The government has declared a state of emergency and urged the capital 5 million residents to register their weapons and defend their neighbourhoods.

A former private equity executive who has never held elected office, Youngkin sold himself as a political outsider. His win is not the only one worrying Democrats.

The US-China relationship is at its lowest ebb since Trump left office. Climate change is no longer the salve that once brought the countries together.

The saying is spreading quickly. An airline has even opened an internal investigation after a pilot used it onboard.

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Salah Abdeslam, who discarded a malfunctioning explosive vest and fled, is one of 20 men on trial for the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a bullet discharged from a gun Baldwin was using to rehearse a scene on the Rust set in New Mexico.

Methane reduction has been called the lowest-hanging fruit of climate solutions but Barnaby Joyce argues it isn’t possible without “shooting your cattle”.

On Friday, astronauts harvested the station’s first round of Hatch chile capsicum and added it their tacos as a part of a larger study on growing food in space.

Networking platform LinkedIn said last month it would shutter its Chinese site, as Western tech companies confront more restrictions in the country.

Suggesting that luciferase is related to Lucifer is like suggesting a bibliography is religious. But none of this matters to Emerald Robinson.

In his final speech to the climate summit, Biden said Xi Jinping had “lost the ability to influence people around the world” by not coming to Glasgow.

Johnson also apologised to Israel’s energy minister after she complained that a lack of wheelchair access had stopped her from attending the event.

In Glasgow, world leaders are only a small slice of a climate carnival best described as part-trade fair and part-public relations opportunity.

Nikolai Patrushev, a longtime close associate of Putin’s, is considered one of Russia’s most influential officials.

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site, officials said.

The Chinese President told his colleagues in Rome and Glasgow that he was “delivering concrete actions”, while trying to put out a fire in his own backyard.

Hun Sen has questioned when Australia will deliver on a pledge of 2 million Pfizer doses, saying he will buy more from China if they don’t turn up.

Notwithstanding the bad feeling over the cancelled submarine deal with France, Australia now finds itself at the centre of a geopolitical row which is testing our PM’s diplomatic skills.

Developers promised buyers of the soon-to-be ready upmarket apartments a “stress-free lifestyle”.

It said it had been active for five years, was primarily operated by staff of the country’s telecoms watchdog, out of the postal service headquarters.

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“He doesn’t get what’s happening,” say lawyers for the convicted drug trafficker, who will be the first executed prisoner since 2019.

At the heart of the collapse of Emmanuel Macron and Scott Morrison’s relationship are two questions.

A Constitutional Tribunal, under the sway of Poland’s conservative ruling party, ruled last year that abortions for congenital defects were not constitutional.

“Bond is strapped to a doomsday device as a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a destination that will end human life as we know it,” the British PM told delegates.

The Queen has delivered an emotionally charged and highly political call to arms to world leaders on climate change, invoking her own mortality to send a warning about the need to protect future generations.

Fiji’s president provided Scott Morrison with a copy of Fiji’s climate change act, which Frank Bainimarama hopes could serve as a model for Australia.

It’s very hard for Morrison to refute a stereo accusation of deceptive conduct from two powerful speakers at once.

Jes Staley is leaving the bank after a dispute with British financial regulators over how he described his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Philippines asked Netflix to remove certain episodes of the six-part Australian series Pine Gap, saying a map depicted on the show was a violation of its sovereignty.

Hotspots have shifted over 22 months, turning different places on the world map red, especially where rumours, misinformation and distrust in government have hobbled vaccination efforts

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.