The incident took place as a Minneapolis jury handed down a guilty verdict against former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last year.

The steady drumbeat of attacks, which intelligence officials said were carried out by Israel, highlighted the seeming ease with which Israeli intelligence was able to reach deep inside Iran’s borders.

Britain’s Trade Secretary has labelled her Australian counterpart Dan Tehan “inexperienced” and planned to make him sit in an uncomfortable chair for hours of trade talks.

Children who used the app since May 2018, regardless of their privacy settings, may have had their personal information collected for the benefit of others.

The 13 experts, including members of a panel that deals with enforced disappearances, are calling for Latifa’s immediate release.

I felt uplifted watching people smile in Minneapolis again, after those same crowds stormed the streets in anguish less than a year ago. But I couldn’t mirror their emotion.

The law includes a clause that exempts employees already in their positions from the ban but they would lose the exemption if they were promoted or moved elsewhere.

Before he was convicted of murder and manslaughter over the killing of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin had patrolled the streets of Minneapolis for almost 20 years.

I wonder about justice in those police killings that were not, by chance, recorded on a smartphone.

The former police officer who was filmed kneeling on the neck of the black man last May has been found guilty of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter.

The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin has found the former police officer guilty on all three charges over the death of George Floyd last year. 

The Russian opposition leader is close to death. Whatever happens next, he may well become an even more powerful symbol for freedom.

The tensions originated last year when French President Emmanuel Macron defended the publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by a satirical newspaper.

Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, had to hold back the tears as he spoke on the courthouse steps after the verdict.

The investigation is in its early stages but already has turned up evidence that the intruders breached sensitive defence contractors, a cyber security firm says.

Life in the United States has taught African Americans to guard against hope. The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial showed that police can be held accountable.

His murder invaded American lives and haunted dreams. It came at people from their televisions, their telephones and their laptops. The heartlessness of it couldn’t be ignored or shrugged off.

The company has also reportedly agreed to work with a German scientist studying extremely rare blood clots linked to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Prosecutors didn’t have to prove Chauvin’s restraint was the sole cause of Floyd’s death, but only that his conduct was a “substantial causal factor”.

Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder in George Floyd case

Biden appeared with Vice-President Kamala Harris, America’s first black vice-president, who said: “A measure of justice isn’t the same as equal justice”.

Ukraine last week protested the Russian move to close broad areas of the Black Sea near Crimea to foreign navy ships and state vessels until November.

The idea of Japan becoming the “sixth eye” in the post-war spy network with Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand is gaining traction.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the search for new antiviral medication would revolutionise how COVID-19 is treated.

The US President says that he is “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and that he believes the case to be “overwhelming”.

The stunning announcement came just hours after electoral officials had declared Deby the winner of the April 11 presidential election.

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The body is believed to be that of a Filipino fisherman who went missing from a UK-flagged tanker on April 11.

Local authorities said the park had a growing grizzly bear population and the site where Mock was attacked was “fairly close to the epicentre of growth”.

“What we need in today’s world is justice, not hegemony,” Xi told the Boao Forum on Asia, adding that China would never engage in an arms race.

Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans, who played a central role in peace negotiations with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, has told the Myanmar democracy movement they may have to compromise.

It comes after the first quarantine-free flights from Australia arrived in the country on Monday, with the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble.

There’s broad agreement that anything other than a murder conviction for Derek Chauvin will result in an enormous eruption of rage across the States.

Long thought incapable of complex behaviours, these tyrannosaurs have been found to have hunted in packs.

Mondale’s own try for the White House, in 1984, came at the zenith of Ronald Reagan’s popularity. On Election Day, he carried only his home state and the District of Columbia.

Many family members had hoped the pair would take the opportunity to spend some time together alone, to air their differences face to face.

“Our diplomats will challenge the practices of countries whose action – or inaction – is setting the world back,” the US Secretary of State said.

The verdict will be one of the most closely watched and consequential in recent American history given the trial’s high-profile, emotionally charged nature.

The Pentagon said the Russian military build-up was larger than that in 2014 and it was not clear that it was for training purposes.

Allegations of war crimes can be investigated by Swedish police regardless of where they were committed.

The first leader Joe Biden welcomed to a face-to-face meeting at the White House was Japan’s Prime Minister.

The climate activist says it is “completely unethical” for wealthier countries to be vaccinating their younger populations before the world’s vulnerable and frontline workers in poorer nations.

Just months after India thought it had seen the worst of the pandemic, the virus is now spreading at a rate faster than at any other time.

The Russian opposition leader will be admitted to a hospital in another prison after his doctor said he could be near death.

Authorities said former Texas sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick was arrested about 30 kilometres from the scene of the weekend attack.

One witness said women in her crammed cell were stripped naked, forced to undergo a medical examination, electroshocked and beaten while interrogated.

The US is already on edge over a surge in shootings after a gunman killed eight workers and himself at an Indianapolis FedEx centre last week.

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.