Sean Turnell’s peers will deliver a petition to the Myanmar embassy on Wednesday.

A Reuters reporter heard several blasts and saw a fire blazing for a few minutes in the vicinity of the airport. One security official said the total number of mortars fired was five. 

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The head of the Supreme Judicial Council said the ruling was “balanced” and consistent with Islamic and civil laws. He dismissed what he called “artificial and unjustified noise” on social media about the edict.

The sudden return of military rule and leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s renewed detention are the latest evidence of a far darker and more complicated reality.

A telegram that was in the collection of an advisor to former French president François Mitterrand has been declassified after 25 years.

The person was found on Tuesday morning near a checkpoint on the eastern side of the DMZ separating the rival Koreas.

As of this week, 28 per cent of Israelis have received both doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and an additional 43 per cent have received their first.

When she joins the World Trade Organisation’s Geneva lakeside headquarters her portrait is set to be hung beside others of men, mostly white and from rich countries.

The study found that black people with dementia were nearly three times as likely as white people with dementia to become infected with the virus.

Mick Mulvaney says the former president would no longer be considered the “prohibitive favourite” for the Republican nomination if he chose to run again.

The commission will “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex, Pelosi said.

“It would be a great honour to speak with you,” Musk, the world’s richest man, added in a follow-up tweet in Russian.

Zuma’s refusal to attend the hearing is his latest attempt to subvert the authority of his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa.

President Joe Biden declared an emergency on Monday, unlocking federal assistance to Texas, where temperatures on Monday ranged from minus-2 to minus-22 Celsius.

Canadians Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a businessman, have been detained in China for more than two years and have had no charges laid against them.

The wide-ranging interview will cover everything from Meghan stepping into life as a royal, the couple’s marriage and how they handle life under intense public pressure, CBS said.

The World Health Organisation has listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing world.

Dr Anthony Fauci was credited with “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis”.

The Seoul government said it had found its first case of COVID-19 in a cat, shortly after offering free tests to pets in the South Korean capital.

Myanmar’s military leaders have extended their detention of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose freedom is a key demand of the crowds of people continuing to protest this month’s military coup.

A nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation shows how a rumour that the US created the virus that causes COVID-19 was weaponised by the Chinese government, spreading from the dark corners of the internet to millions across the globe.

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Peru’s foreign minister has resigned amid an uproar over government officials being secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus ahead of health workers.

It is the first resurgence of the disease in Guinea since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016 killed more than 11,000 people.

In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire and science reporter Liam Mannix discuss the CSL facility in Victoria, where the company is about to start pumping out millions of doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith said more than 1000 engineers worked on the hack, which gained access to emails across sensitive US government departments, including the US Treasury, Justice and Commerce departments.

The President used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons.

Indian police have arrested a woman accused of editing and circulating a document tweeted by climate activist Greta Thunberg that authorities say is anti-government.

Election monitors swapped face masks for full personal protective equipment, including suits, masks, visors, goggles and black trash bags tied around their feet during the final hour of voting.

Mental health professionals are growing alarmed about the state of young people, who they say have been among the most badly affected by a world with a foreshortened sense of the future.

Feeling emboldened by the trial’s outcome, Trump is expected to reemerge from a self-imposed hibernation at his club in Palm Beach, Florida, and is eyeing ways to reassert his power. 

“It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place,” said Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC.

“We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child”, the couple’s spokesperson said.

The storm has prompted officials in Houston, where temperatures were in the 20s Celsius earlier this week, to advise residents to prepare for power outages and hazardous roads.

The 42-year-old Jaime Herrera Beutler challenged members of a Republican Party that largely supports Trump, or keeps their discontent bottled up inside, to speak up about Donald Trump. 

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire to disperse protesters at a power plant on Sunday and armoured vehicles rolled into major cities as the army faced a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations.

The acquittal is a dangerous outcome for the United States.

New Zealand has reported three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, the country’s first since late January, when a returned traveller tested positive after leaving quarantine.

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There are many different ways that consumers can respond when they disapprove of the politics of a company’s representatives.

A strong earthquake hit off the coast of northeastern Japan on Saturday, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said.

It’s the first departure from the new administration, less than a month into President Joe Biden’s tenure.

Hollywood stars and celebrities are offering apologies to Britney Spears after a documentary exposed the torrent of abuse she faced in the years before her public breakdown.

‘Absurd’ films that allege a groundswell of support are made to convince the president - not the public.

Oxford University has started testing its coronavirus vaccine in children as young as six in a move that expands coronavirus vaccine trials to the youngest age group yet.

As both a fact-finding exercise and a means of delivering accountability, the impeachment process proved deeply defective.

Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she believes almost cost her leg after tripping in a Congolese rainforest and having to be evacuated by motorbike.

The White House has called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying it has “deep concerns” about the way the findings of the World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 report were communicated.

While the majority of Republican senators sided with Trump and backed his acquittal, seven Republican senators joined the Democrats and voted to convict the Republican former president on the single charge.