Australian senators have accused the Chinese Communist Party of “unspeakable human rights abuses” after the BBC aired accounts of systematic rape and torture. Warning: graphic content.

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Former Trump administration and other American officials have espoused the debunked theories that the virus was either a bioweapon or a “lab leak”.

The mutation may help the virus to elude detection and make neutralisation by the human immune system less efficient.

Outside experts said the data convincingly shows the vaccine works. It’s the third coronavirus vaccine to show an efficacy of more than 90 per cent.

Silenced and crunched during the global financial crisis in 2008, outsiders have finally had a direct say in Wall Street matters.

After 12 hours of public pressure, Twitter restored the suspended accounts, saying the suspensions were routine.

The FAA gave permission for Tuesday’s launch, but then added that the December launch had occurred without the agency’s approval.

Sergio Mattarella said Italy can’t afford to suffer through a months-long campaign and early parliamentary election during a “crucial moment” of the pandemic.

Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, was arrested on January 17.

The software flaw exploited by the suspected Chinese group is separate from the one the United States has accused Russian government operatives of using.

India — which considers the Indian Ocean region to be its strategic backyard — has for years been worried by Chinese influence over neighbouring Sri Lanka.

The tech billionaire’s past activity on Twitter has also landed him in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In their trial brief, the impeachment managers state that Trump “summoned a mob to Washington” and “aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue”.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s whereabouts remained unknown more than 24 hours after her arrest in a military coup.

Captain Tom Moore, the British World War II veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers, has died at the age of 100.

World leaders hailed Russia’s “soft landing” on the moon in 1966 as “a major contribution to man’s knowledge of the moon and of space.”

Earlier, more than 100 police gathered at the main entrance of the campus.

If a political accord cannot not be found, there’s talk of creating a government of technocrats.

US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes in gripping detail how she hid from the violent mob in the Capitol and the fear she felt when a man demanded: “Where is she?”

What’s behind the latest coup? Did Aung San Suu Kyi ever really have power? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy? 

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the plan to file a budget measure that would allow Congress to fast-track a coronavirus package for passage by both chambers.

Jared Isaacman also announced that he aims to use the private trip to raise $US200 million ($265 million) for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, with half coming from his own pocket.

Paris is gone for now, its lifeblood cut off by the closure of all restaurants, its nights silenced by a 6pm curfew due to the pandemic.

Nearly one million vaccinations were conducted on the weekend and almost nine in ten over-eighties have had their first dose.

The poet was accused of crimes that included fraud, extortion, embezzlement and perjury. When he failed to turn up to face trial, he was sentenced to be burned at the stake. 

Critics have warned that ex-president Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of fraud in the US election could be used to undermine the American position abroad. 

“I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him,” the actor wrote on Instagram.

A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh, where they remain in refugee camps.

The deal between Brisbane-based Ellume and the Biden administration includes the purchase of 8.5 million COVID-19 tests that will be distributed across America.

Israel said on Monday it supplied the Palestinians with their first shipment of COVID-19 shots, totalling 2,000 doses of Moderna’s vaccine.

Austria will significantly tighten its border controls to prevent arrivals from importing new variants of the coronavirus, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday.

New York City faces its heaviest snow of the season as a slow-moving winter storm moves up the East Coast, snarling road, rail, and air traffic across the Northeast.

The group of independent experts spent about 4½ hours on its longest site visit since arriving in China.

Days after Donald Trump started making unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in early November, Myanmar’s military began doing the same.

Israel has extended a national lockdown as coronavirus variants offset its vaccination drive and officials predicted a delay in a turnaround from the health and economic crisis.

A suicide car bomb exploded early on Sunday evening and was followed by a shootout between al-Shabaab militants and security forces.

More than 10,000 people are sheltering at 300 evacuation centres after Cyclone Ana hit the main Fiji islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, amid escalating tension between the civilian government and the military.

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One Facebook post juxtaposes glamorous photographs from Saudi Arabia and the UAE with the ruins of Arab countries where Iran’s proxies wield influence, such as Syria and Iraq.

Alexei Navalny reminds Russians that they still have choices, and that real politics may not be dead, just resting.

The Duchess said it was “offensive” to suggest she had wanted to be “nameless” on her own child’s birth certificate. 

House Republican Adam Kinzinger announced a new political action committee called the Country First PAC, intended to challenge Trump’s ongoing grip on the party.

Police were randomly picking up people and putting them into police buses, but thousands of protesters marched across the city centre for hours.

The Republicans did not provide many details of their proposal. One of the signatories, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, said that it would cost about $US600 billion. 

The 100-year-old’s hospitalisation is a fresh psychological blow to the coronavirus-ravaged United Kingdom.

In a makeshift treatment centre in the Middle East, Australian nurse Kieren Box was trying to treat COVID-19 patients with other things on their minds.

It may be on the other side of the world, but that’s not stopping Britain from applying to join a trade partnership in and around the Pacific Ocean.