Technology expert warns communication shutdowns are ‘more prevalent than previously thought’.

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“It is more than likely there will be additional cases in the community,” Ardern says after a person was infectious with the UK variant for a week but not in isolation.

Reports indicate that the British government is planning to raise billion of pounds in additional revenue to help pay for grants to pandemic-hit businesses.

A second former aide has come forward with sexual harassment allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who responded with a statement saying he never made advances toward her and never intended to be inappropriate.

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference is accompanied by none of the soul-searching you might expect following devastating election defeats.

A man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue by a judge who described the case as “dripping with Nazism and supremacy.”

Health experts have been anxiously awaiting a one-and-done option to help speed up vaccinations as deaths continue to mount from the coronavirus.

Investigators probing the death of a US Capitol Police officer killed in the January 6 riot have zeroed in on a suspect seen on video appearing to spray a chemical substance on the officer before he later collapsed and died.

The joy of receiving a note from a member of the royal family, in response to a card or a letter, has long been keenly felt across the globe but well-wishers for Harry and Meghan will need to rethink their correspondence.

“I hope it will receive quick action. We have no time to waste,” Joes Biden said. “The people of this country have suffered far too much for far too long.”

The New York Governor won lavish praise - and even an Emmy award - for his coronavirus briefings last year but is now mired in scandal and under attack.

Police in Myanmar at the weekend launched their most sweeping crackdown in three weeks of protests against military rule in towns and cities across the country, with media reports of a woman shot dead and dozens of people detained.

Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the northern state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a seven-day lockdown of Auckland after the emergence of a “mystery” case involving a man who moved through the community for a week when he should have been isolating.

A judge approved the deal in a 2015 Illinois class action involving nearly 1.6 million Facebook users. 

Shamima Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and went to Syria via Turkey with two school friends.

The companies must purchase the vaccines from the government, but provide them for free through privately-run health centres.

Donald Trump’s niece has accused him of trying to dodge accountability for defrauding her out of a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station after the singer reiterated her offer of a $US500,000 reward.

It follows the expansion of a large crack in the floating ice during the past decade.

Parents said they had no faith in authorities to return their kidnapped girls and would follow them into a forest where police believes they are being held.

Some Democrats criticised the strikes as an unnecessary military provocation while others complained Biden had not sought congressional approval beforehand.

A new “Khashoggi ban” will restrict US visas for those who harass, detain or harm dissidents and journalists around the world. But it won’t apply to MBS.

Vaccination hubs in COVID-19 hard-hit Europe are begging for people to come inside. Why?

There is no denying the Duke of Sussex’s first interview since leaving the Royal family was 17 minutes of television gold.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified US intelligence report.

The MV Helios Ray was hit by an explosion in the Gulf of Oman and a US defence official said the blast left holes in both sides of the vessel’s hull.

Los Angeles police are wondering if Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs were targeted because of their doting owner’s deep pockets.

Harry told James Corden, host of the Late Late Show in the US, he stepped back from his royal duties because the British press was destroying his mental health.

“They want to wipe out the opposition altogether and impose direct rule from Beijing.”

The human rights organisation says it will still campaign for Navalny’s release, as the opposition leader is shifted to an unknown new prison.

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Two close allies had already received shipments before the halt. One is looking at an embassy in Jerusalem, the other is a strong supporter of Israel in the EU.

The United States carried out an air strike in Syria after a series of recent rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq.

Sir Michael led the Pacific archipelago to independence from Australia in 1975 and served four times as prime minister.

What’s behind the latest coup? Why is Aung San Suu Kyi in detention? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy? 

Donald Trump lost the election, but he dominates the agenda at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, held in his home base of Florida.

England’s nonagenarian monarch took a genteel swipe at anti-vaxxers in a video conference with health officials, and insisted the jab “didn’t hurt at all”.

With Canadians across the land stuck at home for coronavirus, “Buttergate” has spawned social media chatter, scientific rumination, and conspiracy theories.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has faced opposition calls to step down ever since he signed a November 10 peace deal that saw Azerbaijan consolidate territorial gains.

Facebook faced a global backlash last week after it blocked news feeds in Australia in a dispute with the government over revenue-sharing. 

Clinton says US President Joe Biden is trying to “separate” Donald Trump’s followers from the former president in his bid to unite Americans, 74 million of whom, voted for Trump.

The pop superstar’s dog walker was shot and two of her French bulldogs stolen during an armed robbery in Hollywood, police said.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office enforced a subpoena on Trump’s accounting firm within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling this week, and now has the documents in hand.

The suspect had shared pictures of the Nazi leader performing the Hitler salute with 30 others, including police officers, prosecutors allege.

On February 26, 1986, following the departure of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Herald was there as locals stormed an empty presidential palace.

India and Pakistan’s militaries have agreed to stop firing along their disputed border in Kashmir - a move that would be a major step in defusing tensions in the highly militarised Himalayan region.

Chinese stores have been stocking imitations of popular brands over the past year, such as “Penfunils” and “Benfords”, and marketing them as Australian.

Researchers compared the people aged16 and older in Israel who were given shots in December or January to an equal number of people of similar age, sex and health who did not receive a vaccine.