“For the Kremlin, COVID was a godsend,” says a former US official of Russia’s vaccine outreach.

Coping with a rising China is a challenge the Japanese have had to face earlier than many other countries.

Brenton Tarrant’s legal bid to get NZ’s High Court to revoke his ‘terrorist’ status will have no impact on his life sentence.

Heavy ash has contaminated water supplies and leaders estimate the island will need hundreds of millions of dollars to recover from the eruption of La Soufriere.

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The satellite, owned by a company backed by British taxpayers, came within 60 metres of smashing into one owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Organisers are racing to establish contingency plans, spectator limits, coronavirus testing protocols for athletes and book out hotels to isolate infected participants.

As a new coronavirus variant sweeps Japan, Olympics organisers are racing to make contingency plans, set spectator limits and prepare to isolate infected participants. Here’s what you need to know.

The big concern is that doubts about the J&J dose will metastasise into a more general reluctance to get inoculated as American vaccine hesitancy grows.

Barry Brodd likened the police handling of Floyd to a situation in which officers use a Taser on someone fighting with officers, and the suspect falls, hits his head and dies.

“Can you imagine any other game where you can score points and win by using a racial epithet?” said Mattel’s head of global games. “It’s long overdue.”

Biden’s call with Putin came as the top US diplomat and the leader of NATO condemned the recent massing of thousands of Russian troops.

East Timor needs Xanana Gusmao more than ever, but his recent conduct is not helping.

Arthur Sinodinos brushed off the rumours he was too vulnerable to be a pandemic-era ambassador to the US: “Comrade, in this business never rule out shenanigans.”

Australia’s ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos says “the argy bargy of the climate wars in Australia” has damaged our global reputation.

Officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon both resigned two days after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Centre.

Health experts in the US are investigating clots in six women that occurred days after being administered with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The Continental Giant rabbit disappeared from his enclosure in a backyard in the village of Stoulton in the UK, and police say he was stolen.

The US President has decided to leave American troops in Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline negotiated with the Taliban by the Trump administration.

“The vessel is now officially impounded,” Lieutenant General Osama Rabie told Egypt’s state-run television. “They do not want to pay anything.”

Iran will begin enriching uranium up to 60 per cent purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, a negotiator said.

Hundreds of protesters faced off against police in Brooklyn Centre after nightfall on Monday, and hours after a dusk-to-dawn curfew was announced by the governor.

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating clots in six women that occurred in the days after vaccination.

The company, which is building a $290 million port in Yangon on land leased from the military-backed Myanmar Economic Corporation.

It comes as the United States notified Turkey that two US warships will sail to the Black Sea and stay there to keep an eye on Russia.

Daunte Wright, 20, died on Sunday in a metropolitan area that was already on edge because of the trial of the first of four police officers charged in George Floyd’s death.

Last year, authorities shuttered all mosques and clerics issued a fatwa, or edict, urging Muslims to pray at home over the holy month.

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The pandemic has caused 3 million deaths, the worst global recession in 90 years, some 120 million people falling back into extreme poverty, and the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs lost.

After days of speculation that he was dead, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte released footage of midnight bike rides as proof of vitality.

The success of Beijing’s lockdown pushed the West into an existential crisis. Now, the success of Western vaccines brings questions about China’s rise.

Theories ranged from Philip playing a prank on his wife, to dressing up as a sentry to surprise her. The photographer recalls what caused the royal couple’s chuckle.

As Prince William and Prince Harry released very different tributes to their grandfather within 30 minutes of each other on Monday, it was impossible to resist reading between the lines.

After imposing the most onerous restrictions in Britain’s peacetime history, PM Boris Johnson said England’s reopening was a “major step” towards freedom.

The Knoxville Police Department tweeted that authorities were at the site of the shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School and that a police officer was reported among the victims. 

The “Togatus” statue, featuring a headless Roman wearing a draped toga, was stolen in November 2011 from the Villa Marini Dettina archaeological site on the outskirts of Rome.

The former prime minister has been under intense pressure to explain why he used his former position to try and get Greensill access to a £37 billion fund set up to help businesses through the pandemic.

Like Trump, they declared a free and fair election to be a fraud.

Princes William and Harry have released statements about their grandfather ahead of a reunion for the feuding brothers at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

The tiny Himalayan kingdom wedged between India and China has vaccinated nearly 93 per cent of its adult population since March 27.

Israel’s Green Pass allows holders to dine indoors, stay in hotels, visit gyms, and attend large events.

The independence hero and former president led a tense stand-off with the country’s health minister on behalf of the man’s family at the gates of an isolation facility.

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Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire and Europe correspondent Bevan Shields discuss how Britain is combining national mourning with COVID restrictions.

It is 60 years since the first man - a Russian - entered space. Now, Moscow is criticised for letting its once mighty space programme rust.

Two US and Israeli intelligence officials said there had been an Israeli role in a large explosion that destroyed the site’s internal power system.

A photo and video showing the family together reciting the opening chapter of the Koran appeared to be aimed at sending a message of unity at a sensitive time for the kingdom.

The former prime minister is unrepentant for awarding Prince Philip an Australian knighthood, an honour that will take pride of place on the altar of St George’s Chapel this Saturday.

China’s top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines, as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy.

Britain’s former prime minister David Cameron says he has learned lessons from his dealings on behalf of Australian businessman Lex Greensill.