The 49-year-old left-leaning Canadian Prime Minister has led his party to another win, but no majority.

While Biden is expected to speak to Macron soon, Morrison said there was “not an opportunity” for him to have a similar conversation with the French President.

Separated for decades, the Japanese sisters really got to know each other at 70 when they started making pilgrimages to some of the 88 Shikoku.

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Forced starvation is the latest chapter in a conflict where ethnic Tigrayans have been massacred, gang-raped and expelled.

The pandemic’s US death toll now matches the 675,000 toll of 1919 Spanish flu - and another 100,000 or so Americans are estimated to die of COVID-19 this year.

“Many users are calling to see if they can travel to La Palma or go for a weekend to see the volcano as close up as possible,” the ferry operator said.

“The world will see, and your people will remember and history will judge.”

The AUKUS partners have managed to alienate France in the process of assembling their new coalition.

A student opened fire at a university in Russia, leaving six people dead and 28 hurt, before being shot by police and detained, officials said.

President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions to the US beginning in November, allowing foreigners into the country if they have proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test.

Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter has given birth to a baby girl, her first child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday.

The outcome of the months-long trial of Paul Rusesabagina will be a surprise to few.

Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine works for younger children and that it will seek US approval soon – a key step toward beginning vaccinations for those currently ineligible.

The United Russia party is expected to maintain its grip over the lower house, with opposition parties and independent observers claiming widespread fraud.

“We need to avoid at all cost a Cold War that would be different from the past one, and probably more dangerous and more difficult to manage,” Guterres said.

The nation’s dealings with France were built on trust and confidence.

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Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to pull the trigger with no operatives present.

Dutch people born in 2001 are, on average, at least 1 centimetre shorter than those born in 1980. Some are looking to junk food and migration for explanations.

Crews searching a US national park for missing Gabby Petito found a body “consistent” with the 22-year-old woman in a remote area but have not yet made a formal identification, the FBI says. 

Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao will face off with incumbent state leader Rodrigo Duterte’s chosen successor.

A volcano has erupted on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands, sending jets of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air.

For all the grand titles given to her, the German Chancellor leaves with a mixed legacy.

An Australian man and his Thai wife sentenced to death for trafficking half a tonne of crystal methylamphetamine for the Hells Angels have been acquitted after four years in a Bangkok jail.

Australia’s description of Taiwan last week as a “critical partner” marks a significant shift in language, one that will not have gone unnoticed in Beijing.

The Middle East, so often in the news for its problems, has, during the past year, pioneered a major historic breakthrough likely to have enduring effects, in the form of the Abraham Accords.

Putin’s United Russia party is expected to keep its grip on parliament after its latest election. So how does Russia’s political system (and Putin’s empire) work?

Security forces have killed Indonesia’s most wanted militant who had ties with an Islamic State group.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to call an early election that few people wanted. The move has turned into a political miscalculation that could either seriously weaken his leadership, or cost him his political career.

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The face of the US fight against COVID-19 says he believes that the proper regime for an mRNA vaccine, such as Pfizer’s, is that the two original doses should be followed several months later by a third shot.

Marijuana advocates in Italy have gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on liberalising the use of the drug. Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s national unity government, however, is divided over the issue.

The all- civilian crew aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX capsule have safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coastline, completing a three-day flight orbiting the Earth.

Britain’s crowded beaches in June 2020 did not drive a surge in COVID cases, but experts say travelling to the beach in crammed cars and buses is high risk.

The US plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials said on Saturday.

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced m...

Malaysia’s new Prime Minister has joined Indonesia in raising alarm bells about the military build-up in the region after speaking with Scott Morrison.

The company Colossal aims to have something similar to a woolly mammoth calf within the next six years.

Shortly after condemning Australia, the US and the UK for forming AUKUS, China applied to join the trans-pacific trade deal established to isolate Beijing.

The unprecedented move follows the Morrison government’s decision to tear up a $90 billion submarine contract.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will be looking at the US-France feud with pleasure and amazement. 

A California jury found Durst guilty of murdering his best friend Susan Berman in 2000, the first homicide conviction for a man suspected of killing three people in three states over the past 39 years.

In Brexit’s wake, Boris Johnson will allow traders to revert to selling by the inch, the pound or the pint.

The powerful federal agency’s advisory panel is doubtful about the value of mass boosters, rather than those targeted at groups with higher risks.

The high-profile drone strike killed up to 10 Afghan civilians - including seven children - rather than an Islamic State extremist as initially announced.

A new report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the UN says.

The base of the colossal General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park has been wrapped in a fire-resistant blanket to protect it against intense flames.

Australia and the US have declared an intention to deepen ties with the island as tension heightens with China and a top official has a proposal for where they could start.

The French expressed their outrage at America by cancelling a soiree at their Washington embassy to celebrate 240 years of friendship between the nations.