The Democrat Governor says his state defeated the divisive politics of Donald Trump, but the country still has to reckon with Trumpism.

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President Jovenel Moïse’s death has provoked a three-way battle that appears to be ongoing as various factions of society work to take or to hold onto power.

“Xi apparently intimated that the tone and atmosphere of the relationship needed to be improved first,” the source said.

Canada’s snap federal election could offer important clues for Australian politicians about how voters respond to a ramped-up COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

The US is calling for the donation and delivery of one billion test kits by 2022 and an acceleration of a previously announced pledge of 2 billion doses.

Ocasio-Cortez cited a spike in Google searches for “tax the rich” as evidence her outfit had encouraged people to research America’s “f-cked up tax code”.

Israeli police said they had received a complaint that a minor had been kidnapped and flown to Israel, and had questioned a 58-year-old man.

Outsourcing outrage and enforcement, the law is a licence for vigilantes and trolls to harass women second-hand through the courts.

The judge tasked with uncovering who’s to blame for the disaster is operating with one hand tied behind his back.

Despite Paul Keating’s assertions about provoking China, Canberra is looking after Australia’s interests, not Washington’s, when it stands its ground against Beijing.

General Mark A Milley called his Chinese counterpart before the 2020 election and after the January 6 siege in a bid to avert armed conflict, according to a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Zheng Zeguang has been blocked from attending a reception at Westminster in an escalation of tensions between London and Beijing.

With no idea when caps on arrivals will be lifted, Singapore Airlines has been forced to cancel at least one flight a day into Australia over the next three months.

A bastion of conservatism even by the standards of the Vatican, the Swiss Guard has been a celebrated institution ever since its foundation in 1506.

The UN humanitarian chief says the donations show solidarity but warned “Afghanistan faces a long and hard road ahead”.

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Radical step required after environmental impact of cattle farming shown to go far beyond mere flatulence.

“He shouldn’t be lecturing us about anything,” the former president said of his fellow ex-president. “The World Trade Centre came down during his watch.”

KrioRus, founded in 2006, says it holds the remains of 30 human patients and 20 animals that have been cryo-preserved.

The Queen’s second son is being sued by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of the late billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

This is the first time since 2019 that the malicious code used in a Pegasus hack has been discovered by researchers.

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said that vaccinating minors aged 12 to 15 would help reduce the disruption to their education.

China’s fierce crackdown on its gay citizens is a sign of a bigger agenda: control. The President is also determined to redistribute wealth - and that campaign is shattering the nation’s private capital.

Additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not needed for the general population, leading scientists said in an article published in the Lancet medical journal.

A start-up that makes cultured mozzarella and ricotta cheeses without cows is looking to tap the growing market for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives.

Now the family of Ray DeMonia is urging those who remain unvaccinated to get immunised to help hospitals that have been pushed to their limits.

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The latest test demonstrates serious capability for the country that is in an arms race with its southern neighbour.

Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson recently launched themselves into zero gravity on suborbital trips lasting less than an hour.

the fury over Biden’s mandates shows how a once-extreme stance has moved to the centre of the Republican Party.

The Duke of York has appointed a US-based lawyer but it is understood that no one from his legal team will participate in a court-ordered telephone conference.

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China declared the coronavirus under control in early 2020 but has suffered outbreaks of the more contagious Delta variant.

The brevity of his Budapest stay has prompted diplomats and Catholic media to suggest the Pope is giving priority to Slovakia, in effect snubbing Hungary.

Media workers left behind in the country find themselves on the hit lists of the regime and criminals alike.

The situation in Lebanon is so grave it may rank as one of the top three economic calamities to strike any nation for the past 170 years.

Female university students in Afghanistan will no longer be able to study alongside their male peers, the Taliban government’s new higher education minister said on Sunday.

Boris Johnson’s Health Minister says voluntary vaccines, combined with testing and treatments, would provide a “wall of defence” as the virus circulates.

A new memoir has raised a flurry of interest among scholars because of the rarity of insiders going public with details about China’s political royalty.

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The 16-page report is the first document to be released since the President last week moved to declassify materials that for years have remained secret.

Bush’s compared what he called the unity of Americans after the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the disunity of the present day.

The child in the landmark Roe v Wade case has finally been named. Here’s how the mother and daughter shaped a nation’s furious abortion debate that still rages 48 years on.

The rejection, revealed in a new book, comes as new US research shows that unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19.

The Prince’s lawyers have raised the possibility of challenging a US court’s jurisdiction in the case filed by Virginia Giuffre, a longtime accuser of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Americans are not renowned for their subtlety, but the occasion was restrained and dignified. The focus was on paying tribute to victims, not politics.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

The poet laureate is “weaponising” a big brand to push her own big platform of advancing literacy, equity and access.

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