Australian and British MPs who campaigned to ban the Chinese telco say the report vindicates their security-conscious stance.

The protests called for the French ambassador to be expelled over remarks by President Emmanuel Macron last year about cartoons ridiculing Prophet Muhammad.

South-east Asia’s regional bloc is facing a defining test of its legitimacy as junta chief Min Aung Hlaing appears at an emergency summit in Jakarta this week.

The senate is debating heavy fines for ice-cream makers who inflate their scoops with compressed air to make it fluffier.

Celebrities around the world - including Stephen Fry, Hilary Mantel and Benedict Cumberbatch - joined Navalny’s daughter in pleading for medical help.

A wildfire raging on the slopes of Table Mountain spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the historic campus library that houses priceless collections.

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With about 56 per cent of the Israeli population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the country has begun to ease health restrictions.

China has grand ambitions to break away from its dependency on fossil fuel but the massive shift has been likened to “changing the course of a big ship”.

Defying the polls, rural primary school teacher Pedro Castillo topped the votes in the first round of Peru’s presidential poll and will contest the run-off against one of the nation’s most established political figures.

At least eight train wagons ran off the railway line in the accident north of Cairo.

Seeking to salve an old wound at a time of sorrow for Britain’s royal family, the political leader of the Irish republican movement has apologised for the 1979 assassination of Louis Mountbatten, an uncle of Prince Philip.

Health experts in Wuhan knew the wet market at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak was a pandemic risk at least five years before COVID-19 emerged, a Sydney scientist has revealed.

Moscow has expelled 20 Czech diplomats in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a Czech ammunition depot that killed two people.

A Tesla electric car that “no one” appeared to be driving has crashed in Texas, erupting into flames and killing the two passengers, according to local authorities.

Despite questions about its accuracy, the developers of a virus breathalyser in the world’s fourth most populous country hope it can test 1.2 million people a day.

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As Britain’s vaccination rollout unlocks England from forced hibernation, the Australians who run London cafes look for that post-pandemic economic jolt.

Giving previously infected people just one vaccine shot could free up more than 110 million doses worldwide.

Iran says the alleged saboteur fled the country an hour before it’s nuclear facility was damaged.

During a time of emotional upheaval, rituals are the guard-rails to keep people from tumbling over. They bring order to chaos.

The two Russian spies blamed by Britain for poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter have been named by the Czechs as suspects in a 2014 explosion.

The image of the Queen isolated on the church pew broke hearts around the world, but she can seek comfort from family and the staff in her royal bubble.

The two superpowers, often at loggerheads, have committed to work together on developing carbon capture, energy storage and hydrogen targets.

Prince Charles, Camilla, Prince William and Kate did not leave the castle until five hours after the funeral finished, suggesting they spent time with Prince Harry and the Queen.

Commodore Guy Holthouse was one of just four overseas representatives to witness Saturday’s historic farewell in person. 

Prince Philip was a conservationist, but hollow activism repelled him.

The Funeral for Prince Philip will be a sombre and intimate affair - just as he had requested.

Coronavirus restrictions meant the Queen sat away from loved ones.

The withdrawal of troops once again leaves Afghans at the mercy of the Taliban.

The true number of deaths is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked in the early stages of the outbreak.

By the time Philip died last week, Britons had long ceased to march quite so closely in step with the royals.

Ross Dunkley was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2019 for drug possession but was one of 23,000 convicts let out by the junta on Saturday, his ex-wife said.

Al Nouri mosque gained global notoriety in 2014 as the site where Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi anointed himself head of a restored caliphate.

Scientists are also worried about the arrival of the new variant from India, which has a mutation that may make it more able to evade the body’s immune responses.

Joe Biden said the US and Japan would collaborate on 5G networks to ensure that autocratic nations do not dominate the playing field on emerging technologies. 

Castro’s retirement means that for the first time in more than six decades Cubans won’t have a Castro formally guiding their affairs.

The statement was perhaps the most direct link the US government has ever drawn between the Trump campaign’s inner workings and the Kremlin’s intelligence services.

Police are scouring a Fedex facility in Indianapolis and interviewing scores of witnesses in search of a motive for the latest mass shooting to rock the US.

“Now is the time for the United States to demonstrate good sense and to turn its back on a confrontational course,” the Russian foreign ministry said.

A book of poetry written by an unknown prisoner of war has travelled for 75 years without a proper home.

Adam Toledo appeared to raise his hands right before Eric Stillman fired one shot and then ran to the boy as he fell to the ground.

Opponents of Myanmar’s junta announced a national unity government on Friday that includes ousted MPs, leaders of anti-coup protests and members of ethnic minorities.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai jailed as authorities pursue a deluge of cases against high-profile dissidents.

Eight people were shot and killed, multiple other people were injured and went to local hospitals, police said.

The goalposts have shifted once again on Australia’s closed borders. The Morrison government should tell Australians what the path out looks like.

The result caps a remarkable 12-month turnaround from the depths of the coronavirus crisis.

When American and Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan, a whole generation that grew up under occupation face the prospect of civil war and Taliban rule.

Amazon’s processes have been so cleverly streamlined, so cynically optimised, that you are not given the opportunity to ponder how such a modern miracle is even possible.

This is National Security Education Day in Hong Kong, the first since the central Chinese government imposed a wide-ranging security law on the territory.