The appearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai in a series of orchestrated videos after she was missing for more than two weeks has been described as “disturbing on another level” by human rights advocates.

In one video posted on social media, a red sport utility vehicle appeared to speed toward holiday parade marchers.

Prabowo Subianto has revealed a pragmatism about Australia’s submarine ambitions, saying he understands countries “will do whatever they can to protect themselves”.

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A number of demonstrators carried rifles as they traced the route Kyle Rittenhouse took last year when he shot and killed two people during protests over police brutality.

Indonesia’s plastic waste plight has been called one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time, but in a corner of West Papua, an Australian couple is out to make a difference.

The Queen spent a night in hospital for the first time in years last month for what the palace called “preliminary investigations” into an unspecified ailment.

The marchers oppose the government’s strong advice to get vaccinated and any possible moves to impose mandatory shots.

Cellphone video from the scene showed some of the roughly 80 masked people streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars and fleeing the scene. 

The disbarred lawyer is working on a second book after his first sold a million copies, he has a popular podcast, and is fielding offers for public appearances.

Khashoggi’s stunning killing in 2018 was carried out by members of a team of 15 Saudi government agents who worked for Saudi’s crown prince.

The former Wimbledon doubles champion had not been seen in public since she said on Chinese social media on November 2 that former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli had coerced her into sex.

Well-funded and well-organised, India’s largely Sikh farmers have managed to strike a blow against the powerful Prime Minister and hold on to their middle-class way of life.

The blazes burnt hot enough and high enough to kill thousands of giant sequoias – trees once considered nearly fire-proof.

With infections spiking again despite nearly two years of restrictions, the health crisis increasingly is pitting citizen against citizen.

A ‘co-conspirator’ is likely to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell, who claims she is the scapegoat for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

Tennis greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have joined the chorus of concern for the wellbeing the former doubles world number one.

In 2011, the international community agreed poorer countries should have access to life-saving vaccines, but it didn’t apply to coronaviruses.

America’s right-wing factions have found the perfect avatar for their racial and political grievances in Kyle Rittenhouse. Others are ready to disagree.

The Kalos are Yazidis, a religious minority brutalised by Islamic State. They left a squalid camp in Iraq hoping to get to Germany. They vow to try again.

Now the editor of a state-own newspaper, claims the Chinese tennis player has been staying in her own home “freely” and will make a public appearance “soon”.

But a few hours later, protesters have begun assembling in several US cities including Portland where violence led police to declare the protest a riot.

Riots broke out in The Netherlands at a demonstration against restricted access for the unvaccinated, while in Austria COVID-19 vaccines will be mandatory.

President Jair Bolsonaro and his environment minister knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate was the worst in 15 years, cabinet ministers said.

Kimberley Kitching was singled out for praise for her work in Australia at a global human rights awards in London.

Campaigners hailed the decision as “groundbreaking” and predicted it could spell the end of boiling crustaceans alive around the world.

Kamala Harris became the first woman to hold the presidential reins in US history when Joe Biden was placed under anaesthesia as part of a “routine” procedure for his annual medical.

As the two superpowers attempt to negotiate a new equivalence, Australia has fired almost all the shots in its diplomatic barrel.

The Herald prides itself on leading the nation’s debates. What we don’t do is engage in censorship.

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The Port of Beirut explosion in 2020 highlighted Lebanon’s collapse as a functioning state, dominated as it is by a handful of corrupt sectarian leaders.

The former US secretary of state believes Western powers must pay greater attention to Vladimir Putin and his asymmetrical power moves.

The disruption to Vancouver’s operations is set to exacerbate existing supply chain issues and could even make Christmas trees harder to find, farmers said.

It’s the latest attempt by leaders across the European Union to stem a surge of infections without resorting to more lockdowns.

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Her latest hit has more than 30 million views but nobody in China is allowed to hear the track by Australian-born singer Kimberley Chen.

Sources say there was a growing consensus within the White House that it should keep US officials away from the Games.

Michael Worobey argues that the vendor’s ties to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market strongly suggest that the pandemic began there. 

By involving China for the first time, this proposal is an unprecedented challenge to OPEC, the cartel that has influenced oil prices for over five decades.

Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team have arrived in Britain with the help of a New York rabbi, a UK soccer club and Kim Kardashian West.

The migrants were removed from the camp in what appeared to be a major development in a crisis that has spiralled in recent weeks into an East-West confrontation.

The company said its drug offered hope to those who can’t receive COVID-19 vaccines, such as cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and those with weak immune systems.

Those hundreds of commercial fishing boats in disputed areas of the South China Sea? A new report says they have been recruited to act on Beijing’s behalf.

The firebrand, Eric Zemmour, a hard-right polemicist, said he would not appear at the trial as he refused “to accept that a political debate takes place in a courtroom”.

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Meghan is ramping up her profile in the US by cold-calling politicians and making a new talk show appearance - this time on Ellen.

Calling the video a clear threat to a lawmaker’s life, Democrats argued Paul Gosar’s conduct would not be tolerated in any other workplace — and shouldn’t be in Congress.

Rapper Young Dolph, 36, has been fatally shot at cookie shop in hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035, but is being called upon to do more to help prevent the deaths of a woman every 30 seconds from the disease.

The exonerations of Muhammad A Aziz and Khalil Islam represent a remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in a case of towering importance.