Her resume answered the gender equity requirement, but the seven-time Olympian will have to get her skates on as the delayed Games are due to start in July.

The US is the largest funder of the WHO, and its dues to the body in 2020 were assessed at 22 per cent of the organisation’s budget.

The new PM says Italy has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rethink and rebuild the country, with a government he says will be environmentally conscious, staunchly pro-European and keen digital reforms.

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Informants told the court Attilio Manca had treated a Cosa Nostra boss who was in hiding at the time and hoped to remain so.

Several staffers have already fallen ill with COVID-19 and many are working in high-risk environments like airports while coordinating repatriation flights for stranded Australians.

Hungary and Poland that are seen as the EU’s recalcitrant members, often criticised for perceived political interference in areas like the judiciary and media freedom.

Facebook has announced that it will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining laws.

The state’s electric grid operator has said that renewable energy sources partially failed but that thermal sources lost almost twice as much much power.

Alarmingly to US officials, the defendants worked at times from locations in Russia and China.

The provocative and polarising US talk radio luminary, a leading voice on the American political right since the 1980s, has died after suffering from lung cancer.

A spot on the Atlantic City Boardwalk where movie stars, athletes and rock stars used to party – and a future president honed his instincts for bravado and hype – has been reduced to a smoking pile of rubble.

Buckingham Palace has downplayed the seriousness of the 99-year-old’s condition.

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Japan’s treatment of women faces a reckoning. A decision on who will replace the 84-year-old male ousted because of sexist comments is expected within days.

When she complained, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend was made to clean bathrooms, her lawyer says in a letter of complaint.

Cases in India have been falling dramatically and uniformly across the country for months. But the detection of the more infectious variants comes amid some worrying but so far isolated outbreaks.

In this episode of Please Explain Daily, national editor Tory Maguire and deputy federal editor Stephanie Peatling reflect on the terrible chain of events and the spotlight they’ve shone on the employment conditions for political staffers.

“Is our blood worth less than the blood of a German?“, asked a father who lost two sons in the 2009 tanker bombings near Kunduz. He expected the court to rule in his favour.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, a reading of minus 35 degrees Celsius shattered a record set in 1978 of minus 27.

Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said Canada should not be turning a blind eye to genocide.

The changes of a decade ago did not give Myanmar a perfect democracy. But it did pave the way for today’s young protesters: keenly aware of the past, social media-savvy, and resilient. They need the world to stand with them.

White House spokeswoman has also told reporters Joe Biden plans a call soon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump’s vicious statement will exacerbate the rapidly deepening divisions within the Republican Party over whether to embrace or reject the former president.

Europe’s most active volcano has roared back into spectacular volcanic action.

Adam Kinzinger, a six-term Republican from Illinois, was one of the 10 GOP House members who joined Democrats to impeach Trump after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

The daughter of Dubai’s powerful ruler tried to flee the country in 2018 only to be detained by commandos in a boat off India.

The exercise dubbed “Iran-Russia Maritime Security Belt 2021” is taking place in the northern part of Indian Ocean, spanning a stretch of about a 17,000 kilometres.

With no heat and no working stove, the couple and their 11-year-old daughter hunkered down in a makeshift bedroom fort made from nearly a dozen blankets.

The new charge may allow her to be held indefinitely without trial as part of an intensifying crackdown by authorities who seized power in a coup.

A Democratic congressman has filed a lawsuit accusing former president Donald Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani of conspiring to incite the violent riot that shook the US Capitol on January 6.

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”.