Three weeks after it outlined its much-publicised road map for living with COVID-19, the city-state is on the defensive again.

Australia’s Trade Minister says a US plan to impose a carbon border tax would first require an emissions trading scheme, so is not an issue “for the foreseeable future”.

The NSW state government recommended the far-right media personality and other Big Brother contestants be allowed in on an employer-sponsored visa.

The British Prime Minister also joked that the elderly could “get COVID and live longer”, the PM’s former adviser alleged.

Political outsider and teacher Pedro Castillo has been elected President of a nation with the worst per-capita death toll of the pandemic.

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Mounting COVID-19 anxiety compounded by bureaucratic delays and tech malfunctions has turned travel to the Olympics into an endurance event.

More than 100,000 anti-vaxxers wearing yellow stars and comparing themselves to persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany marched around France to protest vaccine rules.

The Royals were given little notice about the announcement that Harry was writing the first family memoir since the Duke of Windsor published A King’s Story in 1951.

In another report of violence ahead of a Muslim holiday, a suicide bomber killed dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad.

An initiative by the online porn giant to bring to life, with the help of pornographic stars, a collection of celebrated artworks has provoked the ire of museums around the world. 

Over half a million people in England and Wales have been pinged in the past week, removing many of them from the economy and forcing businesses to close.

NSO Group’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world,

A friendly voice from across the Sea of Japan last week threatened a nuclear attack on the Olympic host country.

As governments across Europe push to get everyday life back to normal, the carrot-and-stick approach to inoculations is shifting more to the latter.

Australia joined Britain, Canada, the EU, Japan and New Zealand in the condemnation of China in the first such statement from NATO publicly targeting Beijing for cybercrimes.

Carlos Ghosn escaped to Lebanon via Turkey to avoid a criminal trial in Tokyo that he said would be unfair.

The split between the Sussexes and the House of Windsor has sparked a PR battle between the duelling duchesses.

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As demonstrators demanded the Thai Prime Minister resign, Australians were told whether they had been successful in a lucky dip for leftover vaccines.

Canada has now fully vaccinated about half its adult population, marking a rapid turnaround from a rate of just 3 per cent in mid May.

The former adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi has developed cold and flu symptoms inside a Myanmar prison where COVID-19 is spreading.

Turkish coast guard officials invited journalists to witness what they say are illegal pushbacks by Greece.

The assassination of Haiti’s president has swung the spotlight on the demand for Colombia’s US-trained veterans as guns-for-hire at less than $5000 a month.

Clubbers have flocked back to rule-free live music events, dancing through the night and rejoicing in human interaction as England lifted most COVID restrictions at midnight.

Among those hacked by Israeli-based spyware were the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and journalists from AP, Reuters, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and The Financial Times.

While trying to combat the raging virus, this potential Indonesian presidential candidate is working with Australian companies to improve a buckling health system.

The German government is readying more than $478 million in immediate relief and billions more as part of a reconstruction plan following catastrophic floods.

At 7am, the UK government announced that Johnson has been exposed to COVID-19 but would be exempt from self-isolation. Three hours later, the decision was reversed.

The candidate to be Germany’s next leader said he regrets the more the impression that he gave, saying it was “inappropriate.

In a sign of escalating tensions between the Silicon Valley company and the White House, Facebook says it has removed millions of posts and stepped up enforcement against repeat offenders.

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Critics have lambasted the documentary director’s decision as “manipulative” and “extremely weird”.

The gunshots caused panic among fans inside the stadium, some of whom ducked for cover in the team dugouts.

Pancho lost the power of speech after his stroke. Now a computer can predict what he’s thinking about saying. Next challenge: fixing autocorrect.

The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this week collapsed houses and ripped up roads and power lines.

Syrian President Bashar Assad was sworn in Saturday for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country, pledging to overcome the impact of Western economic sanctions and retake territory still out of his control after 10 years of fighting.

“Fox has been almost single-handedly responsible for the politicisation of public health in the US,” said one of Rupert Murdoch’s former top executives.

Ties between the boxing star and President Rodrigo Duterte soured last month after Pacquiao railed at what he called Duterte’s soft stance on Beijing’s aggressiveness in the South China Sea.

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed that a visitor from abroad who is involved in organising the Games had tested positive.

Fuelled by days of heavy rain, the floodwaters also left thousands of Germans homeless after their dwellings were destroyed or deemed to be at risk.

Four states accounted for more than 40 per cent of all new COVID-19 cases in the US last week.

The directive to the Indian-administered part of the disputed territory came less than a week before Muslims mark Eid ul-Adha by offering prayers and slaughtering livestock.

The border stone was found half buried during excavation work one-and-a-half months ago for the redevelopment of a piazza by the Mausoleum of Augustus.

Out of the ashes of defeat in soccer, black role models have brought Britain to the edge of a unifying national ‘moment’.

The Eiffel Tower greeted tourists on Friday for the first time in nearly nine months, reopening to the public even as France introduces new virus rules aimed at taming the fast-spreading Delta variant.

Danish Siddiqui was part of the photography team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis.

In one of the largest deployments of soldiers since the end of white minority rule, the military has been activate to halt riots that have killed more than 100 people.

At least 69 people have died in Germany as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages.

The ruling was based on separate cases filed by two Muslim women in Germany who were suspended from work for wearing a hijab.