China’s Foreign Ministry said Biden’s asylum offer “slandered and smeared Hong Kong’s national security law...and blatantly trampled on international law”.

Residents told reporters they had begged Ethiopian soldiers to stay and protect them “or at least give us their Kalashnikovs, but they refused”.

After one activist was hanged and another hijacked, Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya wants dissidents trained in spycraft for self-protection.

There are some unusual duties linked to the role at The INNformer, a small independent newspaper in rural West Virginia, including manning the desk of a small Victorian hotel.

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Facebook said the ad data tool used by researchers violated its privacy standards by scraping data from the site without authorisation.

In a reference to expanding its power and influence, Ebrahim Raisi said Iran would stand by people “wherever there is oppression and crime in the world”.

“The world needs to learn how to co-exist with this virus,” wrote a prominent Shanghai doctor about the recent outbreak.

The man who wants to replace the Japanese PM next month says no amount of Olympic gold would compensate for “putting the lives of the Japanese people” at risk. 

Human-caused warming has led to an “almost complete loss of stability” in the system that drives Atlantic Ocean currents, a new study has found.

The new Moderna data comes from the company’s roughly 30,000-participant clinical trial used to support the vaccine’s emergency authorisation.

Fifty years ago, fierce controversy raged in Britain following the jail sentences imposed on the three editors of “Oz” magazine, convicted on obscenity charges.

The overnight airstrikes were a marked escalation at a politically sensitive time.

Thousands of residents of the town of Greenville had evacuated earlier under a warning from authorities that they were in imminent danger.

The rest of the military is being called on to cease invasive “two finger” examinations after the Army indicated it would abandon the decades-long practice.

The public register reveals Scott Morrison joined numerous other world leaders in giving former president Donald Trump a picture of himself.

In the last two weeks, fires in Turkey have burnt more than three times the area affected in an average year, while Greeks have been forced to evacuate beaches.

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On the Greek island of Evia, coast guard vessels helped with evacuations, where residents escaping fires had fled to a beach for safety.

Public health experts have stressed, repeatedly, that the unequal distribution of doses is not only unethical, but could extend the pandemic.

Many hope the traditional greeting, known as la bise, is in permanent demise and will never be revived even as the threat of COVID recedes. 

China is on the verge of toppling the US for the first time since Beijing 2008. But if it matched its squad with its territorial goals, it would have another 14 medals.

Klete Keller, a US gold medallist in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, faced seven riot-related charges, including civil disorder and witness tampering. 

Dr Anthony Fauci fears the virus is being given “ample” opportunity to morph even further into a deadlier strain that could diminish the effectiveness of vaccines.

The party for the nation’s 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends.

As the Duchess of Sussex celebrates a significant birthday, many believe her next ambition is to take on Washington.

Enduring south-east Asia’s worst per capita COVID-19 outbreak, Malaysia’s political crisis has escalated but Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin refuses to give in.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was only the most prominent of many politicians and activists condemning Belarus’ ruthless approach to dissidents.

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The assailant who stabbed an officer outside the military headquarters was also killed, but officials offered scant details about what had happened.

Air flight crews says mid-flight hostilities have been increasingly common in recent months.

Giraffes’ complex social networks are an anomaly in the animal kingdom, where an individual’s worth is based solely on their ability to reproduce and pass on their genes.

The governor’s response to the accusations is laughably feeble, but the polls will be closely watched - do regular New Yorkers really want Cuomo to go?

The cases are far more widespread than anything China has dealt with since the initial outbreak that devastated Wuhan in early 2020 and spread worldwide.

The nearly five-month investigation found that Cuomo’s administration was a “hostile work environment” and was “rife with fear and intimidation”.

The announcement was part of a US effort to show it is serious about engaging with Southeast Asia to push back against China’s expanding influence.

Andy Slavitt, who served as Joe Biden’s senior pandemic adviser, warns that governments must now vaccinate far more people to stave off the Delta variant.

The Panama-flagged vessel Asphalt Princess was believed to have been seized in an area of the Arabian Sea leading to the Strait of Hormuz, sources said.

Micheal Freedy, 39, and his fiance were not opposed to getting the COVID vaccine, but had decided to put off getting theirs until the end of the year.

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Police said they had launched a criminal case for suspected murder, including investigating whether killers tried to disguise the crime as suicide.

Authorities say that despite his advanced age, the suspect is considered fit enough to stand trial on 3518 counts of accessory to murder.

As scant vaccines expire on the tarmac, wealthy nations outbid the international global alliance for supplies while new virus variants emerge.

A study into the 2020 heatwave in Siberia has revealed dangerous new sources of global warming gases.

The partnerships mark the first time Twitter will formally collaborate with news organisations to elevate accurate information on its site.

The outcome of the closely watched case could upset a fragile peace that has held since the 11-day war that began with clashes in the Palestinian neighbourhood.

Sinyo Kawilarang passed away on his couch and his story is not an outlier in a country where more people are now dying from the virus than anywhere in the world.

Ardern will miss the first day back in Parliament after a three-week recess, after catching a cold from daughter Neve.

One CEO agonised over his decision to impose a vaccine mandate on employees, and said he dreads the prospect of having to fire any holdouts.

The 475-guest birthday party comes shortly after Massachusetts tweaked its face-covering guidelines for indoor settings per federal recommendations.