The earthquake was also felt in the capital Manila, where office buildings were evacuated and rail operations were halted.

Former US President Donald Trump has returned to Washington DC for the first time since he left office, delivering a keynote address for the America First Policy Institute where he called the country a "cesspool" and a "war zone".

More than two years since Wuhan was sealed off to contain what was then a mysterious pneumonia, four asymptomatic cases have forced the lockdown of a whole district.

UN peacekeeping missions have been beset by accusations of abuse for years. A Reuters witness said it saw UN peacekeepers shoot dead two protesters.

New head of Russia's Space Agency said the country will build its own orbiting post.

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The testimony of former Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff is a sign the Justice Department’s investigation of the attack on the Capitol and the fake elector plot is heating up.

The space station is one of the last areas of co-operation between the US and the Kremlin.

The political editor of TalkTV, who was hosting the debate, collapsed midway through the grilling of former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

Steven Knight said while the opening ceremony would be “visually spectacular” it would also “tell a story with emotion and heart”.

A young female walrus, nicknamed Freya has become a regular visitor at a fjord in Norway's capital and is wreaking havoc on people's boats.

The US special representative for nuclear non-proliferation said there had been no violation of the nuclear treaty, and “we’ll be very clear about that” at the UN.

Some 3000 leading figures are warning against Jair Bolsonaro’s claims of fraud in elections worried the president is setting his followers on the wrong path.

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A swimmer at a beach in Waikiki was injured this weekend after encountering an endangered Hawaiian monk seal with a young pup.

Taiwan has held civil defence drills as a senior US politician weighs up visiting the territory.

A televised debate between the candidates to become Britain's next prime minister had to be abandoned after the host fainted on air.

The report, published ahead of the start of a Fed policy meeting in Washington, comes amid already-heightened tension between the US and China over the possibility that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan in the coming weeks.

Economic bloc to lower demand for gas by 15 per cent from August through March.

The Pope has travelled to Canada to apologise to Indigenous Canadians for the church's role in a government-funded residential school system.