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Hayley Hadassin’s nine-year-old son narrowly avoided a quarantine camp, but dozens of other children have been separated from their parents.

Port Moresby General Hospital, the city’s largest, is losing 10 per cent of its workforce every week to COVID and there are fears of a virulent new strain.

It is one of at least three phone calls where Trump sought help from high-level Georgia officials in subverting the election.

Trump tells Fox he would recommend the vaccine to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of them voted for me” but added “we have our freedoms”.

Chinese embassies in a number of countries have been instructed to streamline travel permits for foreigners inoculated with one of China’s four homegrown shots.

Like with Labor in Australia, Democrats are happiest when the public is focused on issues such as education and healthcare. Border security is another issue entirely.

At least eight people died in the shootings that come amid a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the US.

The tough lockdown measures have sparked anxiety among expats who are still coming to grips with the implications of national security laws imposed by Beijing.

“We tried to escape but they took my eldest son and beheaded him,” one mother told Save the Children. “We couldn’t do anything because we would be killed too.”

To improve respect for women, men cannot be excluded from the conversation about the changes they need to make.

Beijing dismissed the concerns of the US Indo-Pacific chief Kurt Campbell ahead of the first meeting between the two superpowers in Alaska. 

A five-month investigation found that the login for an assistant principal at a Florida school was used to lodge high school students votes for homecoming queen.

Laser pointers emerged as a safety hazard more than a decade ago, with the devices being flashed at planes near airports around the world.

The report punctures a counter-narrative pushed by Trump’s allies that China was interfering on Biden’s behalf, concluding that Beijing “did not deploy interference efforts.”

The European Medicines Agency says it is “firmly convinced” the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine far outweigh any risks.

Prince Harry has spoken to his elder brother William for the first time since he and his wife Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey interview but the talks were “not productive”, a friend of the couple said.

The move escalates the Russian government’s drawn-out standoff with social media platforms that have played a major role in amplifying dissent in Russia.

The scroll fragments bearing a biblical text were found in a desert cave and were believed to be hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1900 years ago.

The 99-year-old has left a London hospital after receiving treatment for an unspecified infection. He also underwent a procedure for a pre-existing heart condition.

The Jesuit priests’ Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation is a partnership among descendants of both the enslaved and enslavers.

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The Interior Department has wielded influence over American tribes for nearly two centuries. It also looks after endangered species, national parks and energy development.

A review of the UK’s foreign and security policies will advocate more investment by, and trade with, Chinese interests, as well as increased protection of critical assets.

US-China relations will not improve until economic coercion of Australia stops, says Biden’s ‘Asia tsar’ Kurt Campbell, who vows not to leave Canberra “alone on the field”.

Australia’s campaign to win enough votes for Mathias Cormann to lead the OECD was a case study in the dark arts of diplomacy and power of personal relationships.

The test run was proposed by Más País, a left-wing party that has argued that longer hours don’t necessarily lead to higher productivity.

It came as the World Health Organisation appealed to countries not to suspend vaccinations against a disease that has caused more than 2.7 million deaths worldwide.

The colourful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled “Rosebushes under the Trees” has been hanging in Paris’ Musee d’Orsay museum for decades.

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said China is in a “state of ongoing noncompliance” with the 1984 treaty allowing Hong Kong’s return to Chinese control.

Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and their spouses have begun an ambitious, cross-country tour this week to promote the $US1.9 trillion stimulus plan.

The TV report showed footage of scores of missiles in an enclosed space resembling an underground corridor.

It’s too early to tell if the grouping of India, Australia, Japan and the US will be as important as NATO but the grouping is picking up momentum.

Skyscrapers in the centre of Beijing appeared to drop from sight and more than 400 flights out of the capital’s two main airports were cancelled amid high winds and low visibility.

US officials have arrested and charged two men with assaulting police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the January 6 riot, but they do not know yet whether it caused the officer’s death

The Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin”, the Vatican has decreed.

China’s initially restrained response to the military takeover and the emergence of mysterious overnight flights into Myanmar from the Chinese city of Kunming have fuelled the belief China is supportive of the coup.

Child labour is a hidden cost of Syria’s 10-year war.

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The editor-in-chief of Bild, Europe’s largest newspaper and an influential force in German politics and society, has taken a leave of absence while a law firm conducts an investigation into accusations made against him.

A Hong Kong scientist has developed a method to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan retinas of children as young as six to detect early autism or the risk of autism.

The Greens were the big winners of elections in two important German states. It was the first opportunity voters had to express their discontent over Angela Merkel’s pandemic strategy.

In a bizarre saga of cyber harassment, a US woman is accused of producing fake images of girls from her daughter’s cheerleading team in humiliating poses.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, who is the first woman to head the force, has come under heavy criticism for the handling of the protests.

A proposed bill would allow schools and students to make their own decisions about yoga classes but public schoolteachers would be forbidden from saying “namaste”.

Every year, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis make cards to pay tribute to their “Granny Diana” and how much she is missed. 

Skills once used to find the best schools or a new apartment are now used to crack a slow, glitchy system to score that life-changing appointment.

Nay Ko Lin, a protester, in western Yangon, said the demonstration on Sunday “was very huge and the military crackdown was very brutal”. 

The review comes after authorities in the Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland suspended the use of the vaccine over concerns about side effects.

The last time Zé Gotinha was seen publicly in a ceremony in Brasilia was December 16, launching the national vaccination program.