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Earth Treaty initiative calls on companies to make a $10 billion commitment to a sustainable "recovery plan".

China has been accused of a cover-up that delayed its initial response, allowing the virus to spread.

The WikiLeaks founder's supporters are seeking to rally supporters across the political spectrum before Joe Biden arrives in the White House.

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the internet, wants to help individuals take power back from the tech giants.

Democrat David Cicilline, a leader of the House effort to draft impeachment articles accusing Trump of inciting insurrection, said his group had 200-plus co-sponsors.

She believed January 6 would be "the storm", when QAnon mythology holds that Trump would capture and execute his opponents. The former member of the Air National Guard was the one shot instead.

Four people have been killed in the country's worst snowstorm in decades. Authorities have cleared 500 roads but are worried about COVID-19 vaccines deliveries.

Tens of thousands of farmers are choking Delhi's four main entry points. They want new laws that reshape how farming has been done for decades to be reversed.

At least two police departments and two fire departments have reported to federal authorities allegations that some of their members may have been present when the mob broke into the Capitol.

Some 74 million people voted for a man who no longer has a place on Facebook or Twitter, and a sizeable proportion of them will now look elsewhere.

After all, the president had responded to a right-wing plot to kidnap a governor last year with the comment: “Maybe it was a problem. Maybe it wasn't.”

Iranian officials are pressing South Korea to release some $9 billion tied up in South Korean banks. The country says it needs the funds for COVID-19 vaccines.

It differs from highly infectious variants first found in Britain and South Africa that have driven a surge in cases, the Japanese government said.

Trump is confident Vice-President Mike Pence and members of his cabinet won’t attempt to remove him under the 25th Amendment, sources say.

In a video message, the former Republican California governor warns of the dire consequences of misleading people and says Trump will go down in history as the worst President ever.

The number of confirmed deaths in Britain has passed 80,000, the government has reported.

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A major technical fault in Pakistan's power generation and distribution system caused a massive power outage that plunged the country into darkness.

Indonesian authorities said they had also located the black boxes belonging to the Boeing 737-500 which crashed into the Java Sea.

The documents quote the President as saying he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos' by flooding the United States with cocaine”.

Two men – one wearing a horned, fur hat and the other carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern – have been charged, the latest arrests in the Capitol riot mayhem that left five people dead.

Of all the egregious words to have fallen from the lips of Donald Trump or poured from his tweeting fingers during his presidency, these must surely be the worst.

The bank said it was treating the matter with “the highest priority, and acting with urgency”, as it investigates the breach.

The emergency law will allow the Swedish government, which has long shunned lockdowns and face masks, to introduce restrictions on gatherings and to fine individuals for breaking coronavirus rules.

The pro-independence SNP has cast Brexit as "an unnecessary act of economic vandalism, which has been inflicted against Scotland's will".

The Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, have received vaccinations against COVID-19, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday.

It is one of at least three phone calls where Trump sought help from high-level Georgia officials in subverting the election.

Twitter employees defended the decision to ban Donald Trump from the platform, saying they were particularly concerned about contributing to a possible "secondary attack".

The move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Beijing and Washington in the waning days of President Donald Trump's presidency.

Pope Francis said on Saturday he planned to have a COVID-19 vaccination as early as next week and urged everyone to get a shot, to protect not only their own lives but those of everyone else.

Pope Francis denounced the violence as an assault on democracy.

The US President was the messiah of the alt-right, leading his supporters on an exciting counter-cultural revolution.

The government needs to establish a reliable and safe path for citizens to re-enter Australia, say people stranded overseas.

Boris Johnson enters 2021 a diminished and damaged figure whose political future might well hinge on his performance in the coming months.

The Boeing 737 flight went missing shortly after take-off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

@realDonaldTrump, the Twitter feed that grew from the random musings of a reality TV star, died on Friday. It was not quite 12 years old.

All but three of the 55 pro-democracy activists and former politicians arrested on Wednesday have been released on bail, Hong Kong media has reported.

One in 15 people are now estimated to be infected in some parts of London and police announced they would be stepping up their enforcement of the lockdown.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for more advanced nuclear weapons and said the United States is "our biggest enemy," presenting a stark challenge to President-elect Joe Biden.

US President Donald Trump suggested he will create his own social media platform in the near future.

Trump used Twitter to bypass the mainstream media and communicate directly with his followers. Now he has been stripped of a core feature of his political persona.

The timing is tight, but not impossible. And Trump could even be impeached after he leaves office on January 20.

The news comes one year after Meghan and Harry announced they would no longer be working members of the royal family.

The British director was the driving force behind the groundbreaking 7 Up documentary series, which has been described as "the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema".

"The shocking images of Mr Barnett with his boots up on a desk in the speaker of the House’s office on Wednesday was repulsive," acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said.

Trump announced that he would bypass Biden's inauguration - the first outgoing president not to attend the event since 1869.

The House Speaker said she had spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff “to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities".

The US topped 4000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier, while London warned that its hospitals were at risk of being overwhelmed.

Trump will be the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successor’s swearing-in.