As the national election campaign enters its final weeks, the Prime Minister had attacked his main rival, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, for pandering towards “anti-vaxxers”.

Vietnam jailed a man for five years for breaking strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media reported.

Cambodia is an outlier in mainland south-east Asia in the speed of its vaccine rollout, benefitting from being near the front of the queue with chief sponsor Beijing.

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The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported that Michael Fawcett coordinated support for an honour for Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.

Ferrari and Maserati account for just a fraction of the market and it is unfair that they should be held to the same standards as automobile giants, Italy argues.

The move by the nation’s top law enforcement official comes just days after the Supreme Court refused to block an extreme Texas abortion statute.

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Despite the emergence of Mu, Delta is now estimated to comprise more than 99 per cent of the variants circulating in the United States.

China has imposed a new law that challenges freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.

Maria Kolesnikova’s jailing was the latest move in a relentless crackdown in the wake of last year’s anti-government protests.

Six prisoners tunnelled out of their cell and escaped from a high-security facility in Israel in the biggest prison break of its kind in decades.

Relatives of the 298 victims of the downed flight began testifying in the Dutch murder trial of four suspects.

The former British prime minister has warned the West needs to prepare itself for terrorist organisations using bioweapons as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The province was the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the country and the only province the Taliban had not seized during their blitz across Afghanistan last month.

Earlier, the country reported 20 new community cases of COVID-19, the third day in a row at that level, suggesting restrictions were having an effect.

“It is with deep sadness and dismay that we learned of the sudden death of the German ambassador to China,” the Federal Foreign Office said on its website.

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The searches were revealed in documents released on Monday showing authorities had attempted to prevent the Islamic State-inspired attacker from owning a large knife.

“He fought for his country in Afghanistan and Iraq,” said the local sheriff. “And this morning he’s a cold-blooded killer.”

A few weeks ago COVID was ravaging the continent. Now new infections have fallen in nearly every nation as vaccination rates have ramped up.

Olga Safronova follows Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya who defected to Poland last month after she said coaches had ordered her to fly home from Olympics.

The CDC has reported that almost 90,000 prescriptions for ivermectin were being written per week in mid-August, up 3600 before the pandemic.

With the collapse of Kabul imminent, a senior Afghani woman reached out to the Australian government for help to save 90 of her staff. She received no response.

A new travel lane for vaccinated travellers between Singapore and Germany could present a model for how other countries, including Australia, can eventually resume international travel.

The West African nation vies with Australia as China’s largest supplier of bauxite, which is used to make alumina and eventually aluminum.

The gulf between the red and blue states has been growing, but with its new laws on abortion, voting and guns, Texas is entering new territory.

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has accused rich countries of committing a “moral outrage” by stockpiling COVID-19 doses.

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When a known terrorist sympathiser launched a knife attack at an Auckland supermarket, ordinary people jumped into action.

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New Zealand’s daily COVID-19 numbers continue to provide good news as the nation continues to suppress a Delta outbreak.

When the planes hit the towers they sliced through more than steel. The September 11 attacks shattered the myth of American innocence and invulnerability.

Beneath the laidback veneer of Lundu in Malaysia’s Sarawak state is a dark and sinister secret that investigators from Australia played a key role in uncovering.

In a shaded museum garden, a child’s swing has been unveiled in the memory of the Australian toddler who lost his life in the Beirut blast.

Reopening the airport, a vital lifeline with both the outside world and across Afghanistan’s mountainous territory has been a high priority for the Taliban as they seek to restore order after their lightning seizure of Kabul on August 15.

The hospitalisation rate was 10 times as high in unvaccinated adolescents as in those who were vaccinated, researchers found.

Britain has reported 37,578 new cases of COVID-19, government data showed on Saturday.

A suppression order preventing the publication of Ahamed Aathill Mohammad Samsudeen’s name has been lifted, allowing the lone-wolf attacker to be identified.

Planned Parenthood sued Right to Life in state court to stop the anti-abortion group from enforcing Texas’ new six-week abortion ban against its centres.

The Taliban have promised a more enlightened regime, but counter-terrorism’s old hands fear civil war and terror exports like Syria five years ago.

The man Scott Morrison called “Yoshi” is gone. Whoever replaces him will have to negotiate a volatile international environment.

In a statement, the Health Ministry said a woman in her 90s who was a confirmed case of COVID-19 died in North Shore Hospital in Auckland last night.

Michelle Simmons, the 2018 Australian of the Year, is so driven to make history in quantum computing that she admits she’s barely noticed the pandemic: “I live in a bubble.”

Publication of sensitive material sparks security concerns and anger at Buckingham Palace, and the British government has started a leak inquiry.

Jacinda Ardern said she would not name him herself. “No terrorist, whether alive or deceased, deserves their name to be shared for the infamy they were seeking.”

British experts have said the benefits of vaccinating children against COVID-19 are not big enough to justify giving healthy teenagers, aged below 16, the jab.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday that he would not seek re-election, putting an end to a tumultuous year in charge that saw Japan deliver a successful Olympics and a record number of coronavirus cases.

Police went door to door in search of more possible victims and drew up lists of the missing as the death toll rose to 49 on Friday in the catastrophic flooding set off across America’s northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Consolidating authority will be the mission for the new rebel rulers in Afghanistan.