The sudden restrictions come 100 days out from the start of the Winter Olympics and two weeks before a key Chinese Communist Party meeting in Beijing.

An oversight panel has set out a blueprint for what countries must do in the next two months to fix this pandemic and cope with the next.

Mako married her fiance Kei Komuro today with only a press conference for ceremony, exiting the Japanese Imperial family and leaving behind just 12 women and five men.

The British Prime Minister singled out political events in Canberra as a sign world leaders were beginning to take climate change seriously. 

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In August 2019, Saad al-Jabri filed a 107-page lawsuit in the United States, alleging that the Crown Prince “dispatched a “hit squad” to kill him in October 2018.

Baldwin’s impression of former president Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live long angered the businessman-turned-politician.

A facebook investigation found domestic workers frequently complained of being locked in their homes, starved, unpaid, and repeatedly sold.

Stella Moris likened a reported CIA plot to kidnap or kill the WikiLeaks founder to that of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy.

Activities at the Willard, mapped out in memos and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers, add to a picture of an effort to pull off a second Trump term.

Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok has been put under house arrest after an unidentified military force besieged his house.

Alec Baldwin was pointing a revolver at a camera during rehearsal when the weapon fired and struck the cinematographer in the chest, according to documents just released.

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The country says dozens of “highly significant” items were plundered from Khmer shrines between 1970 and 2000 before being donated or sold to the New York museum.

New modelling shows the rising numbers of cases of the last month will soon be reversed, even without the reintroduction of restrictions.

On June 2, 1953, large crowds flocked to London to see Queen Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey. At the moment of the crowning, the crowd outside the Abbey rose in a great body. Hats came off, heads were bowed. Then down came the rain.

The hashtag #doublepaine (double sentenced) was launched after a 19-year-old reporting a rape was asked by police in graphic terms if she experienced pleasure.

Analysts suspect that Colombian trafficker Dairo Usuga, known as Otoniel, will soon be replaced by “another drug lord who may be much worse”.

Florida state Senator Tina Polsky told governor Ron DeSantis’ pick for Surgeon General that she had serious health issues, but Joseph Lapado would not mask up.

Right-wing politician Matteo Salvini has been charged with kidnapping over an incident in 2019 when he was interior minister.

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She may be 95 years old, but the Queen holds fast to the concept that a monarch must be seen to be believed.

A number of police forces in England are investigating reports of women unknowingly being injected with syringes at crowded night spots.

The announcement from the major fossil fuel producer was timed to make a splash before the start of the global COP26 climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland.

Soaring COVID-19 cases are causing worries in Britain, and have led to a tightening of restrictions across many nations in Europe.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says he has told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States, NZ and other Western countries for demanding the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

The husband of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has also spoken out after she was shot to death on the New Mexico set of a Western movie featuring Alec Baldwin in an incident that has stirred debate about gun safety in films.

It took an Olympics without spectators, four states of emergency, and the resignation of a prime minister, but after four months, Japan has crushed its sharpest coronavirus wave.

Tens of thousands of international students have been stranded outside Australia but a deal struck with Scott Morrison by Singapore’s leader has given some new hope.

The answer Biden gave to a question at a public forum forced the White House to quickly clarify that the administration was not announcing any changes to its existing policy on Taiwan.

After the drug lord was killed in 1993, his giraffes, zebras and flamingos were sent off to zoos, but four giant hippos were allowed to remain in a pond.

The currency manipulation deprives impoverished Syrians of much-needed funds and allows Bashar al-Assad to circumvent sanctions for atrocities enforced by Western countries.

Though Facebook has been remarkably successful since going public in 2012, the new filings argue investors face serious downside risks they cannot understand.

Actor Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon allegedly by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use in the moments before a cinematographer was fatally shot, court records show.

There are no fig-leaves left - Cambodia cannot now be described as anything other than a dictatorship. Australia must raise its voice for democracy there.

A New York jury has convicted Lev Parnas of charges that he made illegal campaign contributions to influence US politicians and advance his business interests.

“There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins,” Baldwin said, his first public comments since the shooting.

The millionaire real estate scion has been charged in New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982.

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office confirmed the actor had discharged the prop firearm, but that no charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing.

Fully vaccinated Australians will be able to holiday without quarantine in Thailand from November 1, but Indonesia hasn’t greenlit Australia yet.

State broadcaster CCTV said after Li Yundi’s arrest that “celebrities have frequently challenged the social conscience, morality and even dignity of the law”.

Contraband Australian crustaceans smuggled into China can fetch up to $340 a kilogram, twice the price of those sold legally in Hong Kong.

Professor Dorian Abbot’s specialty is life on other planets. But it was his views on academic merit that triggered protests and even resignations across the US.

Dental records confirmed his identity.

Buckingham Palace had earlier announced a cancellation of a trip to Northern Ireland citing illness.

The committee noted that Bannon spoke with Trump before the January 6 attack and promoted the protests on his podcast, saying “all hell is going to break loose”.

President Bashar Assad’s hometown of Qardaha in Latakia province was hard hit by the fires.

Some people took the opportunity to note the robot fared better than thousands of people, including lawyers and journalists, trying to enter or leave Egypt.

A booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine restored efficacy to 95.6 per cent against the virus, including the Delta variant, data released by the company shows.