Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is not possible to contain Delta forever.

A Taliban spokesman said two of the attackers who killed three people in a “personal feud” had been arrested, and he insisted they were not part of the Islamist movement.

Revelers gathered to watch participants dressed in costume during the Day of The Dead parade in Mexico City, Mexico. The parade returned this year after being forced online in 2020 due to the pandemic.

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A political storm over the Prime Minister’s integrity has been ignited by French President Emmanuel Macron saying he’d been deceived about the submarine deal.

Mexico’s Day of the Dead mass commemorations returned on Sunday, including parades and moments of more solemn remembrance in a country where coronavirus touched almost all families.

Early exit polls suggested the LDP would not be able to retain a majority in Sunday’s election following a tumultuous year in which it lost two of its former leaders.

“Vaccine” more than doubled in frequency over the past year. But the usage of “vax” — a word that first appeared in the 1980s — surged dramatically.

Psaki said she was last in contact with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, when she met him in the White House.

A recent report showed that parts of the Amazonian region, which used to capture carbon dioxide, have now become a source of it.

The diminutive figure’s arrival proved she is capable of attracting more attention than most of the 120 world leaders sitting at the main table.

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Natural gas, already in short supply in Europe this autumn, began moving away from Germany and back toward the east.

Trump has been using fundraising committees to skirt social media bans, raising more than $US1 million a week through texts, emails and alerts.

Two-thirds of the reduction could come from purchasing offshore climate offsets or other global reductions New Zealand purchases, rather than a domestic cut.

Three protesters were killed and dozens injured — several by live rounds — as security forces opened fire in several locations, a doctors’ union said.

A study of 1.5 million Israelis just published in the Lancet shows rates of COVID hospitalisation and death shrinking drastically after five-month booster.

The actor spoke to photographers in Vermont, saying that the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins “was my friend” - and he “sincerely doubts” the film will resume.

The Biden administration wants all employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by December 8.

An outspoken Putin rival has been accused of illegal hunting in what critics claim is a set-up by the Kremlin.

The report also dismissed suggestions that the coronavirus originated as a bioweapon, saying proponents of this theory have been accused of spreading disinformation.

“Leaving this sort of decision until just hours until the international border opens has caused more unnecessary distress,” said an Australian in Canada, wanting to come home.

The Duke of York called Giuffre’s “baseless” lawsuit an effort to “achieve another payday” from her accusations against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The US President says he “honest to God” was unaware that France had not been given advance notice of Australia’s decision.

The monarch recently cancelled a planned trip to Northern Ireland after she was instructed to rest by doctors.

Those who know Boris Johnson well stress that to understand his current climate crusade you must first understand his inner circle.

The President, who goes to weekly Mass and keeps a picture of the Pope behind his desk in the Oval Office, has said he is personally opposed to abortion but cannot impose his views as an elected leader.

Lawyers for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of weapons on the movie set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot Halyna Hutchins, also blamed producers for unsafe working conditions.

Dr Tedros will retain the top job at the WHO despite coming under heavy criticism for the body’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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American Heather Mack has been released after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for helping to kill her mother and then stuffing the body in a suitcase.

With an approval rating of 63 per cent, the former banker is more popular than most of the other democratic leaders who will be visiting Rome.

The researchers underlined that the findings did not weaken the argument for vaccination as the best way of reducing serious illness from COVID-19.

Two thirds of the Virginian island of Tangier has disappeared since 1850. But the mayor doesn’t believe in climate change - or the last election result.

The plan to dissuade migrants from making “dangerous irregular journeys” involves the EU launching “targeted information campaigns” across the region.

France also suggested it might restrict energy supplies to the Channel Islands, British Crown dependencies that lie off the coast of France.

Lawyers for Julian Assange told Britain’s High Court that the reported CIA plot to kill or kidnap the Australian shows that the US government’s pledge to safely extradite the WikiLeaks founder can’t be trusted.

South Korea’s spy agency used artificial intelligence techniques and an analysis of super-resolution video of Kim to investigate his condition, politicians say.

French President Emmanuel Macron says Australia has to be the one to repair the damage caused by the AUKUS defence pact.

The seven-day national average has plummeted since the latest wave’s peak in September.

After isolation from the international financing system during the three decades of Bashir’s rule, Sudan had gained access to $2.6 billion in financing.

The government funding for the OzAsia Festival is at risk over claims of political interference in a Hong Kong performance.

The Ardern government has changed COVID requirements to allow more New Zealanders abroad to come home.

It comes as President Joe Biden vowed to stand with Taiwan and ASEAN nations against China’s “coercive” actions.

US authorities told British judges that if they agreed to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve any US prison sentence he received in Australia.

The outcome of study on the pills’ effects were so strong that independent experts recommended stopping the study early because the results were clear.

Fox News host and cancer survivor Neil Cavuto shared angry messages he received from viewers after testing positive for COVID-19 last week.

India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the US, is under pressure to announce plans to become carbon-neutral by mid-century.

The government in an affidavit has not told the court whether it used the Israeli equipment for spying, citing security reasons.

Authorities say they have not ruled out the possibility of laying charges over the shooting last week that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal.