The Amazon lost 430 square kilometres of jungle in Brazil last month, five times higher than the previous year.

If Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to invade Ukraine, it may well set the stage for a similar showdown soon enough in our neighbourhood.

It’s a simple question everyone is asking: dead man walking or comeback kid?

The Canadian demonstrations have attracted the attention of far-right and anti-vaccine groups globally, raising millions of dollars and inspiring copycat protests in France, New Zealand and Australia.

Australian Sean Turnell, an economic adviser to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was not among those pardoned.

Some countries like France or Canada might send in a riot squad to disperse anti-vaccination protesters. In New Zealand, however, authorities turned to an old crooner.

A communal way of life is poised to play a central role in a burgeoning, multi-billion dollar cannabis industry.

A feverish round of diplomatic talks took place on Saturday after the US warned of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine – a claim Moscow dismissed as propaganda.

Around 8 million tonnes of plastic waste enters the oceans every year, most of it discarded on land or washed into rivers.

“It’s as if I’m watching a movie. I have a feeling of sadness,” said one fearing what will happen over the years due to drought and climate change.

The new document lays out how the US will try to ensure a “free and open” Indo-Pacific, starting with a pushback on China’s “economic coercion” of Australia.

The White House says it could happen even before the end of the Winter Olympics, Australia has joined the US and Britain in telling Australians in Ukraine to leave immediately.

The frenzy of activity over the past 48 hours added a sense of urgency to growing fears about a likely incursion, but the US has been warning for weeks.

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Palace sources have said only that the Queen has not shown any symptoms of coronavirus, despite close contact with Prince Charles... yet.

But it still protects against hospitalisation. The report provides the first real-world data in the US of the durability of protection against Delta and Omicron.

The movement that started with frustration from truckers over vaccination mandates in Ottawa has snowballed to include a hodgepodge of grievances.

Observers were struck by images of the presidents holding five-hour talks across a four-metre-long table this week. It appears COVID tests were to blame.

After video of a Muslim student defying Hindu nationalists near her school went viral, even Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai weighed in.

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Confidence in London’s Met Police has been shaken by revelations of misogyny, including the abduction, rape and murder of a woman by one of its officers.

It’s the second time the Prince of Wales – the heir to the British throne – has contracted the virus.

Nancy Pelosi has yet to comment publicly on the incident, but the apparent mix-up of “gazpacho” and “Gestapo” quickly went viral online.

The UK will boost its military presence in Europe as part of Western efforts to deter Russia from invading Ukraine.

“The whole health system has been destroyed,” says the head doctor at the only Kabul hospital still open to coronavirus patients.

Using new techniques, scientists have dated human remains to about 10,000 years earlier than previous finds in Europe.

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Why parents, politicians and school officials around the US are challenging books at a rate that experts and librarians say is unprecedented.

The prince is being prepared for his interview under oath after his Newsnight interview prompted fears he would not perform well under pressure.

The French national of Moroccan origin said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State 48 hours before the 2015 Paris attacks but that he had harmed no one. 

Visitors last month spotted the additions scrawled in pen on faceless subjects of Three Figures by Anna Leporskaya, one of Russia’s greatest avant-garde painters.

Audit shows the charity set up in the name of Captain Tom paid more than £53,000 into private companies owned by the late centenarian’s daughter and her husband.

States like New York and Massachusetts are winding back COVID-19 restrictions as the surge in cases eases.

Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so, the company said in an online update.

The centrepiece of the auction was an NFT artwork, Clock, that displays the number of days Julian Assange has been imprisoned. It updates each day.

Military planes, stopovers, Chinese support away from Asia... an island at the bottom of South America is back in the headlines.

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The CEO of Brisbane-based firm Tritium blames a lack of government incentives for Australia having one of the worst electric vehicle uptakes in the world.

Six large landing vessels will take part in an exercise, the Russian navy said. The Russian military has in the past used that as a bluff before invasions.

In Kyiv (not Kiev), in Ukraine (not the Ukraine), every word can be political, and the campaign for the national language is huge online.

Bing Dwen Dwen has all the attributes of a star but he also has one key advantage: an army of Chinese government accounts fuelling his viral rise.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell pushed back hard against the Republican Party’s characterisation of the January 6 riot as “legitimate political discourse”.

The roughly four-metre crocodile had generated sympathy among some who feared the tyre might eventually choke the reptile as it grew in size. It had proved very difficult to capture.

It’s also emerged that during Putin and Macron’s media conference, the Russian leader referenced a song lyric about rape in discussing Ukraine.

The facility, in the Dutch city of Leiden, has instead been making an experimental but potentially more profitable vaccine to protect against an unrelated virus, according to the report. 

Whatever Camilla Parker-Bowles is to be called after Prince Charles becomes king is catnip for the royal-watchers. But for the rest of us, it’s another absurdity.

“How many ways can you say you’re sorry? Joe, just go about what you do so well and don’t let them make you look weak and frightened.”

The tectonic plates of the international order are moving and Australia finds itself very much in the earthquake zone.

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The Russian President used a five-hour meeting with his French counterpart to keep the world guessing about his Ukraine intentions.