

Former President Donald Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers, raising doubts about the strategy of his defence team.

President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision to hold off on a third lockdown, telling the public he had faith in their ability to rein in COVID-19 with less severe curbs

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny and his anti-corruption foundation have alleged the opulent mansion belonged to President Vladimir Putin.

EU officials confessed on Saturday to a “blunder” in invoking Northern Ireland Brexit emergency powers during a showdown with Britain over vaccines.

The 10 year old is an unlikely beneficiary of the GameStop craze, making more than 5000 per cent on a share gift.

Seattle hospitals rushed out COVID-19 vaccines to hundreds of people in the middle of the night after a freezer they were being stored in failed.

Vermont, the home state of Bernie Sanders and Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, is now also winning praise for its coronavirus response.

Israel, the UAE and Britain are the world’s top vaccinators against COVID-19. Meet the Australians overseas who have been vaccinated before Australia has even taken delivery of its first dose.

Vietnam approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and cut short an important ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported.

Dominic Pezzola had “weapons- and bomb-making manuals” on a thumb drive device found within his home near Rochester, New York, prosecutors said in a court filing.

Jake Sullivan says returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was a priority for the new Biden administration.

A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Chinese aircraft did not come within 460 km of the US Navy vessels.

Analysts see parallels between what’s taking place on Wall Street and the streak of populism that powered Donald Trump’s rise to political power.