The country’s gender quota rules are under fire after a tight election and constitutional crisis stopped the elected female PM taking government.

Jack Ray Snyder, who has treated horses at five Olympic Games and has travelled the world volunteering his services.

The United Nations has urged the island nation’s leaders to talk to each other to find a solution to the unprecedented political deadlock gripping the country.

EU leaders also demanded the immediate release of the journalist, Raman Pratasevich, a key foe of authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Authorities in China have reportedly grown concerned “the Steve Jobs of China” could help teach entrepreneurs who may want to influence Chinese politics.

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Western nations last year imposed economic sanctions and visa bans on some Belarusian officials but they did nothing to deter Lukashenko, whose recent attacks against civil society show an utter neglect for international law.

Locals in San Felice Circeo, a picturesque town between Rome and Naples, have been told they owe thousands of euros as a result of a medieval levy long forgotten.

“I could not believe it,” said the 58-year-old mother of six in an interview at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem. “I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe it.”

Experts also widely caution that India’s official numbers severely undercount new infections and deaths because of a lack of testing in a developing country of 1.4 billion people.

Many women and people of colour are only now learning, after years or even decades of difficulty, that they may meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, thanks in part to a wave of creators on social media trying to spread awareness.

Roman Protasevich’s comments were immediately dismissed by his allies as made under duress.

The new US president is repairing American alliances after four years of damage.

For the first time since Myanmar’s military locked her up in a pre-dawn raid as part of its coup on February 1, Aung San Suu Kyi has been seen in person when she sat briefly at a court hearing.

More than 200 people were injured in Malaysia when two metro light rail trains collided in an underground tunnel close to the Petronas Twin Towers in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Investigators say their initial probe into a cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people would look into how the lead cable snapped and why a safety brake mechanism failed to activate.

Myanmar’s detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed her pro-democracy political party would continue its work despite being slated for dissolution in her first public appearance since her government was overthrown in a military coup.

China is set to vaccinate more than 20 million people per day, equivalent to delivering a dose to the entire vaccine-eligible population of Australia in 24 hours.

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Journalist Roman Protasevich, charged with extremism by Belarusians, was shaking when he realised the plane was headed for Minsk: ‘I’ll get the death penalty.’

Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata’afa and her supporters showed up at Parliament on Monday to form a new government, but were not allowed inside.

As Arctic ice melts, Russia is building military capacity in the far north, becoming the first military to act on the strategic implications of climate change.

Girls who discovered clumsy modesty edits in the Bartram Trail High School’s annual magazine said the alterations made them feel sexualised and ashamed.

Travel agencies in India and Thailand are promoting trips to the United States and Russia to get vaccinated - but visas may be difficult to get.

The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees estimates “only a small number” of the 13,745 refugees waiting in Indonesia will be resettled elsewhere.

One child has died in hospital from injuries sustained in the crash and authorities fear their family may be among the dead.

The UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel has not ruled out criminal prosecutions over the interview and cover-up, as Martin Bashir breaks his silence.

The untested, little-known Florida firm Cyber Ninjas is running an audit that election experts describe as so deeply flawed it veers into the surreal.

Taiwan’s successes in tackling the pandemic are a model for the world. The chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Canberra writes that Taiwan’s exclusion by China at the World Health Assembly this week undermines global health and security.

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Teachers have been pressured to accept the coup as junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home, in his first interview since he seized power.

Critics are blaming a “man-made calamity” after at least 20 people running a mountain marathon cross-country race have died in north-western China on a high-altitude track.

Mice found to produce a chemical that works like catnip on cats and gives them a chance to escape.

Trains instead of flights, fossil fuel ad bans and charging landlords for tenant’s heating emissions will be legislated in parts of Europe.

A photograph of Princess Latifa,the missing daughter of the ruler of Dubai, has surfaced online, following calls from the UN for Dubai to prove the princess was alive.

Would things really might have turned out differently had the late Princess of Wales not given that tell-all “interview of the century” with the BBC?

Martin Bashir, the former BBC journalist found to have deceived Princess Diana in order to secure an explosive interview with her in 1995 has denied he was responsible for a chain of events that led to her death.

Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo has erupted for the first time in nearly two decades, turning the night sky a fiery red and sending lava onto a major highway as panicked residents tried to flee Goma, a city of nearly 2 million.

Momentum for the lab leak theory has only grown following the release of a World Health Organisation report that found it “extremely unlikely”.

Current COVID shots provide a high level of protection against hospitalisation and death, according to a summary of the efficacy of eight vaccines that showed the Pfizer jab may better at stopping at least two worrisome coronavirus variants.

The figures have sparked optimism that vaccination campaigns are stemming both severe COVID-19 cases and the spread of the virus.

Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster’s explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned on Saturday as board chairman of Britain’s National Gallery.

Two key paragraphs in the Olympic contract give the International Olympic Committee extraordinary power over a sovereign government.

Yang Hengjun will face trial on espionage charges, a development that is straining already fraught ties between Beijing and Canberra.

Cardinal George Pell has spent the northern winter watching as a scandal over Vatican corruption has unfolded: “We must act within the norms of justice,” he says.

The two prison workers were accused of shopping online instead of monitoring Epstein on the night the convicted sex offender took his own life.

Rebuilding Gaza will pose a daunting challenge to Hamas, which has run the besieged territory since seizing power in 2007, with a reconstruction bill that could run into the billions. 

Republican congressman Mike Gallagher says he fears the Chinese Communist Party sees a moment of “strategic opportunity” to assert its dominance in Taiwan.

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